Atharva Veda 6.46: A charm against evil dreams

Thou, neither quick nor dead, O Sleep, art fraught with Amrit of the Gods.
Thy name is Araru: thy sire is Yama; Varunāni bare thee.

We know thy birth, O Sleep, thou art son of the sisters of the Gods; the minister of Yama thou, thou art Antaka, thou art Death.
So well we know thee who thou art. Sleep, guard us from the evil dream.

As men discharge a debt, as they pay up an eighth and half-an-eighth, So the whole evil dream do we pay and assign unto our foe.