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what causes them? (in your opinion of course)

Last night I had a ton of nightmares, the evening started off with a very twitchy sleep, and about every 3 minutes I felt like someone was trying to kill me... which actually coincided with my husband turning over and the blanket brushing me (or once when I was apparently talking in my sleep him trying to wake me up) I don't remember saying anything awake or asleep last night, but my husband claims I did...and I yelled at him for hitting me (which he didn't do)

Then about 2am I started in with the nightmares, or well, one really big nightmare that ran through all my other dreams, and some pretty weird dreams, and now I am awake 3 hours late but can't remember what I was supposed to do today... my husband says it's Sunday is that right?

It is sunday

Yes it's Sunday Smunkee. Just relax, do something you like then sleep for a little while.

I haven't been able to sleep right for so long, I can't remember I had a nice good sleep. either i'm unable to sleep, or its filled with weird and scary shit.

too many Lynch-movies prehaps....

what causes them? (in your opinion of course)

Last night I had a ton of nightmares, the evening started off with a very twitchy sleep, and about every 3 minutes I felt like someone was trying to kill me... which actually coincided with my husband turning over and the blanket brushing me (or once when I was apparently talking in my sleep him trying to wake me up) I don't remember saying anything awake or asleep last night, but my husband claims I did...and I yelled at him for hitting me (which he didn't do)

Then about 2am I started in with the nightmares, or well, one really big nightmare that ran through all my other dreams, and some pretty weird dreams, and now I am awake 3 hours late but can't remember what I was supposed to do today... my husband says it's Sunday is that right?

I used to believe that I couldn't fall asleep without nightmares, so I made up nightmares for myself. This started when I was about five or six. Eventually, when I started waking up nauseous from the nightmares that followed the ones I made up, I changed and realized that what I really needed to do was make up dreams with a plotline to keep my mind occupied so that I can sleep, while not making the dreams as violent or painful as they had once been. Now I feel better.

hey, if it's Sunday I am probably supposed to be at church right?

realized that what I really needed to do was make up dreams with a plotline to keep my mind occupied
God, my dreams always have these hugely elaborate plotlines, it's completely exhausting. Plus, when you wake up and think back to it, most of it didn't even make sense, in that typical "But it made sense in the dream!" way dreams have... :rolleyes:

God, my dreams always have these hugely elaborate plotlines, it's completely exhausting. Plus, when you wake up and think back to it, most of it didn't even make sense, in that typical "But it made sense in the dream!" way dreams have... :rolleyes:
Things always make sense in dreams. Just the other night I dreamed that someone I live with had kidnapped two dogs that had been keeping him awake and was keeping them in his room. So I set fire to them.

I rarely have nightmares. Used to have them quite a lot when I was a kid, but I seem to have grown out of them. Now I just have totally bizarre dreams.

hey, if it's Sunday I am probably supposed to be at church right?

That is up for debate :p ;)

That is up for debate :p ;)

I think considering my current mental state and the fact that my kids aren't here (which confused me further as to the day of the week) that it would either be really fun, or really not cool for me to show up to church this morning.....

That is up for debate :p ;)

yep. if you like, do it. I like to something worthwhile, like write or watch porn :D

Things always make sense in dreams. Just the other night I dreamed that someone I live with had kidnapped two dogs that had been keeping him awake and was keeping them in his room. So I set fire to them.
:eek:

And that doesn't qualify as a nightmare... how exactly?

For Smunkeeville: :fluffle:

I had a dream once that I had a job known as a 'looker'. I had to sit for weeks and stare at cathedrals, didn't get paid for it and had to do it. Oh, and while I was 'looking' I got tormented by chavs...

I dreamed I was back in high school...!

hey, if it's Sunday I am probably supposed to be at church right?
Probably, but there is nothing that says you have to.

God, my dreams always have these hugely elaborate plotlines, it's completely exhausting. Plus, when you wake up and think back to it, most of it didn't even make sense, in that typical "But it made sense in the dream!" way dreams have... :rolleyes:

But without one, my mind wanders everywhere and I can't get any sleep.

:eek:

And that doesn't qualify as a nightmare... how exactly?
Well...I don't consider it a nightmare. They didn't die, by the way, but they did shut the hell up.

