If I remembered correctly, it was a blog post I came across while searching for ways to sleep with noise around, it was written by someone who had served in military and the fact that it was often used by them to sleep in any condition was already enough to grab my interest.
According to the blog post the best way to sleep fast is [Relax your body and mind by getting into a comfortable position to sleep, then just let go of the body once in a comfortable position and try not to move for 5 to 10 minutes, to accelerate the process try to think as if you don't have a body at all, try to dive into the emptiness of mind rid of all motion and senses ]
As i recalled this method and how effective it was, as the first step I tried to get in a comfortable position, I turned my head towards my right side in one such attempt and on my right I saw a head, a rotten head lying on the floor next to me, a head that was missing a few patches of hair, the skin looked like it was almost liquid and might fall off any second now
A sudden burst of fear grew rapidly as I accidentally looked in it's eyes, those eyes held nothing but pure emptiness, the lifelessness in those eyes as a fly came and sat on it was enough to make me hold my breath. Any sudden moment on my part would lead to my demise is what I had running in my mind on loop.
I layed there... flat on the ground... no sudden moments... not even blinking... holding my breath for my dear life.
Am I asleep? Am I awake? What should I do? Should I just run? HOW DID THIS EVEN GET HERE!!?
I let go of my breath that I held in for almost a minute now, slowly I dragged myself away from the rotten head while making sure I don't let it go out of my sight, I had no way to know why was there a head infront of me and how did it even get there without me noticing anything.
I quickly turned my head to look at the entrance of the tent to see if it's open or have any signs of forceful entry but it was perfectly sealed as I left it, I even had a bottle of water placed right infront of the tent to know if the entrance was breached or not but to my surprise it was still there standing in the same exact place.
How then did this get-
The head was no longer there, I just looked away for couple of seconds and now there was nothing there.
Am I hallucinating? Did my mind just made it all up.
I started having doubts so I recounted what had just happened in the last minute, it sounded just like hallucinations but something just didn't feel right about that conclusion. Just as I about to give up and just try to sleep I had a tingling sensation around my nose that led to a big sneeze. What was that thing?
In front of my eyes was a fly buzzing around, as soon as I layed my eyes on that fly I jumped out if the sleeping bag, "IT WASN'T MY IMAGINATION!!" The fly was definitely the one I saw sitting on the eyes of that head and with the tent having no openings other than the zip door in the front there was no way for any other fly to get in. Now the only question was, "Where did the head come from? ... And where did it go?"
It is a completely impossible situation unless... something supernatural is involved.
I quickly went through the handbook.
From everything I've read while walking, it seems like higher rank creatures are able to use some super natural abilities but from the information recorded they can not freely use them, most of their abilities are situational which cannot be triggered unless certain conditions are met, just like how higher rank ShutDown can make others pass out only if it passes out of fear as well
So the best way to narrow down on a creature is to compare the situations rather than abilities cause that's how I've survived throughly the six kilometers walk. Earlier this evening while coming towards river I heard a sound of a branch snapping coming from a group of trees, that exact situation is created by a creature called 「Cravin'」, staying silent there would have triggered it's ability.
[Cravin' a creature with the appearance of a tree (yep that's it),
Rank: Archangel.
it's diet consistents of sunlight but can turn to hunting to get nutrients from other living beings. It's primary way to hunt is to make an obvious sounds to make its target stand in silence for 10 seconds triggering it's ability to take away it's target's ability listen for next 10 minutes making them vulnerable to any sneak attacks.to make use of it, follow the instructions given below:
1. Cut off all the branches
2. Light those branches on fire. (These branches releases a odour upon lightning on fire that keep other creatures away)
3. It's trunk can be used as an ordinary log.
For ways to eat....]WHY WOULD I EAT A TREE!
I kept going through the handbook trying to find the exact situation that matched mine. "The cold water suddenly turned hot, nope not the one, seeing, not being able to hear for 10 mins, already went through that, unusual stuff while sleeping- YEA THAT'S THE ONE."
[ 「Sing me to sleep」, an unusual creature that has small turtle like appearance with few key difference, it has 2 heads, one on each side of the shell, and it's shell have random scales point outwards giving it a appearance of a small bush, it can also take a form of it's victims if it had any in past 2 days.
Rank: Archangel
It mimics the sound of the nature, hearing the sound makes you a target, upon becoming a target if you try to sleep near it, it's ability activates...