The Number 111

Some of you may know some of you may not but there is great significance in the number 111. It is commonly linked to overdoses and suicides in motel rooms. It is also associated with street addresses of suicides that take place in residential neighborhoods. The number has much more depth than that though. People who find themselves disturbed by this number or associated to it are introduced in a manner of their own choosing. It is not intentional but accidental. It may be a number they are given at the DMV or for a raffle drawing. No matter how you are introduced to this number once it begins there is no getting out.

The number starts to pop up everywhere you go. You will find yourself looking over at the clock one night when you are unable to sleep. As you check the time on your nightstand you soon realize it is 1:11 in the morning. You think nothing of it and try your best to go back to bed. Your first dream usually goes a little something like this. Everything is very blurry. You find yourself stumbling around a familiar place. You know the surroundings but you cannot for sure say where you are. You are knocking on random doors. The people who answer these doors have no face, they do not speak, and they have a painful white light in back of them masking their true form. At this point in the dream you have no control of what you are saying or doing. You are just going along for the ride. You reach a door with the marks of 111. Before you can bring yourself to knock you wake up in a cold sweat. You check the clock and the new time is 3:37 in the morning. At the time you think nothing of it because your relationship with the number 111 is quite new. The number 3 times the number 37 equals 111. As I said at the time this means nothing to you so again you go back to bed and try to forget about the odd dream.

The following day you walk around in some sort of daze. Your eyes are overly sensitive to light and ears to sound. Your attention span is also affected. The following days become normal once again. You are not coming in contact with the number as often and even when you do it is on something as subtle as a food order or a receipt and you do not even notice it. A week passes and you find a similar circumstance. It is 1:11 in the morning you cannot sleep. Try to go back to bed and end up in another dream. This time you are running. As you are running you keep looking over your shoulder. You see a dark figure in the distance but everything is still blurry so you are unable to make out anything about it. The landmarks you run by are familiar once more but you find yourself still unable to say for certain where you are. At this point you are still running from the figure. All of the sudden something kicks your feet out beneath you, you look up and see nothing around you. You pick yourself back up to find you have acquired a limp. Unable to walk with steadiness you are now stumbling. You find yourself afraid and you are now screaming for help. You are now in a neighborhood. You find yourself knocking on doors again. Those who open their doors to you have a blinding light that hurts your eyes. You hear the sound of static coming from what you assume to be a television. The sound hurts your ears causing you to go to another house. Things become blurry again. The next thing you know you are knocking on a door with the number 111 on the front of it. You see the doorknob begin to turn and you awaken from a dead sleep. The clock reads 3:37 in the morning. You go over to your computer desk and write down the time 3:37. You rush back to your bed and pass out as soon as you hit the bed.

The next day was similar to last time. Your vision is affected, your hearing is affected, your thoughts are interupted. Nothing felt normal that day. You have a ringing in your ears that will not go away. Now you are looking for answers to why this is opening. You are not the most religious person but you find yourself looking to God for answers. You crack open a Bible to the first page. Proverbs 1:11, there is that blasted number again. The Bible verse reads as the following; If they say, " Come along with us; let's lie in wait for innocent blood, let's ambush some harmless soul...the statement continues for a few more verses. You shut the Bible feeling hopeless. Are you the harmless soul they are waiting to ambush or the innocent blood they hope to shed? What does this all mean?

You still do not have answers to any of these questions as a week has gone by. You have not slept for the fear of having another dream like your last. You find yourself walking through a park to try and clear your head and get away from this. You decide to rest under a tree and catch some shade. You fell asleep under the tree since this was the first time you had gotten rest in quite some time. It was starting to grow dark. As you get up from your rest you notice some markings on the tree you rested underneath.. There are three slashes that appear to be claw marks right beside each other. Three lines that are parallel kind of like 111. When did this happen you are thinking to yourself? You head in the other direction in a fast paced walk to get away from this. You hear the sound of rustling in a nearby tree which causes your heart rate to climb. Your walk slowly turns into a jog as you are now more uncomfortable with your surroundings. Before you know it your are running as fast as you can to get to safety. You have no clue where you are going but you are in familiar surroundings. Faster than you can react you trip on something. As you are brushing yourself off you look around and see that there was nothing to trip on. Your fall caused you to hit your head on the ground and your vision is blurred. You brush yourself off and try to go back to your speed from before but you realize you hurt your leg when you fell. You begin stumbling around trying to find safety. After a while of stumbling you glance over your shoulder and about a hundred yards back you spot it. A figure wearing dark cloaks. You are beginning to panic. You reach in your pocket to look for your cell phone but it is not there. You must have dropped it when you fell. You managed to reach a neighborhood close to the park. You find yourself frantically knocking on doors. Going from house to house. Those who do answer their doors turn you away from using their phone. Finally you make your way to an apartment complex. None of the doors are marked on the first floor. You go door to door and knock but receive no answer. Finally you reach the last door on the floor. It has numbers on the door that read 111. You stare at the door and contemplate whether or not to knock. Turning over your shoulder you see the dark figure again. the devil you know or the devil you do not. You knock three times. You see the doorknob turn and are met with an answer almost immediately. Before you can say anything you are dragged into the room by the front of your shirt. You begin to scream and a hand covers your mouth. "Shhhhhh" they tell you. The entire room is dark. There is no source of light. You find yourselves breathing through your nose because your mouth is covered by a hand. The hand replaces itself with duct tape. You are thrown onto a nearby object which you soon discover to be a couch. Do not move they say. There is another knock at the door. The door opens and a dark figure is illuminated by the light of the night lighting up the room. There now stand two figures in the room. One figure says to the other "What are we going to do with him". "The same thing we do to all of them" his friend replies. All of the sudden a tv is turned on only to the loud sound of static noise. "This should mask the sound of his screams."

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