Dreams

[Excited Penguin]

I've never had a lucid dream. I'd be scared if I did, that I'd lose control and kill myself

My "dreams" are usually very weird, because they're incoherent. They tend to just be a montage of fleetingly brief scenes and images that I can't make much sense of.

Although occasionally I do get vivid ones that I wake up from and feel that relieved "oh thank goodness that was just a dream!"

I did one of those dramatic "sit up with a scream" awakenings, this one night. Can't remember much about the dream, but I woke up to what sounded like a bomb going off and to this day I'm not convinced the noise wasn't real. It might have just been a train tbh, I do live with a train track at the back of my garden and like to sleep with the window open.

I once had a dream(I guess it might've been a nightmare, I don't know exactly how to classify it). 

I was sitting in a dark hallway, an elevator entrance nearby. The elevator was active, it was presently ascending to my floor. 

I was hearing a sound like dragged chains that I, for some reason, even now associate with an elevator, even though I think elevators are mostly quiet(aren't they?) and don't make any particular noise. Maybe I'm thinking of an older version of an elevator, something I saw once somewhere or in a movie or something.

 Anyway, I'm about to reveal the scary part of all of this. The lift doors opened and a figure like a ghost came out and just jumped at me through the darkness, screeching, all the while eerily illuminated and floating perfectly above the ground. It was the perfect horror scene, really. Just as it was about to land on me, I awoke, of course.

 Here's the scary part. I was still hearing that crazy sound, the elevator working. Those dragged chains. I made sure I was awake, I pinched myself, I sat up, nothing worked. I kept hearing it for like 12 seconds or something, but for what seemed like a lot more than that at some level. I was freaking out, so I just instinctively shaked my head, even though just as I was doing this I was sarcastically thinking to myself Yeah, that'll work. And it did work. The sound just faded out of my hearing, even as I was shaking my head left and right.

Fucking crazy, I thought to myself, stayed up for a while to make sure I wasn't dreaming or anything like that, then went back to sleep.