TLDR, remembering old recurring dreams
I've usually found a correlation between what I'd watch on television, and what I would dream afterwards.
This was most present around the age of 5. I'd watched "Critters" multiple times with my grandfather, my uncle had many grim reaper statues in his trailer where I spent many nights learning and beating Gauntlet 64, and my mother had recently moved us in with a guy and his daughters.
My first recurring nightmare involved all three; I'd emerge from dark woods late at night, the only light was from a full moon. I would look to the side, and notice a blank tombstone. The reaper emerges from the ground, and gives chase. I find a ladder to a tree house, which has a bridge to another tree house which is built more like a secure hut.
Once I climbed the ladder and opened the door to the first tree house, the Critters would try to attack me, so I would turn and run across the bridge. I always made it to this point, but I would bang on the locked door in a panic while everybody inside just stares through a window and laughs, while I die to hungry Critters.
Another dream which started shortly after this one started (they overlapped for some time, but I'm unsure what caused this one) starts with me and another person running for our lives through a dense, tall grassy field in broad daylight. I never knew what we were running from, but I'd always hear the other person scream for their life when it caught them. I would continue running, but never lived in this one either.
I've usually found a correlation between what I'd watch on television, and what I would dream afterwards.
This was most present around the age of 5. I'd watched "Critters" multiple times with my grandfather, my uncle had many grim reaper statues in his trailer where I spent many nights learning and beating Gauntlet 64, and my mother had recently moved us in with a guy and his daughters.
My first recurring nightmare involved all three; I'd emerge from dark woods late at night, the only light was from a full moon. I would look to the side, and notice a blank tombstone. The reaper emerges from the ground, and gives chase. I find a ladder to a tree house, which has a bridge to another tree house which is built more like a secure hut.
Once I climbed the ladder and opened the door to the first tree house, the Critters would try to attack me, so I would turn and run across the bridge. I always made it to this point, but I would bang on the locked door in a panic while everybody inside just stares through a window and laughs, while I die to hungry Critters.
Another dream which started shortly after this one started (they overlapped for some time, but I'm unsure what caused this one) starts with me and another person running for our lives through a dense, tall grassy field in broad daylight. I never knew what we were running from, but I'd always hear the other person scream for their life when it caught them. I would continue running, but never lived in this one either.
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