I can delete this so I don't keep cluttering up your journal with comments, but I have to say that I get what you're saying: One of the most frightening things for me is when a hypnagogic face looks straight at you, eye-to eye, letting you know it's looking at you, not 'just there'. It's not the thing itself, (after all, it's just a person) it's the knowledge that they are there, looking at you. *shivers*.
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