Fuck. I shouldn’t have trusted that dream, things were going too well. Then bam! It had me and wouldn’t let go.
Night terrors are intense episodes of fear or terror during sleep, often accompanied by screaming or flailing. Experts recommend against waking someone up who is experiencing a night terror.
The screaming and flailing is actually to wake up. Either to wake yourself up or have someone hear you and wake you up. The “sleep foundation” doesn’t know shit. “Parasomnia”, they gave it a scientific-sounding name so I guess they’re the experts.
Sure it can be PTSD, or anxiety, but what if there are actually dream entities that feed on our fear? I wanted to write “evil dream entities” the first few times, but now I’m thinking why would they be evil? It’s not their fault or choice they feed on fear, the lion isn’t evil for being a carnivore and feeding on the gazelle (yeah, there was no metaphor I could think of in which the supposed dream entities aren’t the predator lol). But lion might be the wrong one, spider is a better one cause I didn’t feel hunted, I felt ensnared.
I had to write this post cause I couldn’t risk going back to sleep so soon after, that’s how they get you again. After some time the entities move on. But it’s probably PTSD and anxiety.
Do you experience false awakenings or sleepwalk? Is your dreamscape consistent? And do you have chronic pain? Just curious, don’t meet people with similar experiences often
False awakenings yes. I also often start dreaming before I fall asleep, as in the room/world around me will start changing as I drift to sleep.
In the dream? Yup. It often feels like I have been taken to another world or accessed a parallel reality. I’ve tried to exchange names and numbers with people saying I will contact them when I wake up lol
Nope, thank god for that. That’s the one thing I don’t have that seems to plague a lot of people.