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⌈ Secret Post #2955 ⌋

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[othellia]

So, like, I had my own personal narrative arc with The Ring.

For years the movie gave me terrible nightmares. It was especially bad because I can normally control my dreams and/or at least realize I'm dreaming and pinch myself to wake up, but Sadako refused to let me go. Several times I'd pinch myself and the dream would start blurring. I'd start to feel myself waking up, but then the main symbol/ring from The Ring would flash across my whole vision, and the dream would snap back into sharp focus.

Then one night back in high school, there was an even greater evil creature and Sadako and I had to team up to defeat it.

Ever since then, we've had a pretty good understanding. She shows up in my dreams every once in a blue moon, but we mostly ignore each other.

[dreemyweird]

Omg. The beginning of this sounds horrifying. I have nightmares once in a while, but all of them are about my RL traumatic experience. I've never (thank god) had any nightmares about the supernatural.

But then the resolution is sort of sweet, so I don't know how to feel about this XD I'm glad it turned out okay for you.

[othellia]

Dang it. Dreamwidth ate my comment. Anyways, somewhat shorter response than the first one I wrote up:

Yeah, I've been having terrifying supernatural nightmares for as long as I can remember (aka when I was around four years old). Now that I'm older, I don't have those kind of nightmares anymore which is amazing, but now I have nightmares about losing teeth and failing classes I never knew I signed up for (I graduated college two years ago). Oh, and sometimes I'm fully asleep but I'll feel like I'm in this half-awake dreamstate and I'll hear someone getting attacked/murdered, but I'm too exhausted to fully wake up. AKA I hate my brain.

But at the same time, nightmares about RL traumatic experiences don't sound any better. :(

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know. I have recurring nightmares about my mother dying again and I'd take supernatural nightmares over dreams of begging her to tell us about her health problems before it's too late.

[dreemyweird]

Oh, of course it's different for everyone. I suppose my trauma just wasn't terrifying enough. It was very painful, and I was scared at the time, but it's not exactly classic nightmare fuel. All it can really do is make me endlessly try to run away from one specific person, which is an unpleasant dream to have, but it doesn't involve anyone dying or even being in serious pain.

I am sorry about your experience. I can imagine one would prefer dreaming about ghosts over that.

[(Anonymous)]

Aww, I think maybe I mostly wanted to get it off my chest so I'm sorry I mentioned it here. I'm sorry about your trauma dreams, too. Trauma dream sisters, hey. :-)

[dreemyweird]

No, that's alright. I know the feeling. It does help to talk about it sometimes, so I'm glad that I've provided you with the opportunity. And thank you :)

[cenobitic_anchorite]

You might appreciate my less-serious anecdote dealing with the American remake of The Ring.

It was my date's brilliant idea to go to a late-night showing. The movie... kind of hooked in deep on me just watching it in the theatre. I ended up leaving his place late.

My route home passed a horse farm, so *that* was fun right there. Just horses. In the dark. Just to set the mood.

I get home, one of my parents is still up finishing some work on the computer. They say goodnight, turn to leave the room as I'm about to settle in for a few things before bed myself. I glance at the computer.

Computer goes black.

Computer flashes white static.

Computer flashes the grainy image of a well.

I have an instant panic attack, hunkering down into a ball and - I can't even scream, I'm exhaling the words out breathlessly - "TURN IT OFF TURN IT OFF TURN IT OFF!"

My family member is just staring at me.

It was a screensaver.

[othellia]

OH GOD. THAT WOULD BE HORRIFYING.

The closest I've ever gotten to that was a TV turning on on its own once. But that was in the middle of the day, in the middle of a crowded bandroom as we were all cleaning our instruments.

[(Anonymous)]

I used to have a screwed up old TV that wouldn't turn off sometimes unless you unplugged it.

[lb_lee]

Oh my god, I had a former roommate with an equally good Ring story!

So, she was snowed in alone in her dorm for the Christmas holidays. And she got the GENIUS IDEA to watch the Ring. Alone. In the dark, creepy basement. At night. Pretty much the entire dorm is deserted but her.

So she's watching it, the first ring video bit plays, there's the phone call--AND THE PHONE RINGS.

My friend goes and picks up the phone. "Hello?"

"SEVEN DAYS! No but really, have you watched the Ring yet?"

The friend calling had the best/worst timing ever.

[(Anonymous)]

I am so glad I don't have any The Ring stories. Plenty of friends do, but not me.

My mom and I watched it very deliberately in the middle of the day, and it still freaked me out for the next, oh, couple a years? But no convenient phone calls or other coincidences.