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Post by raeoflyte on Nov 4, 2013 8:37:24 GMT -5
Do you get them? How often? I had quite a few while pregnant, and a few from childhood that have stuck with me. Had one last night that I can't shake. When I can come up with the underlying theme, then I can usually roll over and go back to sleep. When I can't...
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Post by Miss Tequila on Nov 4, 2013 8:50:36 GMT -5
I don't normally have nightmares (at least not that I remember) but when I was pregnant I always had horrible nightmares. I would have nightmares where I would forget my baby, put my baby in an unsafe situation, etc. I'm sure it was because I was scared to death I would suck as a parent, but they were unsettling.
Just a few nights ago I had a nightmare that my youngest died. I actually woke up in tears. scared teh hell out of me.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 4, 2013 8:55:18 GMT -5
I had a dream a few months ago that I stood by while DS drowned. I couldn't shake it until I remembered that he knows how to swim and that set my mind at ease.
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Post by Phoenix84 on Nov 4, 2013 11:32:19 GMT -5
I don't ever really have nightmares. I've had some disturbing dreams, but I can't ever remember really feeling afraid. On some level, I seem to always know I'm dreaming.
It's never an issue. I have more problems with insomnia than falling asleep and having nightmares.
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Post by Chocolate Lover on Nov 4, 2013 15:06:01 GMT -5
I have this strange ability to wake myself up if I don't like where a dream/nightmare is going. Some "bad" dreams have been more movie like in that I was watching myself in them, not really experiencing them. Be great ideas for books if I could recall what I was "watching" after I woke up.
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Post by Peace Of Mind on Nov 4, 2013 15:20:03 GMT -5
I have this strange ability to wake myself up if I don't like where a dream/nightmare is going. Some "bad" dreams have been more movie like in that I was watching myself in them, not really experiencing them. Be great ideas for books if I could recall what I was "watching" after I woke up. I always wake up right before <<leaves this part out>> in my good dreams and it always pissed me off! I was just getting started. But then DH's reality gets really good. I rarely have nightmares but when I do it involves losing DH or one of my kitties or they get hurt. I wake up upset until I see everybody and they are fine. But those dreams are very rare and usually after I hear on the news that a plane flies into somebodies house and kills them or something horrible like that.
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Post by Phoenix84 on Nov 4, 2013 15:24:36 GMT -5
I have this strange ability to wake myself up if I don't like where a dream/nightmare is going. Some "bad" dreams have been more movie like in that I was watching myself in them, not really experiencing them. Be great ideas for books if I could recall what I was "watching" after I woke up. Hmmm, that's a good way of describing my bad dreams. It usually seems more like me watching a movie than me actually experiencing them. But even bad dreams are pretty rare. As I said, on some level, I know I'm dreaming. Then again, it seems most nightmares involved losing a close family member. And I don't really have a family of my own.
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Post by Chocolate Lover on Nov 4, 2013 15:26:09 GMT -5
I have this strange ability to wake myself up if I don't like where a dream/nightmare is going. Some "bad" dreams have been more movie like in that I was watching myself in them, not really experiencing them. Be great ideas for books if I could recall what I was "watching" after I woke up. Hmmm, that's a good way of describing my bad dreams. It usually seems more like me watching a movie than me actually experiencing them. But even bad dreams are pretty rare. As I said, on some level, I know I'm dreaming. I do too. I woke up once and realized I'd been giving a running commentary from the peanut gallery on what I was dreaming about as the dream was going.
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Post by Phoenix84 on Nov 4, 2013 15:28:05 GMT -5
The only "nightmare" I can really recall is getting mugged and stabbed. But even then, I didn't die in the dream or anything, I just went to the hospital.
As I said, my problem is getting to sleep in the first place.
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Post by Spellbound454 on Nov 4, 2013 15:28:31 GMT -5
I have a re-occurring dream where I go to the tall kitchen cupboard, open the doors.......then thousands of hamsters fall out and scurry everywhere. I have all the cages lined up..... I'm all prepared....... and I just can't get hold of them. The dream starts again and I think, "Right I'll do it this time" but they still fall out of the cupboard too fast. Its not exactly a nightmare, more a feeling of not being able to complete a task properly. Something to do with being an overworked teacher I think.....
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Post by Phoenix84 on Nov 4, 2013 15:29:52 GMT -5
I have a re-occurring dream where I go to the tall kitchen cupboard, open the doors.......then thousands of hamsters fall out and scurry everywhere. I have all the cages lined up..... I'm all prepared....... and I just can't get hold of them. The dream starts again and I think, "Right I'll do it this time" but they still fall out of the cupboard too fast. Its not exactly a nightmare, more a feeling of not being able to complete a task properly. Something to do with being an overworked teacher I think..... Or repressed sexual feelings.
