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I used to get a LOT of nightmares, and THIS pretty individual figured in a lot of them (minus the rags and paint, tho'- they was nekkid)... usually in a pack of the little buggers. Dunno why I'd have these things haunting my dreams, but they used to scare the STARCH outta me, especially when I'd be looking at, or interacting with, an ordinary person or object, and this THING would tear it's way out from the inside WHILE I WAS TALKING TO THEM...
In most of the dreams that featured these guys, I was some kind of "protector"- my job was to hunt 'em down. I'd get frustrated because I'd think I'd gotten them all and the next night, there were MORE, so I resolved to find out where they were coming from and if anyone was controlling them...
Yeah, my dreams are a little odd. :P
Anyway, I DID eventually find their source and fried it, but it still took me months of dreaming, screaming frakkin' nightmares to do it. Well, there was a near-year gone and wasted. But these critters sorta stuck with me, and once, while discussing some of the strange dreams I'd have with my husband, I got the idea to actually draw one. I've never committed them to "paper" before- never once did I have the urge to draw them, but here's this one, a nice representative of the tribe, all decorated up after doing something impressive. >^__^<
Looking at him now, I don't find him scary- actually, he's kinda cute, in a weird way.
But, you know what? I still don't wanna see one of these rushing at me out of the dark on all fours...
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In most of the dreams that featured these guys, I was some kind of "protector"- my job was to hunt 'em down. I'd get frustrated because I'd think I'd gotten them all and the next night, there were MORE, so I resolved to find out where they were coming from and if anyone was controlling them...
Yeah, my dreams are a little odd. :P
Anyway, I DID eventually find their source and fried it, but it still took me months of dreaming, screaming frakkin' nightmares to do it. Well, there was a near-year gone and wasted. But these critters sorta stuck with me, and once, while discussing some of the strange dreams I'd have with my husband, I got the idea to actually draw one. I've never committed them to "paper" before- never once did I have the urge to draw them, but here's this one, a nice representative of the tribe, all decorated up after doing something impressive. >^__^<
Looking at him now, I don't find him scary- actually, he's kinda cute, in a weird way.
But, you know what? I still don't wanna see one of these rushing at me out of the dark on all fours...
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There's another series of nightmares I should try painting, but they may well be beyond my poor skills. Imagine, if you will, everything has a leering, jeering face with snaggled, pointy teeth all gnashing after your tenders... even the very air. Eeeep. Luckily, I didn't have that one very often. The dream I had the most often, though would be far too easy to [paint- it might even be boring for folks to look at: it's just this gargantuan vortex (think the black hole from DarkStar) that slooooowly turned below me as I was held out over it... then dropped. I've always suspected that one was a warped birth-memory. *chuckles*
I'm glad someone likes this guy- I think he's in need of some love. >^__^< I chose those colours 'cuz I couldn't figure out how to get old leather effect I wanted. Their hides are thick a rather textured with lines and little cracks, like a finer version of elephant skin. All the muddy tones were part of their overall colouring, too, that, and thew watery yellow eyes.
Dude looks like he's up to something...
I'm glad someone likes this guy- I think he's in need of some love. >^__^< I chose those colours 'cuz I couldn't figure out how to get old leather effect I wanted. Their hides are thick a rather textured with lines and little cracks, like a finer version of elephant skin. All the muddy tones were part of their overall colouring, too, that, and thew watery yellow eyes.
Dude looks like he's up to something...
She seems to be starving, how about next time dream up her some grub, i net that would make her happy anjd stop tormenting you.
and about your dream, at least you have the same ones usually. All of mind is always random, and one time, their was a Gaint Pink Bunny biting people heads off.
I used that dream in my book fyi
and about your dream, at least you have the same ones usually. All of mind is always random, and one time, their was a Gaint Pink Bunny biting people heads off.
I used that dream in my book fyi
They always looked rail-thin. I dunno why. Maybe that's part of the eww-factor for me- they always looked like they were starving and starving was an actual real life worry for me at times growing up. We were a very poor family, and the only reason I ever got three meals a day was because I was enrolled in my local school's breakfast AND lunch programs...
Most of my dreams are pretty random, actually. This thing was part of one of the few "serial" dreams I ever had- It was also the only series of dreams that took place over literally months. I gotta wonder at what deep psychological thing I was working though with these things... Heh.
Most of my dreams are pretty random, actually. This thing was part of one of the few "serial" dreams I ever had- It was also the only series of dreams that took place over literally months. I gotta wonder at what deep psychological thing I was working though with these things... Heh.
