User blog comment:Rainboh/Lately I haven't been sleeping/@comment-27007772-20150326024541/@comment-26169026-20150326203647

That is absolutely horrifying. I'm not sure I've ever had a dream that horrifying, even the recurring one I had as a kid... sure it wasn't gory or anything like that but it was terrifying to a kid. Basically it went like this: I had created a monster (sort of like frankenstein did) and it looked A LOT like a pikachu so I thought it was cute and wouldn't cause me harm. Other stuff happened, it was never the same each time, and then at the end the cute little pikachu monster would throw me over a cliff. I would wake up on the floor EVERY SINGLE TIME. This is why I loathe heights. As a kid, it was terrifying. I never did anything wrong to the monster yet it always ended with the monster throwing me off that cliff. For a long time, I couldn't sleep and it messed with my life... but then one day it just stopped. Now as an adult, I have that same dream like once or twice a year. Only now I don't end up on the floor because there's no space for me to fall off my bed. I do think now, though, that the dream is stress related.