Everyone hates getting flashbacks from things they don’t want to remember. That’s why you need to delete memories. Complacency is the mother of all nightmares. All nightmares are real. Believe in everything until it’s disproved. So believe in fairies, myths, and dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now? Monsters don’t live under your bed, they live inside your head.
Only happy people have nightmares. From overeating. There are people with repetitive nightmares. What happens is you’re stressed. Then your brain tries to deal with the stress. As your brain tries to anticipate the stress and deal with it, the stress becomes so scary you’re awoken from it. That’s why you keep getting chased by a giant donut. And you wake up screaming “don’t eat me!” All this while your brain is doing it’s best to remind you that donuts can’t actually eat you.

Don’t ignore dreams. They are a line from the past to the future. Do you ever wake up from an amazing dream and try to go back to sleep? Hoping there would be a sequel? Why don’t you try that with nightmares? Scaredy-cat! I was having a bad dream once, so I woke up! Thing is, there will be nightmares. And every day when you wake up, it will be the first thing you think about. Until one day, it’ll be the second thing. You’ll be married.
A nightmare is a big dream with a bad team. My best dreams and worst nightmares have the same people in them. One minute they’re fighting with me as we attempt to end yet another world war with bows and arrows. The next minute they’re selling me off to the undead. Now when I wake up, I’m eyeing them from the corner of my eye. These psychos sold me out for a bucket of chicken. Even the Lord himself got sold for thirty pieces of silver.

The freaky thing about nightmares is realizing that they were created by your mind. You did that, you really did that! Those green goblins chasing you around the house are entirely your own imagination. You created them. It’s a movie and you’re Steven Spielberg. I wonder if film directors wake up screaming “Cut! Cut! Cut!” when they have nightmares. For those who live a nightmare reality, sleep is a black hole, lost in time, like death. Don’t wake up!
If you read my mind, I’m pretty sure you’ll be traumatized for life. That, or you’ll want to punch me in the face every five minutes. No in-betweens. The truth is that we’re all in the same game, just different levels. Dealing with the same hell; just different devils. I still have nightmares about taking tests. And in every single one of them, my pen stops working and I start sweating profusely. Even after I borrow my colleague’s pen, it wouldn’t still work. Funny thing, in the nightmare I’m also the examiner.

Kids are scared of nightmares. Why? Well, it’s because they can’t take their parents with them. I took my daughter out to lunch once. The waiter asks my daughter, “what would you like.” Daughter says, “I want to devour the unborn.” The waiter looks at me and I say, “eggs, she wants eggs.” No one has more on their to-do list than a toddler at bedtime. It’s your job to remind them that nothing can take the fear away. But they’ll find a way to live with it. You might want to do away with the teddy bears, it hastens the process.
What if your pillow collected your dreams and you could plug it into your laptop and watch them over again? Man, if this happened I’d have put Netflix out of business. Elon Musk’s idea of playing music straight to our brains doesn’t even sound crazy anymore. Most of the geniuses to have walked the earth often times have dark twisted minds. The darkness is what makes our minds create. You also create your best work in the dark. Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles, Homer, etc

You never know how crazy a person is till they tell you their nightmares. You listen to some people’s stories and shudder. One half of you hoping the entire thing is made up, the other half entertained. On the whole, nightmares are a gift. You see, the person is being forced awake to look at an issue that they have been avoiding. Funny how we forget the good times while the nightmares haunt us. Guess that’s a survival mechanism. We’re not here to be happy. We’re just here…
to be here
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Complacency is terrifying 😭😭
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When I tell you it scares the shit outta me
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sometimes i Don’t Remember my last night’s dream😂
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It be like that sometimes
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yeah😅
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The way I see it. Dreamland is more real than real life. Real life sucks
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that’s true….🤡
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haha, the clown face gets me
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That is f***ing brilliant!
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It’s some of my best work 😂
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So many overlaps with my own experience.. love the idea of the pillow recorder… i wonder what else it might record?
