in recent history, someone on my FL (can’t say i particularly remember who, sorry) made a post asking about concurrent nightmares. i had nothing valid to add at the time, so i didn’t.
i started my day at about 4:30 am today. i regularly have nightmares, and have learned to cope with them pretty well. they are part (but not the whole) of my insomnia, and a big part of my work on lucid dreaming. at this point in my life, a nightmare is the type of dream so involved or disturbing that i can’t bring myself out of it. a nightmare, to me, these days, is either not being aware that i am dreaming, or knowing i am and still being unable to do anything about it.
this morning, i had an incredibly vivid dream that i was back in my grandparents summer house. in the dream, someone had broken into the house, and my grandfather and i went to investigate. on the way to the front door, we split paths around a dining room table, and the perpetrator ran past me and tackled my grandfather. as i rushed over to pull the guy off of him, all i could think was that if i had been a little quicker, or had been holding something in my hand, like a bat, i could have stopped the guy before he got my grandfather.
of course, there was another person in the house, who stabbed me in the back as soon as i tried to haul his partner off my grandfather. i woke up with that knife in my back, my brain buzzing “intruder!”. i could not put myself back under. i was so unsettled, in fact, that i had to get up and do a circuit of my apartment to be sure that everything was sound in my own house, and that this was not some sort of subconscious warning system.
the eerie thing is, L. was having a nightmare when I woke up, but doesn’t recall it. t three other people I have talked to today about their dreams last night/this morning all mentioned vivid nightmares, between 3-5 am EST. the themes of all of them have surrounded separation from loved ones, violence done to loved ones, sneak attacks, and some sort of buzzing and or alarm/klaxon. given the vivid pallete of the nightmare, i find this interesting statistically, among other reasons.
anyone else in on this?
Ghost:
Zorak:
Brak: