Nightmares

[Ambrosious]

No, not Nitelight, but nightmares. What give you bad dreams? Is it something you ate? Scary movies? Lack of sex?

What are your nightmares about. I have only had one that I remember, and that was when I was about 8, so I really would like some feedback. What are they like? Are they fun before, during, or after? I ask knowing that most people like to be scared. Are they freaky, with no frame of reference in this world?

Let me know...

 

[Guest]

Hanging out with Al Gore.

 

[Andra_Jenny]

Not just Al, but Dubya, Bill, Hillary, Dick...

That's why I retired from the computer industry! Lawyers, bankers, and Politicians are just not my kind of people. Everyday I read the papers and every night I go to bed and have nightmares from the thing they do and say towards each other, and oh, by the way,

Iraq supposedly has nukes now.

What if the end of the world was not May 20, 2000,
but May 20, 2001, due to Nostro's confusion as to when the millenium begins!

 

[Countess DeWinter]

Aahhh God!
I have a recurring nightmare that pops its ugly head up whenever I'm having trouble with a decision or other RL worries. In it, I'm running away from something (as a kid, it was usually a regular garden-variety monster, but gradually developed into a more amorphous bad-guy/dread sort of thing). I'm always on the sidewalk in front of my parent's house but the crux is that I can't run. I can run pretty fast in RL when I have to, but in this nightmare, it's like my legs are glued to the ground. The "monster" of course is always breathing down my neck.
I always wake up in a cold sweat and sleep for the night is over. The good part is, being so damned busy with school and stuff, I hardly get enough REM sleep to dream!

 

[willfulbrat]

I have two recurring nightmares. One stems from my insecurities as a parent. I dream that I've had a baby and I"ve forgotten about it until I make up the bed and find the baby covered in the blankets,dead. Once I dreamed I put my baby to bed in the freezer and killed it. I was crying to my mother, "Why didn't you tell me not to do that?" Her reply was, "Well, it was your baby and I didn't want to interfere." These are by far the worst kind of nightmares I have.

The other one is that I somehow have ended up in the men's locker room and I'm standing there naked and all the men come in and I've got nowhere to hide. If that weren't bad enough on it's own I look down and realize that I evidently have forgotten to shave my legs in the past year or so and they are covered in ugly, straight, blonde hair like porcupine quills.

Occasionally I have nightmares about my teeth, that they are broken or missing. I read somewhere that that is a sign of insecurity about one's appearance.

I'm such a confident person in my waking hours, but I guess we all have deep-rooted insecurities that just have to manifest themselves somehow.

 

[PacificBlue]

Anybody know how to stop nightmares??? Suggestions would be helpful...

 

[Mistress]

Get a Dreamweaver or let the dream run it's course........

 

[registered "^^"]

talk about them

understand why you have them, and the cause of them.

 

[PacificBlue]

I don't know what a Dreamweaver is???

My nightmares revolve around two things...

1. Horrible screaming matches with people that I know and some with people I don't know. All I know is it's not typical behavior for me, I'm not one to yell at anyone, ever.

2. Falling dreams and or death dreams. I.E.: Riding up a steep hill on a motorcycle and then sliding on gravel and going off the side...only to "jolt" awake before I hit bottom. Swinging from a rope over nails and construction materials, knowing if I let go I'll die. Tidal waves...driving in a car attempting to get away before it washes over and takes me out to sea.


Category 1 have been the most typical over the past few weeks...each time it's with someone different.

PacificBlue

 

[KillerMuffin]

When I had them they looked an awful lot like An Acidic Tiger. My daymares generally revolve around wallyhell and being one of those poor misguided people who have name badges proudly proclaiming 359 years of diligent service.

 

[Mistress]

I don't know what a Dreamweaver is???

My nightmares revolve around two things...

1. Horrible screaming matches with people that I know and some with people I don't know. All I know is it's not typical behavior for me, I'm not one to yell at anyone, ever.

2. Falling dreams and or death dreams. I.E.: Riding up a steep hill on a motorcycle and then sliding on gravel and going off the side...only to "jolt" awake before I hit bottom. Swinging from a rope over nails and construction materials, knowing if I let go I'll die. Tidal waves...driving in a car attempting to get away before it washes over and takes me out to sea.


Category 1 have been the most typical over the past few weeks...each time it's with someone different.

PacificBlue

Just relax, those dreams are nothing to worry about actually. The main problem is something is bothering you more then it should and its causing strain, you need to relax and think about each symbol in the dream.



Oh and a Dreamweaver is someone with the mental ability to, umm well how do I put this.....
It's some one with the ability to go into your dreams at night and calm them protect you, and change them usually in a good sense. It's someone who can make a connection in your mind and take out the pain and fear......