I dreamed I was back in high school...!

god damnit! hope you survived!

what causes them? (in your opinion of course)


Certain types of food for one (spicy foods work really good)
I love nightmares (better than most of the crap at the video store) :p

Certain types of food for one (spicy foods work really good)
I love nightmares (better than most of the crap at the video store) :p

then you haven't watched the right ones. I could give you a few pointers if you like.

No nightmares for me, just really weird dreams...Anyone ever heard of a guy named Faiz?

The best way to look at nightmares are as interesting stories, that way they seem less scary.

No nightmares for me, just really weird dreams...Anyone ever heard of a guy named Faiz?
No...

But, I used to have dreams that my male siamese cat could talk... and we were lost in Florida...

I had a dream I went to communist summer camp and my bunkmate got shot by our Counsler.

I had a dream I went to communist summer camp and my bunkmate got shot by our Counsler.
Weird... really weird.

then you haven't watched the right ones. I could give you a few pointers if you like.

If you mean pr0n then the chic's in my dreams look better.
If you mean movies like MI3 where Tom Cruise's mission is to act his way out of a wet paper bag and fails miserably, yet again .....pass. :p

Weird... really weird.

yea whats worse is he wasn't even doing anything, the counsler just wanted to make an example of him.

Certain types of food for one (spicy foods work really good)
I love nightmares (better than most of the crap at the video store) :p

I did eat some spicey food just before bed....

I did eat some spicey food just before bed....
That'll do it, especially if it was mexican. I don't know why but mexican food is just the worst thing before bed.

That'll do it, especially if it was mexican. I don't know why but mexican food is just the worst thing before bed.

....guilty.

I feel less weird now though, thanks.

If you mean pr0n then the chic's in my dreams look better.
If you mean movies like MI3 where Tom Cruise's mission is to act his way out of a wet paper bag and fails miserably, yet again .....pass. :p

no I mean films like serenity and the firefly series, and dead mans shoes, and on and on and on... does this thing have PM- system or some such? maybe we should take it there.

That'll do it, especially if it was mexican. I don't know why but mexican food is just the worst thing before bed.

Italian works great too! Enjoy! http://www.postsmile.com/img/emotions/224.gif

I don't have nightmares often, but when I do, they are terrifying. Even thinking about the one I had several months ago still gives me butterflies. I've never experienced such terror. :eek:

no I mean films like serenity and the firefly series, and dead mans shoes, and on and on and on... does this thing have PM- system or some such? maybe we should take it there.

My PM thingy dosnt work. It says its full but there are only 2 messeges in it.

My PM thingy dosnt work. It says its full but there are only 2 messeges in it.

ok. we'll figure out something if you're interested.

i had a dream i went on a date with my friends sister and she was very controlling and bitchy. we went to a movie where i got in a fight with some random guy and then she tells me this wasnt really a date, but some how i hooked up with some other chick at the movie.

it was very odd

I absolutely love nightmares. There simply is no other form of entertainment that is more entertaining than them.

Here's a good tip to getting some strange nightmares: Eat a lot just before going to bed, set your alarm clock to wake you up at some point in the middle of the night, and when it does, go right back to sleep. After that you should be seeing some weird stuff.

I used to suffer from terrible nightmares until I started to read about lucid dreaming techniques. As soon as I started to have a nightmare I'd know I was dreaming and that there was no reason to be afraid.

Also, being able to have some control of your dreams is awesome. You can fly, and have sex with celebrities and stuff. My favourite thing is being able to put my thumb in my mouth and blow my hand up like a rubber glove and wave it about.. It is the wierdest and most coolest feeling ever.

I absolutely love nightmares. There simply is no other form of entertainment that is more entertaining than them.


the problem last night is I was unable to figure out if they were real or not, which is not a good position to be in when you have a serial killer stalking you....

what causes them? (in your opinion of course)

Last night I had a ton of nightmares, the evening started off with a very twitchy sleep, and about every 3 minutes I felt like someone was trying to kill me... which actually coincided with my husband turning over and the blanket brushing me (or once when I was apparently talking in my sleep him trying to wake me up) I don't remember saying anything awake or asleep last night, but my husband claims I did...and I yelled at him for hitting me (which he didn't do)

Then about 2am I started in with the nightmares, or well, one really big nightmare that ran through all my other dreams, and some pretty weird dreams, and now I am awake 3 hours late but can't remember what I was supposed to do today... my husband says it's Sunday is that right?

