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Nightmares and Dreamscapes - 4/8/2009 9:42:48 AM

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No, not the Stephen King story collection. I've decided in light of a recent bad couple weeks of nightmares, I'd open a thread to share what our brains do to us when we're supposed to be resting.

So don't be shy... share your nightmares and dreams!

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RE: Nightmares and Dreamscapes - 4/8/2009 10:51:43 AM

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Well, I don't know about that... but I do know that I have very vivid and odd dreams when I take melatonin at night before I go to sleep. It's over the counter and natural.... I haven't had insomnia since I started taking it.

hmmmm... there was that one time when I dreamed that I was...

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RE: Nightmares and Dreamscapes - 4/8/2009 11:03:18 AM

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last night was an odd mess of not nightmares but dreams bad enough to make me wake up shaking, one was my bedroom window started to burn and the other was i was the mother of twins, a boy and a girl, we were in the store and suddenly my boy was without a right arm, they'd had to amputate it because he had cancer in his arm. not sure what they mean but they were pretty real at the time

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RE: Nightmares and Dreamscapes - 4/8/2009 11:10:50 AM

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I lucid dream and have done for many years. I can go to sleep the following night and continue a dream from where it left off. When dreaming, I am convinced I can actually smell the aromas and feel the textures of whatever I'm touching. My dreams are bizarre, when I relay them to friends and family, and even Reality, the reaction is always the same, "You have a major psychonautical trip going on and they'd really make for a good book" - which is why I can't tell you what they are as I'd be giving away some great plots as my dreams tend to continue for several days, sometimes weeks until the next one

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RE: Nightmares and Dreamscapes - 4/8/2009 11:11:30 AM

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There's this recurring element I've had in some of my creepier dreams. These dreams are, oddly, set in a Victorian-style rancher home I stayed in for a weekend in third grade. The house is out in west virginia, and was covered in ladybugs when I went there. That wasn't the element that recurs, to my knowledge, but that's the setting it felt like when I was dreaming last night. No, friends, this recurring element is a very burton-esque rotary/old dialpad telephone. Most of the dream will be odd or creepy or downright eerie, and then when the dream has nowhere else to go, I'll 'wake up' next to the phone as it rings and I pick up to hear a few different things, again depending on the tone of the dream. It's always either dead silence and then record-scratchings, or a sad, scratchy, and very creepy mournful prayer of love, or some strange malevolent laughter after a record-scratch-accented silence over the line.

Now tonight brings a new avenue of terror to my recurring element of the phone. The rest of my dream was relatively nondescript but ominous, and was probably another recurrence of the sad Victorian lovers committing suicide story I've had a few times, and when I woke to the phone ringing, I remember thinking to myself, 'Oh good. It's gonna be another one of those odd calls.'

So I pick up, ready for one of the defaults.

On the other end is a heavy breath, and then a bone-chillingly -wrong- voice which says, "Actually..." and then raises it's voice to screech, "I'm going to KILL YOU." The last bit is repeated, screeching and yelling over the phone with intermittent howls of maniacal laughter, and it frightens me so badly that I try to hang up the handset but can't reach it somehow. So I yank the cord from the handset, and the repeating of 'I'll KILL YOU' and laughter continues even though it logically shouldn't.

Needless to say, I'm not well-rested anymore. Blrf.

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RE: Nightmares and Dreamscapes - 4/8/2009 11:15:20 AM

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I can remember dreams I had months or even years ago. Sometimes I wake up and write them down imediately. Other times I forget them until something triggers the memory.

I often dream as if in bodies other than the one I physically have now. As an adult male, male child or youth. Totally different female forms of various ages also. Dreams of flying are common, as are dreams of living in previous times in history.

I have also dreamt of people in my life, before I met them or knew them.

I rarely ever have nightmares.

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RE: Nightmares and Dreamscapes - 4/8/2009 11:28:31 AM

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I have recurrent dreams of fighting with my mother, and she has been gone for 13 years now. I am a vivid dreamer. I know it is said that we don't dream in color, but I do. Everything is quite detailed.

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RE: Nightmares and Dreamscapes - 4/8/2009 12:07:29 PM

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As a teenager until beginning of my early twenties I used to wake up after approx. 15 minutes when I had fallen asleep on my back, seeing either spiders (one up to more) near me/above me or other crawly creatures I seriously disliked. That usually made me jump out of the bed regularly, turning on the light and then leading to an emotional outburst....over the years I managed to observe it and stay calmer. I realised that I did still see it even when I was aware about that I am awake by now and even when I knew that it is not really there...it always only vanished when I turned on the light. After approx. 3-4 years I stopped jumping out of bed for that and just turned on my bedside lamp, switching it off again and turned around to continue my sleep. Personally I think it had to do with personal problems I had at that time which I was not able to talk about...and that because I could not express what was going on I experienced them in a way which gave me the possibility to give it a name (kind of that spiders and other stuff are representing a problem I was unable to name, as by that way at least I had a name for that replacement problem - though I have to say it meant for me having 2 problems now, one I couldn't talk about and one which drove me nuts 3-4 nights per week).

However, since 8 years I managed to sort out my main problem and since then also those nightmares are gone....so I am convinced they were connected. About 3 years ago I had the same issue about 2-3 nights with cockroaches...but I seriously think that in that case it had to do with a room I met over a very short period of time which had that pest...(though luckily I realised that before spending a single night there...I never moved out as fast at a place as I did at that one

). So seeing those cockroaches even when I was awake by then (again) had nothing to do with my first problem....however....since then it never ever reoccured again and I keep my fingers crossed that it stays that way

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