Nightmares or Dreams

[Blitzkrieg1701]

Reading about other people's dreams always makes me reflect on how boring most of my dreams are. Seriously, most of my dreams just involve me puttering around old city streets or poking around run down buildings. nothing ever really happens, and they're not even run down in a creepy way, just... old. If I'm not dreaming about that, then it's usually a pretty obvious version of something I was thinking about before falling asleep, and even then nothing exciting usually happens.

[SolidÃ…rmor]

I just remember that we had a neighbor who would combined nightmares and sleepwalking. They would jump out of bed screaming and start running. I heard a family member had to grab them one night because they almost went down the stairs.
My mother said her brothers when they were young would sleepwalk and would get out of bed and move the woodbox for the woodstove around the room and get back in bed.
Now I have heard people will get out of bed and go in the kitchen and eat and go back to bed.

Usually those are known as "night-terrors", when someone acts out while dreaming. Especially during instances of having a nightmare. I've seen a show that conducted studies of people having actual night-terrors and it's pretty horrific what was shown. People basically, thrashing about in bed, or kicking and screaming..reports of people literally punching their significant others all over not knowing what they are doing. Quite sad, yet very real.

[ashfire]

Well here is my latest dream. Had something to do with the comic book shop I get my comics and manga from.
I walked into the shop and most of the comics were gone. There were a lot costumes items of different comic book characters. I was trying on some sort of Spiderman gloves. The store also has gaming in the store so that was there and people were playing game characters inside and outside the store. Now the store has a second floor and I was checking upstairs for the comics that belong in the store.
Then someone showed me a door under the stairs and it seems the store has a addition that is not there and that is where the books were but there was a outside gaming area with grass where people playing games on like a football field.

[SolidÃ…rmor]

My wife said that I was yelling something last night in my sleep, and she distinctly heard me yelling "Get Out!". Then she said that I woke up prior to that gasping for air, as though I had been choked...that I kinda remember...only for the fact that my throat was hurting as though I had either swallowed the "wrong" way during my sleep which caused that to happen or I was having a dream that I was drowning or being physically choked?? That's a blur, but it scared the hockey out of her...and me when she told me about it.

[rii namuras]

[color="Red"](I don't really get very many dreams in the usual sense - since my mind goes 100 miles an hour at night, I usually just end up brainstorming story ideas and then find that it's morning. And those are the sort of narrate-in-your-brain-day-dream sort. But occasionally, I get the same sort of dream, except I'm not controlling what's going on - I'm just randomly going.)

(The most recent one I can remember was about a month ago, right after I came back from visiting some friends in Colorado. It was also about the time when I was getting all my stuff together to dual enroll at college.)

(So for whatever reason, I was at this random campus that seemed more like a warehouse, looking for a sandwich. I do this for quite some time, and finally end up walking down this deserted road and finding someone selling something in a stand or whatever (don't remember exactly). Then suddenly the person who was representing was me (this is a narrate-in-your-brain sort of dream, remember) became Edward from Fullmetal Alchemist. I/Edo (I was cosplaying him?) met up with Roy somewhere along this deserted road, who was being cosplayed (?) by a friend of mine, Josh, who I had just seen during that trip. He/Roy's driving a car, and wants me/Edo to go somewhere with him/Roy. So Josh/Roy and I/Edo were driving along, when we spot a speeder. Josh/Roy apologizes, and takes off after the car. I/Edo get very annoyed because I/Edo can't finish my/Edo's sandwich. So we catch this car speeding on this deserted road. Josh/Roy goes to apprehend the driver, and it's this old lady. So he/Roy gets her to get out of the car, and starts interrogating her or something. For whatever reason, she turns into my other friend Alyssa. So now there's this old lady that occasionally looks like 'lyssa (which was very, very creepy), and myself/Edo and Josh/Roy. Suddenly the ground starts shaking and Josh/Roy shouts for us all to get in the car. We do, and I'm/Edo's driving. So I/Edo start driving (yes, I know how to drive, though Edo doesn't always), and then I/Edo see the source of this shaking: Goodness knows how many semis boring down on us. Yeah. So I/Edo try to navigate through these, and then the dream ends.)

