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[camwyn]

Woke up this morning from one of those dreams you're absolutely convinced is real while it's under way. First reaction to being awake:

"Oh, good, I'm in my own body!"

Second reaction to being awake:

"That means my skull is still intact!" *reach up, very tentatively feel around* "Yep! Intact skull, no exposed half-a-brain! I'm in my own body and everything is where it belongs!"


.... you probably don't really want to spend a whole lot of time in my head, is what I'm saying.

Comments

[derien]

I've had dreams like that. :) (The one I seem to really remember being most scarred by, though, was where I was dating a zombie girl.)

[batyatoon]

... o.O

[camwyn]

I don't often have body horror dreams despite my reading history providing more than enough subject matter for my subconscious to work from. I don't know that I can even entirely call this one a nightmare so much as a really, really bad dream. Nightmares kind of imply a certain level of terror and dread. This one involved a lot of "No, no, no, this isn't right, why am I even in this body, how do I cover up that half of my head so that nothing gets into it until it's fixed, does anybody know where my actual body is because I don't know whether this guy is in it instead of me or whether it's just lying around empty, how did this injury even happen, this guy's facial shape and remaining skull shape imply that he had cognitive disabilities even before half his skull got taken off, what am I going to do..." more than active "please God make this not to be!".

Or, in somewhat shorter terms, it had roughly the same level of 'no no no' as the dream I had in college where the first thing I did upon waking up was phone my mother to confirm that she had not, in fact, divorced my father that morning and immediately married some guy named Walter. No cold sweats or hammering heartbeat and fear response after, just- "Oh good! It wasn't real!"

As I said, the inside of my head is kind of a weird place to be and other people probably shouldn't go there.