u/Fine-Bodybuilder-262

Recurring lucid dream as a child of the same eyeless creature.

I've always been a vivid dreamer, and I also have the ability to lucid dream. Some of my earliest memories as a very young child were waking up screaming because I could see things in the bedroom that weren't there.

My mum would walk in and say she would see me with my eyes wide open and standing up in my cot. I would be very distressed. I distinctly remember an eyeless man who looked almost human like, naked but with no distinctive features other than two empty eye sockets.

As I got older, I began to lucid dream. The dream was always exactly the same. I would be sitting bolt upright in my bed, and the door would slowly creak open. The eyeless man would slowly walk in. He would walk in an abnormal way, sort of twitching his shoulders really fast and this used to terrify the living daylights out of me.

Sometimes there was several. I always had a terrible feeling in the dream that he was there. I would get out of bed (aware something was wrong) and instead of walking in through the bedroom door, he would be standing silently in the toy corner. Just writing this gives me shivers. The older I got, the less frequent it became.

What made it even scarier was that despite the apparent emptiness to the sockets, I knew it could see.

Eventually the dreams stopped altogether. I never could explain why I dreamt it. I'd never seen this creature on TV or in any books. It was only ever when I was asleep.

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u/Fine-Bodybuilder-262 — 7 days ago

Diagnosed with mild diffuse adenomyosis age 33 after fertility treatment. Recommended Mirena.

I recently went for some fertility testing in November last year as I'm planning to try for a baby the SMBC route, however I'm not quite ready, so I managed to freeze embryos proactively. I also have PCOS.

During my pre-treatment scan, the sonographer asked if I had been diagnosed with endometriosis or if I I have painful periods. This was red flag 🚩 number one. I said no to the endometriosis, but yes to the painful periods. She said it looked like a classic "Venetian blind" shadowing effect on my scan, but that it seemed mild.

My following scans during the IVF stims were inconsequential, as I kept asking if they could see more signs of this condition, but they would always say no. I learned that the timing of my pre-treatment scan happened to be days after my period had ended, which was when the lining would have been at its thinnest.

I realised if I hadn't had my pre-treatment scan at the time in my cycle I did, this would very easily have been missed altogether. I started researching what the Venetian blind effect was associated with and that's when I read about adenomyosis on the Internet. This was red flag number two 🚩 and I got quite concerned.

My symptoms vary cycle to cycle. Sometimes I don't have any at all, but other times I have moderate period pain on day 1-2 of my cycle that isn't alleviated with paracetamol. I also have the "flooding" sometimes with my periods and will bleed through clothing when out.

I ended up seeing a specialist after my fertility preservation and made sure they scanned me shortly after my period. I was diagnosed formally with mild diffuse adenomyosis. My specialist has recommended a Mirena IUD to halt progression and I've also read this can "pre-treat" the uterus by shrinking the tissue.

I'm pretty anxious now, but relieved this has been caught early and I didn't just brush the comments under the rug. Has anyone got any advice at all?

u/Fine-Bodybuilder-262 — 8 days ago

My boyfriend and I were at an antique store as he was looking for a "centre piece" for his front room. While in the store, he came across a nude ornate female statue and commented that he loved the nudity of the statue as he thought it was beautiful and asked what I thought.

I was fairly neutral about the statue as it wasn't something I would necessarily go for, but said it was okay and that it's more or less up to him what he wants.

My boyfriend then commented how "he thought it was making me jealous" due to my lacklustre response. I asked why he thought that would be the case. He said as apparently I go quiet and "the mood changes."

I said I wouldn't be jealous of an inanimate object, but possibly there is some insecurity as he doesn't generally call me beautiful or seem in awe of my body like that. I said I didn't like that he couldn't have just said what he thought about the statue and gone about his day, rather than comment that I must be jealous.

There's nothing wrong with admiring art, but it was the need to emphasise I must be feeling a certain way. I do tend to overthink, but it rubbed me up the wrong way.

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u/Fine-Bodybuilder-262 — 19 days ago