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SusanofO -> Really Scary Nightmares...anybody have them? (12/29/2006 9:57:19 AM)

I had a really scary nightmare last night. It was so scary I woke up crying and shaking. It was a really bad one.

This is one reason I do not always appreciate living alone. In many ways I like living alone, but - I was so scared and couldn't get back to sleep for hours afterward, and there was nobody to talk to about it except my dogs (who were asleep. Until I tuned the lights on). Anyway -

I rarely have nightmares, and have no idea why I am having them now.

Does anyone else have these?

What do you do afterward?

Is there anything you can do about them at all?

Just wondering. Thanks.

- Susan 



juliaoceania -> RE: Really Scary Nightmares...anybody have them? (12/29/2006 10:31:04 AM)

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Does anyone else have these?


I have nightmares that others would perceive as extremely scary

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What do you do afterward?


I think long and hard about what is going on in my life to create such negativity when I am asleep

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Is there anything you can do about them at all?



Change the way you look at them. The more you run away from them emotionally, the more you will have them (at least that has been my experience). I rarely have a night terror (it sounds like what you had exceeds a nightmare sweetie). I would pray or meditate on what the dream meant to you, I would look up dream symbols online. I have a great book for researching dream symbols and if you want I will give you the name of it.

If you change how you look at it then it will not be so "scary" anymore. I love my dreams and embrace them, even the scary ones as my spirit trying to communicate to my mind what is really going on with me... I dream often too.



juliaoceania -> RE: Really Scary Nightmares...anybody have them? (12/29/2006 10:43:23 AM)

Here is the book I thought you might benefit from

http://www.amazon.com/Dream-Book-Symbols-Self-Understanding/dp/0967979013/sr=8-1/qid=1167417834/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-9913053-9431153?ie=UTF8&s=books



michaelOfGeorgia -> RE: Really Scary Nightmares...anybody have them? (12/29/2006 11:12:10 AM)

i learned long ago how to control my dreams and end nightmares. it may sound funny, but watch the movie "Dreamsape". it tells alot about dreams/nightmares and how to deal with them.



spankmepink11 -> RE: Really Scary Nightmares...anybody have them? (12/29/2006 11:30:24 AM)

When i have scary dreams.....i tend to wake myself up purposefully, somehow my mind comes to the realization that it's a dream, and i promptly exit the dream. 
 When i was a child i used to have a recurring dream.  In retrospect, under the circumstances of my childhood, it's easy to see how and why that particular dream manifested itself.   It's funny how the mind works.
I'd be interersted if others have experienced recurring dreams as well.



SusanofO -> RE: Really Scary Nightmares...anybody have them? (12/29/2006 12:27:41 PM)

Thank you julia. I dreamed I had been abducted and was being skinned alive. It was just a little too realistic for my taste! I will look it up in your dream book. Thanks!

Thanks for the ear and the advice also, MichaelofGa and spankmepink11. I appreciate it.

- Susan



bandit25 -> RE: Really Scary Nightmares...anybody have them? (12/29/2006 12:31:31 PM)

Hi Susan.  I used to have nightmares ALL the time...it happened for about a year after my husband died.  It got to the point to where I actually willed myself not to dream because of them.  There's a book (and the name escapes me now, but I have it in the car) where you can control your dreams.  You are in a dream state and you know it.  You are more or less the director of the dream.  Thus, you make happen whatever you want to happen.  I'll find the book and email you on the other side.  Take care.



