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Post by thyme4change on Jul 10, 2013 8:49:25 GMT -5
Last night I had a couple more literal dreams. One was about taking medications and one was about having to go into a meeting with nothing prepared. I have learned to live with the fact that I'm not a creative type and I flunk "English major 101", but can't my brain use at least a little symbolism in dreams or whatever?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2013 9:06:25 GMT -5
I hear ya. Even my sex dreams are with DH.
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Post by thyme4change on Jul 10, 2013 9:13:33 GMT -5
I hear ya. Even my sex dreams are with DH.
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Post by imawino on Jul 10, 2013 10:13:56 GMT -5
I hear ya. Even my sex dreams are with DH. LMFAO! That's the scariest dream on this thread!!
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Post by whoami on Jul 10, 2013 11:02:46 GMT -5
My anxiety dreams usually have me loosing my teeth. (probably because I'm grinding my teeth in my sleep and my jaw hurts). These dreams are usually pretty distressing and I wake up with a start. I've had the losing teeth dream quite a bit. That and forgetting to put on a shoe.
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Post by greeniis10 on Jul 10, 2013 12:24:52 GMT -5
Funny, because just yesterday DH said he had one of his most vivid dreams ever: he had been admitted (or forced) into a mental institution and he knew he didn't "belong" there and was trying to get out. Meanwhile his ex-wife was just following him around laughing. I asked him if I was in it and he said that I just quietly drove him there and dropped him off. Oddly, in almost all of my dreams, regardless of the topic (weird, realistic, scary, etc.) I have vision problems. I am always struggling to actually SEE. It's weird. Also, I have a deja vu every single day. Every day, without fail. I don't know if that means anything, but it is always a sure-fire thing.
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Post by thyme4change on Jul 10, 2013 13:03:22 GMT -5
I watched a movie called "The Mechanical Man" or something like that. It was Jenna Fischer and another guy that I recognized, but can't remember right now. They both had lots of dreams about losing their teeth and they talked a lot about what it meant. It was an okay movie, but I can't help but think of it.
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Post by Phoenix84 on Jul 10, 2013 13:55:12 GMT -5
What's with the dreams about losing your teeth? I've never had those types of dreams. That's not to say my dreams can't be strange, but it seems odd that is a common dream among members of this message board.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Jul 10, 2013 14:31:13 GMT -5
asked him if I was in it and he said that I just quietly drove him there and dropped him off
Did you tell him he better toe the line or his dream will come true?
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Post by Icelandic Woman on Jul 10, 2013 15:27:23 GMT -5
I have really never had what I would consider nightmares just really bizarre dreams mostly. I also have dreamed that my teeth were loose and falling out. I often dream about people from my past, school and work, in weird situations but I think the dream I have most often is about my car being stolen and I am frantically searching for it pressing my alarm thingy trying to make the alarm go off so I can find it. I don't really know what that is all about but I also don't really think that dreams really mean anything.
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Post by kittensaver on Jul 10, 2013 16:23:29 GMT -5
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Post by Tiny on Jul 10, 2013 17:07:03 GMT -5
What's with the dreams about losing your teeth? I've never had those types of dreams. That's not to say my dreams can't be strange, but it seems odd that is a common dream among members of this message board. Way back in the day, I was very curious about dreams and symbols and whatnot. the whole 'loosing teeth' or dreams about finding or loosing a single tooth (typically your own - not like a dinosaur tooth ) were in the top list of 'common dreams'. That's probably why there's other people that have had that type of dream on this board. For me, when I'm loosing teeth in a dream it usually happens when I'm having anxiety/stress about something that I'm handling OK and that's going OK (say a high profile project at work) but I'm afraid I'm gonna fail at when the unexpected/beyond my control happens. The dream is about how helpless I feel as my teeth fall out while I'm doing whatever I'm doing in my dream... What ever I was doing in the dream isn't causing my teeth to fall out - the whole teeth thing is like this unexpected annoying/scary thing that happens and 'ruins' whatever I was doing in the dream. For me - the dream is triggered by feeling I have no control or fearing that stuff beyond my control will mess up whatever it is I'm doing in real life. I haven't lost any teeth in a dream in recent time. It was one of my 'teenage/20 something' aged recurring dreams though.
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Post by thyme4change on Jul 10, 2013 17:08:21 GMT -5
I've always read that losing your teeth in a dream means anxiety over something.
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Post by Tiny on Jul 10, 2013 17:11:02 GMT -5
Anyone working on getting to the point where they can experience a "lucid dream"? I've only a time or two - defused a bad "lost cat" or "lost in the Opera House" dream a time or two. I once managed to actually find my cat (by looking behind me!) and picked him up right before I woke up - making the whole bad dream a little less bad/distressing. I did once manage to conjuer up a popcorn making machine at the Opera House and stopped for some - instead of rushing around trying unsuccessfully to find an exit/my seat - before waking up with just a little bit of "I hate that dream!" feeling left.
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Post by Angel! on Jul 10, 2013 17:33:00 GMT -5
With one exception, everytime I have become aware I was dreaming I pretty much instantly woke up. I start thinking "Wow, so I am actually laying in bed right now" & then BAM I'm awake.
