nightmares?

Escarda

I used to have a recurring dream in which I lost my car. I search endlessly for it in a parking lot, but can never find it. I've had it on and off for probably 15 years. So often, in fact, that I can usually realize I'm dreaming while still in the dream. But this realization usually wakes me up.

~Normally as soon as your realise your dreaming thats when it becomes a lucid dream and you have total control!
Would be sad to wake up instead. =/

xHelloQuincyx

zombie dreams all the time. :c ones where i can feel flesh ripping and stuff. ones where i dont even wanna go shower by myself haha
however i like watching zombie movies. so strange. sometimes i win in my dreams, but almost never. im usually trying to find a hiding space that is horrble like in a vent and then they all find me all at the same time and i die.

joeylu

If i eat right before bed i get really bad dreams.

dwbrunton

I used to have this crazy dream of flying off a cliff in a car and never wrecking??? Then I went to Wyoming and traveled big (still have white knuckles lol) Never had the dream since then.

lilchicksta94

I have them a couple times a month... usually someone is chasing me, breaking into my house, or trying to kill me... once I dreamt someone killed my brother... it felt so real I woke up crying... awful!!

the_journeyman

Depends on your definition of nightmare.

I have a few specific locations I return to in my dreams, places I've never been and don't really exist outside of my head. Typically there is great danger/hardship/injury etc. within the dreams. They're intense and I usually wake up more tired than when I went to bed. These involve defending a place/territory to the point of watching people be killed. I've got a few graphic images stuck in my head from these. it also involves attempting to flee or escape a place in usually a failing vehicle.

Another I see on a regular basis involves being incredibly high up in trees or buildings and falling with crazy antics like being flung higher and higher and eventually slamming into something, either the ground or some other object. These cause me to wake up with a seriously pounding heart.

The strange scenic drive & highway is another one. I've never really figured out the purpose to the drive. The scenic part usually involves water in places, crazy drop-offs on the sides etc. Usually with everything from damaged to flooded roads. I eventually wind up on this strange 6-8 lane highway. The highway is elevated and looks to go on forever with a factory on the ground below with random features cropping up past the highway. The road climbs up and up away and into the clouds.

I've got plenty of others that are just as wild. Many involve injury to myself or others and crazy locations and such. My brain is crazy active when I sleep.

JM

elenathegreat

i have a reocurring nightmare. same damn one. I am a student in high school or college and i realize when it comes times for finals that I forgot to go to a class for the entire semester. (variations include not being able to find the room it is being held in, not knowing where my locker is or what my combination is, etc...) I've been told its an "achievement" dream. haha

I have a similar one where I can't remember my schedule or room numbers so I don't know where to go and I have to take this class or not graduate. The school is always like a maze and I wonder around aimlessly in a cold sweat.

Yes! I still have this type of dream, and I haven't been in school for over 25 YEARS!

gldnlark

I typically have up to 2 a week and they usually involve tornadoes... I've been told dreaming of them is a sign of extreme stress... No shock there. I'm still recovering from a stress-related disease.

babybluefire

Yes, I have horrific reoccurring nightmares. When my DD was born her heart stopped and did not restart during labor. I was doing great but she had to come out that instant. I had an emergency c-section, It went badly. They started before the pain meds kicked it and then DD was so tangled up in her cord that it took three pairs of hand inside my body to untangle her and pull her out. All my nightmares have been related in some way back to this.

CharityEaton

I had this dream I was climbing a tall apple tree. I wanted the apple at the very top and who knows how many apples I passed along the way to reach it. So i climb and climb, finally reaching my apple. As I grabbed it, the rest of the apples on the tree turned into midgets with spears who chased me all over that apple tree.

What does it mean? It means I won't drink a bottle of cough syrup before bed.

Climbing a tree signifies "up is good" it indicates hard work for small gain(hmm...fitness related maybe?)
As for the apples...if they were sweet then it signifies well-earned rewards. If the apples were bitter or green then it signifies a loss due to your own foolishness.

Midgets...one or more signify a new aquaintence(probably male) who will develop into a valuable friend.

Spears signify an exciting love life , especially if it was used to catch fish; however, if you're not eligible or suceptible, the dream suggests a clearing of obstacles in your path.

_binary_jester_

I had this dream I was climbing a tall apple tree. I wanted the apple at the very top and who knows how many apples I passed along the way to reach it. So i climb and climb, finally reaching my apple. As I grabbed it, the rest of the apples on the tree turned into midgets with spears who chased me all over that apple tree.

