The Man at the edge of the yard Jack's true scary story

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Okay, so this story is actually
I don't know how familiar are with how

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familiar you are with reoccurring dreams,
because you get used to them. They're

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the same, They're the exact same. The first time they happen, they're

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very jarring, they're very you know. It's just it's usually, at least

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for me, it's usually some kind
of night So some people have recurring dream

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where it's just like a regular dream. That's for me, it's usually a

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nightmare. It started when I was
really really young. So I was playing

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outside with like toys or something like
that, and I would I would I

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was on the front portion. It
would be like a gust of wind,

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it would get a chill. I
would look up and everyone was gone.

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You know. I grew up with
ten or twelve people in the same house

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easily, so this was very and
you'd be completely alone, except there was

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one person staring at me at the
edge of the front yard. He would

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always be wearing like a robes,
maybe like monk Monkeish robes, you know,

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like kind of like a drab kind
of color, a rope like sash

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around his waist and his head his
he had like a hood, but it

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was it was pulled back. It's
very short kind of stalking me, and

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he would just stare directly at me. I immediately would get this feeling that

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I should leave. I would stand
up and I'd keep my eyes on.

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I'd walk into the house, close
the door, look out the window,

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and he would still be staring.
Usually I would wake up at around that

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point. It was very difficult to
process when I was a little kid,

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but you know, it's a dream. But then I started having the dream

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again and again. It actually got
to the point that I would know I'm

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in a dream, and because I
was so used to this, I was

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almost expecting it and it would never
change. I would feel the gust of

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wind. It was really about the
gust of wind where I would realize,

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Okay, I'm in a dream.
I know what's going to happen next.

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Look up, everyone's gone. I
see this man standing at the edge of

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the yard. I would keep my
eyes on and I would walk into the

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house and close the door, look
out the window, almost like this will

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wake me up. Now I will
look out the window, I'll see him,

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the dream will end. And I
had this for several years to the

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point that it was at that point, it was normal, didn't It didn't

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affect me anymore. The only thing
that changed was that I would get older

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in the dream was now I was
always the age that I was. What

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I had it, so maybe starting
at like ten and then eleven and twelve.

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Eventually we moved to a new house
that didn't have a yard, and

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he would stand at the edge of
the drive. There was the gravel drive,

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but I was maybe not playing the
toys anymore. I was just maybe

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standing outside or something like that.
Even though it didn't scare me, I

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guess I always woke up with like
a chill, like a like a spine

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tingling chill. You feel on the
back of your neck, you feel it

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on your arms like goosebumps. And
nothing would change except for one day.

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I stare at him and he takes
one single step forward. I was terrified

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in the dream. I was terrified. I recognize it's a dream, but

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this is something that's not supposed to
happen. At this point, something was

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different and it shouldn't have happened.
I turned around, I take off running

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towards the house. I slammed the
door. I look out the window and

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he's not there. I wasn't watching
him while I was walking towards the house.

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I always step away, keeping my
eyes on him until I get in.

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This time, I turned around,
ran I don't know where he is.

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This became the normal dream for a
while, and this one always unsettled

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there. I never got used to
this one. A few years go by

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again I keep having it, to
the point that I think, I guess

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this is just my life. Now
I'm going to have this dream over and

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over again. You know, you
always wake up after it's like okay,

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you know, you feel around,
you make sure you're you're fine. This

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isn't really this doesn't really happen,
but you still can't shake that feeling for

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a while. And that was that
was you know, annoying to some degree

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because you know, couldn't get a
good night to sleep. Whenever I would

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have this dream, it kind of
escalated a little bit. He would take

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more than one step at or multiple
steps. Eventually he was just it wasn't

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running. It was just a constant
walk towards me, and I could never

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keep track of him because I tried
to run as fast as I could to

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get back in the house because at
the very least I could wake up.

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I had the dream one more time, I think, maybe in my twenties.

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And I make it back to the
house. I spin around shut the

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door, and I looked through the
window of the door, and there he

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is, face almost pressed against the
glass, and he's pushing through the door.

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I can't I'm ramming my shoulder into
it. I can't close it.

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And I'm thinking, because anyone be
young, because there's no one, Like

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I said, every time, everyone
just disappears. I can't get any assistance

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because there's no one around. And
he speaks in this strange voice. You

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know, you think it like a
scary voice that must be deep or loud

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or you know, violent. It's
calm and almost kind of quiet. He

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looks at me and he says,
why won't you let me in? And

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I just give everything I can.
I know instinctively knows something is wrong.

