Nightmares
 

I have a tendency to get nightmares whenever I dream. They're extremely intense, and realistic. They mimic real situations, or make fun of them. Sometimes I'm having a normal dream, and I feel the fear creeping into it. Like the dark is coming in and draining all of the happiness out of it. They won't stop, and directed dreaming just makes me know it's a dream. Doesn't make me any less terrified.

Common themes in my nightmares:

The ex(s)

Some kind of group of people attacking me.

I have to sneak through this building or they will get me.

Where am I.

Why won't my car stop.



What are your nightmares like? Are they bad? Ever died in one?

My nightmares often have to do with me denying myself something, or trying to avoid something. Often times my nightmares aren't scary, per se...I just get the feeling that there's something wrong, and that I'm screwing up. The dream then proceeds to shift and change to fit this. I find myself losing things, or looking for something that I bloody well know I've not lost.

Every now and then I have dreams where I'm both lost, and know where I am at the same time while I'm in a maze. I'll get instances when I know exactly where I am and what I'm searching for, but then it'll shift...I'll catch a glimpse of what it is that I'm chasing after and then I'll lose it again and feel devastated. When I've lost it, I know what I'm searching for is just out of my reach and I could have it if I truly wanted to. All I'd have to do is dream away the maze, but I hardly ever let myself do that for some reason.

I don't tend to have good dreams, anymore. They aren't horrible, but they generally consist of the things I just described...or situations that I spend days trying to figure out how my brain came up with them.

My last one was just me and my ex fiance standing there talking, and the she kissed me, and I pulled away. I felt really awful when I woke up.

I think it has to do with the fact that she's having trouble letting me go, and I kinda have a new girl that I'm seeing. It happened fast too. like a few weeks.

Yeah. I think you hit the nail on the head there. It sounds like your mind is telling you that you know she still has feelings, but you don't really want to return them, but you feel bad that you can't/don't want to. Just me postulating, of course.

It has to do with the fact that when she was breaking up with me she said the phrase "What if it's not right, right now, but it's right later?" My response to which being that I don't do breaks. Either someone is with me, or their not, I don't need the stress of having someone do that to me.

Been there, done that crap. My heart goes out to you. You just don't tell a person that you love them, then decide that you're not ready...tell them thus, and then also tell them that you'd like it if you could possibly come back one day. I wish some people had more sense.

Yeah. Especially when I wanted to be just friends with the girl in the first place. We were amazing friends. She got me over my ex, and helped me feel good about myself again, then she asked me out. I said no the first time, but then I buckled. Not hard to understand why, she's gorgeous, and sweet and an amazing person all around, but I didn't feel right about it from the beginning. We're just better as friends. Same with most of my exes. lol.

I do however have anew love interest, and hopefully I'll be dreaming about her soon instead. lol.

*nod nod* If I've had one thing pounded into my head enough times, it's that you don't have a choice of who you end up with. If you feel from the beginning that there's a little something off then it is, and you're forcing something that wasn't meant to be. I hope you have better luck with your new girl. :)

Those sweet dreams about a new love are my favorite, that's for sure. They heal your heart, I think.

When I have nightmares they are usually not just one thing that the dream revolves around. Nope. The complete opposite. My nightmares will consists of zombies, seperation of my family, my deepest faults, my past crushes, and my life in later years. Some of my Nightmares are so real that sometimes when I am say falling off a cliff or going down a rollercoaster straight down to hell I move with my motions in the dream. Like when I am falling or I am moving fast if I am moved so suddenly I move and it freaks the hell out of me. I remember when I was four I was having a dream about a rollercoaster and I was at the point where I reached the top and then I was about to fly down. As I was flying down the upper half of my body whipps up and I suddenly wake up and I am sitting straight up in bed sweating madly. My head was racing and my heart was pounding. It felt like i ran a freaking marathon. I scared me and for a while I was afraid to go to sleep in fear that I would walk into the street. Nightmares are one of my biggest fears. Not the stuff in the nightmares but I mean having a nightmare. I am usually scared out of my wits for days before returning back to normal D:

I don't know if they're exactly nightmares, but I dream about tornadoes a lot. The typical situation is: I'm somewhere and I see a funnel cloud approaching. It's up to me to get people somewhere safe until the storm blows over.

For some bizarre reason I never know it's a dream, so I'll be thinking things like "I always dream about tornadoes, but I've never had to really deal with one like this before!" but then that one is a dream too, of course.

I suspect I just snore and what I mistake for wind is just me hearing myself snore.

