I had a nightmare that was simultaneously the most retarded and absolutely terrifying dream I've ever experienced. I am convinced a demon was responsible for it.
I'm talking with family members when I notice an old looking desk with a copy of "Anna Karenina" on it. I pick up the book when I get jump scared by a screeching woman, face contorted black and red, yellow eyes and black hair. Her scream is dull and even toned, not loud but sudden, quick, and disorienting. It sounded nothing like a woman at first, more like grinding machinery without the sharp edge. You only realize it was a womans scream after it has passed and you can process just what the fuck happened.
The book wasn't actually "Anna Karenina": It was a sort of memoir about a young woman trapped in a dark basement with her newborn daughter and forced to eat rats until, inevitably, she eats her daughter (I've never actually read Anna Karenina so maybe that is what its about). The book itself wasn't the terror; it was the screaming woman.
Everytime I interacted with the desk, she would appear, consuming the whole dream for a moment, and scream at me. After the first time, I had slowly become lucid and it seemed she did too. She looked at me now, not the dream. She hunted me, her gaze was always on me. She watched me from that desk and book. Anywhere I went, the desk and book and her glowering intent followed me. I begged everyone in the dream to not touch it, as everytime they did she tormented ME. I looked for help, finally finding a monk I had once been acquainted with. I begged him to help me and, for the last time, he picked up the book.
Now in the semi-wakeful state, where the dream holds your body captive as your mind and soul desperately try to escape but are found trapped, I could hear my ragged breath choke out the words of the horrid woman, now red with rage, who hunted me and cornered me so viciously:
"I am Lucy of the Order 666. I serve Satan. He lied."
Even in my semi-concious "oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck I'm going to die" nightmare, this final line was so fucking dumb I started laughing. It didn't last long because it was a really intense nightmare and I was shaking like a bitch in the middle of a dark room.
Thinking about it now, its the dumbest thing to be terrified about. Part of why I believe it wasn't sleep paralysis but a genuine possession. Only the devil can make something so retarded genuinely teerifying.
The moral of the story; don't get wasted on Christmas Eve when you said you'd go to Midnight Mass. Christ's blood might be wine, but He doesn't appreciate it when you bail on his birthday for a shit load of drinking.