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It's always bothered me whatever this is, and I ram into the door.

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It finally clicks locks like flip the
lock. I look up and he's gone.

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I have not had that dream since, but I'm convinced that if I

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had let him in, something terrible. I don't know what it is.

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I don't know what it means.
But I have never had that dream since

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then, because now I'm thinking of
recurring dream i'd have not quite that pretty

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scary, but not to that level. I used to have this dream that

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and sometimes my friend or two would
be with me, and sometimes it's just

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me. I would be in this
big concrete place and I'll just concrete everywhere,

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and this figure he'd never be actually
chasing me. He'd be walking,

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and no matter how fast I ran, whenever I turned around, he would

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be there. And the weird part
about those dreams where sometimes I would wake

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up, fall back asleep, and
it would pick back up right where it

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was, and sometimes it would be
a week later it picked back up where

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it left off again. It was
like one continuous loop. It was kind

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of like he was kind of like
Michael Myers, but not quite. It's

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scary even, but he was just
like after me, but never really wanted

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to catch me. It's weird like
he so if he was literally able to

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like I was never able to make
ground on him, he could have caught

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me. It's almost like he didn't
want to catch me. That's what your

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story reminded me of. That was
kind of how I get I know,

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it's kind of the same feeling.
It was just that in you know,

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like instinct to just get away,
and I don't know even know exactly why.

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But it's weird because like when I
had these dreams, I was in

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almost in like another world. It
felt like another world, in a whole

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different place. But yours is like
this, like maybe this a different world

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but at the same place at your
house. Yeah, which is weird.

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Yeah, it's very very wild.
It was unsettling for a long time.

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I was expecting to have the dream
again, you know, because I had

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it for I don't know, fifteen
years probably at that point. How often

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were you having it? Did it
end at least once a week? Did

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you ever have two in the same
night or not? No, every time

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it would end kind of pretty formulaic. As soon as I would look out

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the window, I would wake up. It would be basically the next day,

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you know. It was like gready
to be awake. I know what

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you're saying, though, because I
knew it was a dream when this happened

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to me, and I would think, I'm going to wake up from this

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dream. And it was so long
ago. I'll try to remember exactly,

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but I almost feel like I could
wake myself up then when I couldn't,

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that was terrifying. So like you
were fully aware that this was a dream.

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Yeah, certainly, after you do
it enough times, after you get

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the same dream over and over again, I feel like it's like, oh,

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I've been here before, I kind
of know what's going to happen next.

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At the same time, I still
want to be awake because this is

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terrifying. Did this guy in your
dream look like anything you had, anybody,

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or anything you'd seen before? No, he Actually I meant to describe

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his face. It was it was
very big, like I mean like wide,

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like almost and also I say cartoonishly
wide, but like to the point

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that it would, you know,
take up the entire window. Not like

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it wasn't like a big window.
This was just like a door. So

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I would say maybe like twice the
size of my head or so. So

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it was just like a very big
face. You know. There was something

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off putting about it. It was
almost like a yeah, I did mention

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that cartoony kind of look because it
was almost like is if someone was drawing

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a face that was trying to make
a really ugly looking face that was kind

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of like the way I describe it, whenever you woke up, did you

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actually ever go check out the one
do? In real life? I did?

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But like I said, you know, I grew up with like when

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I was younger, it was like
twelve to fifteen people, So there was

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like this pretty good sense of security. I guess I could say, you

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know, I had to kind of
climb over other people who were asleep to

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go look out the front door.
As I got older, there was a

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humble line movie. Yeah, it
was kind of like that. It's a

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good question though. I like that
question. Yeah, someone else asked how

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how deep of a pitch was the
voice? No, it was like really

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soft. It was almost like like
you said, calm, yeah, calm,

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it was like soft. How big
was the person? So a lot

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of people were being asked for a
better description of the person, right,

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So I actually do remember this person
most of the time. I would say,

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like right at five foot, maybe
a little bit less even like very

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kind of kind of you know,
kind of on the shorter scale. You

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know, I definitely got the feeling
that this person was an adult. However,

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when it came to the door,
I was actually more shocked than they

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were able to be at the window, like my at my eyes, did

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he look different than ever before?
He always looked the same. He always

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looked the same. I never got
quite that good of a view of his

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face before that point because he was
always at the end of the driveway or

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at the end of the yard or
something like that. But this was like

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face to face, like it was
like the only thing separating us was the

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glass. And well, yeah,
like I said it was, it was

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terrifying, it was terrifying at the
time. And how did he stand well

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normally, I mean, I guess
to say just kind of like kind of

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relaxed. I guess I would say
relaxed would be the best way to put.