Dreams are caused by your brain in essence "Deleting" old, unused memory functions. They for some reason, seem to be assembled in patterns in most people. It seems the more a person reads, the more realistic the dream is (Thats what my Psych teacher told me once...)

Anyway, maybe you had a scary thought that manifested itself in your dream?

That'll do it, especially if it was mexican. I don't know why but mexican food is just the worst thing before bed.

Hmm, perhaps it's the spice?

For many people, going to bed with the sensation of spicey foods in their mouths causes discomfort, resulting in nightmars.

i once dreamed Ben Afleck won an oscar for acting

terrifying

Bizarrely enough, I had vampires in my dreams last night...how odd.

what causes them? (in your opinion of course)

Last night I had a ton of nightmares, the evening started off with a very twitchy sleep, and about every 3 minutes I felt like someone was trying to kill me... which actually coincided with my husband turning over and the blanket brushing me (or once when I was apparently talking in my sleep him trying to wake me up) I don't remember saying anything awake or asleep last night, but my husband claims I did...and I yelled at him for hitting me (which he didn't do)

Then about 2am I started in with the nightmares, or well, one really big nightmare that ran through all my other dreams, and some pretty weird dreams, and now I am awake 3 hours late but can't remember what I was supposed to do today... my husband says it's Sunday is that right?

OMG! You've been attacked by a memory-stealer! RUN! :D

I tend to only have nightmares if Ive been overly concerned about something for too long. The nightmares I get though have no apparant literal connection to whatever Ive been stressing about so it took me a long time to make any kind of tenuos connection to the two things. When I was busy obsessing about some real problem I didnt have the extra attention span needed to also worry about the nightmares and when I had the extra attention to pay to dreams they werent nightmares.

I havent had many nightmares the last few years *knocks on wood* but when I did they were macabre horribly violent things and nothing nice at all.

the problem last night is I was unable to figure out if they were real or not, which is not a good position to be in when you have a serial killer stalking you....

I think THAT is more likely to give you nightmares than food... have you reported him/her?

I didn't have any nightmares last night. Which is odd, considering that the rain was pattering on my window in a way that sounded exactly like that girl from The Grudge.

I think THAT is more likely to give you nightmares than food... have you reported him/her?

in my dream, a serial killer was stalking me... but it was hard for me Saturday night to figure out that it was a dream.

last night i had a series of nightmares where i was attacked by a dog, and killed several times...

last night i had a series of nightmares where i was attacked by a dog, and killed several times...

You see, what you should have done is inflated your hand and stroked the dogs..

It's working! It's working!

Hahahahahahaha! http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y223/GermanNightmare/bluesky.gif

This was my last odd dream:

I was in chemistry class. Quite normal. Doing an experiment on ligands by crystallising DNA. Fuck knows how, but OK. Mr. Sims talkign in his Yorkshire accent, nothing unnatural in that respect.

Then, some people come in the room and start playing with the Bacteria in my petri dish (In my later analsyis I assume that's where the DNA comes from) and I try and repel them. Unsucessfully.

After that Alice (who has some chronic Stomach thing and in my class last year) gets a really bad episode with her stomach so I take her to the medical bay. But oh noes! It's been closed and replaced with a huge pharmacy/drugstore.

So I help get her some medicine, as we did on Wednesday last week. So far, not too odd.

Then, on my own, I decide to drive up the tallest mountain in Bavaria. I get so far, and get stuck. I then see the ladder that makes it much easier. I frolic about and WHAM, I wake up.

Really odd at the end...

My dreams are fairly strange.Some are completely and utterly random.Like I had a dream I was being attacked by some random people dressed in black and all I had was my guitar,so I start playing on my guitar like I've never played before and everyone,including myself, is amazed at my guitar skills.The people in black stop for a second, so I proceed to start kicking the crap out of them,matrix style,all the while,playing my guitar like some crazy rock star.Oh yeah,then I was in the sky or something,and I started falling,and when I was about to hit the ground,I woke up,abruptly but oddly calm,as if I had just had the most wonderful dream.It was quite strange.

Also,I've had premonition dreams that come true...now, that's freaky shit.I used to get them all the time as a kid,and no-one would beleive me.

