Close your eyes and imagine you are lying in bed

Pairs of hands slowly emerge from underneath you and start pulling you down

One hand is over your mouth, one is over your eyes, and one is on your chest

They begin pulling you under aggressively, holding you down as if trying to drown you

You want to fight them, but you can’t. Your limbs are lifeless, dead.

So you slow your breathing, stay as still as possible, and hope, desperately, that their grip will eventually loosen

You never know if it will.