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Post by Spellbound454 on Nov 4, 2013 15:36:35 GMT -5
What, like a repressed desire to catch men and put them in cages........ Now there is a thought. Though surely they would be represented by something other than hamsters.
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Post by Jaguar on Nov 4, 2013 15:37:56 GMT -5
I don't normally have nightmares (at least not that I remember) but when I was pregnant I always had horrible nightmares. I would have nightmares where I would forget my baby, put my baby in an unsafe situation, etc. I'm sure it was because I was scared to death I would suck as a parent, but they were unsettling.
Just a few nights ago I had a nightmare that my youngest died. I actually woke up in tears. scared teh hell out of me.
Oh hon sorry.
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Post by raeoflyte on Nov 4, 2013 15:38:59 GMT -5
Not a nightmare, but anytime I start to get really stressed out I have dreams that my highschool band teacher is really mad at me and usually yells at me in front of the entire group. I've forgotten or messed up a solo, or been a terrible mentor, or some such.
Funny that a teacher from highschool is still who I am afraid of letting down, but I always know why I'm having that dream.
I'll have to look that site up tonight rukh. Although I'm not sure I really want to know...
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Post by Spellbound454 on Nov 4, 2013 15:46:16 GMT -5
from dreammoods.com "Hamster To see a hamster in your dream represents underdeveloped emotions. You are distancing yourself from others so that you won't end up getting hurt. It may also indicate that issues of sexuality are trivial to you. You are able to separate sex and love." Well I don't see hamsters as sexual at all.......but according to that I'm a bit of a basket case.... Gawd, who writes this stuff...?.....
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Nov 4, 2013 15:50:33 GMT -5
I have a re-occurring dream where I go to the tall kitchen cupboard, open the doors.......then thousands of hamsters fall out and scurry everywhere
Have you been watching the Star Trek episode "Trouble with Tribbles" one too many times? I don't have nightmares very often but if I do anymore they're about something happening to Gwen. I had multiple nightmares about her drowning when we were under flood watch a couple years ago. It got so bad DH brought her in to co-sleep with us because I started having panic attacks at night thinking we wouldn't get to her room in time to save her.
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Post by Spellbound454 on Nov 4, 2013 16:04:55 GMT -5
Yes...that's them. Nail on the head
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Post by mmhmm on Nov 4, 2013 16:09:36 GMT -5
We all dream, but I'm one of those who doesn't often remember them. I sleep like a log. The only nightmare I ever remember having was one in which I dreamed I'd awakened, but I wasn't awake and the scenario kept repeating. I'd try (in the dream) to call out to my husband to help me, but I couldn't make a sound. Finally, I actually woke up - emotionally exhausted. That was NOT fun!
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Post by Sum Dum Gai on Nov 4, 2013 16:20:28 GMT -5
I rarely remember dreams or nightmares. Every once in a while I'll have a vivid one that sticks with me, but most of the time it feels like I close my eyes, and a minute later my alarm is going off. Not even vague memories of dreams upon waking. The few nightmares I remember are something bad happening to Loop or the kids.
When I was a teen I used to have a recurring nightmare about having a rattlesnake in my bed. They were always under the blanket down by my feet and they'd bite me when I moved. I always woke up when they bit. Then I'd have to pull the blankets up and check before I could go back to sleep.
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Post by Peace Of Mind on Nov 4, 2013 16:23:23 GMT -5
As did most teenaged girls. Did yours only have one eye?
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Post by Sum Dum Gai on Nov 4, 2013 16:26:26 GMT -5
The one eyed ones are trouser snakes. They're poisonous too, but they don't kill you right away. They infect you with a parasite that destroys your life over the next twenty years. Vicious little bastards.
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Post by Sam_2.0 on Nov 4, 2013 17:07:55 GMT -5
I had a dream that Aubree was crying, but I could never get to her to pick her up. That was a couple of days ago and had me pretty shaken when I woke up.
I tend to have really bad dreams if I watch even the previews/commercials for scary movies. I just can't handle it. I've found myself awake on the stairs or in other rooms before when I was fighting off monsters or trying to flee in my sleep. Kind of scary that I actually got up and went somewhere else.
DH has night terrors that can be pretty scary too. Between the two of us we get really crappy sleep.
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Post by raeoflyte on Nov 4, 2013 17:12:47 GMT -5
Sam-. that would be an awful dream.
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Post by hoops902 on Nov 4, 2013 17:45:16 GMT -5
Not nightmares, but I sometimes have recurring OCD-type dreams that are annoying.