Mine are bad enough to wake me up. And I am crying from the fear of them. I never dreamt me dieing. But nightmares always feel so real. And its scary I'm always afraid I may that I'm going to get buried alive. And like die in my. Dreams and in real. But, I just pray and it helps me. Also, helps me not to think of the worse before I go to bed.

Last night was a weird dream. I was at school, and looking for someone, but other than that I can't really remember. It's weird.

Haha, yeah. I used to have a recurring dream that I was in a maze and that I was looking for a white cat for absolutely no reason. Those scared me because I hated the feeling of being lost. I finally figured out what the cat symbolized and the dream went away, but they stank at the time.

Last night I dreamed that my friend and were walking through the park, after hearing that the zoo had had a break-out. We were surprised to see a bunch of beautiful tigers chilling in the park. We turned and walked away slowly, and knew if we started running they would see us as prey and come chasing after us. One tiger started following us curiously, and we started walking faster. It got bored and left. Then we came to another clearing, with polar bears. A few of them came charging at us and then there were tigers too and we started screaming and running, and then I woke up.

My nightmares tend to involve zombies. Either me killing them or them killing my friends/family. I usually wake up before I die.

My nightmares have recently been about me losing my teeth and trying to put them back in... But most of the time they include people chasing me and trying to kill me. Or the sensation of people chasing me. The ones that really scare me are when I try to fight back or get away and it doesn't work. I will punch at someone and I will move like I'm being held back or in slow motion when everyone else is at normal or heightened speeds. Or I will try to fly away and get about 50-100 feet in the air and lose my ability to fly and start falling.
I think the last time I woke up and couldn't go back to sleep because of a dream, was a few months ago when I dreamed that there were rats eating my feet. I even woke my fiance up so he could check under and in the bed for mice or rats. I still couldn't get back to sleep after he checked.

The losing your teeth one happens to a lot of people. I've often wondered if it has some kind of meaning.

Explodey: I know that rotting teeth has a meaning, something around an unpleasant change coming up, or just poor hygiene. But for perfectly good teeth to fall out so they can be put back with some pressure. I don't know... But I am by no means a dream interpreter, I just got that out of a book once.

Last night was the first time I had a dream in which I actually died (you know they say you can't die in dreams...) I didn't feel the death, but I was trying to talk to my friend and she was ignoring me. I couldn't figure out whaT was up until I saw my body in the corner....then I was frantically trying to get her to hear me in case there was still time to revive me.

Last night I had a dream, which perfectly reenacted my las breakup, so for about an hour it was like it had just happened. I hate that crap.

I get dreams like that too...kind of. But I get dreams where I'm back with my ex, and happy, and smiling. It's like seeing a possible future that I both wanted and sometimes wish that I could just have. I could deal with reliving the breakup in a dream (even though it was heart wrenching)...but I hate feeling like I'm loved and that I belong somewhere only to wake up and realize that it was all crap and everything is still the same. A.K.A. a small loneliness at the back of my mind and a life that I've returned to caring less for than my dreams. (That being a play off the old saying, "you know you're happy/in love when you don't want to sleep, because your life is finally better than your dreams.")

In this case though, she was saying she had cheated on me, which did not happen in real life. It made it a thousand times worse.

I get the happy dreams too. At least they're good while you're having them you know? Waking up from em sucks, but at least it's a good dream to begin with. Though... One of those about this last girl might kill me, when I woke up. She blew everyone before her completely out of the water. I'm still amazed by how deeply I love her.

Ah. Yeah. As they always say: "some day somebody will come along who will show you why nobody else worked out." *shrugs* I believe it.

And, indeedie. :) The last time I had one of those good dreams I actually felt a lot better in the morning for a few hours. It deteriorated by the afternoon and was actually rather depressing, but I think it might be nudging me to realize that the love I had for my ex could have been more of an obsession than completely true feelings. That I'll never know, but ah well.

The pattern so far, has been each relationship being better than the last. I hope the pattern continues, because if it does, my next girlfriend will be some sort of Dryad or something, who gives me three wishes, and makes me immortal. lol. Honestly I still love my ex, and I'm really glad we are staying friends. She's one of the beast I've made in a long time, and it would have sucked a thousand times worse to lose her completely. We've even been comforting each other about the whole thing, whenever we needed it. :) Makes it suck sooooo much less.

Recently my dreams have been more the weird kind, and less the dab kind. One was just me shoveling my driveway, from three or four feet of snow. Another was me sneaking around my university for some reason. lol.