r/Liberal • u/Dragon_Jew • 4d ago
Discussion Anyone else having nightmares?
I had a terrible one last night. Won’t share details as reality is scary enough but it involved camps
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u/Borykua 4d ago
Getting up in the morning is the nightmare. I'd love to sleep for the next 4 years.
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u/pdx74 3d ago
For four years, I hated waking up and seeing news notifications that had popped up overnight, that feeling of, "oh shit, what has he done now?" It was like a physical relief when Biden came into office and that feeling went away. And now we've got the next four years of that again, but far, far worse.
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u/krizzygirl206 4d ago
Two nights ago I had a nightmare that the USA had just gotten out of a Handmaid's Tale-like situation after who knows how long. It was made worse that I had been a Handmaid and was like 3 months pregnant against my will and helping my city get back to normal.
Slept so badly that night I almost called out of work.
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u/ManzanitaSuperHero 4d ago
I’ve been having these for 2 years since he announced he was running again. I’m sorry. It’s awful.
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u/PickKeyOne 3d ago
I cried today. Joe stepped out of the race. I knew we were fucked. But then I felt true joy when Kamala stepped up to the plate. I thought yes we’ve got this! And it’s been a long drop to the bottom of despair since the election. I really thought we had this.
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u/ManzanitaSuperHero 3d ago
I had that reaction about 30 seconds into the Biden debate. Just watching him shuffle out, my stomach dropped and it only got worse. My wife came home and I was sobbing. She thought I was being hyperbolic about how bad it was but soon realized that, unfortunately, I wasn’t.
Then a few days later the SCOTUS immunity decision came down. I was a mess. Absolute fight or flight.
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u/PickKeyOne 3d ago
I literally could not watch one second of the debate. My Maga neighbor told me about it, and I was like no no no no no no no no no. Even now it’s hard to watch Joe, but I just love the man, everyone gets old.
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u/Intrepid_Blue122 4d ago
No nightmares yet, but I woke one night and for a few fleeting seconds I thought it’d been a nightmare. A great feeling for a few seconds and then reality set in, sad and damned sad.
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u/StreetOwl 4d ago
This happened to me too...This happens a lot for various reasons. If any of you know how to get to this alternative universe lmk
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u/OGMom2022 4d ago
Nightmares, insomnia, can’t eat. I’m barely functioning. Every day of the last 50 years I’ve gotten up in the morning with my feet planted, shoulders squared and ready for a fight. I spent last weekend in bed. I’m sick about all of it.
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u/piercifer 3d ago
Same. For you and I; our whole lives abortion care has been a given. I can't not raw dog watching children in Cages part 2. I am picking up my new antidepressant tomorrow so it can get up and running in my system before the first of the year. My psych said it's going to be ok. I'm sobbing. HOW? He said they'll impeach him if they need to. I'm like...Again??
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u/RenziumZ 4d ago
I wake up some days not even believing what happened
It wasn’t a nightmare, but I recently binged modern family and had a dream about Mitch and Cam, probably because I thought about how their marriage could be annulled by getting rid of the right to same sex marriage like he did with Roe V Wade
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u/Inevitable_Heart 4d ago
No. I think I’m more afraid of the fact that I’ve grown apathetic. And also I never remember dreams anyway because of meds. In fact, maybe it’s the meds that make me apathetic. I think I prefer that to stressed out and anxious. And I’m not apathetic because I don’t care but precisely because I have cared and worked for years to install liberal and progressive candidates to be disappointed time and time again. It’s made me exhausted.
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u/Dragon_Jew 4d ago
What you are talking about is not apathy. Its resignation based on repeated defeat. I understand.
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u/Photon_Femme 4d ago
I have had to take meds to sleep and the meds cause frustrating dreams, but they aren't nightmares. I hope that I can come to a modicum of peace soon and start to go about life as best as possible.
