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Dreams: Does this happen to anyone else?

Discussion in 'Non-Vegas Chat' started by Happygirl21, Jan 5, 2020.

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  1. Happygirl21

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    Sometimes I have the most vivid, seems- like-it's- really-happening dreams, well honestly, not dreams, but more like nightmares or horrific happenings.

    I work midnights and I fell asleep about 90 mins ago and just woke up having, (again), an unspeakable "dream/ nightmare" that involved one of my children. This time it was my 24 yr old daughter.

    When I wake from these "nightmares" I am feeling frantic, my heart is racing, I am usually, literally, crying etc. It sounds and feels crazy! Then this God awful feeling sticks with me a while. It's hard to shake sometimes.

    Sadly, I find it's happening more often than I think it should.

    To be honest, it's kind of starting to freak me out a little. Just wondering if this happens to other folks?

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    One sleepy, not so happy, Happygirl.
     
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    Oh yeah! If I ever talked about them with others, they might have me committed.
     
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    It's especially fun when the old ticker is a bit suspect to begin with.
     
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  4. Happygirl21

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    Really? Seriously?

    If you're being serious, thank you! It makes me feel that much better knowing it doesn't only happen to me :( and I'll add, I'm sorry you experience this too! Because I'm telling you, this shit is bat ass crazy :)
     
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  5. SloggingScotsman

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    Short answer...no.

    But I can remember most dreams I have quite vividly at least for a short time. They never distress me though.

    What you write Happygirl, reminds me, and please forgive me for this in case it hits a real raw nerve, but what you describe sounds remarkably similar to (alien) abduction accounts, which have been commonly reported by (especially) Americans over the years. If so you are far from alone. Don’t have any first hand experience myself, but I do know people who do remember/claim such experiences. The trauma is visible even when they recollect accounts from decades ago. John Mack, a Harvard psychiatrist wrote some good books on it. That does happen to many people (whatever is causing it, and who John Mack confirmed were completely sane).

    Not saying that is you happygirl, just the children, females, dread, fear, etc rung a bell. Whatever is causing your distress I hope you manage to resolve it. On the bright side, there does appear to be a positive correlation with intuitive skillsets.
     
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    Most of my dreams I would describe as sitcoms of my life and those around me.

    Most often silly situations of mundane importance.

    Sometimes including relatives long passed as if alive.

    I dream of Las Vegas occasionally, often set in the Lady Luck area downtown for some stupid reason.

    Only bad dream I have that is recurring is variations on the theme of walking in to a final exam in high school or college, very confident of ace-ing it and when the test is handed out having no clue as to any of the answers.

    That or for some reason, blowing off attending class and showing up for the final expecting to ace it!

    Ok, dream analysts, have at it! :)
     
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    Dreams are the most entertaining part of my life.

    Some are better than movies, with plots and sub-plots, betrayals, redemptions. Some are about war, vivid, frightening. Some are encounters with dead people I have known. I wake up sometimes and say "That was just amazing! How do these things that I have never experienced in waking life be so vivid and profound?"

    I dream each and every time I sleep. If I doze off for 5 minutes, I will have a dream in that time.
     
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    Minus the amazing part, I've said the same thing, more or less, to myself upon waking. But usually it's preceded by, "what the f**k was that?".
     
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    I don’t have the same exact dream over and over but I do get recurring themes or set in the same “universe”. A semi common one is I am in vegas but it’s not recognizable as vegas as known in the real world but I’m aware I’m in vegas and in a casino. I’m always anxious in this one like where it’s the end of a trip and I’ve hardly played. I rush around trying to find a table or machine to play. The tables are always having weird minimums too. Like one half of Craps! table will be 15 and the other 3. Then a roulette table will have an 8 dollar minimum. Sometimes I’ll be playing dice and winning but it’s random colored chips, no idea what I am actually betting.
     
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    LOL!

    Quote of the day here! :)
     
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    I am sure that we all have horrible dreams, but fortunately, we don't remember them. The only sign is if we wake up with our heart pounding. I often say no wonder people die in their sleep----they have been scared to death by their dreams.

    My recurring dream is that I have to go to the bathroom and I can't find one that is open or usable. I have now learned to wake myself up because I do have to go to the bathroom in real life.
     
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    Almost all my dreams involve sex. Wonder what that says about me.
     
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    If I drank a lot the night before (but very little water) to the point that I'm dehydrated, I'll sometimes have a dream where I keep drinking water but can't quench my thirst. Then I'll wake up parched as hell and slug down a huge glass of water....so satisfying.

    I've also had variations on the college and messy bathroom and weird gambling dreams that dmr and queuetee and bayou mentioned. Also one where I lose my current job (which I like) and have to go back to my old job (which I did not like).

    So the dreams I have that could be considered "bad" dreams are not of the "this is completely terrifying" variety, but more so the "oh shit, this sucks" variety.
     
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    I often dream that I have a sweet, very pretty girlfriend, we kiss and do all of the affectionate stuff, but we never have sex.
     
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    I have vivid dreams all the time. Some are nightmares most are just odd. When one stays with I'll tell my family which gives them a kick. A couple of nights ago I dreamed an old friend and I climbed to the snow covered top of a mountain. Adam Sandler shows up and throws my friend off the mountain. Then says he has to go and slides down the mountain off a cliff lands in a bank of snow and walks away while I'm trying figure out how to get down. Then I wake up wtf
     
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    Yeah, Sandler is a dick. IMHO S
     
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    That's the only meaning I got out of it
     
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    I'd like to suggest that you enlist the advice of a health care professional that specializes in putting these types of dreams (nightmares) in perspective.

    Usually most people will shake off a weird dream or soon forget about it but you mentioned it bothers you and worries you after you've had these dreams.

    Take care and Best Wishes in finding a solution to this.
     
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    Has the dream diary been mentioned yet? Consider keeping a dream diary (bound 100-page notebook so the pages don't snarl up/fall out) and writing down what you remember. Then run it by a friend/practitioner to maybe get more of the picture.
     
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    I had a stretch where I took a Rx sleeping aid -
    It did help me "sleep" -
    But my dreams became very different than previous.
    They were more intense, crazier plot twists or action , etc.
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    One day I mentioned this to a buddy -
    He said, " Oh yeh ! I took that stuff and quit taking it after I had
    a dream where I was sitting on a toilet - and crossing the bridge in 3 lanes of traffic -
    and I had a plunger in my hand, in the center lane, doing 65 mph."
    *** After I picked myself off the floor from laughing ! ****
    I slowly quit taking the sleeping aid, too.
    .
    Are you taking a sleeping aid ?
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    Thru the years -
    I have tried to keep a Dream Diary -
    It always failed
    I didn't want to start writing a journal of my current dream at 2:30 am .
    I'd be up all night !
    Plus.....most of the dream was impossible to express in writing,anyway ?
    And by 7 am I either forgot the dream or most of it, to enter into a diary.
    .
     
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