Where Do Nightmares Come From

~ Gottfried

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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598 thoughts on “Where Do Nightmares Come From”

  1. Mr Trafalgar Square so well written. Suprised to see wisdom cooked into this blog. Well monsters do give in our heads and we have learnt to become one. ✌

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  3. Yes! I wrote about having a nightmare this week, too. Dreams/nightmares are the best – I work out my rage when I need to by beating the crap out of people I am angry with. I know that sounds bad, but it really isn’t. I converse with people who have passed away and I work through my fears. It can be amazing free therapy when you need it.

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      1. It is always short-lived. The other night I dreamt of my SIL and she was so happy and telling me she couldn’t wait to kiss my brother again – it was very sweet. One of the bad ones was when my friends husband left her for another woman, i beat the crap out of him in my dream. Better there than in real lfe!

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  8. You’re sooo funny!😂
    Most times when I forget my dream I’m so pissed. I try to sleep again and experience the goodness but it doesn’t work.
    That fourth paragraph made me laugh out loud. “those psychos sold me for a bucket of chicken “😂😂

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  9. I think it’s possible to boss around your dreams.

    Apart from few instances, I make sure even after the dinosaur has devoured me I come back to kill the dinosaur…

    Man can’t loose to a dream…

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  10. Lol.. You are truly a visionary writer. I laughed out loud when I read on how a film director reacts when he has a nightmare, cut! Cut!😆😅. I feel guilty on that one, especially when I wan to swap my nightmare to something more pleasant by just shaking my head.

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