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[halfpastautumn]

the past few nights all iv'e had is dreams of dying. sick awful gorey stuff i wouldn't want to describe. the past three nights iv'e experience sleep paralysis. the first night for like two hours and i had the image of the grim reaper standing above me, just his silhouette with a flowing cape and a sickle trying to get in my body. everybody tells

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[adnauseum]

Whoa. I know your pain. I went through a period of time where I dealt with nightly bouts of sleep paralysis. It's really unnerving. I had one (possibly written about somewhere on my journal) where two young boys with dagger teeth were running past me and through the walls. This went on for about twenty minutes (I was lucky enough to be able to count off the minutes on my well placed alarm clock) and I was unable to shake myself from it. I eventually was able to force my arms out and around the neck of one of the boys. I came around at that point... with my outstretched arms grabbing at the air.

Here is a link to a recent NPR conversation about the biological reasons for nightmares.. I only caught the tail end of it so I'm not sure if it's worth listening to or not.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/talk/2007/10/anatomy_of_your_nightmare_1.html