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I used to have sleep terrors as a child. I'd be so terrified my parents took me to doctors and eye doctors. I'd continue to see things even after waking, hallucinations where real life shapes would move forward towards me. A sensation kind of like the walls closing in but it would be specific objects or shadows moving closer and they'd have a sort of gaseous quality like fog.

They've started to return as an adult but as lucid dreams. I just had one that sometimes recurs in the same way each time but this time with a strange variation.

So the lucid dream usually consists of me (male) stumbling across a female in the street whose singing a musical theatre kind of style and the lyrics reference the street we're in. Other people in the street don't tend to notice the singing even though she's belting it out. She wills me to join in and we end up walking and dancing around New York (I've never been) through places modern and old timey all while singing and dancing and the lyrics reference the places we go through. I'm not romantic with the female and I don't recognise her nor can I make out her features, she's more of a guide that eggs me on.

Now usually I become self aware in the dream and I start to panic and wake up. The sensation starts to feel like when the projections begin to notice the intruders inside dreams in Inception (movie). Not with the people in my dream, rather the scenery itself becomes oppressive and hostile. I become overwhelmed, take back control and shock myself awake.

That's where it usually ends.

This time I shocked myself awake and I woke up still knowing I was inside a lucid dream but I was in my parents old house and my whole family were present. They were disappointed in my dreaming and they had a book with the lyrics I'd been singing and were trying to decipher what they meant. They were concerned I was being destructive and showed anger in a confrontational way. My father wasn't saying much but he was holding a gun. He wasn't pointing it at anything and he didn't shoot it. After a short while of being confronted I realised (inside my dream) that the gun was mine and it was loaded, my father wasn't actually angry and I now understood he was scared of the gun and why I had it. Realising this caused my parents old house to start to feel dark and oppressive. I started to feel panicked and I shocked myself awake.

I was back 'inside myself' in reality again but I felt terrified for a while rather than relief to be out.

I have a loose idea what events in my life are triggering this recurring dream now. The new twist made it more personal and directly applicable to me rather than it being abstract and vague.

Anyone else have any experiences like this?

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Yeah, I get a lot of recurring dreams that have new twists on them, like lately I had a new version of a dream where I was a secret agent woman, and COVID was referenced even though COVID was definitely NOT a thing last time I had that dream.

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