Necropost but since it is on topic, I guess it is ok ?

I made some scary dream one day this week (can't remember which day exactly).
Basically, I was at home, in my sister's room for some reason, doing something, I don't know what, and no one else was at home (supposedly). Then, there's a blackout. Can't see anything at all, everything is black. I manage to get in my room where I know I have a flashlight and manage to get it. I then go back in my sister's room, for some reason, and try to get back at what I was doing. Weird noises in the house, that go silence sometimes. My flashlight flickers before going black. Weird noises get closer. I notice it is a dream and force myself to wake up. I open my eyes. That's the worst part because nothing changed, I still can't see anything in my room. End of the dream but not of the nightmare

What was weird with that dream is that it was somehow coherent. I mean, there are often changes in dreams, like you get teleported to Las Vegas in 0 seconds and the plot changes, but here the plot never changed

You usually aren't the most rational of persons when asleep so when something scary happens you are mostly like "OMG GTFO THIS IS SCARY" and when you realize oh its a dream the best way is waking up. Also forcing yourself to wake up is always... interesting. I did it a few times.

Protip: If anybody here is smoking cigarette then decide to use patches to help themselves quit, never wear the patches when sleeping. I never smoked cigarette but I heard that nicotine patches to stop smoking can result into some particularly insane nightmares that makes zero sense (assuming you even manage to fall asleep, since patches causes insomnia too when you forget to remove them)