Ok, so, here's the scoop for me.
Now, normally, I kick ass in dreams. I can go lucid, I can use my vast repertoire of video game logic to do some awesome things (time slow, chaos control for flight, fireballs, etc), and I thrive on the chaos that populates most of my dreams, since it lets my crazed imagination do its thing.
But all of that vanishes the second that the stuff of my nightmares kick in. What is the stuff of my nightmares you ask? Usually, one or more of the following:
1) I have had many nightmares where some powerful authority figure/organization either falsely accuses me of something, or just want me dead, and they then use their authority to have me executed/sacrificed/etc. Furthermore, they are often supplemented by black magic and mind-control, so even if I CAN defend myself, they shut it down in seconds. >_< I've died a few times. It was not fun at all.
2) Zombies or some other slow moving symbol of inevitable death that slowly comes to kill me, and I cannot run away since my feet just keep slipping on the ground. And I usually wake up as it bears down on me to commence the murder. This usually results in me waking up in a cold sweat, jumping at shadows in my room.
3) Humans with no free will or emotion or imagination and who have been "programmed" to kill me. I only saw these guys twice, but holy crap...You stare into their soulless eyes, and you can tell that they will not stop until you die, and since they have no imagination, my dream powers are useless since they don't understand/believe in them. Resulting in me hitting him with a fireball/slow-mo-roundhouse-to-the-head, and he shrugs it off like I just hit him with a plushie. And then he pounces on me with a knife, slowly trying to bring it into my eye. X_X
4) Wasps. Giant. !@#$ING. WASPS. Like, anywhere between the size of a grown Labrador and a freakin' tank.
Most of the above also take place in dark corridors/castles/night-time/mine shafts or other dark and creepy places.
Fortunately, I don't have nightmares often. Usually one every 3-4 months, and usually when I'm stressed.
If anyone wants to take a crack at analyzing any of these, go ahead.
Now, normally, I kick ass in dreams. I can go lucid, I can use my vast repertoire of video game logic to do some awesome things (time slow, chaos control for flight, fireballs, etc), and I thrive on the chaos that populates most of my dreams, since it lets my crazed imagination do its thing.
But all of that vanishes the second that the stuff of my nightmares kick in. What is the stuff of my nightmares you ask? Usually, one or more of the following:
1) I have had many nightmares where some powerful authority figure/organization either falsely accuses me of something, or just want me dead, and they then use their authority to have me executed/sacrificed/etc. Furthermore, they are often supplemented by black magic and mind-control, so even if I CAN defend myself, they shut it down in seconds. >_< I've died a few times. It was not fun at all.
2) Zombies or some other slow moving symbol of inevitable death that slowly comes to kill me, and I cannot run away since my feet just keep slipping on the ground. And I usually wake up as it bears down on me to commence the murder. This usually results in me waking up in a cold sweat, jumping at shadows in my room.
3) Humans with no free will or emotion or imagination and who have been "programmed" to kill me. I only saw these guys twice, but holy crap...You stare into their soulless eyes, and you can tell that they will not stop until you die, and since they have no imagination, my dream powers are useless since they don't understand/believe in them. Resulting in me hitting him with a fireball/slow-mo-roundhouse-to-the-head, and he shrugs it off like I just hit him with a plushie. And then he pounces on me with a knife, slowly trying to bring it into my eye. X_X
4) Wasps. Giant. !@#$ING. WASPS. Like, anywhere between the size of a grown Labrador and a freakin' tank.
Most of the above also take place in dark corridors/castles/night-time/mine shafts or other dark and creepy places.
Fortunately, I don't have nightmares often. Usually one every 3-4 months, and usually when I'm stressed.
If anyone wants to take a crack at analyzing any of these, go ahead.
And then I'm screwed. It really sucks to be in that situation.