What does it mean? It means I won't drink a bottle of cough syrup before bed.

Climbing a tree signifies "up is good" it indicates hard work for small gain(hmm...fitness related maybe?)
As for the apples...if they were sweet then it signifies well-earned rewards. If the apples were bitter or green then it signifies a loss due to your own foolishness.

Midgets...one or more signify a new aquaintence(probably male) who will develop into a valuable friend.

Spears signify an exciting love life , especially if it was used to catch fish; however, if you're not eligible or suceptible, the dream suggests a clearing of obstacles in your path.

Soooo all my hard work is going to be rewarded buy a guy poking me with his excitement? I think I would have preferred to be ignorant.

rammsteinsoldier

I had this dream I was climbing a tall apple tree. I wanted the apple at the very top and who knows how many apples I passed along the way to reach it. So i climb and climb, finally reaching my apple. As I grabbed it, the rest of the apples on the tree turned into midgets with spears who chased me all over that apple tree.

What does it mean? It means I won't drink a bottle of cough syrup before bed.

Climbing a tree signifies "up is good" it indicates hard work for small gain(hmm...fitness related maybe?)
As for the apples...if they were sweet then it signifies well-earned rewards. If the apples were bitter or green then it signifies a loss due to your own foolishness.

Midgets...one or more signify a new aquaintence(probably male) who will develop into a valuable friend.

Spears signify an exciting love life , especially if it was used to catch fish; however, if you're not eligible or suceptible, the dream suggests a clearing of obstacles in your path.

Soooo all my hard work is going to be rewarded buy a guy poking me with his excitement? I think I would have preferred to be ignorant.

:laugh: Perfect interpretation

abnerner

I have bad dreams quite often. My boyfriend has woken me up several times because I will literally be crying (tears streaming down) in my sleep.

MFPAddict

I had one last night where all my MFP friends realized that I am not LL Cool J. :sad:

_snw_

I had one last night where all my MFP friends realized that I am not LL Cool J. :sad:

awww, NO!!! say it isn't so!!

76tech

i do sometimes when i'm going through a particularly crappy spot in life. or just plain difficult.

sometimes they help me figure out what's *really* bugging me, so i can squash it and move on.

classycouture

Has anyone ever died in their dreams?? Because I have.. Multiple times.

I've been shot in the back of the head, which didn't kill me at first, but the "killer" realized I wasn't dead and put the barrel of the gun in the open wound in my head - I could feel the pressure in my eyes, like it was really happening.

I've also been lethally injected.. Twice. In the second dream, I remembered that it happened in the first dream, and was even more scared because I remembered how badly it hurt (burning feeling throughout my body).

My mom says I should talk to someone hahah, I'm thinking she may be right..

nancyinfernley

i used to have dreams that i would start out somewhere with my two young children and then i would end up somewhere without them and they would be crying alone either at home or somewhere else. i haven't had this dream since they grew up. but i was always extremely overprotective of them.

also i used to have these very vivid dreams that my daughter was stolen, raped and murdered. once i became a buddhist the dreams stopped. maybe i changed the karma. but i figured they were telling me to keep a close eye on her. i remember when i had her step father follow her to school in the mornings because i worried. she got mad and told him never to do it again. i told her to bad. years later i explained why i was so overprotective and she finally understood.

i often have dreams that i am exploring this house that is haunted in the back recesses of it, but i'm living in the front. every once in a while i will have to go in the haunted rooms for something. maybe i'm using them for storage, i guess. i cannot see locking away rooms i can't use. i would probably do an exorcism if this ever happened to me. if it was just a normal haunting (like the master bath in my house is haunted) i would just ignore it. but for some reason this house has not so good ghosts. the floor plan is almost always the same too. i have been haunted almost all my life by some sort of ghosts. i never see them, i just feel them. just very weird dream!

i did have some prophetic dreams when i was pregnant with my son back in 77-78. for some reason the pregnancy brought out my natural ESP and where i usually just FEEL something is going to happen i dreamed it. as soon as i told my husband to drive our car to work in the rain instead of his motorcycle, the dreams stopped.

deeharley

I had a nightmare last night - I was married to three men (at the same time) and had to coordinate all their and their kids' schedules. YIKES! I'd rather be chased by a tiger through a jungle in dreams.

KJVBear33

I once dreamed that someone really close to me died :sad: ............I remember I was with a friend when it happened but didn't know about it til after we got back from our outing...........woke up, ran around the house, and found them........relief surrounded me.

