The most disturbing dreams I have are ones which are plausible, weirdly enough - for example, I woke up early on Thursday morning (4am) because I thought I heard a noise outside. I then went back to sleep, and had a dream about some intruders - in short, they dumped rubbish outside, I chased them, they called the police complaining about me assaulting them, and I came back home to find a full team of detectives combing tthrough my front garden looking for evidence of my crime and looking to arrest me.
See, whilst that's implausible (the police responding to a call within minutes?), it's not totally impossible, it's the sort of thing that could happen. So I woke up around 5:30am, and I just couldn't go to sleep, because I was worrying about this ficticious scenario... Weird.
Similarly, if I get angry at someone I know in my dreams, I sometimes stay annoyed at them when I wake - silly, I know.
But I don't really have "evil monster" type of nightmares, or at least if I do I don't remember them.
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