Nightmare Island: The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader

Spoilers For the Narnia Chronicles story "The Voyage Of The Dawn
Treader".

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In this story, Narnian King Caspian the 10th is sailing to the Eastern
end of the world on the Dawn Treader. Along with him are King Edmund,
Queen Lucy, their cousin Eustace, and a large, very brave Talking Mouse
named Reepicheep. At one point, they spot a region of darkness and sail
into it at the insistence of Reepicheep, who argues that to refrain
would tarnish their honor. They rescue one Lord Rhoop (formerly of
Narnia), who yells at them to leave the dark area at once, since in the
darkness is an island where nightmares come true! The crew, realizing
the dangers of nightmares come true, scramble to row out.

What nightmares have you had that would come to life on that island?

What nightmares would have come to life for the Dawn Treader crew and
passengers if they hadn't gotten out? I bet that for Edmund, the White
Witch would have appeared and chased him with Turkish Delight.
Reepicheep's nightmare would be running from danger.

Tim Bruening wrote:
[...]
> What nightmares would have come to life for the Dawn Treader crew and
> passengers if they hadn't gotten out? I bet that for Edmund, the White
> Witch would have appeared and chased him with Turkish Delight.
> Reepicheep's nightmare would be running from danger.

Nah. *Real* nightmares aren't anything like as representational as that,
something that Lewis understood well (if you read it again, you'll see several
people react to their own personal nightmares appearing). A real nightmare is
surreal and arbitrary, a piece of psychic detritus scraped up from deep within
the soul, and is totally meaningless to anybody other than the actual victim.

cf. _Hogfather_, Terry Pratchett.

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