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goobster  ·  1219 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: November 25, 2020

Had a nightmare the other night that has stuck with me due to the overall strangeness of it...

I'm holding a child or infant in my arms, and standing. I see a small gremlin-like figure in a robe and hood materializing like a vapor, and I realize this is my nightmare gremlin coming to fuck with me and the child.

(Side note: I am no longer sure if I have actually had other nightmares about this gremlin-forming-from-vapor creature before... but in the nightmare I recognized him from my "other nightmares" which - as a concept - might have been a part of the nightmare, since I don't really have nightmares at all out here in reality...)

As the vapor is forming into the gremlin, my hands are full, so I swing my leg through the vapor to try and make it dissipate before the gremlin can fully materialize. I'm hoping this makes him go away, or prevents him from fully forming.

Unfortunately, as I am swinging my leg back and forth through the vapor, the gremlin fully materializes around my leg. So now he is fully corporeal, but my leg is embedded though the upper part of his chest with my ankle and foot sticking out of his back.

He's screaming in pain.

I'm screaming because there is a gremlin attached to my leg, who is screaming and going completely berserk with the pain.

So I start smashing him against the wall, try to get him to vaporize again or just die... and I am kicking the wall with this screaming gremlin attached to my leg...

And I wake up.

I'm STILL processing that one, three days later... I have no idea what that is supposed to mean. I did some therapy many many years ago that focused on my dreams, and it helped me a lot. But this one is - so far - still a mystery to me...