This early morning I dreamt a dream that has left my skin crawling even after awakening.
Firstly I began noticing strange insects — large brown antlike ones and small yellow roachlike ones that I could not identify, along with a few moths — all over the walls of my bedroom. The blankets on my bed appeared to have invisible(for the time being) creatures crawling erratically underneath them. Because you and I become very irrational in our dreams, I thought nothing of the growing infestation; in fact, I went to the library, got a library card, and read digitised books and online articles at the computer.
When I came home, the infestation could not have been worse; my bed, every blanket on which now shivered and twitched constantly, now was populated by what appeared to be mushy, greatly deformed miniature rubber duckies, many of which had holes in place of faces. These duckies were not the ones wriggling about the blankets, though; looking closer I remarked unplaceable insects squirming about in the bed as well.
I allowed it to continue without saying a word to my mother; soon the populations of all the aforementioned creatures increased exponentially, as well as the deformities in the rubber duckies. There was constant movement of my blankets and pillows that made me question whether my bedding had a life of its own now. That was until two or three days later; I checked my books and found my dictionary having had a huge bite-shaped chunk — I say that because I could tell that there were too many and too perfectly rounded teeth for it to originate from a mammal — taken out of it.
I went to the kitchen and told my mother, who quipped "So you really just wanted to see insects, huh?". When I led her to my room to show her, the situation had deteriorated even further; the blankets were now also teeming with little mice. I checked my phone and searched what termites looked like, because "termites" were throughout the dream the foremost thought in my head. Instead of what termites actually looked like, I was shown a cute crambid snout moth with white, brown, and red wings.
At that moment I awoke. Even writing all this made me squirm with disconcertment.
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