Post #4460262

2026-08-09 05:39 UTC

I saw the teddy bear in the chair at the desk on the other side of the room, and its arms and legs began undulating like wind dancers, while its head and body remained still. That was too much for me, and I completely lost my shit and just started screaming. My daughter reached up from the side of the bed and started shaking my arm. Then I woke up for real, and it was my wife shaking my arm, because I was actually screaming, although it was more of a weak, falsetto scream. I told her I was having a nightmare, and her response was something along the lines of "no kidding." She offered me a hug, but what I wanted was space, so I got out of bed and sat in a chair, trying to shake all the images out of my head. I was exhausted, but short of breath, so I went downstairs to take my inhaler. I sat on the couch in the living room, but I could feel my head nodding, and a new dream starting while I was still awake. 4/11

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@Space_Burger_Steve@mstdn.ca 2026-08-09 05:39

When I was little, my Mom told me I could stop a nightmare from coming back by flipping over my pillow. She later revealed that she had completely made that up on the spot, but I've been doing it so long, it's never not worked. So I flipped my pillow over and put my CPAP mask back on, but it still took me a bit of time to fall asleep. A completely different dream began, this time a high tech cyberpunk thriller in a city so developed, it was hard to tell what was indoor, and what was outdoor. Still every bit as real, vivid, intense, and stressful as the dream before. Megacorporations were so obsessed with advertising and propaganda, that all traffic had been changed to sliding sidewalks and escalators, all of which were video screens, and everyone was legally required to sync the sliding sidewalks with their phones. Everyone's commute had become standing still, their entire field of view filled with ads scrolling past. 5/11

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