Strange Dreams

[Cricketman]

I hate it when you're having a fantastic dream, having a great time until you figure out that you are dreaming. The rest of the dream turns really strange until you eventually wake up.

Or when you are having an amazing dream and the alarm goes off/someone wakes you up. You try and go back to sleep and 'think' of the dream again, but it isn't the same...

 

[TumTum]

my nightmares are usually

- Falling off a mountain
- Teeth Falling Out
- Getting hit by a bus / train / car etc.

each has its own after effects.

falling off a mountain is the worst of em. heartbeats and sweaty like i just finished a marathon !

I forget what the others mean, but if you are dreaming of your teeth falling out, it means you have low self esteem and worried about your appearance. It has nothing to do with your teeth.

 

[ZoraxDoom]

Falling off a mountain or cliff or just falling tends to represent feeling a lack of control over what is happening in your life.

Getting hit by an oncoming object tends to mean you have some date or deadline approaching and aren't prepared for it.


For the record, a dream where you're being chased means there is a lingering problem or issue (which manifests itself in what's chasing you) that you don't want to face or haven't face but you know you will have to eventually.

I've had all three of the above dreams at different times, and I knew why I was having them once I woke up. Knowing what they represented helped me resolve the issue better.

So if you do have reoccurring dreams like above, try analysing them in this light.


And if you do have a reoccurring dream which isn't explained above, sit down and analyse it. Examine how you feel while in process of dreaming the dream (Fear, anger, anxiety, panic, impatience) and think about what situations or events in your life triggers those sort of emotions. Accordingly, you should quickly figure out what your dreams are trying to tell you.


Currently I have bizarre dreams every night, usually regarding what I was thinking of before going to bed. Sometimes I'm running around scoring goals or taking wickets, sometimes I'm making breakthroughs in any problems or puzzles I have in my day to day life. I once dreamt about me trying to solve a Rubik's cube when I was actually trying to figure out how to solve a Rubik's cube. Sometimes I'm telling off people I hate or talking to the girl of my dreams or going bungee jumping or sky diving or just randomly running amok in a city...

I love dreaming.

 

[TumTum]

When I was a kid I had 2 reoccuring dreams.

- I am in an underground metro and the station is all marble. The tracks have a 3rd rail (not a cable on top). Suddenly the floor starts to move sideways and I am sliding on the slipery surface. Then I eventually fall onto the tracks, get electrocuted and then ran over by a train.

- I am sleeping in my own bed, and I can hear a big breathing noise outside my window, I look outside and it's a tweaking T-Rex about to eat me :laugh

But they are all history. No doubt they were because of fear.

ATM my worst reoccuring dreams involve me sleeping in bed having panic attacks and I can't scream. I don't know why I am screaming, maybe because ... I don't know I just start screaming lying in bed at night for whatever reason. Of course this is all in my dreams. But then I wake up (in my dream) and think its all normal. Then I suddenly realise the panic attack returns and I can't scream even if I try. Then I literally wake up (in real life) and then I try screaming again and then I know I woke up because I let out a wierd shreik that echos through the room (there are no echo's in dreams). And of course my heart is racing at this point.

Can someone try telling me what this means?

My thoughts are it's because I have no say/control over my life or environment.

 

[Pranav]

I usually get those naughty dreams.

Nightmare dreams are common as well. Though, not common as the ones mentioned above!

@TumTum : REM sleep = Random Eye Motion sleep?

 

[Ollie_H]

I usually get those naughty dreams.

Nightmare dreams are common as well. Though, not common as the ones mentioned above!

@TumTum : REM sleep = Random Eye Motion sleep?

REM = Rapid Eye Movement, it's the period of sleep when you are most active, a sleep cylce usually lasts for about 90 minutes, which involed normal sleep, then REM and normal sleep I believe.

 

[Pranav]

REM = Rapid Eye Movement

I was close.

 

[Kshitiz_Indian]

I hate nightmares. Have had loads of types, can't even remember how many now. All sorts of things, chased by ghosts, deadly creatures, failing in an exam, in fact once I dreamt I was sitting in an exam and know nothing. When I woke up I was feeling so miserable. I've had loads of dreams of mishaps as well, sometimes crying over my own family (including me) dying, or something rather dreadful happening to me or my loved ones. Whenever I wake up after such a dream, I can hardly sleep that night.

Have had naughty dreams as well. Don't really enjoy them when sometimes I start speaking them aloud.

I've tried to analyse some of the reoccuring dreams, and many have made sense quite a while. Usually my dreams are just what I was thinking about before going to sleep, given evidence by the fact that I have naughty dreams on certain occasions (), sometimes I dream of me trying to cast a patronus in the face of a dementor(and failing), whenever I read sleeping Harry Potter. I only get the kinda scary type when I sleep after watching some horror flick / television program / or after hearing some freak stories in those long nights.

I've had the "I'm falling!" sensation loads of times, and hate it. I don't generally have a vision of me falling, just the sensation. Wakes you up at odd hours of the night.

 

[treva]

Zorax = Psychiatrist?

I only really remember one dream, and it was the scariest of all. When I was about 5 I had a dream where I was getting chased around the house by an evil vacuum cleaner. So Mr. Psychiatrist, analise that

 

[ZoraxDoom]

I like psychology, yes.


I think your dream was a few of not having cleaned your room/doing your chores. Makes sense. Something that represents the vacuum cleaner and would seem scary to a 5 year old.

 

[treva]

Was probably about having to do the hoovering. I never cleaned my room up and still don't.

Apart from that dream the only others I can remember are involving characters from 'NCIS'. That'll because I am an 'NCIS' neard and have seen every episode of series 1 to 5 about 3 times

 

[Manly]

Trev you hovered?

 

[treva]

Easy mistake to make, cut us some slack.

 

[BKB1991]

Have had naughty dreams as well. Don't really enjoy them when sometimes I start speaking them aloud.

LOL.
Reading this thread makes me realize how lucky I am that I dont have scary dreams, or recurring ones now. Do remember a few scary ones when I was a kid. The most scary ones, IIRC were I had a tiger chasing me in my own backyard. Pretty Dam Realistic and ended up with me screaming :o (I was under 10, Ok). When I used to read the Potter books, I also remember having good ol'Voldy chasing me on a station. Running for my life and I could have sworn I felt myself sweating.
Usually forget most of my dreams in the morning
Any reason Zorax?

 

[TumTum]

Usually forget most of my dreams in the morning
Any reason Zorax?

It's just a normal nightmare. Doesn't really mean anything.

You forget your dreams in the morning because either:

a) Your dream wasn't intense enough and you are not interested about it.

b) After your REM sleep phase, you had a long enough Deep sleep phase so your dream's imprint on your memory was almost gone when you woke up.

TumTum added 0 Minutes and 56 Seconds later...

That is why people remember their dream best when you are suddenly woken up while dreaming.