"Rubbery mythos critter?" I'm not taking this thing from anywhere but my own demented nightmares. I was dreaming about this beast and it's friends back in the '80's... I have to ask, now- what does it resemble? Do you have a link I can go look at? >^__^< So far, the only thing I've been able to find in conventional mythology that these things might resemble was something from Inuit stories about a hairless dog-demon that haunted people at night. That scared me a little, since I'm Native American, and the Innu and Inuit live in similar climates pretty much right beside each other (Innu are my Tribe). Anyway, their critter was called Keelut, and was often described as a hairless black dog that was often large and "hungry-looking". I did find a neat image of something that looks a LOT like my beastie on this page today called a Freybug- they're a British mythological monster, apparently (this is the first time I've seen this thing, and it startled me how close they look in design): http://www.mythicalcreaturesguide.c.....Local+Variants
I'm gonna do some more digging, 'cuz this is wigging me out a little.
I'm gonna do some more digging, 'cuz this is wigging me out a little.
Night Gaunts exist in the Cthulhu Mythos. From memory, they are winged bipedal creatures with rubbery skin and no faces. The travel from ... some place to another and are the minions of something. I forgot, and I am tired and late for bed. :P
There is (of course) a Wikipedia entry here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightgaunt
In the writing they are portrayed less evil and more drone-like, but with evil undertones. For instance, if they carry you off into the air and steal you away, and if you protest and struggle, they tickle you. It is probably an evil tickle.i
There is (of course) a Wikipedia entry here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightgaunt
In the writing they are portrayed less evil and more drone-like, but with evil undertones. For instance, if they carry you off into the air and steal you away, and if you protest and struggle, they tickle you. It is probably an evil tickle.i
Ah, well, spaghetti is a good excuse, in my mind! *grins- loves noodly goodness* I'm not super familiar with the Lovecraftian mythos- I thought you might be referring to that, since the word "mythos" seems to be heavily associated with Lovecraft's particular brand of crazy. I've heard the term "nightgaunt" before, but I associated it with Celtic stuff like Barghests and the like. Just goggled it and there doesn't seem to be any Celtic association, so I was apparently wrong, there. >^__^<
Isn't it weird how sometimes things from different dreams and nightmares can reappear in similar circumstances.
I often don't remember my dreams and nightmares but as a child often in the nightmares I do remember, before everything starts getting freaky/scary I would have the feeling I was being watched by something behind me and no matter how quickly I turned I almost never saw it. In the few dreams I have seen it, it doesn't seem to have any definitive shape or form as it is often either a sort of swirling, twisting shadow that is blacker than night and darker than anything else around it or else it is some other sort of night terror. Its one permanent feature is a set of pupil-less burning red eyes.
Don't actually see much of it anymore except for the fact that it partially inspired a character I often doodle randomly when I'm bored or absent minded.http://www.furaffinity.net/view/3224855/
I often don't remember my dreams and nightmares but as a child often in the nightmares I do remember, before everything starts getting freaky/scary I would have the feeling I was being watched by something behind me and no matter how quickly I turned I almost never saw it. In the few dreams I have seen it, it doesn't seem to have any definitive shape or form as it is often either a sort of swirling, twisting shadow that is blacker than night and darker than anything else around it or else it is some other sort of night terror. Its one permanent feature is a set of pupil-less burning red eyes.
Don't actually see much of it anymore except for the fact that it partially inspired a character I often doodle randomly when I'm bored or absent minded.http://www.furaffinity.net/view/3224855/
Well, I was dreaming these things when I was in my twenties- a time of life I'd find it reasonable to expect that I wouldn't be dreaming some kiddie nightmare. Your critter looks interesting, though.
Anyway, once I'd completed whatever task I had (destroying these critters), I didn't see them anymore. *shrugs* Guess I worked through whatever psychological problem they represented. Heh. Now, I just like to remember that series of dreams as being this neat kind of comic-book adventure. After all, I was shape-changing into a dragon in order to fight them. *chuckle*
Anyway, once I'd completed whatever task I had (destroying these critters), I didn't see them anymore. *shrugs* Guess I worked through whatever psychological problem they represented. Heh. Now, I just like to remember that series of dreams as being this neat kind of comic-book adventure. After all, I was shape-changing into a dragon in order to fight them. *chuckle*
That wasn't a second head in the alien's mouths- it was a separate set of jaws... >^__^< There's actually a creature in real life with a jaw-arrangement similar to that: go look up anatomy images of the Moray Eel. They're effing bizarre. *grins*
These nightmare critters of mine were a nasty that haunted my sleep for months one year... Heh. I'm glad I finally killed them all.
How you doing, guy?
These nightmare critters of mine were a nasty that haunted my sleep for months one year... Heh. I'm glad I finally killed them all.
How you doing, guy?
AHA! I thought you and he might have been talking. He'd mentioned a friend of his that was going through chemo for leukemia... I asked him about it, but he never replied. Yeah, he's definitely one to talk to- poor guy has had his troubles with bone cancers- it put him in a funk and fog that lasted years... That started shortly after we broke up, poor git, and I've only gotten to hear bits and pieces of his experience because we lost track of each other after I came back to Winnipeg from B.C in '86.
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