LadySeraphina -> RE: Really Scary Nightmares...anybody have them? (12/29/2006 12:32:42 PM)

This morning I dreamt my mother had been convinced she should poke pins in the heads of puppies, and cut a cat until it bled - there was blood everywhere - because it would bring prosperity. She's an animal lover like I am, so it's bizarre, and was very disturbing, though I wouldn't say I was frightened. I'm still thinking it over, as the others have said, you can gain a lot of insight from what your subconscious is trying to tell you. I rarely have nightmares, so I'm paying particular attention to what this one means.



ownedgirlie -> RE: Really Scary Nightmares...anybody have them? (12/29/2006 12:49:33 PM)

I used to have nightmares a lot.  One dream in particular, I had as recurring nightmare since I was small enough to remember.  I would wake up in the middle of the night screaming my lungs out.  My Dad would bring me a cup of water, sit on the bed and have me tell him about it.  I had it all the time.  In my adult life I still had it, only not as often.  Any time life just seemed out of control for me, I would have this horrible dream.  I always woke up from it in an anxiety attack and my husband would have to calm me down.  I would have it every few months.  If I went back to sleep after waking from it, the dream would continue.  It was awful.

When I left my husband I was living alone for the very first time.  A month after I left him I woke up at 3am in an anxiety attack from having this dream.  I was really upset, and felt very alone.  I shot my Master an IM about it. A half hour later he was online, and we talked briefly.  He said (and I admit I got a chuckle out of it at the time), "I order you to never have that dream again.  You are done with it."  I thought that was cute.

That was well over a year ago.  I have begun that dream about three times since.  Every time I realize I am having it, I immediately think, while in the dream, "Oh I'm not allowed to have this dream." and I wake up.  So my Master was right - I am done with that dream.  I rarely have bad dreams about anything anymore, in fact.



Lordandmaster -> RE: Really Scary Nightmares...anybody have them? (12/29/2006 12:50:38 PM)

I wonder whether women remember their dreams more than men do.  Women are ALWAYS telling me about their dreams.  I'm lucky if I remember one dream a year.  Sometimes I know I've had a nightmare, but then I wake up and I'm like what the fuck did I just dream?  I don't remember a thing.



SusanofO -> RE: Really Scary Nightmares...anybody have them? (12/29/2006 12:50:58 PM)

Thanks a lot bandit25! I appreciate it.

ownedgirlie: I have had recurring dreams before. This one was a variation on a nightmare I had several years ago. It was so horrible, I remembered it - because I rarely remember my dreams.

LAM: Well, I don't remember them unless they are really great or terribly frightening. Usually.

LadySeraphina: That is a strange dream. Interesting, in a way. But it would have scared me, too.

My recurring dream for a long time was that I was inside a house next to the cornfield at the end of the dead-end street my family lived on until I was about 9 years old - and I was looking through the huge, plate glass window at the front of the house. My family was outside, walking in the cornfield, and I wanted to be with them, but couldn't get out of the house. So I just kept staring through the window and it was very upsetting not to be able to reach them in any way. I even shouted through the glass, but nobody outside could hear it. I was crying and shouting, to no avail. And then at that point I'd always wake up.

I think I must have felt alienated by my family, for some reason. I had that dream, off and on, for years.

- Susan



ownedgirlie -> RE: Really Scary Nightmares...anybody have them? (12/29/2006 12:56:49 PM)

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ORIGINAL: Lordandmaster

I wonder whether women remember their dreams more than men do.  Women are ALWAYS telling me about their dreams.  I'm lucky if I remember one dream a year.  Sometimes I know I've had a nightmare, but then I wake up and I'm like what the fuck did I just dream?  I don't remember a thing.

That's because women have the memory of....well...of an elephant. :)



untamedshysub -> RE: Really Scary Nightmares...anybody have them? (12/29/2006 1:08:29 PM)

yes my mind brings back things I need to let go of I can always tell cant sleep and will wake up at 3am like clockwork then the dream will come one night I keep a journal next to bed write it down last one my mom was sitting in a chair sorting out silverware Iwent in the kitchen got a kinfe to kill the insruance man who was really my father lol and I killed him and never had nightmares about him again. She did nothing just like when I was a child and I realized she never protected me from him.




SusanofO -> RE: Really Scary Nightmares...anybody have them? (12/29/2006 1:11:04 PM)

Wow, good insight, untamedshysub!