The most common one is golfing actually. I keep approaching the ball and all I want to do is swing, but the ground is super unlevel and I keep readjusting my feet because I'm worried the unlevel ground will make me hit it poorly (or I'm hitting from the edge of a cliff, and worried that when I swing I will lose all balance and fall over the edge). All I can think about is that I want to swing, but I won't do it in my dream. I never actually do it though. I have a few other similar ones, all based on wanting to act, but having some kind of OCD that prevents it. And nearly all in things that I'm good/competent at. Golfing. Shooting a free throw. Mostly sports related things. I have no idea what it means, but I've been having them since I was in college.
All my bad dreams have always been more mental than horror. Vertigo, not being able to control my body as I watch, etc.
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Post by Cookies Galore on Nov 4, 2013 17:45:24 GMT -5
I have anxiety dreams regularly, which sucks. Nightmares aren't as frequent, but when I do have them hubs usually has to wake me because I'm wimpering in my sleep.
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Post by Phoenix84 on Nov 4, 2013 17:56:47 GMT -5
from dreammoods.com "Hamster To see a hamster in your dream represents underdeveloped emotions. You are distancing yourself from others so that you won't end up getting hurt. It may also indicate that issues of sexuality are trivial to you. You are able to separate sex and love." Well I don't see hamsters as sexual at all.......but according to that I'm a bit of a basket case.... Gawd, who writes this stuff...?..... See? I was right. You do have repressed sexual feelings. The "experts" confirmed it! It's clear you've lost interest in sex. Let me know if you want to talk about it.
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Post by Phoenix84 on Nov 4, 2013 18:00:49 GMT -5
I rarely remember dreams or nightmares. Every once in a while I'll have a vivid one that sticks with me, but most of the time it feels like I close my eyes, and a minute later my alarm is going off. Not even vague memories of dreams upon waking. The few nightmares I remember are something bad happening to Loop or the kids.
When I was a teen I used to have a recurring nightmare about having a rattlesnake in my bed. They were always under the blanket down by my feet and they'd bite me when I moved. I always woke up when they bit. Then I'd have to pull the blankets up and check before I could go back to sleep. Actually, now that you mention it. I do remember having this "nightmare" once. I remember feeling something crawling or slithering across my legs. It felt so real. I jolted up and threw the covers off and saw it was nothing.
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Post by wvugurl26 on Nov 4, 2013 18:04:19 GMT -5
I have nightmares now and then. In the worst ones, I'm aware of what is going on like CL but I can't seem to stop it. I'm usually terrified when I wake up and it takes a long time for me to stop thinking about it.
One of the nights after my surgery I woke up screaming about where the hell I was. I have a vague recollection of my friend answering me and trying to calm me down. My thought was f that I am not letting him comfort me and I laid back down and went to sleep. His foot barely brushed up against me and it set me off apparently. Never happened before.
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Post by Pants on Nov 4, 2013 20:02:58 GMT -5
I take pain drugs on a semi-regular basis. Crazy vivid nightmares.
Most of my nightmares involve being chased by (insert gross thing here) and not being able to run or needing to get somewhere and not being able to get there (can't find the right door, etc.) I have started having the dying/dead kid dreams though. *Shudder*
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Post by Deleted on Nov 4, 2013 20:25:58 GMT -5
Rae, don't disregard your dreams. They may be driven by anxiety. Or not.
When DS2 (who is 25 now) was about 10, I had a crazy dream about an Israeli woman named Ora. (I'm Jewish so my dreaming about an Israeli woman wasn't totally insane.) It wasn't a nightmare per se, but it was very disturbing, because I wanted to go with her, and she went away, and I woke up crying. I was seeing a therapist at the time and I told my therapist about it. She looked up Ora, found it means bones. It also means something else in Hebrew but I don't remember what.
DS2 had just had a very bad fall at my ex's riding club two days before. My ex was due to take him to a (blind) chiropractor the next day. (My ex had custody of DS2 at the time.)
I got out of the appt, called my ex, and told him I wanted DS2's xrays. He said no and blew me off. I told him I would show up at his office and murder him in front of his parents and his secretary if he didn't hand over DS2's xrays, stat. He called me all sorts of names, but he got scared (that's not my usual style lol) and he did.
Turns out DS2 had 3 broken vertebrae. All these years later I still shake whenever I think about the damage a blind chiropractor (whose assistant, who read the xrays for him, was OFF the day of DS2's appt!) could have done to DS2.
I am a very anxious person. Nightmares can be about anxiety, or about your brain trying to work out recent events. But they can also be your subconscious trying to tell you something.
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