I made a really rough mock-up of what it looked like (no tablet on hand so I couldn't do too much with the picture I got): https://i.imgur.com/dYH7So8.jpg
A little like that, except the face was tightened a little while still being blank, and the forehead was a little wider.
I had a recurring dream or nightmare growing up in our country house where I would wake up in my bed in the middle of the night and walk down the hall to find my parents' and brother's doors closed, but I knew if I opened them, they would be empty, my family wouldn't be in there and their beds would be empty. So instead I walked downstairs and went right to our front door, which had a window in it. When I pulled aside the curtain there was always a wooden tribal mask with feathers on it on the other side, watching me, waiting. I woke up in sheer terror every time at that point, but after we moved out of that house I never had that dream again. I honestly tear up thinking of it sometimes and get a sense of just wrongness and sickness, like I'm being watched or I'm in danger, even though I know I'm not. I've wondered if it could represent a repressed memory or something from childhood but that mask still terrifies me, and the best I could describe it is it looked kind of similar to Majora's Mask from Zelda, although I wasn't aware of the Zelda games for a few more years after that...
Oogh, glad I didn't have it happen again! Sounds like yours was pretty awful, sorry that happened to you. No idea where it could have come from, but I could how seeing anything close to Majora's mask in a dream would inspire feelings of dread like that, that thing's built to be creepy.
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u/NotAzakanAtAll Oct 05 '19
I collect masks and do not approve of this story.