(And if you're wondering, it had been about six months since I last drove, and I wouldn't drive for another month after that. So I don't know. But it was strange, because it was all like a daydream like you would have during school trying to ignore the teacher without seeming like you're ignoring the teacher.))[/color]

[Danderson]

Just had a dream that I was being chased through a museum by a skellaton T. Rex (kind've like from Night at the Museum....except this museum was an art museum...and no, I did not make this up...that rex did not want to play fetch)

[Etoh*the*Greato]

Lots and lots of dreams last night about death, and dying, and the after world. Very few of them were pleasant. Eugh.

[itch]

My wife said that I was yelling something last night in my sleep, and she distinctly heard me yelling "Get Out!". Then she said that I woke up prior to that gasping for air, as though I had been choked...that I kinda remember...only for the fact that my throat was hurting as though I had either swallowed the "wrong" way during my sleep which caused that to happen or I was having a dream that I was drowning or being physically choked?? That's a blur, but it scared the hockey out of her...and me when she told me about it.

That be pretty weird if someone ever died from choking on their spit in a dream. It seems like your mind caused you to react that way in the dream to save you from really choking. That's awesome.

[itch]

Just had a dream that I was being chased through a museum by a skellaton T. Rex (kind've like from Night at the Museum....except this museum was an art museum...and no, I did not make this up...that rex did not want to play fetch)

Did you watch that movie recently?

[itch]

Lots and lots of dreams last night about death, and dying, and the after world. Very few of them were pleasant. Eugh.

Mmm, that sucks. Did you wake up with anxiety? Did you go to bed or eat late the night before?

[ashfire]

You might call this a nightmare.
I'm in my bed and I hear what sounds like something destructive coming toward my house. Its ether wind or I think of a nuclear explosion.
I roll out of bed on to the floor as my bed is upended and over the top of me.
I guess when you live near Washington DC anything could come up in your sleep.

[itch]

You might call this a nightmare.
I'm in my bed and I hear what sounds like something destructive coming toward my house. Its ether wind or I think of a nuclear explosion.
I roll out of bed on to the floor as my bed is upended and over the top of me.
I guess when you live near Washington DC anything could come up in your sleep.

Hmm, that is very strange. Did you really roll out of bed?

[ashfire]

No. I did that in the nightmare.
I found some info that was on Yahoo about nightmares and dreams. I saved it but have not read it yet.
Plus this Sunday the comic strip Luann had her talking to her friend about her dream or nightmare and the artist depicted it in the comic strip.
If I knew how to do it I would try to get it on the fourm.

[Etoh*the*Greato]

Mmm, that sucks. Did you wake up with anxiety? Did you go to bed or eat late the night before?

I dunno. Probably. I'm not sure if that was the night where I had some caffeine late or not. I also get really bad nightmares when I get even slightly chilly.
Also, man, you can edit your posts so you don't need to multipost. ^-^

[itch]

Also, man, you can edit your posts so you don't need to multipost. ^-^

Huh?

[ashfire]

Well another crazy dream. I feel I am hungry and ended up in a closed restaurant to cook something to eat. I find myself sitting at nicely set table ready to eat when I see people outside. I open the door for them. I look back inside and the dining area is dark. I walk back inside and the dining area is lite back up but a big mess. Bare plywood around the walls, blue peeling paint off the ceiling.
I go in the kitchen and food all over the place. I walk back out into the dining area and a female deputy sheriff rushs in. I am wearing a fire dept uniform coat raise my hands and she rushs past me and drops a woman who walks in from my left and cuffs her. My dream ends.

[HiddenWoodchuck]

I noticed someone, I think it was darkelfgirl? They mentioned one of the things they have dreamed about is tornadoes... while I haven't had any dreams about it lately, that I can remember, I used to dream about tornadoes so much... from when I was very little, even before I saw the movie "Twister" LOL and I never understood why... they only stopped around 2 years ago, maybe less. I used to dream I was falling a lot when I was about 5, and I would wake up on the floor, from really falling out of bed.... it was pretty funny. I have had dreams a lot like that... like ones where I fall into the ocean, but I wake up wet from knocking over a water bottle... luckily I am not so restless anymore I don't think haha... the only thing now is I dream about a phone ringing and I never get to it... I wonder when I wake up if it was mine...

