A monster calls Connection

I got a connection because in the book it says that the character was scared because there was a monster in his backyard. When I was about 8 years old I was also scared because I thought there was a creature. I also had a nightmare like how it happened in the book, and when I had a nightmare I screamed for my mom. But in the book it did actually happened, and for me it was just a nightmare thankfully. Now I don't have as much nightmares as I did before.