Usually it's really pointless,sometimes it's important events in my life.My first one that I can remember is watching the ending of 'The Truman Show'.You know,the one with Jim Carrey in it.Mabye it has a significance in the end,because I've rewatched that movie a couple of times just to see if there's some kind of deeper meaning behind seeing in my dreams.

It's funny though, if years later, you look around and you think to yourself,

"Holy crap...I'm in my dream!Again!"

Hard to describe the feeling,exactly.

I haven't had them for a while.I wish I would get them again...It's really cool to see into the future.

my worst nightmare was when I was sick... and feverish.

my dream consisted of me in a dark area... and the only sound I heard was my heartbeat.


after that illness, I learned to do lucid dreaming.

what causes them? (in your opinion of course)

Last night I had a ton of nightmares, the evening started off with a very twitchy sleep, and about every 3 minutes I felt like someone was trying to kill me... which actually coincided with my husband turning over and the blanket brushing me (or once when I was apparently talking in my sleep him trying to wake me up) I don't remember saying anything awake or asleep last night, but my husband claims I did...and I yelled at him for hitting me (which he didn't do)

Then about 2am I started in with the nightmares, or well, one really big nightmare that ran through all my other dreams, and some pretty weird dreams, and now I am awake 3 hours late but can't remember what I was supposed to do today... my husband says it's Sunday is that right?


I don't really have nightmares that much in the "scary" sense. I do have some really weird dreams though. Ever take a sleeping pill? Particularly Ambien? You are in for a wild ride of deranged dreams.

also, just a thought, maybe your husband is messing with you by whispering crazy stuff into your ear while you are dreaming. that actually works. :p

Last Night, I had two distinct dreams, which sort of bridged themeselves together somehow.

In Dream 1, the place I work became a spot in which time travel could take place. The key was, if you left the building into a time where the place didn't exist, the building would disappear. There were quite a few things from that particular dream that are still seared in my brain.

The second dream also had me at work, and I had come to find out that two friends of mine who I may or may not have ever been that close with died. I had one friend left. Weird, seeing as only two died. Anyways, it was really strange. :confused:

Also,I've had premonition dreams that come true...now, that's freaky shit.I used to get them all the time as a kid,and no-one would beleive me.

Usually it's really pointless,sometimes it's important events in my life.My first one that I can remember is watching the ending of 'The Truman Show'.You know,the one with Jim Carrey in it.Mabye it has a significance in the end,because I've rewatched that movie a couple of times just to see if there's some kind of deeper meaning behind seeing in my dreams.

It's funny though, if years later, you look around and you think to yourself,

"Holy crap...I'm in my dream!Again!"

Hard to describe the feeling,exactly.

I haven't had them for a while.I wish I would get them again...It's really cool to see into the future.

I've had a few of these. That tingly feeling of Deja Vu i get when my dream seems to have "come true" is definitely a strange but fun experience.

The best types of dreams I ever had, and it is very hard to do, is where I suddenly "wake up" in my dream, but am still in the dream. I am aware that I am dreaming, I am conscious in my subconscious. I am like a God but in my dream world. I can fly, distort objects, morph into whatever i want, transport instantly to wherever i want and even hear what is going on in the real world my body is asleep in. It is awesome!

I have only done it a couple times though. :( Maybe Virtual Reality will reach this level a hundred years from now.

I think dreams are just random peices of our subconcious that get thrown together and stick in wierd patterns.
I frequently dream I'm being chased. It used to scare me, but now they seem like quite an adventure.
I dreamed I was being chased buy a lesbian vampire with stainless steel teeth.
I also dreamed I was a mermaid that had to swim upstrem to rescue a merman.
All in the past week.
I also dream about family conflicts a lot.

Dude, the same day you posted this first was the first time I'd had a really weird dream in a while. I dreamed I had a beard. That wouldn't be so bad if I were a guy, but I had this stubble-beard - probably about the equivalent of a week's growth for my husband... plus a moustache a bit longer. I was standing in my bathroom next to my husband, looking at myself in the mirror, and wondering what to do about it. Should I shave it off, and what if I get like a 5 o'clock shadow and it keeps growing? I could pull it out painlessly, so I was thinking of pulling it all out - except it was going to take a long time, becuase it was really fine hair. And then I wondered if I should just leave it and see what people said.

Maybe my hair was over my face... maybe I was feeling my husband's face in my sleep... either way, it was a really werid dream, and I can't shake the picture.

