Summary

In “Sandman,” a woman named Kelly suffered from insomnia. One night, she saw a cloaked figure sitting on the end of her bed. His face was hidden in a hood. He touched her leg, then climbed on top of her and sand issued forth from within his hood, into Kelly's mouth and down her throat.

Kelly always had difficulty sleeping, even as a child. As an adult, it seemed to her that no one slept well, but Kelly often went days without sleeping. A week before her first encounter with the cloaked man, she mentioned to a coworker, a health-obsessed man named Thibault whom she was vaguely attracted to, that she had trouble sleeping. He told her to stop drinking coffee in the afternoon, and to clean her bedroom and remove all distractions. This seemed like a lot of work to Kelly...