The horrifying video above was originally shot and uploaded onto Facebook by Wei Cheng Jian, a Taiwanese fisherman. In defiance of his basic survival instincts, Jian decided to stick around and film the piercingly green monstrosity as it wobbled around in search of a blood sacrifice/prey near a fishing pole, ultimately extending out its long tongue-like proboscis in vain. Luckily for us, the video, in its various iterations, has since gone viral, with hundreds of thousands of viewers currently also knowing the joys of never sleeping again.

Aside from serving as nightmare fuel, the jello-like animal goes by a much more innocuous name, the ribbon worm. Belonging to the phylum Nemertea, there are apparently more than 1,000 species roaming the world, with as many colorful varieties as there are hairs standing on the back of my head just now. According to Science Encyclopedia, ribbon worms can be found in all sorts of environments, from underneath rocks to sand, freshwater to land. When hunting, its proboscis, which may additionally be laced with poison or fitted with a sharp spike, will shoot out and flail around until it "coils around the prey organism," at which point it’s retracted into its mouth.

Also on the checklist of traits that coincidently belong to the creature from John Carpenter’s ‘The Thing’, ribbon worms can elongate and shrink back their bodies at will; they can survive and multiply from being cut in half; and they swallow their prey whole. And if that’s not enough, the bootlace worm, or Lineus longissimus, is currently cited by the Guinness World Records as the longest animal in existence, with a recorded specimen in 1864 measuring over 180 feet long. Luckily, humans haven’t shown up on the menu for these admittedly highly interesting animals, with most of their food amounting to other smaller sea life like worms, fish, and crustaceans.

So have no worries and enjoy the sneak preview to Pacific Rim 2.