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haha, wet dreams will be box office
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so messy tho… there’s gotta be a better way…
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hahaha 😂😂
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seriously, tho’.. sometimes i think there’s a whole team up there producing dreams… they’re so rich… people who think they are random brain activity or (entirely) stored memories should lose their license to practice!
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There definitely is. haha, I don’t think it’s any coincidence 😁
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Nope… too many dreams of mine have “made sense” but not until sometimes weeks or months later… That BIG TIME thing… 😉
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That’s interesting
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Um.. did you just say a bad word…? UH….
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oh dear
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lol… I was experimenting with being trendy… 😊
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Don’t try it again 😂
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lol… that bad, huh? 😁
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Could have been worse 😂
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The stars saved me… 😉
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Of course
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“When you wish upon a star… don’t forget… that’s the way things are…”
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Nah I’m not following. Reference your honor
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Yes, that one is an original, unlike the last one. (I’m also a songwriter… I should have copyrighted that. DAMN!)
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Haha, that’s cool
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It came to me in my youth… still hoping to get good enuf to make a reasonable recording… however, with every gray hair, it seems more dubious..
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Man you should get someone to sing it
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I know… maybe I can team up with Dua Lipa! (Madonna did…) 🙂
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Justin Bieber yunno
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lol…
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😂😂
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you always get the last freakin’ word…
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I do 😁
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guess we’ll just have to call you “Ozymandias” 😉
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Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!
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dredged that one up from my high-school days… musta made an impression for me to remember it all these years!
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Must have been some performance
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my grades went steadily downhill with my first steady… 🙂
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What a waste!
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debatable.. 🙂
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Lol no shit
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We finally agree on something! 🙂
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Could have happened sooner 😁
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old men like to talk a lot… you’ll see… you’ll be the worst yarn-spinner in town when you’re my age! I put my last dollar on it!
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I wouldn’t want to be direct cause of your bankruptcy but so be it.
Oh wait, you won’t be around to witness it 😂
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I’ll be watching from above… laffin’ me pants off… 😊
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Glorious sight 😂
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Lol… Okay, just stop now! 😁
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Bye bye 😂😂😂
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Been a blast! 😁😊⭐💯✨💫🙃
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Into the future 😁
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with LOTS of COFFEE… (or is that on your list of “unhealthy avoidance” substances? ) 😉😁
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Nah coffee is great
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Truth is stranger than fiction… but the people like fiction better.. 😉 You are living proof of that!
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I’m going to have to pour myself a drink for this one
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actually in your case it’s all talent… pure talent (a rare moment of humility on my part..) 😁😉
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Haha, when I tell you I’m going to frame this comment and show me kids.
Momma I made it! 😁
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lol… was just thinking that a good comedian is like a con-man… but the only fee is a book of laffs! 😁
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Haha, I agree comics can be very deceiving 😂
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Is that like a schrodingers cat thing? 🤓
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Dead yet alive. Funny yet unfunny
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Yes, I just thought it sounded clever… truth be told I had to Wikipedia it to refresh my memory as to what it was all about!
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Haha, you’re the absolute worst 😂😂😂
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Always a pleasure to connect with you, a rare bird, indeed! 😸✨🚀
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Cheers big man
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lol… little big man, please!
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😁😁😁 just for today
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you’re quick and fast but i have an unfair advantage – A G E . FYI, little big man was a movie with dustin hoffman, i think, where he is raised by natives or something… can’t remember it was a long time ago… even for me!
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Ah I see. I’ll look for it on Netflix
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not too memorable if i remember right… 🤩🥱
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Mission aborted 😅
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Man, you so on the mark i’m starting to think you are the Second Coming! What do you think? I mean, if humanity began in Africa, it might as well end there! 😊
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Humanity began in East Africa. I’m from West Africa. We’re more recent
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Oh… they didn’t tell me that on the Smithsonian or BBC (?) show I watched the other night. All they said was that “Africans” in Africa had no neanderthal genetic materal in them but pretty much everyone outside of Africa had about 2%. Fascinating stuff, really.
