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DeviantlyD -> RE: Dreams... (10/9/2011 6:36:29 PM)
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ORIGINAL: soul2share
I dream in full color, movie length epic adventures! No, really......the detail in some of my dreams is amazing, yet there are dreams where I'm with a person that I appear to know intimately, yet, they have no face. I don't have nightmares much, when I do, it's usually because I'm stressed and shit "gets through". My sister and I have had nearly identical dreams about a half dozen times in our lives, and when that happens, it's usually involves death or injury to anyone in it. We knew our grandma was going to die about a week before she actually did...which sucked, cuz I was 9 and my sister 8, we thought it was just a nightmare.
The disturbing dreams I have involve signals pointing to a loss of control on my part. The most realistic one is where my teeth are literally crumbling out of my gums. And I can FEEL each little piece of tooth rolling around in my mouth, and each one breaking apart. The first thing I do when I wake up is run my tongue over my teeth...just checking, yanno! And the other one involves me chewing gum.....it continually gets stuck on my teeth, and I have to reach in and pull it off my teeth.....and I can feel the sensations of putting my fingers in my mouth and the tugging to remove the gum.
Also, whenever I've been training for a new dispatching position, I've often woke myself up dispatching cops and typing on a keyboard. I can actually hear the radio and see the computer equipment in front of me.
Usually, the only time I have exotic or erotic dreams is when I've taken benedryl or something else to help me sleep. Again, I feel all the sensations from the dream...I once dreamt I was getting beaten, and I swear I felt every little swat! I even woke up with that sense of euphoria I have after getting beaten. Is that skeery or what?
Last but not least, and I'm not sure what kind of dream category this falls under, but I actually "dream" that I'm sleeping. I know I'm not toally asleep, it's usually when my insomnia is so bad I toss and turn all night, and I "wake" up, not really sure if I'd been asleep in the first place.
Oh I know about the teeth dream, 'cause I've had it myself, although it's been a considerable amount of time since I've experienced it. As I've mentioned, I rarely have nightmares anymore. Anything that might come close has to do with something at work and how my boss is a bitch about it. Then I wake up and surprise! My boss is still a bitch! *LOL*
I don't think the euphoria you wake up with is scary. I've experienced similar with my dreams. :)
The last one? Yup. I've had those too. And that reminds me of the pee dreams, just before waking up, where I dream I'm on the toilet. Then I wake up and think "fuck....I gotta get out of bed and go to the bathroom". Obviously a full bladder inspires that one. ;)
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ORIGINAL: Delilya
I have had night terrors all my life. My dreams, whether pleasant or not, are always vivid. I keep a pen and notebook by the bed and as I wake at night jot them down. My sleep is sporadic, and once awake have trouble going back, so writing gives me something to do.
The feeling evoked in some of them stay with me through the day and can be a real mood challenge sometimes. I've heard that with recurring dreams you can imagine the outcome different and change it, but have never had any luck doing it.
Wow, I feel for ya. I've never experienced night terrors, but from what I've heard described about them, they sound horrendous.
The latter part is lucid dreaming. There are books out there that provide exercises on how to perform it. I have one that I started reading, but need to get back to. Perhaps you should look into training your mind to do lucid dreaming. I know that in the book I have, controlling night terrors is one of the examples the author cites as using lucid dreaming productively.
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ORIGINAL: TheFireWithinMe
Since I've been taking coated Naprosyn I've been having these really vivid, WTF dreams that just leave me shaking my head.
There are drugs that will do that. I am not going to name it, but one drug I was on for a while gave me the wildest, most vivid dreams I'd had. They were truly messed up. And I enjoyed them immensely. :D Then I read about the potential negative side effects of this drug, when I was looking into the connect between my dreams and the drug. I stopped using it. I miss the dreams, but even the slightest bit of risk wasn't worth it to me, particularly as the drug was not effective. That reminds me of a whole other thing - pharmacogenetics - a field of study as to the genetics of how drugs are metabolized in our bodies. I am fairly certain I'm an ubermetabolizer for one class of drugs. They have zero effect on me.
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ORIGINAL: JstAnotherSub
I have insane dreams that make no sense at all when I try to piece them together the next day. Most of the time they are silly, or, if stressed at work, I will dream something like I am pushing a cart full of bread over a pothole filled dirt road, while the kids are starving at the school-lol.
One of my least favorite and favorite dreams involves loved ones I have lost. At first, I always have dreams about them where I am sad and hurting. After a period of time, usually a couple of years or so, I will dream that I see them at the house I was raised in. They are all happy and such, and I am saying you can't be happy, you died. They always reply, "Yeah, but I got better".
After I fuss about that being a dirty trick to pull, we sit back and talk, and all is well. I believe it is the beginning of healing, and I believe that it is them, letting me know it is ok.
It started when my dad died, in 85, and, as others pass away, the crowd in the house I was raised in gets bigger.
It is disturbing, then comforting. Kinda like life.
That is very cool.
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