When I was asleep the other night. I kept having this intruding image of a girl with black eyes laying on a bed covered in blankets with her head laying against a wall with pillows. Her hair was pitch black and unkempt and she looked really young probably like 7 or 8. Her shirt was sort of raggedy and stretched like how some kids’ shirts get stretched cause they pull on them and chew on them. She expressed no emotion and her face wouldn’t move. Her face was completely matte too and pale. It looked like she was human, but had this uncanny-ness to her that was extremely off-putting. Her eyes though. Her eyes were like those Black-eyed Kids that you hear about on cryptid websites. Her eyes were completely black like those cryptids, but they were also out of focus too. They sort of had this weird dreamlike “pulsing” to them that’s hard to describe and illustrate. When they pulsed they would go out of focus is the best way to describe it. They seemed to move and have a glint to them as if she was being illuminated by something in front of her (so was her face). She may have been crying some sort of black liquid too? I don’t know, but it was either that blurring of the eyes or she was actually leaking something black out of her eyes. Whenever she would pop into my head it would just be that image(?) of her accompanied with this AWFUL fucking noise of frightening, pulsating static. It sounded like the inside of a body or something cause there was this organic fleshy heartbeat along with it. It sounded like it had rhythm and that someone was probably breathing. It had some sort of mechanical element too, but it was overshadowed by the pulsating, droning organic static. If any of that makes any sense. I wish I could re-create it cause it made me super unnerved when I was in the dream. Thinking about it now as I typed all of this fills me with this sense of dread. The thing about it too was it was so abrupt, intrusive, and fucking LOUD. I would just be in a regular dream doing whatever and then fucking boom there would be this girl and her awful noises that accompany her. It was like someone was beaming a video into my mind or something. Here’s my fan art of her that took like 45 minutes to draw.
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