[Doc Faustus]

Damn. Lost both my posts. I posted before I accidently deleted it that end of the world dreams are common in tense political and personal landscapes and that they can be indicative of either one. The solution to chronic nightmares is learning to lucid dream. Nightmares want to be interacted with, they want to tell us things and will not stop saying them until we get the picture, make a change or interact with them lucidly. It's like the early point and click adventure games. The thing won't be solved until you find the right response, in the waking world or the sleeping one. Even if there's an apocalypse around you, your mind doesn't just want to torment you about it, it wants to see what you'll do about it. Resolve your personal apocalypse and the nightmare will go away. I too take inspiration from my nightmares but it's hard to write about people taking out your intestines and making you into sausages, or sometimes it might be just be too personal. Not everyone could identify with my estranged father turning into a black, scaly ogre and raping my girlfriend. But, I was able to go lucid on that dream and decapitate him with a shovel and then put his head in the microwave. The nightmare came back until I found a more mature solution. Lucidity and reacting to the waking world in a way that empowers you are the best ways to end the plague, especially when it comes to dreams about the end of the world.