Sleep

Last night as I was falling asleep I could feel the curtain of unconsciousness slowly closing around me. It was something I was very aware of. I quite literally felt as though a black velvet curtain was wrapping around my body. I realized the curtain was closing on me slowly and there was one thing I could do to stop it and that was to move. But I was so intensely afraid I felt truly paralyzed. I'm not sure what I was so scared of but I was so frightened I could not bring myself to even reach for my phone on my desk to call someone. Eventually my fear exhausted me and I closed my eyes and was drowned in the black velvet.