Also,I've had premonition dreams that come true...now, that's freaky shit.I used to get them all the time as a kid,and no-one would beleive me.

Yeah, I used to have those a lot. They stopped in college, though, and I haven't had one in years. Weird, eh? Plus, my dreams used to predict the weirdest things that you'd never have thought of, and they still happened. Nothing really useful like lottery numbers or anything, though. ;-)

I had two particularly interesting dreams awhile ago.

I dreamed I was driving downtown, and a piece of one of the buildings fell off and hit my car! :eek: I think I dreamed that because there is a lot of construction going on.

The other dream seemed prophetic. I dreamed I was a long way from home without my car. I walked what seemed like forever, and I was walking east. A few days later, my GF and I walked on a walking trail. The way we meant to take was blocked, so we took a different route, got lost, and ended up a long way west of my car. We had a long walk east back to my car.

Yar, I have had dreams on the rare occassion where the predictions contained in them have come true, guess its just the subconcious carrying out immensely complex probability computations in relation to your what you have done and will do. My favourite types of dreams are ones where you write new songs (theyre always way better than when trying to write them awake), find it very really difficult to remember them but I recalled an impression of one once. One I recalled fully but I woke up before finishing the song so it only fills a minute in terms of verse-chorus. Nightmarse I would guess are caused by anxiety or repeated thoughts, also not wanting to bring nightmares on tends to bring them on.

Also,I've had premonition dreams that come true...now, that's freaky shit. I used to get them all the time as a kid,and no-one would beleive me.

Usually it's really pointless,sometimes it's important events in my life. My first one that I can remember is watching the ending of 'The Truman Show'. You know, the one with Jim Carrey in it. Mabye it has a significance in the end, because I've rewatched that movie a couple of times just to see if there's some kind of deeper meaning behind seeing in my dreams.

It's funny though, if years later, you look around and you think to yourself,

"Holy crap...I'm in my dream!Again!"

Hard to describe the feeling,exactly.

I haven't had them for a while.I wish I would get them again...It's really cool to see into the future.
I've had those, too. Conversations, settings, stuff people did - and you know what's going to happen next, exactly. Maybe even which action would trigger the déjà-vu - it's almost like watching oneself in a movie.
I've had a few of these. That tingly feeling of Deja Vu i get when my dream seems to have "come true" is definitely a strange but fun experience.
Boy am I glad I ain't the only one to whom stuff like that has happened.
The best types of dreams I ever had, and it is very hard to do, is where I suddenly "wake up" in my dream, but am still in the dream. I am aware that I am dreaming, I am conscious in my subconscious. I am like a God but in my dream world. I can fly, distort objects, morph into whatever i want, transport instantly to wherever i want and even hear what is going on in the real world my body is asleep in. It is awesome!
I have only done it a couple times though. :(
Those dreams are the best. I really like the hovering/flying part. A little jump and off ya go. But it's been years since I flew in my dreams - maybe I should remember...
Yeah, I used to have those a lot. They stopped in college, though, and I haven't had one in years. Weird, eh? Plus, my dreams used to predict the weirdest things that you'd never have thought of, and they still happened. Nothing really useful like lottery numbers or anything, though. ;-)
Be glad that it's just normal stuff and nothing that you definitely would not want to see come to live!
(I've had this very realistic nightmare about 2 nukes going off on the horizon. Just the picture, no sound yet. Poof. Poof. And I thought - in my dream - that's beautiful, but why am i dreaming that now? And then I woke up, soaked in sweat.)
Yar, I have had dreams on the rare occassion where the predictions contained in them have come true, guess its just the subconcious carrying out immensely complex probability computations in relation to your what you have done and will do.
Huh. You think so? (Minds are... phew.)
Nightmarse I would guess are caused by anxiety or repeated thoughts, also not wanting to bring nightmares on tends to bring them on.
You betcha! :eek::D:p

I had an odd dream a few nights ago. Totally out of character for me. Some friends convinced me to go with them to Africa (don't know which country, but it had jungle) to kill some lady who had pissed one of them off. We got to Africa, and some food vendor in a market mistook me for someone else and decided I owed him money. After arguing with him for a couple of minutes I took out my revolver, pressed it to his temple and killed him. There the dream ended.

I've never been to Africa, not even in a dream. In most of my violent dreams I don't start the incident, someone else does and I fight back. This was a weird one.