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Inspired by a nightmare.
Diamond Tiara may be the daughter of one of the richest ponies in Equestria, but her privileged upbringing cannot protect her against her own mental vulnerabilities. Stricken by night terrors, she leaves the comfort of her bed in order to confront her fears and ensure her personal safety.
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I can't wait to read this!
I'm not going to lie, I legitimately gasped a few times during this and got massive chills at the end. This was very good, though.
4142015 Hope you enjoy it!
4142048 Thanks. If ya gasped and got chills, then you should know how I felt when the idea struck me as I woke. It's the effect I wanted readers to feel.
4142080 Coming from you. I know I'm going to enjoy it!
Perfect song for this... Fear of the dark by Iron maiden
That was awesome! You certainly have a way with words!
That... was... so awsome!
Dawwww. I can't even enjoy her suffering with cover art that cute.
Nightmares aint no joke
I claim all credit for this story, because I made you remember...
ARE YOU AFRAID OF THE DARK!?
HAAAVE YOU RUN YOUR FINGERS DOWN THE WALL
AND HAVE YOU'VE FELT YOUR NECK SKIN CRAWL
AS YOU'RE SEARCHING FOR THE LIIIIIGHT
It sends shivers down my spine.
I've missed that feeling, never had one in years. Probably because most horrors nowadays focus on adrenaline rush rather then that creeping feeling.
Creepy. Also short yet powerful
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Psshhh...this was boring, both compared to what I've seen and heard, and to the reactions of the others. My results were skewed, but even so. I fucking RMEd at the end. Come on. You can do better. Maybe try a collab with, say, LemonStone. But really.i1.ytimg.com/vi/A1NLcdWBN7U/hqdefault.jpg :twilightunenthused:
4144239 And that, my friend, was an absolutely useless, not to mention quite unpleasant, comment. You do better.
Night Terrors are pretty insane. It's almost worst when you're a lucid dreamer. Why? Because you're aware. You know. And you can feel.
This was fantastically done. Glad I waited to read it at this late hour. I was tempted to turn on some atmosphere music much like that rain site. While it was creepy, as creepy as MLP can get, but it feels like I hit a brick wall at the end. Can't help but feel maybe one more scene could of better presented the soundless screaming. Now that's horrible, screaming or trying to speak in dreams and your voice won't go above the faintest whisper at best.
I got off topic a bit. Great story. Wish there was more like this. It's not much but have my like and my fav!
Very creepy and surreal. Reading this makes me glad that I forget almost all of my dreams the instant I wake up.
4145970 Opinions, my fellow Fimfictioner. Opinions.
4146599 Opinion is one thing, simply bad-mouthing something is another. If you had attempted to provide some actual reasons for why you did not enjoy it as much as others, and didn't simply call it "boring", then your comment would not have garnered all its downvotes and we would not be having this discussion.
4147898 1. I smell a flame war if this goes on
2. The comments below heightened my expectations, and I've seen My Little Amnesia
3. I only noticed the downvotes once you pointed them out to me
4. I am actually quite relieved to be have a conversation with a fellow Fimfictioner, instead of my notification box being filled with threads
5. I may have stumbled upon the greatest concoctalypse since Nightmare Chrysalis. I'll make a blog post about it later. For now, let us be merry. Ish.
6. Honestly, the ending was cliched. Come on. You gotta admit at least that.
7. I haven't actually down or upvoted the story.
8. Do you have any way of proving I left those comments?
That was terrifying.
Fabulous work.
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Look, I don't know what you were expecting, but I wanted this to be as close to my dream as possible. That's the main reason I wrote it. If I wanted to take this to the moon, I would have, but I'm trying to put in words an experience similar to what I go through alarmingly often when I dream. Nothing more.
4147964 Thank you, good sir
4147973 I too have written about nightmares—they can make marvelous muses. It's a good thing your prose held up to the task of capturing what they feel like.
IT was very atmospheric.
4142393
(speaking of nightmares, that episode inspired nightmares in my childhood self for months
)
4142140 Maiden fan? Awesome.
4144142 Sounds like you enjoyed it! Thanks
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Thanks, glad you both enjoyed this little creep into a tortured, sleepy cranium
4142339 That they ain't.
Very good. I wish I could turn out stories/chapters of this quality in a night. Damn these writers blocks.
Stay Awesome
RDD
Ps-still waiting for WRTMI.
I think you got that last part all backwards. You probably meant: "From mugger or vagrants, yes, but not from the deepest etc." Unless her money and power does protect her troubled mind, anyway.
Have you heard of Guy de Maupassant?
Eh, I can relate. To the fear of the dark, I mean. Rare are the times I actually have dreams, and most involve complex machinery attempting to kill me or someone who I'm in the point-of-view of, instead of pastel miniature equines.
Still, a good read. Faved, upvoted, etc.
I'm not sure how I feel about this. Did diamond scream out of simple fear of the dark... Or are you saying something was out there and got her?
Seriously, I'm getting chills. I'm not sure if can keep this favourited. If something did get her... That seems just cruel. Too cruel, even for diamond
4144148 Thanks for the approval!
4145984 Soundless screaming is definitely the worse thing eveeer! But, and I'll direct this to 4175212 as well, I got no further in the dream that inspired this than everything with the door. I don't know what was out there or specifically why she screamed... and I'm the author! I not only left it open for readers, but for me, too.
However, I just woke up from another MLP dream with a pretty enjoyable concept, and since I remember very little of the MLP part (I was having a totally unrelated-to-ponies dream and suddenly Luna and Twilight are there, what), I'm free to actually create something complete, just using the dream as a diving point. I wrote down the concept as soon as I woke, and I'm expecting this one will be a lot more fun, silly, and longer than a dark fic like what DT went through.
4157558 Techno-killer dreams? God, that sounds horrifying!
4150088 Thanks. WRTMI will be coming... funnily enough, part of the dream I described in the comment below featured what's happening in the next chapter of WRTMI.
4153170 You're close, but what I wrote is what I meant: she doesn't need protection from muggers or vagrants, no.
4154361 Nope! Should I have?
4177225
Well, this story reminded me of one of his; it has quite a fever dream aspect to it. I especially liked how it was all contained to one character, which hightened the sense of claustrophobia and impending doom.
Well done.
As a kid I was afraid of the dark too.
Really great writing, and the ending made me shiver. (Stupid internet keeping me up late at night...)
But...
what exactly happened? It seems to me, that when she went outside she was attacked by some kind of trespasser, but it's kind of unclear.
5775502 I don't know. My dream never told me and I stayed as close to it as I could. I had a few ideas, but left it open to interpretation
That gate switch is...outside of the house?
Wouldn't that be really poor security?
That was pretty good. 10/10