[UA] Would you like gas with those fries?

[Nick Wedig]

>    Still, that's not the scariest thing that's happened while asleep--I
>once woke up with blood all over my shirt after dreaming that I had been
>shot in the chest and died--and I didn't wake up before I died.  I had laid
>in a spreading pool of my own blood, felt my limbs growing numb, and
>everything tunneled and went black.  I had seen the people standing over me,
>watching me die.  That's still the scariest thing that ever happened to me
>in a dream/bed.  I figure it was some kind of weird dream stigmata or
>something...

I've died before in my dreams.  Shot on a street corner by Abe Lincoln one time (an image I think was drawn from Sandman, fittingly enough).  So whenever a movie goes into the bit about "If you die in dreams, virtual reality, etc, then you die in real life" I want to slap the writers.  I've also, on a number of occasions, read written words, which is something else you're not supposed to be able to do in dreams due to the (largely fictitous according to some things I've read) left/right brain division.

No blood though.  That's just inexplicable.

ObUA: so... Oneiromancy?  Take any of the weird bits people have mentioned and you could get a story out of it by giving a magickal explanation, especially Oneiromancy.

Perhaps a sleepwalker with trained pet dream Hags (some sort of astral entity that can paralyze sleeping people?) who uses them to keep his victims still while he messes with them, assassinates them, etc.

Mr. Teapot
amazed by his own subconscious

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