The Slums of the Dreaming

[eredien]

I am convinced that there are several things which one should never have to wake up thinking, such as:

I've just killed my father again. Look at the blood.
The bus is tipping backwards over this cliff; my sister and I are going to die.
There are millions of silverfish eggs attached to my face, and soon they are going to hatch.

One should especially never wake up with the last one and actually feel like there are millions of silverfish eggs attached to one's face for the next five minutes.

To put it bluntly: I have lately been having a spate of very very bad dreams. Even the ones that start off beautifully, however--like the bus dream, it started off with a beautiful purple and pink sunrise where the clouds were edged in orange gilt--seem to turn to crap in a very short time. For the past two months or so, this has been my default dream-setting.
Not only do I feel as if I have not gotten any sleep to speak of, but I feel as if I have gotten negative amounts of sleep.

Any suggestions on how to get decent, or even boring, dreams again would be much appreciated.

Comments

[rushthatspeaks.livejournal.com]

Would you like to borrow the dreamcatcher I am borrowing from Sharon Rose? I haven't been using it lately.
Lila

[eredien]

I just re-read the comment I just posted above your own.

It would seem surreal and darkly hilarious, if it wasn't happening to me. (Hell, it is surreal and darkly hilarious, even though it is happening to me.)

So I might take you up on that offer, but first I would like to know what exactly are the dream-catcher thingies supposed to do, and how are they supposed to do it?

[mousekinn.livejournal.com]

Fiffle, Spirit Sis. I make them ;) The stone in the center attracts dreams as they float around. The bad dreams get tangled in the web and are destroyed by morning's first sunlight. The good dreams navigate the webbin and climb down teh feather to the sleeper ^.^