Teach a kid Christian fiction and this is what they will believe roils below them, an eternity designed and waiting for them. Sweet dreams Great piece of art 🤘🏼🖤

You say you can't side with either point of view then immediately pick a side.

And life is nothing but middles. When you're grown enough to consider multiple equally valid perspectives, you can see how something that seems good to one is a vile evil to another. There are universal truths, like "don't kill anyone unless there's absolutely no choice in self-defense," but those principles are not sentient beings. They're human notions.

It's the human brain that craves simple binaries, because/but that's not how life is.

Life is a gradient, a spectrum. Try and see more "colors," more variety and diversity, besides white and black. That's how the Egyptians and Babylonians saw things.

Dan, Lord of the Dance

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Now THATS a demonic being that I can trust

Literally the first thing to came to my mind.

Yes, you have the point and thats a good analysis. Thats how one could interpret history and all. To be frank i cant side with ether point of view. Christians, especially during medieval ages gave just too much on demons and making it all go around them and causing mass histeria while Egyptians and other ancients were causing them self harm by looking at demons as neutral.
Theres no middle in universe and no neutrality. You ether serve the ego-lucifer or you serve life- God, and all you can do is pick the side. If one tries to go neutral, because of universe evolving forward, he will fall behind as a result of it.
And also , demons cant really be neutral. They may not harm you , but in the end they all look to satisfy their own goals and ego ( hence the reason why they had fallen away from Gods light and other angels)

Nah, the Nightmare's just stealing the blanket because it's a jerk.

Yes

The difference, at least as far as I understand, is that both Egyptians and Babylonians regarded demons as something much more neutral than Christian demons. In Christianity, to be a demon is to be pure evil, period and full stop. In Egypt and Babylon, they were more like djinni, powerful supernatural creatures who could help or hurt depending on both their whims and the disposition of the person invoking them.

I mean, shit, you don't see Catholics with a statue of Lucifer hanging up over their mantel because he's the most powerful of the air demons. But that's precisely what Babylonians did.

Anyway, that was my point - Christianity (and perhaps other Judeo-Christian religions, but I don't know as much about them) alone seems to think that any supernatural being that isn't God itself or very obviously an angel is somehow pure evil.

I was thinking get weird with it. Purple and toxic green

Silly monsters- don’t they know Teddy will have ‘em?

That Teddy Bear has never lost a fight.

Thank you :)

This is hauntingly beautiful.

This is one of the reasons I don't let anything hang over the edge of the bed when I sleep and I'm 44 lol

Yes!
You can find them on both artstation and Inprnt store..But here i will put link to Inprnt since there i have more art available :) https://www.inprnt.com/profile/ogipavkovicart/

Nahhh scariel 💀💀💀💀

This made me remember my sleep paralysis episodes I had as a teen. Feeling like something was in my room trying to pull me down or hold me down. Not being able to move or open my mouth to scream was always so terrifying.

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For me it wasn't even exactly a nightmare, waking had me perceiving regular things of this reality like cartoon characters and people, but when I was slipping into sleep they started morphing and swirling like the picture, which would freak me out and wake me slightly then I'd go back into that.

The fear itself wasn't seen as a bad thing, it helped me feel how alive I was during the experience. But when I finally gave in it slowed and became more like a soft ocean wave. When it started evening out I got this weird in-between of awake/sleep states where I was able to traverse the dream world via thought. If I moved my physical body it probably would have woken me up.

Ah i can understand you...Its really horrifying. I still can remember that feeling of waking up from terrible nightmare , with shivers deep in my bones and in being in room so cold with this tension in air, as if all of love and compassion has gone .
Ive tried to put that expirience in this illustration and just make it nice to look at by composition and so on...

Thanks god xD

Now you can :)