They’re never fun, but every once in a while they pop up. It happens to everyone, and so far there’s no conclusive way to stop them from coming. Sometimes they’re not so bad, and by the time you wake up it actually seems rather silly. But sometimes they hit you where you’re bruised, making you relive your worst fears, or a moment you’d want to erase. You don’t wake up laughing from those ones, and you don’t easily forget.
Hunk has nightmares. Not very much, and not very often. But they do come up, and when they do, they’re always different. Many times they’re silly by the time he’s awake, but on rare occassions he sees his family disappearing, his friends, and all he’s cared for. He doesn’t forget those easily, but he doesn’t show that he has them either.
Pidge’s nightmares occur on the rarest occassions. They are scarce, but they are impactful. It’s always the same ones, rotating as though they were in a line. Kneeling in front of Matt’s tombstone, crying over his death. Arriving on Earth and finding out her father never made it. The same ones, and a few more just like these, replaying in her head over and over again until she wakes up with her sheets crumpled up in her fists and moist from her tears. She’s never loud; she doesn’t wake up screaming her loss. She does talk about them, not all the time, and only to one person, that person changing depending on the dream. They’re hard to recover from, but she does recover.
Coran has very dark nightmares. His cheerful personality doesn’t encounter such dreadful memories so often, but they reoccur more often than they should. They are of war, of the times before he was frozen for so many years. His nightmares aren’t always of hard memories; on occassion, his happy memories of the times when life was peaceful and easy become his nightmares when he wakes up in sorrow, longing to go back to the time that is lost.
Allura dreams of the war too. She dreams of her father, her mother, Zarkon, Haggar, and even Lotor. Her dreams of him are the worst; she wakes up gritting her teeth and her face flushed from anger and wet from tears formed from betrayal. She longs to speak with someone about these dreams, about her feelings, and every so often she reveals a little of herself to Coran, but no more than a few details.
Keith’s nightmares came often. The breaks between them were too little, but maybe that was because of the impatience in him. Sometimes they were of his near sacrifice. Those would always end with Lotor arriving too late, and the back of his eyes would go black, triggering him upright and awake, drenched in cold sweat and heavy in panting. Other times the moment of his father’s death would play back, making him mourn in his sleep. And even the thought of Shiro’s death haunted him, all the worst case scenarios of what would’ve happened had Allura’s revival of Shiro failed. When they were really bad, the whole team would find out, his screams echoing in the empty halls, raw and full of fear and sorrow.
Shiro’s nightmares of his time as a prisoner in the galra, getting his arm removed, dying, and coming back to life reoccur almost every night. On the few nights he receives rest from his difficult times he back of his eyes are black throughout the whole of the night. Though they are negatively evocative, he makes sure to get them off his chest by revealing them to a few choice people. He always feels relieved after he’s finished, but he’d rather not have them at all.
Lance’s nightmares can not be compared to those of the rest of the team. Lance almost never gets rest from such dreams, his insecurities playing in his mind every night, only heightening them for the worse. He’s always believed himself to be the seventh wheel of the team, having no use and being of no help to the others. Amongst the others, who all have their respective skills to be known for, Lance is convinced he’s the only one who has no place in this world, in helping the universe. So his nightmares attack him with an enactment of such, showing him what would happen had his suspicions come true. Arriving back at Earth only to find out he’s been forgetten there as well, or is known for being foolish and incompetent. He’s even sent back in time on occassion to before his meeting with Keith and Shiro, and the blue lion. He’s sent back to the time of his pilot training at the Garrison, when Iverson would yell at him, reminding him he’s only where he is now because their previous best student is no longer in the class. That he’s only there not because of his own skill but out of sheer luck. Because to Lance, in Lance’s mind, he’ll never be good enough. He’ll never be good enough for anything and he’ll always be below Keith no matter how hard he tries and improves he’ll always be one step behind Keith and his brain never fails to remind him so. But Lance never speaks of these dreams, nor his fears. He remains quiet, and only sobs inaudibly alone in his room, knowing nothing will make these fears go away, and these nightmares will never disappear.
[I’m finna turn this into a whole ass story watch me]
[also I’d like some help with this and this is probably a really not great thing to ask but could you, if youv’e had a nightmare before, lmk how you recovered from it and what it felt like when you woke up from it? And if you’ve told anybody about your nightmares and how they affected you. I’d really appreciate it thanksssss]
