User:Diskette/Sleep Story

Preface

This story is partly based on a real story. This story is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 4.0 because I love giving people free stuff.

Introduction

Stanley, is a seventeen years old student at an unknown university with an unspecific gender.

The sleep paralysis demon, a demon in his sleep.

The story

Stanley is a normal student whose life is considered to be academically successful by the most people they have met. They have won many prestigious awards and is subjecting himself to an unnecessarily complicated university application hoops. "It's a total hokum", they said. It was, and still is pretty normal for him to have a weird sleep schedule as for the reasons that was told. Although, for not very long, just a week ago, they decided to listen to their teachers and mother's suggestion; to get a better sleep schedule. For a week, they've got an entirety of 8-hours of sleep. And they were noticeably more happy with pride.

But one day, they sat down and lie into their bed, snuggling their bed pillow that was laid beside them, and decided to sleep. For them at this point, ad-hoc sleep seemed like one of their famous party tricks. Unfortunately, they were unable to enter a "deep sleep", an essential state in which one develops memory consolidation. A fact about a deep sleep is that one will not dream during this state of sleep. To a normal person, they looked as if they were getting normal sleep. But for them, it's a total nightmare.

They were woken up in an unusual environment, similar to that of his home, yet vaguely so different. They went to school, their usual weekday businesses, but things were a bit odd, but they did not bothered to care, despite the fact that they will absolutely care about little details in real life. They were tasked to do something by the teacher