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[inlovewithwords]

What kind of nightmares does your character have? How do they deal with it?

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[run_barry]

His mother's murder, and the Man in the Yellow Suit.

14 years later and the nightmares happen less often, but they're still rough to deal with. Most of the time they're a deal-breaker for sleeping the rest of the night. If anyone is around Barry might talk about it, but most of the time he's alone so nowadays he goes out running. Partly because motion is a good way to clear his head, but patrolling the streets as the Flash is also a way to reassure himself that the man isn't out there and that other people are safe.

[i_am_your_host]

Emcee used to have nightmares reliving the moment he got shot. Almost dying and not being able to breathe are also recurring themes. Funny way how he dealt with it! Turns out that sleeping with Eric Northman helped push those bad dreams aside! And when I say sleeping I mean...well, yeah, sleeping, but Emcee would also goad Eric into drinking him to the verge of unconsciousness in order to simulate the almost-death sensation (which Emcee kind of got addicted to), and then bringing him back to consciousness at the last second. Yes, it's fucked up! But it helped at the time >_>

Look, it's either that or heroin, and he has no heroin.

[bjornwilde]

Ahsoka: Early in the Clone Wars, she'd be having nightmares about the deaths of those under her command during the Battle of Ryloth. Sometimes it's even her shoot the troops down directly.

Later, it's nightmares about the Genosian brain worms. Then being possessed by the Dark Side, and her death on Mortis (or whatever that planet was called).

Still later, it's the nightmares of her leaving and Anakin blaming her for Vader.

I think she just meditates and throws herself into the next task. She doesn't have anyone to lean on and has never really been shown healthy coping skills. Accepting and moving on is all she knows how to do.

[angry_friendship_wolf]

Yamato's nightmares run from the 'Kill them all, starting with the smallest child' mantra of Devimon's controlled Digimon, to that time he thought Taichi had been killed, to the Dark Masters murdering most of their Digimon friends, and to his brief brush with the Dark Ocean.

They were at their worst immediately after 01, but he still has nightmares as many nights as not, and he never really learned coping strategies for dealing with them. He'll play some music, or punch something, and eventually find a chair or something to maybe doze in for the rest of the night without actually sleeping.

[configuration_birdwatcher]

In the Overwatch universe, dreaming while asleep is a quirk of organic brains that omnics don't share. They just drop into a state of minimal consciousness, enough to respond to immediate physical danger if necessary, and then come back out of it when they need to. (Or if they get a false alarm from that danger response. They can be startled awake just like humans.) So Bastion technically doesn't have nightmares. But if they did, it'd be the battlefields of the Omnic Crisis; masses of humans and robots firing on each other, dying by inches on the ground or being blown to pieces by assailants too far away to see, Crusaders taking out entire columns of Bastions with fireballs while sentry-configuration units shred the unshielded portion of the human frontline into a paste... that sort of thing.

Wilson's nightmares are sometimes about being torn apart, pulverized, eaten alive et al by monstrous creatures, freezing or baking to death in extreme weather -- he's died from all of those in the past and come back to life -- but sometimes instead he dreams of shadowy beings stalking him, whispering things he can't resolve into words, or of being alone in the darkness with a malevolent presence that wants much worse things for him than mere physical harm. He doesn't really deal differently with nightmares than with any other kind of distress or anxiety, which he handles mainly by drowning it in creature comforts like eating sweets, wearing nice clothes or shaving off an overgrown beard. Or learning a new crafting recipe. Or picking a bunch of flowers and making them into a garland to wear. Or eating mildly psychotropic wild mushrooms. He's got several options.