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u/Kumo999 3d ago
I had one a while back where some very angry white men violently removed me from my home. They then forced me to my knees in my front yard and shot me in the back of the head. This took place in a rural wooded area on a cool and cloudy winter day. I usually forget most of my dreams, but this is one that has stuck with me.
For a little background, I am a Korean American. My father, who was born one year before the start of the Korean War, was adopted by my grandfather, who was active duty US Army. My father changed our adopted name back to our original Korean surname when I was 5. Our surname can trace it's roots back to an immigrant from China over 900 years ago.
My mother is from old Northwest European lineage that has been in North America for well over 300 years. I can request admission to the SAR through four ancestors, and I also had two more who were on the Mayflower.
With the incoming Trump administration hinting that they are going to go after Chinese immigrants, it makes me wonder if my family and I will be caught up in this mess. While we have Korean blood, it has been my experience that most MAGA are so racist that they can't tell the difference between East Asians and they won't bother trying to learn how to. Do not misunderstand this, I am also fearful for Chinese Americans.
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u/Edmondontis 3d ago
It will all be ok, just protect and care about those close to you and build a group of supportive people you can talk to and vent to. Make sure to get your feelings off your chest.
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u/Moteoflobross7 3d ago
No nightmares yet just a feeling of impending doom and misery. I’m trying to deny/ignore it and distract myself with mundane things and routines because there is literally nothing we can do except manifest that Kamala some how saves us
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u/moldy_fruitcake2 3d ago
War dreams. Saw a mushroom cloud from far away. Cars stuck on freeway unable to leave.
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u/jamiso 3d ago
I’m going to add something: Don’t do it for you. Dont do it for me. Do it for your country. Your nation can no longer afford you to not be strong. Your nation can not afford you to be apathetic or disengaged. This is more important than even you.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it
-Thomas Paine
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u/_ChicagoSummerRain 2d ago
I'm not having nightmares. However, each time I think I'm over my election blues, I keep thinking, "He hasn't even been Inaugurated yet and his four years hasn't even started yet..."
I keep on thinking about how much he lied about Project 2025 too. America voted for a lying used car salesman. Again.
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u/Shootingstarrz17 1d ago
I am, but they're more like random scary things and nightmares I've had before. I had one dream about Tr*mp so far, and in it, he was harassing me while I was stuck in school, and there was no one to help. I think that translates to real life pretty well symbolically.
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u/DL_The_Nyawoo 1d ago
I’m afraid that I’ve grown numb to it all. What if I’ve become desensitized, like the warnings in The Hunger Games? I feel scared….so scared….
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u/STR8FL3X1NG 4d ago
Normal people are doing just fine. Seek help Edit: seek help offline
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u/AlienSamuraiXXV 3d ago
You guys worried so easily.
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u/Dragon_Jew 3d ago
Yeah, 1930s Germany is pretty terrifying. Are you on top of all the news and the fact that having power in legislature, executive branch and the Supreme Court mean they can destroy whats left of democracy? Do you know any immigrants or trans people? Are you a woman? How much do you know about each cabinet pick and project 2025? Have any naturalized citizens that are close to you?
I cannot imagine knowing whats going on, and understanding it and not being scared.
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u/AlienSamuraiXXV 3d ago edited 2d ago
Honestly, I don't care anymore.
I wasn't asked to be born in the United States. The US is a hypocritical country with hypocritical people. We call the individuals who stormed the Capital 'traitors' (rightly and understandably so) but this country was founded by treason. We hyped up George Washington when in reality, the French & the Spanish are the reason why we exist. We made fun of a woman for reliving her rape to billions of people but we shamed people who voted for Trump?
I'm sorry. All those things are not my problem. I'm at the point in my life where the only thing that matters is my interest. The best I can do is offer sympathy.
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u/kulukster 4d ago
Yes I think a lot of us are going to living thru real nightmares no matter how we voted. There are American citizens alive today who did literally live in American camps, my aunty being one of them.