Personal Narrative: Insane

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Dreams are really something aren't they? Dreams can play in your head theatre nice and pleasant, they can play wild and spectacular, they can play terrifying and violent, and some just straight up go insane. Most of the dreams from my childhood were exactly like the last description. They just take some bad advice from my subconscious and go nuts with it. I possess this one set of dreams that I remember very well, and fit the criteria of ‘insane’.

Most of these dreams, my 2nd grade self theorized, were derived from my subconscious’s twisted and perplexing take on reality. Which was filled with dinosaurs, for I just watched “Jurassic Park 3” for the first time, then the second time, then the third time. As you can see it quickly became my

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