I had a dream about a vampire who stalked me and my friends and the house in which we all lived. The dream had long-held close up shots of bites and other vampire evidence as you might see in a movie. At some point I woke up and realized it was a dream and got myself back to sleep. Entering the dream again, now the vampire lived in my household with my family, and my friends lived elsewhere in the neighborhood. The vampire is now attempting to be on my good side, sort of sucking up - no pun intended - as a weak child might to a group of bullies.
Nightmares have historically been the instigating factor in my lucid dreaming experiences. I tend to wake up when I am threatened, at which point I know it is a dream. Sometimes I'm aware a dream is a dream while inside. Suffice to say any threat to myself is removed once I'm in control of the dream, and that makes the change in the vampire interesting, because, as a mental character, it's as if it realized what I might do upon reentering the dream and therefore changed its behavior in an act of self-preservation. Alternatively, perhaps the change in behavior is the result of my control of the dream, effectively reprogramming the vampire so I could continue the dream without a sense of control.
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