Stpauli9
Junior Acolyte
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Night-terrors. We all know them. I'm looking at Henry Fuseli's The Nightmare as I write this now (BTW, scarier paintings include Goya's Saturn Devouring his Children and William-Adolphe Bouguereau's Dante and Virgil). Anyway, I usually associate them with winter weather and my own sleep patterns-it can take me a long time to get to sleep and even then my head keeps chattering away.
The incident is a point of one night's sleep where I had reached REM sleep and was so in dreaming mode. As I dreamt, my dream went from relatively normal into something confusing and bizarre. These are quite common. I used to be able to draw them the next day and this helped me understand, but recently they are beyond even that. At the critical point, I felt the distinct sensation of an arm wrapped over my shoulder (as if someone had rolled over in bed and put an arm around me). But I sleep in a single bed and there is no space for a person on the side that it belonged. Of course, I awoke and turned on the light to an empty room. This is an uncomfortable night-terror.
The next night, I had another night terror, only this occasion it occurred during a most certainly bad dream wherein I seemed to fall from platform to platform. I felt the sensation of a hand on my shoulder. I often had this feeling during periods of depression in my past, and associated it with the spirit of a cousin who suicided, including one period where I felt the same feeling on what turned out to be his anniversary. This still felt like a night terror-it did not 'feel' like a nice hand-but it was interesting that the sensation brought me out of the bad dream. Whether or not it was the cousin, I don't know. Like I say, it did not feel 'nice'.
The incident is a point of one night's sleep where I had reached REM sleep and was so in dreaming mode. As I dreamt, my dream went from relatively normal into something confusing and bizarre. These are quite common. I used to be able to draw them the next day and this helped me understand, but recently they are beyond even that. At the critical point, I felt the distinct sensation of an arm wrapped over my shoulder (as if someone had rolled over in bed and put an arm around me). But I sleep in a single bed and there is no space for a person on the side that it belonged. Of course, I awoke and turned on the light to an empty room. This is an uncomfortable night-terror.
The next night, I had another night terror, only this occasion it occurred during a most certainly bad dream wherein I seemed to fall from platform to platform. I felt the sensation of a hand on my shoulder. I often had this feeling during periods of depression in my past, and associated it with the spirit of a cousin who suicided, including one period where I felt the same feeling on what turned out to be his anniversary. This still felt like a night terror-it did not 'feel' like a nice hand-but it was interesting that the sensation brought me out of the bad dream. Whether or not it was the cousin, I don't know. Like I say, it did not feel 'nice'.
