Dreaming

[eftsoons]

I'm a lucid dreamer but this was an especially vivid one

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[october31st]

What a neat dream! Mine involved childhood friends trying to convert me to Christianity. Huh.

And, because I'm a huge nerd: a lucid dreamer is one who is actually aware as she is dreaming that she is in fact asleep and dreaming, whereas I think you meant you tend to have vivid dreams.

[eftsoons]

I meant a bit of both, actually. I was hyperaware in the dream, which is something I associate with my usual "I'm dreaming" awareness. I'm not used to being that aware and not knowing it's a dream.

Though maybe I think I kind of knew, but not that the environment I was in wasn't real, if that makes any sense. I knew I was dreaming, but not that there was anything unusual about what was going on or where I was.

I woke up tired, like I actually had been traveling all night. Bizarre.

[october31st]

Worst dream ever: the night before I embarked upon a long road trip, I had some dream in which I suddenly realized I was dreaming, but thought that instead of dreaming in bed (which I was), I was already on my road trip and had fallen asleep behind the wheel and would surely die momentarily. The terror of thinking I was trapped in my dream until death was indescribable - when I did finally wake up, my heart felt like it was about to go through my chest.

[eftsoons]

That's awful!

Relevant (because that's a nightmare for sure), awesome (in a nerdy way), and fairly squicky (because, ew): the etymology of "nightmare".

[zephyrdragon]

on the subject of dreams, all I have to say is OCTOPUS

[eftsoons]

I want to make this someday! I showed it to Casey and he does not approve. He maintains he is not an octopus, thank you very much. ;)

[zephyrdragon]

so cute! Please do!! And it's too late for him to deny it. He's in my phone as "Casey Octopus".