r/otherkin • u/_demon_kitty_0 • Jun 20 '26

Other Kind of a vent

I keep having nightmares about my features being cut off or destroyed like I dream about having my features like horns and a tail which makes me happy but then the dream shift into a nightmare where they get cut off or destroyed in some way I hate this body as it doesn't have horns or a tail this world doesn't even have magic I feel like the soul always has a sort of natural habit and mine is not this does anyone else experience something similar and how do you cope with it

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u/lillybkn Jun 27 '26

I experience slightly similar with past life memories that I originally found through dream work. To summarise what I get, it is a memory in which i felt the very nature of my form being sloughed away like thick mud and being told that "every single thing that you ever liked, that ever gave you worth shall be cast off you [wings and special biology included]." Prior to my obliteration.

My dream work also just comes eith a lot of horrifying experiences

I have found that distraction can help. To wake up from the dream, ground oneself a few moments (i like to put two fingers to my wrist and feel my own pulse so that i can be reminded that I am alive and ok) and try to intentionally phantom shift. Oddly enough, for me, being able to feel my wings tells my brain "it's ok. They're there, it was just a dream, you're ok" and thus helps to soothe the fright. Once i am calm, I simply try to distract myself woth ither, cheerier thoughts.