When presented with this question I immediately think of one nightmare. I'm standing at the top of the high dive but it's not a normal high dive. The best way I can describe my view is Imagine looking down at the pool, you're standing at the edge of the diving board, and you're peering through a fisheye lens. You're extremely high to the point the pool is like a little dot, you can't even tell if people are down below, and there's clouds. Just gently the wind is blowing, enough to make the clouds drift and enough to give you a shiver.
For whatever reason you inch just a bit closer before jumping off. Somehow you end up head first though and again, somehow, you end up a little too close to the edge of the pool. After that though it's just dark and then you're at the top of the high dive again. This repeats until eventually you wake up and that, for the longest time, was how that nightmare went until randomly it got an update.
Rather than the dream ending in black upon hitting the edge then restarting at the high dive you linger. Maybe it's not really you but the camera lingers, the view. It pans outwards so you can get a good look at all the people dressed in their swimsuits gather around crowding your body. They just stand there staring in silence and nothing more.
That was last time I had this nightmare.
I do have a fear of heights. Sometimes if I don't think about it beforehand or prepare myself before him, just trying to get off the counter can get to me if I have to stand completely upright. Maybe it's also that combined with the small space of the counter with the overhead cabinets too tho lol.
Funny enough my first memory of the diving boards, especially the high dive, were kind of positive. I borrowed my brother's floaties and my dad sat at the edge of the pool, the lifeguard having given him permission to hop in and pull me out. What's maybe even funnier though despite this being my first memory, this is not actually my first encounter with the diving boards. Apparently my first encounter did not end as well and the lifeguard had to retrieve me. I don't really remember this but I suppose I do find that a little interesting
Anyway, have you ever experienced a reoccurring childhood nightmare? Maybe it even got an update at some point randomly?
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