Theyāre never fun, but every once in a while they pop up. It happens to everyone, and so far thereās no conclusive way to stop them from coming. Sometimes theyāre not so bad, and by the time you wake up it actually seems rather silly. But sometimes they hit you where youāre bruised, making you relive your worst fears, or a moment youād want to erase. You donāt wake up laughing from those ones, and you donāt easily forget.
Hunk has nightmares. Not very much, and not very often. But they do come up, and when they do, theyāre always different. Many times theyāre silly by the time heās awake, but on rare occassions he sees his family disappearing, his friends, and all heās cared for. He doesnāt forget those easily, but he doesnāt show that he has them either.
Pidgeās nightmares occur on the rarest occassions. They are scarce, but they are impactful. Itās always the same ones, rotating as though they were in a line. Kneeling in front of Mattās 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. Sheās never loud; she doesnāt 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. Theyāre hard to recover from, but she does recover.
Coran has very dark nightmares. His cheerful personality doesnāt 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 arenāt 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.
Keithās 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 arrivingĀ 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 fatherās death would play back, making him mourn in his sleep. And even the thought of Shiroās death haunted him, all the worst case scenarios of what wouldāve happened had Alluraās 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.
Shiroās 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 heās finished, but heād rather not have them at all.
Lanceās 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. Heās 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 heās 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 heās been forgetten there as well, or is known for being foolish and incompetent. Heās even sent back in time on occassion to before his meeting with Keith and Shiro, and the blue lion. Heās sent back to the time of his pilot training at the Garrison, when Iverson would yell at him, reminding him heās only where he is now because their previous best student is no longer in the class. That heās only there not because of his own skill but out of sheer luck. Because to Lance, in Lanceās mind, heāll never be good enough. Heāll never be good enough for anything and heāll always be below Keith no matter how hard he tries and improves heāll 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.
[Iām finna turn this into a whole ass story watch me]
[also Iād like some help with this and this is probably a really not great thing to ask but could you, if youvāe had a nightmare before, lmk how you recovered from it and what it felt like when you woke up from it? And if youāve told anybody about your nightmares and how they affected you. Iād really appreciate it thanksssss]
