Nightmarescape

Object Class: Safe

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-xxxx is to be locked in a standard Foundation storage unit appropriate for an item its size (6x3 meters and 1 centimeter thick).

Description: SCP-xxxx is a painting currently depicting 36 figures in a flower field, bordered by fruit bearing trees. Each figures (identified as SCP-xxxx-1 to SCP-xxxx-36) has a unique design including light green skin, blonde hair, and wings that appear to be modeled after the Six-Spot Burnet (Zygaena filipendulae), a type of butterfly native to the Netherlands. Owing to the skin color and wing design, it is presently believed that the figures are based on the fairy myth.

Doctors ██████████ and ███████ (both having advanced degrees in Art History) have been brought in to try to identify details of the painting, but were only successful in identifying it as being from the Impressionist school. Details such as painter, possible country or time of origin, or the origin of the paints or canvas were unsuccessful. For notes from both researchers, see attached Document-xxxx-1.

SCP-xxxx affects individuals who fall asleep in a roughly spherical area presently with a radius of 5.1 meters and has been roughly divided into two phases. Phase one is defined by:

Subjects begin bleeding during their sleep (detailed below).

Experience nightmares (detailed below).

Reduction of REM sleep, averaging one minute of REM sleep lost every other week.

In approximately 1 in 4 individuals, the development of hemophilia like symptoms.

Subjects who sleep within the affected radius begin bleeding while asleep from a number of orifices at a rate of one new orifice every three weeks (the order nose, ears, eyes, pores, and mouth appears to be most common, but deviations occur in approximate one in twelve subjects). While DNA testing has confirmed that the blood is the subjects, the bleeding does not appear to have a cause, as the affected orifices do not have any cuts, abrasions, or other injuries.

Subject accounts of the nightmares are as follows:

A bright field similar in description to that of the field in SCP-xxxx populated by a number of entities matching descriptions of entities in SCP-xxxx, which are initially non-confrontational.

The subject approaches a flower and the "fairy" entities turn a shade a grey, grow large teeth and claws, and begin attacking the subject.

All subjects report a variation on the sentiment of "being ripped apart" before they wake up.

Nightmares cease when REM sleep ends (30 weeks) and begins "phase two". At this point the development of further symptoms are sporadic, but have included:

Bleeding in a manner similar to phase one bleeding, but during whole day.

Internal hemorrhaging with no known cause

Ejaculating blood

Sudden onset of terminal lymphoma

Sudden removal of all blood plasma, resulting in death

Changing type of blood in the subjects system, followed by death from acute hemolytic reaction

Changing type of blood to canine blood group designated "DEA 1.1 positive"

Research attempts have resulted in the deaths of █ D-class. After each death a new figure has been added to the painting. Each time a new figure is added the effective area increases, the severity of later stage symptoms increases, and the time for recovery after removing exposure (from as little as █ years to as little as ██ years). All further research into SCP-xxxx is currently prohibited for this reason.