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[Amake]

So I woke up from the same ongoing nightmare three times in the last three hours. I spent 30 minutes scared of getting out of bed and jumping at shadows and my reflection in the mirror because I could not be sure if I was still dreaming. I just decided this condition is called "Nightmare overload".

It began with a monster cat that changed back and forth into a baby that made sarcastic jokes in a creepy voice. I had some people to help fighting it; it gnawed on my hand quite a lot and I laughed at how little it hurt. I woke up with intense pain and tingling in my hand that I was crushing between my legs. Lolled and rolled over and went back to sleep.

Then there was some sort of facility where various and somehow creepy wounded animals were kept in cages. Some lions had escaped and apparently given the other animals a good kicking. I made a hungry giraffe come out of its cage where it promptly went for my throat. I put an arm under its jaw to keep it from biting me, but it pinned me to the ground and bled on me so hard from its severed throat that I couldn't breathe. I clearly recall the distinct taste and warmth of giraffe blood, and the incredible pressure caused by the animal's powerful heart that manages to get the blood all the way up to the head. You can't make this shit up.

Then, after some series of events involving some kind of family drama in an apartment I lived in several years ago and riding in a car in the middle of the night in a tropical rainstorm, I ended up in a wholly different car stopped in a desert suburb, surrounded by angry women yelling at the woman behind the wheel. I think they felt she was a bad neighbor. They threw a body at the car in order to break the windows and let the escaped lions prowling the neighborhood, in.

To make matters worse I was in the back seat alone with a baby, which I was sure was another monster baby. I poked and prodded it until it turned on the demon eyes and stared at me and said something mean about women who drive and have lions with hardons of hate stalking them. I was really fucking scared cause I didn't know if the baby was going to play with me, only revealing its monster nature to me and make everyone think I was crazy and all that, or if I was actually hearing voices and was going to strangle an innocent baby, understandable as though it may be considering the earlier monster baby incident. And then I woke up.

Feels much better now that I've shared.

So what's up in your dream worlds?

[Geminex]

That's quite horrible, actually. Particularly the part with the giraffe.

I'm not quite sure what's happening in my dream worlds, but this morning I woke up gasping for air, full of adrenaline. I'm not sure what the lead-up was (in involved Dragonball somewhere), but I was trapped underwater because I had tried to dive through a mob of swimmers in a pool and was now stuck in a forest of legs. I tugged and wrenched and tried to get their attention. The futility of it all was worst. I felt my strength failing and heaved one last time, gasping for air, which is when I woke up. My first thought after I had woken was "I should have bitten them."

[Ryong]

I can't really remember any nightmares I've had lately, but my dreams usually make negative sense ( I've posted them here in an earlier thread about dreams ) but, hey, the other day I had sleep paralysis. I "woke up" and couldn't move anything but my eyes and then saw some...Shadowy black cape thing swirling on a wall and then tried to scream but, again, I could only move my eyes. Then I blinked and it disappeared and I just got up normally and went drink a cup of water. Mom believes I'm seeing spirits.

[Amake]

It's pretty common to have hallucinations under conditions of terror and diminished consciousness, that is, when you wake up from nightmares. You know you're supposed to be scared of something, so your imagination supplies something to be scared of. Much more common than sleep paralysis I believe.

Meanwhile, I dream of drowning every now and then, but it's not scary. I just breathe water. Try that next time.

[Ryong]

Originally Posted by Invisible Queen

It's pretty common to have hallucinations under conditions of terror and diminished consciousness, that is, when you wake up from nightmares.

That's the deal. I don't remember any nightmares I've had in the past year, but that? That happened around what, November? So I don't remember, but I guess I had a nightmare that night.

[Pip Boy]

I've had some sick nightmares. Like Ladd Russo shit.

[Grimpond]

Originally Posted by Megaman FTW

I've had some sick nightmares. Like Ladd Russo shit.

Shiiiit.

The freakiest nightmare I've had recently, I imagined that someone crashed a truck through my bedroom wall. I got so freaked out, I actually woke up, jumped out of the bed, and ran right into my open door.

[PsychicKid]

My dream world is like an unparalleled hallucination and escapist fantasy made up of the most powerful narcotics known to science. And I'm in complete control over it.

[Naqel]

Ya know, if you'd ask the dreamworld question three or four years ago, I could provide endless stories of fighting all sorts of monstrosities in most unusual places(first coming to mind was against zombies while running on power cables near a train station).

Right now I either sleep too little to actually dream something memorable, or dream of whatever was the last thing I watched on TV/internet.

[Bard The 5th LW]

In a way, I actually prefer some nightmares over other dreams just because I remember nightmares.

While I hardly remember any nightmares recently, one odd dream stuck out while I was in bed with a fever a few months back. I was in some WWI trench, and kept getting fired at as I tried to make my way out and get somewhere that I presumabley wouldn't die at. I was only pseudo-asleep during it though, and was vaguely aware of its status as a dream. I would wake up at random intervals just to doze off again back to the exact place I was previously.