Sweet dreams are not made of this

[impy]

Rude, nightmare. If you're going to stick around for various incarnations, you should at least let me write down what you were about before finally leaving. As it is, what am I to do with the remnants of a sort of nightmare that involved open water, a flare gun, and a very young Ben Affleck in the movie version of a story based on a book that may or may not have been ripped off from another book which might've been a True Story?


I don't remember much other than having to try and reassure a coworker (who turned out to be nutter butters) that work was notorious for not training people properly and it wasn't like anyone expected her to know everything right away. Which somehow turned into an "oh shit, the hurricane didn't turn like expected!" thing. Which is where the water came in. And that turned into a very Pike kind of scenario with five people riding out a storm and then too many people get super sloppy drunk, someone breaks out the flare gun and obviously someone gets hurt. Which leads to MURDER. Annnnnnnnnnnd when I had enough of that, I woke up but drifted right back to it when I fell asleep and it turns out that was based on a book (or the book was based on that?) and there was another book with a very similar premise only one is considered good and the other is considered trash. Basically like having to re-do the thing at least once and then discuss the merits of it and why people in the 80's looooooooved one book but hated the other. It was very odd.


I assume the sort of nightmares are due to the anxiety of this week being chock-full of appointments, including the big three doctor visits.

Sigh. And naturally the period from hell came roaring back to life. Blergh.

Comments

[luxken27]

YIKES. I've been having weird nightmares myself, but nothing about murder (thank goodness).

I feel you on Rivers o' Blood time of the month. Is it wrong to long for the days when I won't have hormones anymore?

[impy]

I don't think so. You just have to cross the hormone hellscape first and I am not looking forward to that. Ugh.

Luckily the murder was more of an off-screen thing. I'm pretty good at noping myself out of full on horrific nightmares, which is why these are just kinda nightmares. What kind of nightmares have you had?

[luxken27]

At this point, I welcome the hellscape if it means I don't have to put up with the BS on a monthly basis. Paradoxically, I have no desire to medicate myself to remove my hormone surges or bleeding. Its nature, and I'll put up with it, but thank goodness there is an end in sight!!

Regarding nightmares ~ nothing that I remember, thank goodness, except the deep anxiety they strike in me. My dreams tend to be very strange as opposed to violent or horrific. Like, some strange work situation that'd never happen in real life, yet there I am with my coworkers attempting to deal with the issue. I've never had anything that could be classified as a night terror, thank goodness.

I know my weird dreams are a side effect of my anxiety because they get worse the more anxious I am, and it can get to the point of insomnia. Last night's fun timez, however, was waking up in the middle of an innocuous dream because I was suddenly unable to breathe, thank you very much completely congested sinuses.

[impy]

I must admit that if the monthly hellscape was consistently as bad as it can be at times, I'd go all in on medication. As it is, I prefer the Sophia philosophy. I'd be less grumbly about the thought of the big M if not for the hot flashes of doooooooooom.

Boo, sinuses. Boo! I hope you're feeling better now.

Anxiety dreams are the absolute worst. :/ I do like the ones where you eventually just get so fed up you snap in the dream... unless it's followed up by the "ohshit, gonna get fired for sure now" because you haven't worked out it's a dream yet.

Never, to my knowledge, had night terrors. I shouldn't have bragged about the nightmares not reaching actual nightmare status because last night decided to switch things up. :/ But while I remember bits of it, it isn't lingering the same way movie murder of the week did. Anxiety, go awaaaaaaaaay and take your weird dreams with you.