[ChristianKitsune]

A lot of my dreams lately seem almost prophetic..:/

Like when I went camping with Doe Johnson. I dreamed the night before that we would get into a car accident on our way there.

Well we stopped at a town 3 hours from her house to eat at Denny's and when we leave, we did get into an accident when a 17 year old girl hit us on the driver's side. Thankfully it was a little different from my dream...where we were involved in a head on collision...but still that was really freaky. O_o

[mitsuki lover]

I had a dream involving a tree with a pretty girl in a silk dress on each branch.

[LadyRushia]

Two nights ago, I had a dream that my D-team at church went into this sandwhich shop in Pennsylvania where Okami worked(she doesn't live in Pennsylvania by the way). I went up to the counter where she was(she had long hair and purple streaks in the front) and she asked me stuff. Then I stared at her for awhile and was like, "Christian Anime Alliance?" At one point I shouted, "Okami salami!" and Okami was like "Yeah, that's what she calls me -_-;;"

Then we were all at her house and she had these really wide green-carpeted steps and I was sitting next to them in a leather chair watching The Office, not knowing where everyone else went. Then I went up the stairs and found everyone. The next thing I remember is we were all downstairs and Okami was talking, but she didn't look anything like she does in real life and I thought, "Hey, she doesn't look 17. . ."

Last night/this morning I had a dream that I was talking to Ashley, and she had her icon over her face like a mask(it was like she printed the picture out, attached a rubber band to it, and put it on her face, XD). I think we were in some Greek-looking place where it was all dark and we were sitting on these leather couches. Then she got up and turned on a light, but her back was facing me and there was a shadow partially covering her(we've all seen those dramatic shots in anime). Then she was like, "Rushia. . ." and proceeded to tell me something really important which I forgot, and then my Chinese host mom was suddenly there and we decided to go swimming.

Yeah, that's two CAA related dreams in a row, XD.

[~darkelfgirl~]

It happened again last night.

This time it was after the plane crash, and there was debris and corpses, body parts in a part of our backyard. In the dream, we called the National Airlines whatever or (whoever's responsible for these things) several times and told them about it but they never came.

I don't even remember how the dream ended. It's so hard to see the end of the dream because you're not even aware that you've had the dream until you wake up.

[Danderson]

Again, my dreams are starting to turn into soap operas.......I dreamed I was sitting down to lunch with a very good friend (from real life) at a place that reminded me of Starbucks....We talked about things, though I don't remember all the conversation....All I remember is that her eyes were an orangish red color (which is not the color of her eyes at all), and near the end of the dream I was asking her these questions, but she wouldn't answer....she just stared back........Twas really creepy......

But, then again, it's always creepy when I have a dream with any friend involved......

[KBMaster]

I had a dream I was late for my ACT, I forgot my no. 2 pencil and accidentally brought a pen, and I also forgot my calculator. I wasn't nervous before; I certainly am now!

[bakura_fan]

Well I had two dreams last night. I'll do my best to describe em.

The first dream I was in this weird building that had like every kind of shop in it, it was also a hotel, and airport...weird combo. Anyway...I dreamed that I went outside of this building and there were these two guys. They both had these weird personality disorders. The first guy would go from 1) pulling his knife on me, intending to kill me, 2) keeping his knife out only for the chance to rape me, 3) put his knife away and collaborate with his partner (who also had a weird personality change), 4) leave me be. The second guy was like 1) guilt ridden, 2) seeking the thrill, 3) indifferent, 4) maniac (attacking anything he saw, including his partner). They changed every few seconds....This happened at two different times in the dream. The first time the cops drove by and scared em off. The second time they succeeded in capturing me, but Micah and two of his bro's followed and found me. The police came by saying they were arresting all of us (even the innocent one's because we were still with a "gang") I yelled "but I was kidnapped!" the cops said "oh, well will just run some tests on you". So everyone was arrested, and I was put in confinement, put under lie detectors, IQ tests, and other weird things, each time One of the two cops was always trying to distract me so I would fail the tests. I don't remember what happened after that.


