Yeah. Which can be very convincing for not going back to sleep(!) One thing I've noticed is that if I wake up --in the morning-- then go back to sleep (like…. arrr arrr arrr hmmm, might get up. Nah.) that is when the weirdest dreams come. If they are scary weird, I won't roll back over when I wake up again, that's for sure, because it's only going to get weirder(!)

I had one last night, that I didn't remember till something jogged it. Then it vanished from mind again. Frustrating.

I haven't had many terrifying ones lately. They tend to go in spells and be recurring -- the same basic nightmare night after night. The most terrifying "series" ever... Flying (by self, no machine) WAAAAY up in the air (I'm scared of heights and this was waay above the trees), then with no warning, a totally sickening stomach-lurching bottom-drops-out full-body sensation then ripping, utterly out of control and in sheer terror, very very fast face-first toward the ground. Over and over and over. I didn't know I was BP then, but it struck me years later the thematic similarity. The nightmare was worse though. WAY worse.
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