From somewhere around my pre-teens, I've had night terrors. Horrendous dreams so real, your mind can't make the distinction between a dreamscape and reality while you're stuck in a loop of things nobody should ever see, hear, smell or feel. Back then it was demons, dragons, lycans, and being staked. Over the years I've learned how to recognize that I'm in one and somewhere in the dream realm I'll remember to write. You can't read writing in the dream realm, it requires the part of the brain that isn't firing in a dream. At best, you'll assume the words but if you try to focus on the words, the letters are scrambled or may not even be letters... So I try to write. This very Blog tells me I'm awake (unless this is the matrix and I'm dreaming that I'm awake while assuming the words I'm writing...🤔). Tonight I had a night terror that came across like a premonition that played out at least five times before I could pull myself out of it.
I watched my oldest son, lip lock a double barrel and no matter what I said or tried to do, I couldn't stop the end result. Needless to say, I reached out to him and he responded instantly. (He's a night owl, like I usually am)... Yet I keep seeing the scene replay, over and over.
While this blog is more for me, to prove I'm awake, it also perked an curiosity... Anybody else having night terrors or had them in the past? What did you do to get out? Perhaps, together we can provide some relief for those who have yet to find a solution.
Max