One thing I can tell you about dreams, that I've read and also know is true from personal experience, is that once something frightens you in a dream it will multiply. That can mean several different things - it can get bigger, become stronger and more aggressive, or more of them can appear. For instance some of my nightmare creatures are fierce dogs, bears and dinosaurs. As soon as one of them appears I get scared (usually) and then they either get bigger, more of them appear, or they get way more aggressive. This is just the effect fear has on the mind - waking or sleep. The key is to develop an attitude of fearlessness. As soon as you can do that then the problem will stop.
In fact I have also learned that you can completely change your attitude and transform whatever is scaring you into a helper. You do this by fully accepting or even sending love to whatever it is. I know your case is a little different - it isn't nightmare creatures, but it is similar. If you start to really take an interest in your dreams you will learn to recognize when things like this happen (skin blistering ridiculously fast or whatever) and that it means this is a dream, and so there's nothing to be afraid of. Then you can approach it with no fear and in fact take an interest in it. For example press your finger into the blisters just to see what happens. As soon as there's no fear and you're showing a positive interest the whole emotional attitude of the dreams reverses and it becomes positive.
To explain what that means - I had read that when you see a nightmare creature in a dream you should try sending love to it rather than fear. So I saw a bear laying on the floor in the corner of a warehouse - I immediately knew I was dreaming because there are no bears around here except in my dreams, and that made me go lucid. I started flying toward it with my arms out for a big bear hug, and as I approached it changed. It sort of visually transformed into 2 dogs - but not scary ones. They were 2 of my dogs, one of which had died years ago. The dream made it seem like I had just seen them wrong and their bodies somehow looked like a bear. They started wagging their tails as I approached, and then in a brief segment one of them became a cartoon dog like MacGruff the Crime Dog in a trench coat and we sat at a cafeteria table and talked.
So the only reason your blisters kept getting worse was because you fed them with fear. Knowing this takes a lot of the fear out of it - in fact it's like the one president said in the famous speech - the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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