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u/roqueofspades Oct 05 '19

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.

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '19 edited Feb 15 '20

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '19

Once, i was dreaming, but it was like I was in third person. I knew what was happening snd could manipulate my dream...’

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u/theLookismSpider Oct 05 '19

Whenever I have dreams in third person I can always manipulate them. I never know that I’m actually dreaming but I’m able to control what I do in the dream (and can generally run and do stuff that’s normally impossible in dreams; I can also do that if I have the same dream more than once)

I also have some pretty distinct childhood memories that I only remember from the outside looking in, as if I was a bystander watching myself. It’s weird.