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Because maybe nightmares are premonitions, warnings you’re to dismissive to heed. Or maybe they’re to fleeting to learn from.

Because darkness can be a safe haven.

Because ladders do not curse your intrusion of their space and cats of color cross your path with only the best of intentions.

Because giant slugs can glide gracefully near the ceiling while a humpbacked man offers candy in a room full of toys.

Because when you fall from a great height you do not die but simply and suddenly wake up.

Because the oddly shaped rocks and small branches that you lovingly dug from the earth were not actually the bones of extinct species or abducted children.

Because if you step over someone’s legs you will not stunt their growth; although you cannot be sure as you have always stepped back over and walked around them to undo the spell.

Because sometimes the dark figure moving toward you in the fluid motion of shadows in the night wants you to keep your virtue and your life.

Because all the truly bad things

The scary things do not take place in your imagination.