The Most Vivid Nightmare I've Ever Had
Describing a very vivid dream
This just happened moments ago and I wanted to write it down before it left me. Figured I'd share.
Just now, I was startled awake by a nightmare where I was being chased around the complex and very polygonal perimeter of a high school building at night. It was rainy. A tall, thin, black-haired man in a suit was my pursuer. He had a white painted face and black paint for the circles of his eyes so they looked almost hollow, where only the whites of his eyes could be seen if he were directly in front of you. I knew it was painted because I could see his normal skin tone on his neck, and also the slight imperfections of the paint and even the pores on his face.
Everytime I turned a corner or whipped my head in a different direction he was there, having taken the place of a bystander on the street as they stopped what they were doing, slowly turned toward me and pursued me as this Slender Man like person. He "teleported" around like this to close the gap between us. One was a man walking on the other side of the street, and another was a woman tending to her baby in a carriage. The woman who had turned into this Man was the one who ended up getting the closest, having to maneuver around and under some railing from a handicap ramp next to the sidewalk.
When I whipped my head forward again from looking over my shoulder to witness this, he was there. Staring at me straight on, only inches from my face. That's when he shot me in the mouth as I yelled. When I woke up the image of his face was burned into my vision, much in the same way a bright light would be after looking at it directly. It wouldn't leave for a minute or so as I lay in bed catching my breath, no matter how many times I blinked to try to clear it away.
That was of course the most vivid part of my dream, but I also remember the parts leading up to it. I was just sitting on a bench outside the back of the school, trying to paint the sign of a mom n' pop coffee shop in the way that it would update and even sway in the wind as I painted it. It got darker over the day, then rainy. There was an ambulance parked next to me for a while, but then it left. Shortly after that there were police helicopters with a searchlight, searching for someone, and I only had my bright led light to light up the night for me. That's when I decided that maybe I should get going, and that's when he started pursuing me. His face emerged from the window of a van that was also parked near me as I got up and starting walking, then running away.
I knew dreams and nightmares could be very vivid with clear imagery, but I didn't know that they could do that, with the image being burned into my vision. It's a bit unsettling and not sure I'll be able fall asleep again tonight.
Sorry for any formatting issues. I just typed this on my phone.