Dreamscape: childhood bedroom

This painting was a part of my choose your own adventure book, You Control the Dream. This book takes the reader through scenarios from my nightmares, allowing them to choose between two options on each of the 70 pages. Like a dream, the plot circles and loops, and the only way to end the dream is to close the book. The title gives a false sense of control, because while the reader can choose between A or B, there is no way to avoid unsafe situations, and there is no way to complete the story.

You look around the house curiously but stop abruptly when you see a familiar silhouette: the man you are most afraid of. Ducking out of his sight, you open the first door you see and enter a child’s bedroom. The setting sun shines through the window, casting an ominous orange glow into the room. Panic makes your blood freeze; you imagine the ice crystals traveling through your veins. You need to hide. The bed frame is too close to the ground for you to fit under. There is a crawl space in the corner that you can hide in, or you can try to hide in another room. Where do you go?