[ SECRET POST #5261 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5261 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Name the fandom. And repeats, etc.

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[(Anonymous)]

I like it as a narrative device, but oof, it's definitely not fun to actually experience it. I once dreamt I woke up in the guest room at my grandmother's house, but none of the doors or windows opened. I could hear my grandmother telling me to get out, but I couldn't leave the room. Then I woke up in my actual room and felt super disturbed because what the hell kind of dream was that? Plus my grandmother's been dead for over a decade, so hearing her voice in a nightmare was extra upsetting.

[(Anonymous)]

I've done that "dreaming you woke up" thing, but mine are always really banal and uneventful. I just dream that my alarm went off and I start my usual morning routine, and then I get confused when I wake up for real.

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you for making my secret secret maker!

[kribban]

I wonder if this is what "time travel" will actually turn out to be. They'll invent the tech to make you dream your past. I wouldn't mind revisiting some happy memories this way.

[(Anonymous)]

I once woke up in my dream, got dressed, made the bed, cleaned my teeth, and headed out the door to work. I was halfway through my dream commute when I woke up for real in bed and had to do it all again. Lol

[sparklywalls]

This sort of thing happens a LOT with sleep paralysis.

I still think it can be overdone in fiction 100%. But I’ve legitimately experienced it so can’t deny it’s a real world thing.

[(Anonymous)]

I've done this before too. It's INCREDIBLY disconcerting.

It CAN work as a trope, but it's mostly just done so badly or it makes no sense or it's such a lame cop-out that it's annoying.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh yeah dreams where you're sure you are awake are weird. Once I had a dream where I woke up with a cute dog trying to wake me up - but when I woke up for real I was wondering where my dog was before I sadly remembered that I don't have a dog.

[(Anonymous)]

I had it once (when my life was really stressful and waking up was a torture all on its own) - I dreamt of waking up and going through the entire morning routine, then I woke up and did it all again, thinking, okay weird, and _then_ I woke up for real. A creepy and super annoying experience.

[philstar22]

Ick. That sounds awful. Really glad I never experienced this. Then again, I lucid dream most of the time and am usually aware that I'm dreaming.

[(Anonymous)]

It often happened to me and still happens to this day. The worst occurence was when I was little: I dreamt that I had woken up at night and that everything in my room was the same as in the real-world, except a figure on the side of my bed made of darkness/pure evil arised, loomed over me and started threatening me as I laid paralised on my bed. But I used to be able to have lucid dreams and to wake up on command. So I did my usual thing and I woke up... or so I thought. The "figure" told me something like "Hahahah! You can't wake up, it's not a dream". Then I tried again and I woke up... or so I thought. And it went on and on. I can't describe the terror

[pantswarrior]

Oh man. Once I was way overworked (third shift retail full time) and I had this happen over and over and over. I'd wake up, then suddenly my sheets would come to life and wrap themselves around my neck. And so I'd wake up and understandably freaked out, got out of bed and went to go out to the living room where my girlfriend would be awake... and when I opened the door, it led to somewhere other than the rest of our apartment. And then I'd wake up, in bed. ...And the sheets would wrap themselves around my throat. And then I'd wake up and get up and go to the door, and it didn't open to our apartment...

Finally upon one of the times I woke up and made for the bedroom door, I opened the door and it actually was the apartment, and my girlfriend was sitting on the couch watching TV... and I was like "...Am I really here this time?" And I was so freaked out that SHE got freaked out.

Definitely one of the worst bouts of sleep I've ever had, so I can vouch for it being real and also horrifying. But as a narrative device... it never quite seems to go that way. It's like, they just wake up the second time and "Oh, that was weird" and go about their business going back to sleep. Heck no I was not going back to sleep.

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[(Anonymous)]

It's a great arc. It's a fantastic arc. People just write it badly.

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[kaijinscendre]

I've rewatched this recently and still love it. I think it has some of the best sound of the Bronze age of Disney animation.

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I disagree that large age gaps in relationships are inherently toxic. Large age differences are my favourite dynamic for too many reasons to list here.

That being said, media doesn't do them very well. The younger party (and it's usually M/F) is often presented as having codependency or daddy issues, while the older figure is usually a loser, a wish fulfilment fantasy, and/or cheating on his wife. (Remadora on the left just wasn't handled right, though.)

I think people's complaints re: this trope's ubiquity are because of this issue. I'd sell my soul for an age gap couple in canon done right.

S!B: I know I shouldn't expect anything different, but the correlation between these pairings and daddy dom in fic is a personal tragedy.

[ID: There is a promotional shot of Remus Lupin and Nymphadora Tonks from the Harry Potter films to the left of the secret. Above them are the words "seriously where was the chemistry here." End ID.]

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[(Anonymous)]

Unfortunately it's now everywhere, both on Reddit and outside of it. Much of online fandom in 2021 just feels like hating on other fans for sport as opposed to loving a franchise, presumably stemming from spoiled brat behavior combined with a lack of empathy.

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[(Anonymous)]

I feel that. There's two anons here on FS that I'm fairly sure I recognize week to week based on their (seemingly?) distinct writing styles.

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