You're not the first person I've seen having those. I don't think you're even the second.
I've never been prone to pantsless dreams, but I did have a maskless dream recently. I dreamt I went to a grocery store after a hike and realised that--since my original plan was to stay outdoors at a safe time of year--I didn't have a mask on. I was in Northern Ontario (an area with very low COVID-19 rates), so it kind of made *sense* that none of the other grocery patrons gave a shit about anti-disease measures, but that didn't mean I *agreed* with them.
I pulled my last 2010s-made surgical mask out of my belly-bag medkit and put that on. Desperate times call for desperate measures, and honestly a surgical mask used in a grocery store for like 45 minutes would probably still be usable again after however many weeks or months in my bag before I next needed it.
When I woke up I went and put a spare cloth mask in the medkit too. It might help you to do something similar: arrange things so that you always, *always* have the option of putting a mask on regardless of whether you started out with one, and accustom yourself to that idea until it seeps through to your subconscious.
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It's interesting that while I've long been prone to plague nightmares, I seem to be *less* prone to them since the current real plague started. Instead I get a lot of blatantly metaphorical nightmares about fires.
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Date: 2020-10-29 02:59 pm (UTC)I've never been prone to pantsless dreams, but I did have a maskless dream recently. I dreamt I went to a grocery store after a hike and realised that--since my original plan was to stay outdoors at a safe time of year--I didn't have a mask on. I was in Northern Ontario (an area with very low COVID-19 rates), so it kind of made *sense* that none of the other grocery patrons gave a shit about anti-disease measures, but that didn't mean I *agreed* with them.
I pulled my last 2010s-made surgical mask out of my belly-bag medkit and put that on. Desperate times call for desperate measures, and honestly a surgical mask used in a grocery store for like 45 minutes would probably still be usable again after however many weeks or months in my bag before I next needed it.
When I woke up I went and put a spare cloth mask in the medkit too. It might help you to do something similar: arrange things so that you always, *always* have the option of putting a mask on regardless of whether you started out with one, and accustom yourself to that idea until it seeps through to your subconscious.
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It's interesting that while I've long been prone to plague nightmares, I seem to be *less* prone to them since the current real plague started. Instead I get a lot of blatantly metaphorical nightmares about fires.