what you don't realize is I DID have a nightmare last night... and I KNOW it was from these DAMNED stories I've been reading!!! I wasn't kidding about the chills!!!
My nightmare was kinda kewl in retrospective thoughts. I dreamt that someone had broken into my house (the one I share with harvestmoonsgirl) and I ended up running out naked scaring them away (a vision of my pale white bloated body is VERY unnerving, let me tell you!).
But the dream mutated to a ghost coming through my bedroom door and me not being able to frighten it away. She had a horrible visage to her, with no lower half per se, except the trailing espers of her etherial body, like stereotypical tendrils of whiteish-grey that faded to nothingness beneath her. She ended up touching me, and I began screaming with pain.
That's when I woke up! KEEP IT UP! I HAVEN'T had a good nightmare based on FICTION (or reality-based non-fiction) in a long time. I still have bad dreams of my time in the military, being forced to do things I regret heavily, but those don't scare the shit outta me like this did!