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ratcreature

horrible, recursive nightmare

Apr 17, 2009 14:00

As background info you have to know that one of my recurring nightmare elements is my teeth crumbling and falling out. It usually appears as part of other dreams and slowly gets worse, but happens so often that whenever it gets bad enough, i.e. more than one tooth breaking and crumbling, I become aware in a dream that it is a dream because I ( Read more... )

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jimandblair April 17 2009, 14:11:15 UTC

*pats* that's an 'American Werewolf in London' level of nightmare. When I dream about people who have passed, I know I'm dreaming and wake myself up promptly. So I know that feeling and head-switch, but your dream-within-a-dream maze is scary.

*pats*

ratcreature April 17 2009, 14:28:44 UTC

I have this effect that I "wake" in a nightmare only to still be in a different kind of nightmare every now and then. And it is scary. But then my nightmares can get very inventive in general. I think that is the reason why I don't read or watch a lot of horror, I don't need any additional fodder. The only thing worse is to have flashbacks to vivid nightmares while you are actually awake. I once had forgotten all about a dream, and then looked into a bathroom mirror and had a flashback to a really freaky scene I dreamed the night before, that involved one of my eyes being changed and scary. And for a little while I had no idea where this really vivid image that scared me was even coming from.

astridv April 17 2009, 21:20:30 UTC

Eeeeh *shudders* That's an impressive nightmare. I mean, some people pay money at the movie theater to get that kind of hardcore horror.

I had teeth-related dreams once or twice that I can remember, and was always extremely relieved when I woke up. Though mine sounded way less drastic than yours... not so much with the crumbling. Ghastly! (Makes for a fascinating read, though.)

ratcreature April 17 2009, 22:13:10 UTC

Sadly this dream was in no way ghastly or impressive for one of my nightmares. In the worst recursive nightmare I recall I was threatened by some nameless unclean thing, that on the surface was just a guy with no eyes but depressions but *felt* like Lovecraftian horror, and then "woke up" only to find myself paralyzed in my actual bed unable to scream, with my mind supplying that I must still be in REM sleep because you can't move then, with the thing still threatening me from somewhere in the room I couldn't see, so it was the most awful lucid dream ever, because I basically had a panic attack while I was paralyzed and that went on for some time before I woke up. Though the absolute worst are nightmares about bureaucracies ( ... )

astridv April 19 2009, 23:04:22 UTC

Man, I honestly don't envy you those nightmares... they sound awful. But I must say, they make for really good reading. Have you ever tried to channel some of that stuff for fic?

On the bright side, when I have really cool dreams, like fannish dreams or just nice dreams like where you can fly and such, they are equally vivid.

Now, for that I am envious. I love flying dreams but I rarely ever remember them, if I have them at all. I did have the one dream which I still remember vividly, in which I could fly and was invisible at the same time. I wish that was a recurring one...

ratcreature April 20 2009, 11:28:32 UTC

Dreams of flying are very rare for me too. I wish I had them more often. I tried keping a dream diary once a long time ago, in part to maybe control the nightmares, but also because I was hoping that I might be able to induce nicer ones like flying and such. That never worked out. Though I had some success in that during that time I remembered my dreams even more, and in greater detail ( ... )

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