Trying to fill up posts, and I'm wondering....

[conuly]

Do you guys (still) get nightmares?

Because it's the weirdest thing about my dreams. Last night, I had this dream about an evil house that a. tried to kill you and b. tried to split you up from any friends you had with you so you and your friends would kill each other and c. spit you out in the wrong time period when you left so you HAD to go back in to get home again.

And it wasn't a very scary dream at all, it was just interesting.

I don't generally have scary dreams that scare me.

But earlier this week I had a boring dream about I don't know what, it was so boring, and I woke up at 3 in the morning feeling incredibly uneasy and couldn't fall back asleep for half an hour because the dream was so upsetting. Even though nothing happened in it!

So I guess that earlier-this-week dream was a nightmare, because it sure scared me, but that doesn't make any sense at all, does it? Shouldn't nightmares seem scary when you think about them instead of being frankly about as interesting as watching paint dry?

Comments

[crystalpyramid]

I occasionally have real nightmares, but I much more frequently have strangely plotted dreams that read like horror novels but are not remotely scary. Which sounds like what you're describing — emotion and plot getting completely untangled.