The second one I was at an amusement park...but it was weird, instead of paying before, you paid after. So like on this one ride at the end there was this long line to pay for the park, and they had all these weird type pinball like machines. I'd played a couple, but this other one intrigued me. It had a whole collection of marbles at the top, and the goal was to clear all 500 of em. Well I figured it was worth a shot. Somehow I was able to get every single marble to fall. I got like this ticket that showed I had won. I ran to the front of the line to present my ticket. They verified it and brought it this really small tupperware type thing with bejewled silver dragon figures inside, no bigger than 3 inches in length. I picked up the one I wanted, and once I touched it it became this really cheep imitation stuffed animal of the sculpture. So I put it down and tried the others, the same thing happened each time. I just took the first one and continued on my way. (guess they just let me go without paying? *shrugs*)

wonder what they mean?...if anything.

[Nall]

I think I'll share a few dreams I've had.
When I lived in Missoula Montana the one thing I learned is it was impossible for any tornados to exist. But every once in a while I'd have a dream where I'd hear strong winds, or for no reason I'd just look outside, and I see a big tornado, usually on one of the mountains. One dream, I tried to outrun a tornado, but I think I failed, and the dream ended. When I moved to Denver, I had a dream, that took place in Denver, I looked outside and saw this tornado that set fire to everything it touched. Most of these are hard to call Nightmares, but they are kind of scary.

My most recent one I lived in a house and there were a lot of trees, I think just outside of a small town. I think I was married as well, or maybe she was just someone I knew involved in my dream, I'm not sure. There were mountains all around us. For some reason every mountain started on fire. the fires grew huge. It was kind of frightening. Then the dream ended.

so many years ago I also had a few violent dreams, as if they came from a horror movie. I'm only comfortable sharing one, all I remember is this person in an enclosed area who was gonna be killed by a terrorist. But the dream ended before anything happened. That one was upsetting to wake up from.

[SolidÃ…rmor]

A nightmare I had not too long ago really had me jittering. The dream goes like this: I was waking up in the middle of the nite to go to the bathroom, and no one is home. It's just me. Well, it's really dark and as I'm opening my bedroom door I peek my head out to see if there is anyone else home. As I do this (now mind you my room is on the second floor, with the stairs just to the right of the door and the game room straight ahead and the bathroom is all the way toward the front of the house and I'd have to go around the banister to get to it. Along the way is the guest bedroom that I can see from my room) in the darkness I can see the door to the guest bedroom open up and a shadowy'esque figure coming out of the room. I mean this was a terrifying sight....I could see it's hands grasping each side of the door and then what like the form of a "Protoss Zealot" from StarCraft peeking it's head through the doorway...2 glowing red eyes looking around. I then pulled myself back into my room and as quietly as possible closed the door and proceeded to slink under my bed. As I just squeezed under I could hear some really heavy footsteps approaching my room...then the sound of the door knob turning and then opening.

I woke up and couldn't go back to sleep after that.

[RidleyofZebes]

I have this recurring dream where I'll have to "go" really bad. Then I see a toilet sitting out somewhere (in the middle of a public place O_o;;; ) and decide to relieve myself. (Sometimes, the dream starts with me on the pot, but rarely...) Anyway, while I'm "sittin' on the throne", people will come by and stare at me or laugh. And sometimes, my mom or someone will tell me that there's a restroom nearby I could have used. Problem is, I can't get up until I'm done. I'm always thoroughly embarrassed. The two locations of the toilets that I remember well are 1)On a display rack in Big Lots (there was no water in the toilet) and 2)In the middle of the Dining room at my workplace (how it got installed there I don't know).

Needless to say, these dreams are very disturbing...

[itch]

I've often had dreams about that too. I hate those. I heard that if someone dreams about being naked in front of other people and they are embarrassed about it, then that means they care about what those people think about them.

Dreams can really be embarrassingly revealing.

[ashfire]

CBS Sunday Morning Show had a segment on sleep studies and it went in to dreams and nightmares and their meanings and what people can do to make nightmares into dreams.

[itch]

CBS, huh? I'll see if I can find it on Youtube.