[ WP ] The monster under your bed is protecting you from something much worse .

I woke to a new pressure in my room. I have never felt a presence while sleeping before. As a child I have never thought there was a beast under my bed, but for the first time in my life, I know something is there. My logical mind tells me that I am silly thinking such things in the summer of my twenties, but the atmosphere feels... Spicy. As I lean over and look under, I see a shadow moving. 
 
 `` Hello.'' 
 
 The single word knocked me on my back. 
 
 `` H-Hello'' 
 
 `` I did n't intend for you to find me, so would you kindly go back to sleep?'' 
 
 `` What are you?'' 
 
 The shade sighed. `` It is a very complicated conversation you are asking of me, and I would prefer not tell you who I am.'' 
 
 `` How do I know you wo n't hurt me?'' 
 
 `` Truly, you do n't.'' The voice came from behind me, and as I looked up, the shade was standing over my head. 
 
 `` Are you a ghost?'' 
 
 `` In a sense, yes, but also no. I am the explanation of a ghost you could say. Although, I am not dead. This is a very complicated matter, but if I where to say that I am here to protect you, would you believe me?'' 
 
 `` You have done me no harm, at most I can give you the benefit of a doubt.'' 
 
 `` Good. Please go back to sleep. I need you sleeping.'' 
 
 `` How could I sleep knowing you are here with an unknown purpose.'' 
 
 `` I doubt you would understand, or feel any better if I tried to explain it.'' 
 
 `` On the contrary, I would feel a lot better if I knew your purpose, and I would try so very hard to understand.'' 
 
 Hesitantly, the shade says, `` very well.'' He pauses for a moment to search for the words. `` I am an entity from a 4 dimension universe. We can cross over to your 3 dimension world easily, but we scarcely like to do so. We are often called ghosts, wraiths or specters. How may I ask, do I appear to you?'' 
 
 `` You are just a silhouette, or writhing thick smoke.'' 
 
 `` Interesting. To me, you are flat like a painting that I can walk around. I see no color here. Everything gives off a white light and different shades of gray.'' 
 
 I became very curious. `` How is your 4th dimension perceived? Can you describe it to me?'' 
 
 `` It would be difficult, as I have only done what you have. I have accepted the world I have been presented with. Could you described to me what a single dimension is?'' 
 
 `` I suppose it would be a single line or a dot to me.'' 
 
 `` I suppose that is what 2 dimensions of space is to me. Very well, I shall try. If you are to imagine sitting in this room, but all around you, you can see your self in the same room doing different things. You can very well walk to the next room on your own volition, but you will perceive all others fallowing suit. I understand you a have a book that speaks about a father's white house with many rooms?'' 
 
 `` I believe you are referencing the Bible.'' 
 
 `` Yes, that sound familiar. I have seen it many times when I have been called a ghost. However, that seems to me like the place where I live. Some may have seen my 4th dimension and wrote of it.'' 
 
 `` Then I feel I understand.'' 
 
 `` I sincerely doubt that.'' 
 
 `` Then tell me of who you are and what you are protecting me from?'' 
 
 `` I still prefer not to tell you.'' 
 
 `` Please do.'' 
 
 `` I am you. And I am protecting you from you.'' 
 
 Fear has returned to my mind as I tried to contemplate the paradox before me. Can a human mind comprehend such thought of seeing both a wall and a doppelganger of sorts? 
 
 The shade spoke. `` I see that I have challenged your mind most vehemently.'' 
 
 `` Your voice still seems unfamiliar, yet you say that you are me!'' 
 
 `` Is sound not simply vibrations through the air? The atmospheric density may be different as it travels.'' 
 
 `` And what of this business that you are protecting me from my self? Am I to commit suicide?'' 
 
 `` No. You will be attacked. I have felt the urge to come here and protect you. One could say I am the positive from one room. While I am here, my opposite in another room is making his preparations to also come into this room and kill you. I am unaware of his motive, but I am standing firm as your protector, and he is just as sure to be my equal and opposite reaction.'' 
 
 I could not help but grow concerned for my guardian. `` If he where to die, what would happen to you?'' 
 
 `` That is not a concern for you. Please, go back to sleep.''
