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do you have them a lot?

( Almost every night. Sleeping next to someone actually helps, not that she's told that to Caesar. )

Once in a while, yep! I think it's how we deal with the world and some nasty memories, you know?

i don't know if it's a way to deal with them. i mean it always seemed like a bad side effect to me. i mean if they were a way to deal with bad memories they would feel like healing instead of scary you know? but i don't really have very many so i could be off

Nightmares let you know there are things you need to work out, in a way! Like because you ignore it when you're awake it comes back when you're dreaming. And if you face it while you're awake, maybe it can come out of your dreams, too!

but it's usually about stuff that's happened in the past, right? stuff you can't change anymore

It's never to late to change how you feel about it.

but that's not so easy

so the whole nightmare thing just seems like counterintuitive to me

Yeah. It doesn't make a lot of sense! But I don't know, that's what mom used to tell me.

mm, that makes sense! it seems like it would be comforting to remember, in the cases where nightmares really do help you fix stuff in your life.

It's a hope, at least!

mhm :) and sometimes that's all it takes

Yep! Hope. Not everyone's good with it, so we get to be even better for those who don't hold on to a lot of it! Have the biggest arms for hope in the whole world.