If that show is not a load of b.s. you might 2% more fully human than me!
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Nah I don’t buy it. I like to go by civilizations. Ethiopia, Egypt, Greece, Rome. There are settlements in my home country that just started getting habited roughly 60 years ago.
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Yeah, well, i thought it seemed either a bit simplistic or maybe outdated findings… I’ll have to check it out later… just waking up from one of my famous naps..
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Read some more then. Have a lovely day 👌
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Thanks… again a pleasure to interact with a ‘man of consequence’ like yourself. 🙂
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I do my best ☺️
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ditto 😊 your words just rang thru my head as i came in after doing a bi-monthly food shop. I live with a senior so it is x-tra stressful! I don’t care if i drop dead but when someone else is involved, it’s a whole different ballgame. You’re a dad so I guess you get it! 😁
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haha, of course I do. Going the extra mile for your housemates
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You’re a good man… I should add, seriously, and after a serious nap that I’m dead against suicide, mercy killing, all that kinda stuff.. we gotta tough it out here as long as our maker wants us to. That’s my true belief and practice, for the record! 😁
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This switch up was rather quick. Suffer in silence and endure all. Gotcha
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Yeah, well even Jesus had the odd rant/moment of venting every now and then… I guess that’s the difference between being human and being a robot… or a flim flam guru for that matter! 😉
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No way flip flapping is your excuse for not being a robot 😂
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There you go, lecturing me again, docteur…. 😁
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I apologise 😂
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Nothing to apologize for… there’s always a grain of truth in your worst critic! YOur enemy is your best friend… all that jazz… 🐰
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haha, I feel you
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i know… you the man!
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No, you’re the man!
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now you’re correcting my grammar… GEEZ!
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lmao it was a double entendre
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Eden is in East Africa 👌🏾
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Spot on I hope. Haven’t fact checked
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We’re not here to be happy.
We’re just here…
to be here
lol……
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haha, yes oh
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I think we can be happy actually… happy doing the right thing that makes us miserable! 🙂
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haha, you’re making it wound worse now
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we could go on for hours… until we both drop with exhaustion…
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no shit 😅
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yeah… there must be a remedy for this… what’s in that bag of yours doc?
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Pop tarts your honor
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lol .. 😆 💫
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😅😅
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I think I’ll have to turn in my pinball crown and give it to you… 🙂
Ain’t got no distractions
Can’t hear no buzzers and bells
Don’t see no lights a-flashin’
Plays by sense of smell
Always gets a replay
Never seen him fall
That deaf, dumb and blind kid
Sure plays a mean pinball
I thought I was
The Bally table king
But I just handed
My pinball crown to him
Even on my favorite table
He can beat my best
His disciples lead him in
And he just does the rest
He’s got crazy flipper fingers
Never seen him fall
That deaf, dumb and blind kid
Sure plays a mean pinball
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Is this an original? Because it’s really great ☺️
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no… im educating you in old-skool ways… it’s a 70s tune by the british band, THe Who (see, i really am an oldtimer!) 🙂
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Oh really. No idea
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It was a rock opera called “Tommy.” A big lp back in the day… Almost as big as Jesus Christ Superstar (now surely you heard of dat one!! ) 🙂
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I’ll go out on a limb and say yes I have now 😅
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🙂
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😏
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pwahahahahahaha you so funny. Thank you for making me laugh. Like sincerely, I completely needed it.
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Thanks to the man who hosts this amazing blog! 💎😊😇
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We live for His play of words yoh!
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Nobody can beat him!
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This is deep
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Ikr
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Yep
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👌
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Very funny, ‘Connecting our pillows filled with nightmares to the laptop’ this is just epic I LMAO. Man the way you think gives me a nightmare 😅
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Haha, no way
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Nice blogs…I am a new in blogging I think you should read my blog and also give an important comments.
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If you wanted my attention, you could have just liked all my posts instead 😂
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I love the idea of being chased by a giant donut (ha, ha)!
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Haha, look at you 😂
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So so good! I truly love your blog. 💕
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Thank you 🥰
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