The endless Chase through Shifting Shadows

"I was being chased again. I never saw it clearly, but I knew it was right behind me, always one step away. The place kept changing: sometimes it was day, sometimes night, inside a building or out in the open, sometimes alone, sometimes in a crowd. The chase was always the same. My body wouldn't work properly. I could barely move, as if I were crawling through thick air. My voice was gone, so I couldn't call for help, and my eyes could only see through a tiny pinhole, the world around me dark and blurred. I couldn't tell what was chasing me. One moment it was someone I knew, then an animal, then a monster, then only the feeling that something was there. Once, it was a giant corn cob. I kept pulling away, just out of reach, until I felt it was about to touch me. Then I woke up. My body was tired and tense, my heart was racing, and the fear was still sitting heavily in my chest. I felt exhausted, stressed, and anxious, as if I hadn't slept at all, and I knew the chase would be waiting for me again the next night."