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[lurings]

[ even in the florida heat (does florida even have fall or is it just summer and summer lite? sigh, she wants four seasons again.), abigail had a scarf neatly looped around her throat. she looks exhausted and much like she's sitting up in bed, but considering the video feed comes relatively late at night when night is turning to morning, it may be that she just woke up.

her question is simple and she doesn't waste time leading up to it, just spits it out and lets it soar away into the ether before she can think better of it. ]

Does anyone else have trouble with nightmares?

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[corviform]

[ He doesn't really want to answer that question given his answer is yes. Not so much lately, but sometimes, troubling thoughts invade his sleep.

He's seated on the couch of his apartment, a mug on the the table and a nondescript, dark book on the soda cushion beside him. The scarf is intriguing to him as up until some time ago, he had been wearing scarves and buttoning his collars up to conceal something himself. ]

There's a few things you can try to help stop your sleep from getting disrupted.

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[lurings]

I know. [ she went through enough therapy to have been told a hundred different techniques, but she doesn't seem like she's dismissing his point, simply recognizing it. ] They don't always work.

[closetshark]

Are my children bothering you?

[lurings]

...are your children nightmares? [ w h a t? ]

[ Permavoice ]

[ohmydarlinme]

.. yeah. All the time.

[ permaditto ]

[lurings]

[ she's too tired to hold the phone any closer so clementine is basically on speakerphone. ]

Are they bad?

[inmyothertights]

[He hasn't wanted to talk to anyone ever since he discovered that Tommy was gone, but-

Well.]

Sometimes.

[lurings]

Me too. [ a beat. that was dumb. obviously she does, since she prompted the discussion. ] Are they pretty bad?

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[hands4healing]

Yes. They're pretty...bad, sometimes.

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[lurings]

How you found anything that helps?

[acclimatized]

[ john is awake early. he may not be a soldier anymore, but he can't convince his body clock to let him have a lie in. ]

Yeah, from time to time.

[lurings]

Is there anything that helps?

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[crab]

Only everyone.

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[lurings]

[ like clementine and scully, karkat gets the "you're basically on speakerphone" treatment. ] I realize that. Everyone has nightmare, I was just wondering if anyone had really bad ones.

[slightlyoffchilt]

Crowd-sourcing psychiatric aid is ill-advised.

[lurings]

[ there is an audible groan of annoyance, so if chilton is home he gets to hear that and then immediately get her reply so there is no mistaking to whom that was in reference to. ]

I'm not crowd-sourcing, I asked a question.

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[starbuckaroobanzai]

[Normally Scully wouldn't be half so willing to put herself forward like this, on a network where anyone might be listening. Given the timing, though, and the look of the speaker, she feels something like a compulsion to respond. The question in and of itself is a much more difficult and far less innocent matter than its brevity might suggest. It hits on things best not addressed.]

They catch up with me from time to time, yes. I think most people have... times.

[voice]

[lurings]

Yeah. [ she knows that everyone gets nightmares, that's just... the way brains work unless there is a dream related disease. hers are just particularly bad and all the time. hannibal's magic tea did not rid her of those. she just wanted some good old fashioned solidarity and boy did she get it though she's not altogether comforted. ] I guess I just needed a reminder that it's not just me.

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[purgation]

[Yuri is alone in a dimly lit office, the blinds drawn. Little light from outside seems to infiltrate the room, but there is a lamp upon his desk that is on, illuminating a steaming cup of tea that rests next to him.]

Sleep is very rarely silent for any of us.

[Meaning that yes, when he closes his eyes at night he is often troubled by nightmares. The worst of them come while he is still awake, however, but he can't go telling just anyone about those visions.]

Are your nightmares recurring?

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[lurings]

Yeah. [ she's loathe to feel pity for chilton, but her poor roommates... ] If by recurring you mean all the time.

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[forcowardice]

All the time.
You?

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[lurings]

Same. Sucks.

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[immigrantpunk]

i dream it's the zombie apocalypse sometimes

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[lurings]

I used to have a nightmare about being chased by a t-rex, but now I kind if enjoy that one.

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[animalage]

Less than I used to. But still sometimes.

Are you having nightmares?

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[lurings]

Yeah. [ she sighs, tired and almost defeated. ]

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[aggressiveapathy]

God, just look. You opened the floodgates.

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[lurings]

I was not expecting that. [ gpoy. ]

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[ex_question191]

Gonna add my raised hand to the collective. Are you okay?

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[lurings]

[ she smiles just slightly, but it's wan and tired so not very full of mirth. ]

Yeah, just... [ she doesn't really have an answer, okay isn't really a staple of her life for the most part. she eventually shrugs. ]

[braided_icarus]

I don't think anyone wants to know the details of mine. But. Yeah. Not a lot I've found that helps me personally, but it's different for anyone I guess. How you deal with it.

Need to talk about it?

[Sometimes people have a better time talking to strangers about their issues, right? He can at least offer.]

[lurings]

I'm not very good at talking. [ to people. about emotions. ]

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[biotically]

Well, normally, I just wake up and start a new project. [A pause. ]

That's probably not all that healthy, though.

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[lurings]

Hey, whatever works. At least it's productive?

[altercate]

Have any of these affirmatives come with an advice on stopping them?

[lurings]

Don't have a traumatic life seems to be the key. [ that might be a joke. we just don't know. ]

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[workout]

All the time. [ He doesn't say it like he's feeling sorry for himself. It's casual, like it's totally normal, nothing worth feeling excluded over. ] Sometimes it helps to talk to people about it, but it looks like you already figured that out.

[ Advice he will never take. ]

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[lurings]

I'm not sure anyone would really want to know what I dream about.

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[trickstar]

Uh... Well. I used to. I mean, I still get them once in a while here, but they stopped happening so much once I was here for a while. Still have some about the Nazi guy though, that was fucking awful.

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[lurings]

...nazi guy? [ say what, son? ]