Nightmare
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“Nightmares are horrible,” Sophie said. “I had one once and I woke up sweating all over.”
”With this one you would be waking up screaming all over!” the BFG said. “This one would make your teeth stand on end! If this one got into you, your blood would be freezing to icicles and your skin would go creeping across the floor!”
”Is it as bad as that?”
”It’s worse!” cried the BFG. “This is a real whoppsy grobswitcher!”
—The BFG
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Fear is the nightmare we create when we don’t understand the darkness.
—Unknown
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Life’s water flows from darkness.
Search the darkness.
—Rumi
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Dreams are the guardians of sleep and not its disturbers.
—Sigmund Freud
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Sometimes
I wrestle with my demons,
and sometimes
we just snuggle.
—Seen on a magnet
in Cliff’s Variety Store
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Note: Discretion and self-care advised in exploring some of the following.
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Target: Nightmare
(an EMDR protocol, page 6 forward)
Man wakes from nightmare relieved it only expression of his real-life problems
Interminable nightmare of buying wrong toilet paper in bulk nearly over
Nature Made releases new melatonin formula promising 40% fewer spider nightmares
Jesus wakes up in cold sweat after recurring nightmare he returned to earth naked
David Blaine wakes up in cold sweat from nightmare in which he dies of natural causes
Infant suffering from recurring nightmare where his mouth full of teeth
Neurologists confirm nightmares persist after death