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[scootermcgaffin]

So, while being able to achieve, quote, "the unique state of consciousness between wakefulness and sleep" may sound like it's something totally awesome that comes with superpowers, it actually only comes with really graphic, terrifying hallucinations of spiders running across my bed, fish being disemboweled, and strange men standing over my bed

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[comixologist]

DDDDDDDDDDDDDD:

[scootermcgaffin]

That's what I say.

[scootermcgaffin]

Although, thinking about it, it does have a sort of a super power.

Like, I never knew that lucid dreaming wasn't just how everyone dreamed. I've just always been aware of when I was dreaming, even when I was young.

It didn't make the one Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle/Child's Play nightmare I had when I was 12 of being chased through the Good Guy factory by The Shredder any less terrifying, but I did know it was a dream.

[zinthos]

That's been happening to me just about every night since I was a kid. Usually more mild hallucinations (seeing people in my room, dreaming that my room isn't actually my room but part of whatever I'm dreaming about, etc.), but pretty consistently.

[scootermcgaffin]

The 'people in your room' one seems to be the one that everyone (everyone meaning the three or so medical/psychological sites I visited) says is most common.

While they're all creepy and disturbing, it's the usually the spider ones that actually keep me up (well, barring the really disturbing ones), what with being horribly arachnophobic. So while I know it's not real the panicked part of me jumps out of bed anyway JUST IN CASE.