Sleep(less)

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The first part reminds me of sleep paralysis. Sometimes it feels like you really are suffocating, and sometimes you're screaming to yourself in your mind to wake up! Snap out of it! Run! The second part feels like loneliness, disappointment. Acceptance of loneliness and disappointment.

it felt very much like suffocation. the inability to breath within a dream or even scream for help. the hope that something bright will be there when you wake up crushed by the weight of reality. the suffocation is almost more attractive then the truth. i liked it very much.