Money: The Stuff Nightmares Are Made Of
Doree Shafrir has written a really well done and somewhat terrifying piece about night terrors.
She describes some her own night terrors—times that, while sleeping, she was sure her dream was reality:
• “They are monitoring my breathing. If I don’t hold my breath and stay completely still, I am going to die. I am not allowed to move at all, or they will know, and they will kill me.”
• “The walls and ceiling and floor are all slowly closing in on me, compressing, so that I will suffocate if I don’t escape.
• “The ceiling is about to cave in on top of me and I will be crushed to death.”
And alongside those nightmares, is this terror, which I vote most likely to still be a thing when you wakeup:
“I need $5,000. I need $5,000 so desperately that if I don’t get it, I’m going to die, and I wake up screaming that I need money.”
@EvelynGarcia WHY YES THAT IS HER NAME (brain malfunx thx)
I often see a)giant ghost spiders and am convinced they’re real until I turn on the light and b)big shadowy man shapes in my room. I may keep a wooden katana next to my bed, and have on more than one occassion wandered through my apartment with it in my hand, like I’m Uma Thurman in Kill Bill.
You’ve been posting so much good stuff lately!