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The Nightmare, Henry Fuseli
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Do you ever have a dream that you’re certain you had before? Is it possible to have the same dream more than once? Can you pick up where another dream left off? I feel like I had a dream Saturday night and then continued it last night. But I don’t remember if it really happened Saturday night or if it was all last night’s dream and I just think it was a two part dream. Is this confusing you all? It’s confusing me.
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My dream was like school meets a haunted house meets wrestling. I was at an academy for nightmares. We were learning how to be the demons and monsters in people’s nightmares. We’d put on these really disturbing costumes (think Thirteen Ghosts) and act out plays or skits to rehearse for our “big performance” (read: nightmares). People I went to school with were there, even my cousin. The director or instructor was The Big Show from the WWF. Or WWE. Whatever it is these days.
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There was really no point to these dreams. I just watched a bunch of people act out horrible scenes that would terrify any little child in the middle of the night. I watched myself pick my costume and I remember saying, “Oh no, I had this one at the last practice” and grabbed a different suit. It had a hot pink jacket and little top hat. I was thrilled. Of course the mask I wore was pretty mangled and skeleton-like.
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So that’s my dream. I’m not even going to try to look for meaning in this one. I’m not sure if I believe that all dreams have some story to tell or meaning to share. Sometimes they’re just episodes of random memories all firing at once. Our minds file away everything our eyes see. I’m not surprised I see people in my dreams who I think I know. I probably saw that person on the train six months ago.
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If this is a reoccurring dream, cool. It sure beats the week I had dreams in which I saw my own dead body, had a waitress in a body bag, a cadaver came to life and I saw my cousin dead under a coffee table. That was an interesting week. It was all pre-anatomy fanatics, too!
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Funny you should mention that, I’ve been having some serious conversations with my family about dreams these days. I had two terrifying recurring dreams as a kid where I thought the wall behind my bed opened up to a complete underground monster-fest. Scary but normal.
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My brother, on the other hand, had the same night terror for years where he thought a man in a dark hat and cape came to the foot of his bed EVERY. SINGLE. NIGHT.
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Can you imagine how awful that would’ve been? He was too young to understand at the time but my Mom was at the point of wanting to move. They even took him to a doctor about it.
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I already said this on twitter – but that is one sweet dream!
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I always have dreams that are interrelated. I think I dream in a confined world almost, like the people and places are all the same.
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It’s the WWE. They had to switch from WWF when they were sued by the World Wildlife Federation.
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The Big Show is one of my favorite wrestlers. Yes, I have favorite wrestlers. Ex #1 was really into WWE stuff.
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OK super weird….but now I don’t feel quite as strange due to the weird dreams I’ve had…(aka my latest post, Italy Part 1). Isn’t it so strange when you feel like you’ve already had that dream? Trust me I know exactly what you mean. It gives you deja vu and kind of trips you up.
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Boo to bad/disturbing dreams!
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Ben -
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I would be terrified. I couldn’t imagine having night terrors. Especially the same one over and over.
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Apollo -
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Thanks. I try.
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Dutchess -
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That’s pretty nifty. I don’t think I’ve done that.
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Angela -
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Hmm..well that makes sense.
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Kayleigh -
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Don’t ever feel strange about dreams.
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Sheesh. What do you eat before you go to bed?!
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I have very vivid dreams and sometimes they are recurring. I don’t think I have ever continued one though…I’ve wanted to, but no luck.
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I used have a recurring nightmare about these huge dark shadow people chasing me.
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Is there something weird going on with the moon or something? My dreams were seriously bizarre last night too.
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There’s this one strawberry-blond boy/guy/man who has been recurring in my dreams since I was young enough to have crushes on boys. As I got older, he got older too. Most people are completely freaked out by that–I think it’s kind of comforting.
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i can almost never remember my dreams. it’s disappointing.
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It sounds like that movie Monsters Inc, but scarier!
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I think it’s totally normal to have dreams that are related to each other on different nights – it’s happened to me! heehee
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Your dream sounds pretty cool – like monsters inc on crack.
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Cree-pay. Srsly.
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