Nightfall

Why do bad dreams have to play havoc on our emotions?

You go to sleep freely and you surrender everything into the night, into the darkness.  Trusting that everything will be ok because you wouldn't dare question your inner-most thoughts. Like a child trusting its mother there is huge disappointment and fear when that trust is broken that leaves you feeling scared, alone, doubtful, unsure, untrusting, hopeless. Such is the comparison with nightmares.

They creep into your open soul while you leave the door to your heart unlocked.  They know the moment you open up to let the sweet dreams in and before the light has a chance to break, darkness comes riding in and shows you every emotion you unconsciously feel and plays it out before your closed eyes, forcing you to embrace it, forcing you to no longer deny it.

The emotion that is left behind once the adrenaline stops, the breathing stills and the eyes have adjusted to the night is haunting. The claws of every negative emotion digs deeper until you find the rational thoughts that lay faded in the background.
                   
Grabbing hold of one small piece of rationality, reality begins to expand and soon the pain dims and the night isn't so dark. But even though you feel those demonic claws loosen, they don't entirely let go.

In the dark they never will, they can't,   because havoc is all they breed.