What does it mean...

[Ms_Lilith]

When you wake up earlier than usual during a recurring nightmare?

I've been having this terrible nightmare for the last 5 or 6 months, and today, while I was napping with my bf, I had the same nightmare TWICE, and both times, I woke up before it finished (which I've never done before). Usually, I die in the nightmare, and this time, I woke up just as the greatest act of violence towards me was being committed, but it was before I died.. before the perpetrator even left the room...

What does all this mean?

 

[perks]

I don't know...

I keep finding people fucking in koolaid colored rooms

 

[Ms_Lilith]

No one knows?

Does anyone have a guess?

 

[Azwed]

Do you think it was luicd?

Like you took control and woke yourself up?

I used to have this whole big thing a friend of mine wrote on how to induce lucid dreaming in some people. I will try and find it.
I would try and lucid dream and then face your terror.

 

[Ms_Lilith]

no, it wasn't lucid.. it was HORRIBLE.. it's like my dream zoomed in on the terrible final violence, and then shocked my body awake.. I actually kicked my boyfriend in my sleep.. I didn' tmean to! But it was terrible.. I woke up and cried...

 

[Azwed]

no, it wasn't lucid.. it was HORRIBLE.. it's like my dream zoomed in on the terrible final violence, and then shocked my body awake.. I actually kicked my boyfriend in my sleep.. I didn' tmean to! But it was terrible.. I woke up and cried...

I will really try and find the thing on Lucid dreaming. If I can't find it I will recreate it to the best of my ability from what I remember. If you are in a full on lucid dream you can do anything. Think Matrix times a thousand.

 

[navarre]

Me too.

If you find out let me know. I've been doing the same thing. If I wake up and then go back to sleep the nightmare continues. I usually have to get up, get a glass of water, and smoke a cigarette. Then the nightmare doesn't come back. I think it's lucid. I wake myself up to get rid of the nightmare.
On a side note, I've got more stressors going on in my life than anyone could immagine.

 

[Sillyman]

I would say it's because you have been through the loop so many times now you know what to expect and you react before the dream completes itself.

If you can describe the nightmare a little more in detail I can decipher it for you and we can get to the root of the problem. Dreams are a hobby of mine.

On the upside people who have frequent nightmares are often more creative than most.

 

[Ice Cold]

Well since it is a disturbing re-occurring dream. You waking up before that particular point in it, could be your brain activating a fail safe, waking you up before the worst part could occur again. Especially if it is effecting you so much.

 

[Ms_Lilith]

The Dream

Almost a year ago I was raped, and it was date-rape, and the asshole was never arrested, never convicted.

The dream:

The rapist finds me (I live in a different dorm than I did last year), and he breaks into my room, but with much ease (as if he's got a key). He finds me sleeping, naked, in my bed, and he wakes me up. He forces me into the doggystyle position (the same position that the rape and the abuse leading up to it occurred in), and threatens me with this incredibly huge kitchen knife. He rapes me, and then, after saying some terrible words to me, slits my throat with the kife, and then jams the knife into my pussy. He gets up, brushes himself off, and leaves.

The dream has 3 endings:

1) I call 911 and am dead by the time they arrive.

2) I crawl, naked, to my neighbor's room, and she calls 911, but I'm dead by the time they arrive

3) No one knows anything, and my bf finds me a few days later, having come to see if I was okay after not returning phone calls.

Normally, I finish the dream with an ending, but today, both times, I woke up as the rapist slammed the knife into my vagina.

That's the dream. Next wednesday is the anniversary of the rape.

 

[naudiz]

Could be the subconscious giving your conscious mind a swift kick to wake you up before the worst happens. I think this was suggested earlier, so I'm just seconding it.

I have a few recurring dreams where I get jolted awake just before a certain part happens again. That's the best explanation I've been able to come up with.

Addendum: I'm very sorry to hear that this happened to you, and that it's giving you such horrible dreams. This is going to sound cliche, but have you looked into therapy? It's not just for nut-jobs, really.