Beautiful ending. I love hearing about people’s dreams and have always found it baffling that the general consensus is that they’re boring. They’re so much more interesting than normal people’s everyday lives?
Mostly here to express sympathy for being nightmare prone! I always feel a little bit silly when I explain why I am hesitant to watch certain movies or something because I'm constantly on guard about what will trigger a very violent nightmare. But it got substantially worse in 2020 and just sort of stuck around!
I recognized myself in this as someone who dreams vividly, usually nightmares, in the few hours I actually sleep each night. It got so bad circa 2017 that it finally launched me into a morning pages/dream journaling hybrid practice that I religiously do every morning just to help get the feelings and images out of my head. But on the nights, I don’t dream these terrors, I do often feel weirdly more unsettled ...
I might try the dream journal idea you mention. (Also it's funny after I posted this I thought—you know I bet Cameron has something useful to say about nightmares.… And you do!)
There was a period where I was mainly using my substack to write about my nightmares lol. Then more people started to read and I thought I might need to chill on freaking people out and/or boring them. But reading and talking about dreams is one of my favorite things! Have a ton of book recs across genres about them if you’re ever interested. Merry belated Christmas and happy end of the year! (As a side note, my five-year-old calls the new baby “little Taylor Swift” bc she was born on Taylor’s bday.)
Beautiful ending. I love hearing about people’s dreams and have always found it baffling that the general consensus is that they’re boring. They’re so much more interesting than normal people’s everyday lives?
I love reading and hearing about people’s dreams. I don’t know why people say it’s boring. It can be boring, sure, but so can anything.
Mostly here to express sympathy for being nightmare prone! I always feel a little bit silly when I explain why I am hesitant to watch certain movies or something because I'm constantly on guard about what will trigger a very violent nightmare. But it got substantially worse in 2020 and just sort of stuck around!
I recognized myself in this as someone who dreams vividly, usually nightmares, in the few hours I actually sleep each night. It got so bad circa 2017 that it finally launched me into a morning pages/dream journaling hybrid practice that I religiously do every morning just to help get the feelings and images out of my head. But on the nights, I don’t dream these terrors, I do often feel weirdly more unsettled ...
I might try the dream journal idea you mention. (Also it's funny after I posted this I thought—you know I bet Cameron has something useful to say about nightmares.… And you do!)
There was a period where I was mainly using my substack to write about my nightmares lol. Then more people started to read and I thought I might need to chill on freaking people out and/or boring them. But reading and talking about dreams is one of my favorite things! Have a ton of book recs across genres about them if you’re ever interested. Merry belated Christmas and happy end of the year! (As a side note, my five-year-old calls the new baby “little Taylor Swift” bc she was born on Taylor’s bday.)