 

[Guest]

My cure for everything...


light a white candle.......

 

[teresafannin]

When I was younger, I had the typical nightmares inspired by scary movies, books, etc. I have always had a wild imagination & it still acts up when I watch a scary movie. I have several recurring nightmares. One is about the night of the shooting. I am in the church, trying to get into the sanctuary, but I can't get in. I can hear what is going on, but I can't do anything to stop it. It is horrible & I always wake up crying. The other is that I am looking for something or someone & I can't find it. I had this dream often as a child & never worried about it too much. Now when I have it, I am sure that I am looking for Justin. This one usually happens on birthdays & during the holidays. His birthday is this Friday & I have had both of the dreams recently.

 

[Never]

Want to get rid of nightmares?

Try lucid dreaming.
Try Dreamcatchers.
Try little men.
Try chanting good thoughts before you go to bed.

Personally, I try to increase the number of nightmares I have.

 

[lilfrk]

I have two types of nightmares. One is the garden variety, my personal favorite one is being caught in a tornado and not being able to get to a safe place.

The second I don't think is a nightmare so much as a flashback to my childhood. In my dream I can hear him staggering up the stairs and I know he's coming to get in bed with me. I hear him breathing hard from all his exertions of trying to stay up right. The next thing I know, I feel the bed shift and the bed covers being pulled back. I can smell him, oh god, he smells so bad. Like sweat and smoke and mostly of beer. To this day I still hate the smell of beer. Then he's in bed with me and his hands are all over me and in me. I'm crying but I am still because if I'm not still it pisses him off and he'll do worse things to me.

I always wake up from the dream crying. I have it less and less over the years but when I'm stressed and run down I have it.

 

[Cheyenne]

Haven't had any in awhile. The ones I've had that were really bad generally had something to do with a family member dying- my brother, sister, etc. Some I've had have been about problems at work, kind of fighting them out in my sleep.

 

[Mr. Bootie]

Cheyenne, That is mine also!

I recently had one about my sister of whom I live with. I dreamt she was dead. I woke up CRYING and SCARED. Boy! Was I releived to find out that she was peacefully sleeping. I wanted to run and give her a BIG HUG and KISS, but I was afraid I'd wake her and really scare her. ( Why is my brother In My room hugging and kissing me?) So, I just looked in her bedroom for a few minutes then I went back to sleep. I HATE those kinds of dreams!

kgboot

 

[White_Tigress_]

Mine get terrible. No where in it is it ever fun. (question asked in original post) - the start of it may be average, but it only gets worse to the point of me waking up. Very rarely do I NOT wake up due to them.
I've had a lot of things happen in my past, which explains why I get them, but I don't understand why I have them now, so often and in full color, as if it is so real. Anyone else have colored dreams? People I asked in RL tell me they never have, or don't even remember dreams as it is. Just curious if I have something seriously wrong with me..lmao...expecially if I can give you details of the color eyes someone has.

Every dream has a meaning...I've been wanting to master them for years, I just haven't searched hard enough. I do know that when you can't run in your dreams, means you feel "trapped" in something of your RL. Can be a relationship, job, friendship, whatever..but it means you feel helpless to move on with what you really would like to do.
To Die....I have read so many times, if you die in your dream, you died for real. This is why you wake up before you actually get killed. Now I had one where I had my head bit off by a lion when I was a kid, and saw myself running around the garage with no head. (I didn't drop and die, so I guess that counts as just watching something terrible happen)

hummm... Dreamweaver...sounds cool! Is it real or is it something from Freddy Kruger? seriously..

Well, I won't bore you any longer..but yes, I have had my share of nightmares..and still do. I wish they would stop! I even wrote to a specialist in dreams through an email, but didn't follow through like I should have. shame on me.

oh...what exactly did you want to know about nightmares??? LMAO..I think I went all around those questions.

 

[lilfrk]

I almost always dream in color. I thought everyone did. Well...who knew.

 

[bluntforcemama]

My nightmares incluse someone shooting my family, or them dying. Always the same. I hate it.

 

[Ksss]

I have only had several "nightmares" in my life that I ever remembered. One revolved around the time my grandfather died. I woke up in a cold sweat in the middle of the night, ran into my parents room and begged them to call grandpa. They kept telling me to go back to sleep, but I was persistent. They finally made the call at 3 am . My grandfather wan't home, my cousin answered the phone and told my parents my grandfather was in the hospital, he died a few hours later.

The next wasn't until many years later. I dreamt one of my kids was hit by a car. Our back yard is on a steep hill and cars go up and down too fast. The next day, a car swerved into the yard and hit my dog.

When I have dreams like this I have a difficult time sleepig for a few days after. I was told by a professional, that osme people are capable of feeling events. Wish I wasn't one of the ones capable of this.