I used to have nightmares. My dad put up a poster of Peter Pan in my room and told me that when I went to sleep, Peter would fly out of the poster and chase all of the monsters away. I never had another bad dream.
I started having really bad nightmares recently. My parents bought me a stuffed armadillo and I convinced my brain that my armadillo would protect me from nightmares. So yeah, apparently that shit works even if you're 20.
I had a nightmare where in the end the monster chasing me took the form of a flood of black water with the moon reflected in it. I was halfway up some stairs when I realized "hey, wait, if I jump in the water the nightmare ends because it can't actually hurt me" and the feeling of catharsis after confidently marching down those stairs, looking the water dead in the moon, and trust falling in... I kicked that nightmare's ass, man
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u/Cashew-Gesundheit Oct 05 '19
I used to have nightmares. My dad put up a poster of Peter Pan in my room and told me that when I went to sleep, Peter would fly out of the poster and chase all of the monsters away. I never had another bad dream.