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His shoulders were down. It was
almost like he was just passively watching

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me. It's staring directly at me. Obviously I was the only one around

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in the dream. And then what
he was walking towards me was very clearly.

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You know, you can kind of
like get look in my eyes.

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That's kind of like he was just
kind of looking directly anyone. Did you

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ever tell anybody? I think I
did, But you know, it's like

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most of the time with a dream, you know, it's like you tell

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someone a dream and it's almost never
quite as interesting as it is to yourself,

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I guess, and also was it
never seemed to resolve, and so

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I didn't really know what to say
about it other than there was a guy

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that was watching me. And as
it started to escalate over the years,

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I was so used to it that
I felt like this was just this was

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just for me. I don't know
what it means, but it's just for

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me. And after it was completely
over, I was like I had to

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really go back and really analyze everything
that happened. It was like, wow,

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this is Yeah. I don't know
how to describe it other than this

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is just like a dream of a
guy who was I guess trying to get

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into the house all along. I
guess someone else is asking did you ever

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think about doing something different in the
dream? What would happen? Actually?

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I was always scared of doing something
different. That was That was the one

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thing I was like, if I
do something different, what is he going

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to do? I know that if
I get in the house, I close

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the door and then I can wake
up. That was my always my number

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one priority. When things started changing, I did try something else. I

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did like try to I don't know, run to a different door. There

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was the front door, in the
back door of the house. I would

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try to figure out, like,
do I need to do something different to

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make him go back to not walking
onto the to the yard. You know,

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it's you know, you're in that
moment of like in a dream space

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where things sometimes make sense and sometimes
it don't make sense, and so you

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just kind of try to make a
decision. Some good questions. When did

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you know that the dream it started? Was there a transition from another dream?

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How long did the dream to take
you to realize before you're in this

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scenario. When I first had the
dream, I had had weird nightmares before,

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you know, like I don't know, running from a wheat thresher or

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something like that in the field,
weird stuff, terrifying, and I'm like,

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oh it did never happened again.
It was just like, Oh,

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that was a weird dream that was
kind of scary. I'm glad it's not

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real, you know. Like I
said, I was like maybe nine ten

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when I first started. And when
it started happening, more than once I

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would wake up and go, oh, that's the exact same dream, and

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then happened a couple more times.
And then it was at some point maybe

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I had a six seventh time that
that's when I started to like acknowledge it

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in the dream. Have had any
more questions pop up? Luke? What

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do you think this is when the
first time I've heard this dream? This

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is very odd because you don't really
you know, Jack would tell me stuff

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like this. But then again it
kept the ghost from himself. Yeah,

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I the internive events. Yeah,
I've had recurrent dreams before. You guys

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both described it somewhere kind of thing
like a person coming at you or something

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like that. Mine were never like
that, but they were. I did

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have a recurring nightmare of this creature
that would always kill someone in my family,

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and I would wake up realizing I
failed again to stop from happening,

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and after a while I kind of
got a sense that could control the dream,

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so I would try to stop it
the next time. Always failed.

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Every time. He was probably about
seven or eight years I would have the

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same type of dream, the same
creature. I actually needed to maybe use

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like something like so serve of ai
art assistant or something to draw it at

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some point because I could tell you, well, you know, I could

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break it down after to think about
it for a few minutes, but it

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was always something horrible, something I've
never seen before in any movie or now,

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and it was the same thing.
But yeah, this to me that

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seems a little more silly than like
Jack's and yours, because something about those

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two dream seems unsettling, like something
else that shouldn't be here was there.

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Looking back at it, you're always
like, well would have happened if I

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would have approached this being or whatever
it was. In my case, it

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was a man that had to mask
and I never really know the I can't

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even describe what the person look like, if that makes sense. It was

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so it's like he was always just
far enough away but never close, but

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always never not far away. I
mean, I don't know how to describe

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it. But Jeff Townsend Media sees
you good night, and the question is

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do I stay here? Will you
be back? Are you gonna come back?

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Will you be back? Are you
coming back?