Also, a re-occurring one where I was on this ride at Disneyland........only it wasn't anything like any of the rides there.......at one point it looked like I would just fall over the edge of this great cliff inside the ride (it looked like a house to me and I was in a boat). At the edge of the stream to one side was this little old lady in a rocking chair that closely resembled a Grimm Fairytale-ish crone and she was deathly still......no movement whatsoever........and then all of a sudden the rocking chair out of nowhere would begin to move ever so slightly when I came level to it.........then I woke up before the fall..........creeped me out every time.

CharityEaton

I had this dream I was climbing a tall apple tree. I wanted the apple at the very top and who knows how many apples I passed along the way to reach it. So i climb and climb, finally reaching my apple. As I grabbed it, the rest of the apples on the tree turned into midgets with spears who chased me all over that apple tree.

What does it mean? It means I won't drink a bottle of cough syrup before bed.

Climbing a tree signifies "up is good" it indicates hard work for small gain(hmm...fitness related maybe?)
As for the apples...if they were sweet then it signifies well-earned rewards. If the apples were bitter or green then it signifies a loss due to your own foolishness.

Midgets...one or more signify a new aquaintence(probably male) who will develop into a valuable friend.

Spears signify an exciting love life , especially if it was used to catch fish; however, if you're not eligible or suceptible, the dream suggests a clearing of obstacles in your path.

Soooo all my hard work is going to be rewarded buy a guy poking me with his excitement? I think I would have preferred to be ignorant.

Oh my gosh! That is EXACTLY how I would have taken that!!! LOL! That is some nightmare there!!

KaleidoscopeEyes1056

I once had a dream that a friend and I were in the middle of a clone apocalypse and everybody was freaking out when their clones came to kill them. But for us, being the badasses we are, we waited in the bathtub for our clones and ate McDoubles. Not sure what this symbolized, but I'm pretty sure it was because I was watching Bleach before I went to bed.

ETA: we were waiting for our clones because we wanted to fornicate with them. Yep.

_binary_jester_

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Oh my gosh! That is EXACTLY how I would have taken that!!! LOL! That is some nightmare there!!

For you that might be a good dream. For me, not so much. Nooooot that there's anything wrong with that [/Seinfeld voice]

spskinny

Try lowering the temperature in your room. Mine are heat related, they have proven a scientific connection.

Huffdogg

I occasionally have a nightmare where I work in an office, don't drink, go to church, and am in a monogamous relationship.

*shudder*

Nerple

I almost never dream, maybe once every 4-5 months and when I do they are usually dreams so well within a normal range of expectations that I can go about life believing they are true for weeks at a time.

However when I am awake I am usually daydreaming, it's almost constant.

HauteP1nk

Yes...I dream every night and they are almost always scary. The other night I woke up sweating with my heart beating a million miles per minute because I could have sworn someone was in my room.

When I was a kid I had this re-occurring nightmare where I was being chased by this huge boulder (see Indian Jones)...and as I was running through the room it became increasingly hard to run because my legs started to get fat and the room was full of debris such as old dirty mattresses....

The dream is still vivid in my mind to this day. Gives me the creeps. Something right out of a Nightmare on Elm Street movie...

sofaking6

also, I have one often where my body is paralyzed,,,,ever have those? your mind is awake and you try to move your body or part of it or sit up but cant, until you finally snap out of it! I first had one when I was little and told my dad about it, he said it's your soul leaving your body and if you wake up before it gets back in, you die. Thanks dad!

I think that is because when you sleep, your body actually IS paralyzed.

zombiesama

also, I have one often where my body is paralyzed,,,,ever have those? your mind is awake and you try to move your body or part of it or sit up but cant, until you finally snap out of it! I first had one when I was little and told my dad about it, he said it's your soul leaving your body and if you wake up before it gets back in, you die. Thanks dad!

This happens to me whenever i try and take a nap, sometimes when that happens to me there is a dark figure that would stand at my doorway or somewhere next to me will say it wants to kill me/some other horrible fate or just random strange things as well. Its scary

But as for regular nightmares i had a cool one yesterday where fire tornados were destroying a city i was in.

CannibalisticVegetarian

After going through a tragic situation last year, I've been having recurring dreams based around the same thing happening again and again.. different outcomes, but it frightens me. I think the last one I had was probably a night or two ago. The dream started off kind of silly, but then when I looked outside my window, there were four or five tornadoes spinning into this large vortex.. it was freaky.. and while I can't remember the funny/enjoyable part of that particular dream, I can see the spinning vortex clear as a bell.. Ugh.