In over your head
Fighting to keep the wolf suppressed, he told it that it was a bad dream and that it had not really happened.
Madelyn's Nightmare (Twokinds short story)
She closed out the bad dream as best she could, shut her eyes and focused on the warmth from the human's exposed skin.
The Day A Giant Ate My Boss
"take him inside to his bed, then it will help him think it was a bad dream". ilbv waited outside while bj did this. "well, he's all comfy. ilbv, what happens if he doesn't change because he thinks it was all a dream?"
Watership Down - Blueberry's Tale, Chapter 2
Had bad dreams then?" he asked as he watched blueberry get up, stretching again. "yeah i did have bad dreams, but i don't want to get into any trouble, so can we go?" he looked at captain bracken but he didn't move.
In Serpent's Embrace: Chapter 7-Awakening Pt 1
\*\*\*\*\*\*\* katherine bolts up in her bed, huffing and puffing from her bad dream. she rushes into her bathroom to take her pills, but they're missing. "fuck!"
The Legend of Spyro - Sins of the past - Chapter 8: Battleground
"spyro, it was just a dream, a bad dream. you're okay now, safe with me." cynder said with warm tone still holding spyro's head with her pawns.
Amber Silverblood: Rogue Wolf, Chapter Twenty Two
"we don't talk about our bad dreams here. that's all they are in granny's cottage. bad dreams." as she spoke, i felt those terrible memories slide away again, leaving me feeling scared without knowing what i was scared of.
Found (Ch. 5)
The nightlight illuminated the bed where lily lay curled up with alice, the wolf pup having apparently also had a bad dream earlier in the night to come and sleep in her sister's bed.
Gap Year: Kissing and Alcohol
dream, the guy who was there for me through every shitty moment we ever shared.
Trans Troubles - In a Bind
Have a bad dream?" sean rolled his eyes. "i'm not a pup." riley sniggered. at fourteen, like most his age, sean wasn't the biggest fun of being treated like a little kid. didn't stop riley from doing it, however.
Epilogue
As the clerics put it, they had wandered in a bad dream for far too long, and it was now time for the people to awaken from the dark madness of dahmel-tur and learn how to _live_.
The Way to the Mountains
"it's okay." he said before she could ask anything "it was just a bad dream." "it doesn't seem it was just a bad dream." she said looking over at him. he was sweaty and was crying. "you were moving a lot and you almost screamed before waking up.