The one time I didn't instantly wake up when I realized I was dreaming, I dreamed that I woke up. Only eventually I realized everything was wrong. I remember one of the times I walked into the kitchen with DS in the dark with this eerie light on him, standing in front of the fridge with a bowl of spaghetti on his head. Several times I realized I was still dreaming only to "wake up" again. Then I became terrified because I realized for whatever reason I either couldn't wake up or I had gone completely nuts because the things that were occuring could only happen in dreams & I must be insane.
Looking back it is kind of amusing because somewhere along the way the imaginary friend of John Nash's in Beautiful Mind showed up. He kept appearing out of no where & trying to keep me from going outside, which is why I knew I was crazy, because I knew this guy didn't exist. And then when I would get outside things would be wrong, like the neighbors were out sledding with their 2 yr old at 2 AM. I was trying to get outside because I knew I needed help - I was obviously delusional & couldn't be trusted to take care of the kids & needed to be taken to a hospital. I finally stopped & just stood in place & repeated "wake up, wake up" over and over again. It seemed like it took forever because I kept opening my eyes & I would be still standing outside in crazyland, but finally I did wake up.
It was probably the scariest dream I ever had because I was convinced I was either crazy, dead, or in a coma because for the longest I could not get myself to wake up, so I got scared that there must be a reason. I don't think I went back to sleep that night because I was scared I wouldn't wake up again. This was several years ago & I still vividly remember this dream.
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Post by thyme4change on Jul 10, 2013 17:41:46 GMT -5
My husband used to have dreams/nightmares, and he would somewhat scream in his sleep - can you whisper a scream? It would happen a lot and it would freak him out. Then he read an article that explained what it was and how it is a special type of sleep disorder, and after that, they have rarely happened. I think maybe once or twice in 5 years. I think once he realized that it was happening and was harmless, then he wasn't concerned with it anymore.
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Post by kittensaver on Jul 10, 2013 17:46:47 GMT -5
My husband used to have dreams/nightmares, and he would somewhat scream in his sleep - can you whisper a scream? It would happen a lot and it would freak him out. Then he read an article that explained what it was and how it is a special type of sleep disorder, and after that, they have rarely happened. I think maybe once or twice in 5 years. I think once he realized that it was happening and was harmless, then he wasn't concerned with it anymore. My father used to have screaming nightmares - but he was a WWII vet with an undiagnosed case of PTSD If only we had known then what we know now, it might have been easier . . .
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Post by violagirl on Jul 10, 2013 19:16:22 GMT -5
I always have happy dreams. I only had nightmares when I was on some migraine medication. Once I stopped taking the meds, the homicidal dreams stopped.
I have dreams where I figure stuff out. In particular, I remember in high school having a difficult time with a concept in calculus. I dreamed I was writing a test on it, and when I woke up I finally understood it. I have also written music in my dreams. Unfortunately, I never did remember the score to the symphony I wrote and conducted in a dream once.
Favorite dreams are ones where I can fly, or take GIANT steps or breathe underwater. Then there was the lonely submarine captain dream...that was pretty remarkable.
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Post by Sum Dum Gai on Jul 10, 2013 19:33:43 GMT -5
I almost never remember mine, even just after I wake up. When I do it usually fades within 30 minutes of getting up. I can probably count on one hand the number of times I've been able to remember a dream or nightmare by lunch so far this year.
Except when I was using nicotine patches to quit smoking. I had such crazy vivid dreams that I felt like I wasn't sleeping at all. I remembered almost every detail of those. Still can. The sex dreams were fantastic, but the other ones were hella strange and slightly disturbing.
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Post by Tiny on Jul 10, 2013 20:29:38 GMT -5
I have really never had what I would consider nightmares just really bizarre dreams mostly. I also have dreamed that my teeth were loose and falling out. I often dream about people from my past, school and work, in weird situations but I think the dream I have most often is about my car being stolen and I am frantically searching for it pressing my alarm thingy trying to make the alarm go off so I can find it. I don't really know what that is all about but I also don't really think that dreams really mean anything. LOL! Your car dream is the same as my Lost Cat (I'm looking for my cat and I can't find him) or the Looking for the Exit/Seat at the Opera House... I think these kinds of dreams (looking for something or trying to find a way out/to something) happen when you are under some stress and there's some doubt about how successful something will turn out. So, in real life you might be working on something diligently and in good faith hoping for a good outcome - but there's a little nagging doubt about how it will turn out - it could fail even though everything is looking good. Maybe it's a way for one's subconscious to deal with any 'doubts' or misgivings about what's happening in real life.
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Post by Tiny on Jul 10, 2013 20:33:03 GMT -5
So, my Boy Cat dreams very often... His paws twitch and he moans/meows and groans/growls in his sleep sometimes his tail twitches too. Sometimes he'll wake up from this with a start and a jump up - sometimes he just wakes up and stretches like nothings happened. None of the other cats I've had did this as much as the Boy Cat. He's chasing mice or whatever atleast once a week sometimes more often. How about your pets? Ever catch them having a dream?
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Post by sesfw on Jul 10, 2013 21:07:37 GMT -5
I very seldom have any type of dreams. The last one I remember was several years ago and I was in a twilight sleep. Deceased DH bent over me and whispered in my ear 'I love you'. A keeper memory.
After I lost DH he would come to our DD often in dreams. So often I finally told her to tell him to visit me. I needed him. <sigh>
When I get to sleep, I sleep very soundly.
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