This happened to me! I was reading a book by Marguerite Yourcenar, I'm not sure what the title in English is (I'm not a native english speaker), I think it would be something like The Dark Book or The Book in Black. It's about a 15th century alchemist who deals with occultism. There are many witchcraft/occultist religious themes, and it's very creepy. It's not even a horror book tbh, it's historical fiction, but I found the whole thing to be very unsettling. One day, while reading the book, I ended up falling asleep. I had an extremely vivid lucid dream where a witch locked me up in some sort of satanist, creepy dungeon and told me I'd never wake up again. It was so real and scary and when I was finally able to wake up, I tossed The Dark Book in a corner of the room and didn't pick it up again for nearly a year. It took me about a year to gather the courage to finish it. I'm pretty sure this book is cursed.
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Reply to Stephen King's Dark Tower series gave me lucid dreams. Has anyone else ever encountered this, or any other weird side effects of reading good (or bad) books? by Adoniram1733
This happened to me! I was reading a book by Marguerite Yourcenar, I'm not sure what the title in English is (I'm not a native english speaker), I think it would be something like The Dark Book or The Book in Black. It's about a 15th century alchemist who deals with occultism. There are many witchcraft/occultist religious themes, and it's very creepy. It's not even a horror book tbh, it's historical fiction, but I found the whole thing to be very unsettling. One day, while reading the book, I ended up falling asleep. I had an extremely vivid lucid dream where a witch locked me up in some sort of satanist, creepy dungeon and told me I'd never wake up again. It was so real and scary and when I was finally able to wake up, I tossed The Dark Book in a corner of the room and didn't pick it up again for nearly a year. It took me about a year to gather the courage to finish it. I'm pretty sure this book is cursed.