- Susan



kisshou -> RE: Really Scary Nightmares...anybody have them? (12/29/2006 1:35:31 PM)

I never remember my dreams but lately I have been waking up in the middle of the night because I am orgasming in my sleep. I wish I could remember what I was dreaming about :)



gretchenS -> RE: Really Scary Nightmares...anybody have them? (12/29/2006 3:17:01 PM)

I find it hard for me to forget about what I'd dreamed the night before, because I have pretty fucked up dreams all the time. Bloody nightmares are not usually what scares me... I have dreamed about my own death 4 times in the past... two of them pretty bloody, and the others were illness related. If I don't like a dream, I try to remember that I can't switch the light of a room, count money, or tell the time by watching my own watch, but I'm quite curious to just stop a dream... that's totally easy to control. What it's not easy, is to pull yourself together when the dream is emotionally exhausting. I had two horrible nightmares about my Master's death and it was so shoking that my mind could not give up the emotional pain. I find it very useful to keep a note pad and a pen handy, if there's no one there to tell about it. It's funny when you wake up in the morning and find what you wrote last night in the note pad... it barely makes sense and the details are mostly silly. Your nightmare will look like a bad terror movie. This is what I do to get rid of the emotional charge.



KeirasSecret -> RE: Really Scary Nightmares...anybody have them? (12/29/2006 3:42:30 PM)

Susan,

I haven’t had nightmares like what you are describing, for a very long time, and actually it’s been rare that I remember if I even had a dream for a while now.

I have found, for me, there are two causes for having “bad” dreams. One is a representation of some sort of emotional overload. If I were to have the dream you had of standing in the window; being able to see my family; but not being able to get to them, I would consider some sort of fear or sadness in being alone.

The other reason for having a “bad” dream is when I have seen, heard, or read something that stuck in my mind.

Not too long ago, I had one very vivid dream, where bumps began forming under the skin on my forehead. The bumps started out resembling pimples, but then got bigger and turned into something more like runny, clear, tapioca pudding, forming a pocket.

I started trying to push the bumps through my skin. When I finally succeeded; an egg came to the surface; broke to release a tadpole, which then jumped from the hole it had produced, as a frog. (Yes, I meant frog.)

I got so wrapped up in trying to get the tadpole eggs out of my forehead I completely forgot to question why they would be there in the first place; Which would have caused me to realize it was just a dream. None the less, other then being a little grossed out because some of these eggs didn’t make it to the hole before they popped, the experience was virtually painless.

I woke up from my dream wondering, “What the hell was that all about?”, then later that night told my co-workers about it. It was unanimous, I am strange. Sometime later I suddenly remembered a conversation I had with my neighbor earlier that day. She had told me a story she had heard where the person involved had been bitten on their face by a spider . After some time had gone by, a growth had begun to form and eventually broke open, releasing baby spiders. (I did tell her, if what happened produced baby spiders, I didn’t believe the cause was a bite. I could be wrong though.)

So, see what I mean? The cause of my tadpole dream was hearing my neighbor’s story about the spiders, and the only real perplexing question here is, “How did I get tadpoles out of spiders?” J

Be well,



Tikkiee -> RE: Really Scary Nightmares...anybody have them? (12/29/2006 3:51:27 PM)

I have them quite often; they really suck big time [:'(] 



Powerman40 -> RE: Really Scary Nightmares...anybody have them? (12/29/2006 3:55:56 PM)

I had one last night actually,
someone / one's had broken my arms and then left me in the forest, and then I was being chased by others and could not run because the pain was so excruciating.
I tried to scream out for help and woke myself up.. LOL.



sophia37 -> RE: Really Scary Nightmares...anybody have them? (12/29/2006 3:57:44 PM)

Even easier. go online for interpretation. I go here. www.dreammoods.com/dreamdictionary/



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