HHHHHolllleh fuck.
THIS IS DISTURBING... ON A PERSONAL LEVEL.....
I had a nightmare two months and four days ago about this beast: it looked just like this, except his skin was always squirming from underneath and it's skin also looked burnt. It slit into my belly through my sheets and left it's claws in my opened belly. then I felt a squirming sensation under MY skin and in my wound. then I woke up howling a scream, my skin palled and my veins visible through it -- I was dying. No joke. When I was on the stretcher, I could see what was going on, but I was completely unresponsive; most of my vitals had already failed; at the hospital, I was pronounced DEAD ON ARRIVAL!!
There was one problem, however: my consciousness was still there, fully intact. And I was still able to hear (externally through my own ears, and internally with my inner monologue) and see through my own eyes. But I couldn't speak, feel or (according to the ambulance medic) show any signs of all my vitals functioning.
For fucks sake, I died. I HAD TO WILL MY ASS BACK TO A SEMBLANCE OF LIFE...
I am now getting itchy goosebumps. I hate talking about my terrorizing brush with death, but this deviation just gave me flashbacks to this horrific occurrence.
<I shudder....>