Kind Nightmares

They are the mind's way of practicing the grief of comfort. They are the warning signs dressed in soft wool.

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We are told nightmares are terrors—violent, abstract chases through corridors that stretch forever. But there is a gentler, more persistent species of bad dream: the Kind Nightmare. It is the antagonist that loves you too much. It is the disaster that arrives to save you from yourself. kind nightmares