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It happens to a lot of us it's because we're in a more relaxed state that's why dream journals existWith the way my brain works, I don't even really need hallucinogens' since when I sleep - my brain goes into a state where it's overly creative, something I've always been gifted with even when I was much younger
Do you get any PTSD triggers from things burning? Occasionally the smell of burnt toast.. There were times during my teenage years that I'd have a black out sleep where nothing would occur, but this stopped after some time since I became increasingly curious about dreams when I started having lucid dreams and sleep paralysis, and then things went from there where there's never a night I don't dream or have some kind of experience that sticks with me when I wake up. During the days that I'm awake and conscious I'm always finding profound forms of media to consume, which might have a part in the things I dream about and why my imagination is so active. I would still try things like blue lotus, but when it comes to things that are increasingly potent I usually avoid because I could only imagine the things that my brain would create, and it scares me since if my dreams decide to be sadistic, they get extremely dark and beyond levels of horror that could ever be experienced in real life, and that's coming from me, someone whose house burned down and I almost died by burning alive if I hadn't escaped a moment sooner than when I did.
Nightmares are unresolved traumaThere's something about my brain, whether it stems from mental problems or not that's always been able to create horrors within my dream realms that when they are occurring feel like they'd be enough to make my hair fall out when I wake up - and that's just how my mind can work against itself when I'm sober.