snakes in the baby's crib

My earliest memory is being a very young baby and feeling terrible dread each night as I was put into my cot. I tried to protest of course but though I thought I could be understood I couldn't. I suppose My mum just thought that I didn't want to go to bed. I however thought she just knew that within moments of her leaving the room the snakes would come slithering along the sheets hundreds of them wrapping themselves around me until I could no longer struggle. They held me there all night whilst I lay awake and sweating like no child should. My worst fear was that they would go in my mouth so I would keep my mouth tightly closed unable to breathe properly. I would often have a teddy bear this would be crushed by the snakes but form a tiny barrier between my tiny body and they're huge slimy ones. In the morning light they were all still there but mum didn't seem to notice.