Suffering From Nightmares

Pussy*Kat · #1 (**permalink**) May 10, 06

I havent been able to sleep for the last week.....

random nightmares, absolutly have NO idea why im having them. i dont eat after 7 pm and i havent been watching anything particularly scary....

last night was the first night i didnt have one but then my sister came in super late and woke me up anyways :(

MarcelM · #2 (**permalink**) May 10, 06

May be Sigmund Freud can give you an answer...

I have nightmares when something bad happened to me or before days I have to do something important, like exams or stuff......
When I smoke weed before sleep, I sleep like an angel, all night long

Vitamin-X · #3 (**permalink**) May 10, 06

It's your brain telling you that you need to glowstick at your next rave.
It's just that obvious!

Seriously though, all I dream about right now is mechwarrior.
(damn video games)

Lee · #4 (**permalink**) May 10, 06

Ive been having dreams lately that involve me having telekenetic abilities...definately cool

senseonetsb · #5 (**permalink**) May 10, 06

I've been having vivid dreams of me dressing up in a trench coat and slaughtering countless fuckin ravers yesssss.......................

Pussy*Kat · #6 (**permalink**) May 10, 06

slaughtering or flashing cody?

im actually very scared to go to sleep tonight :(

Clayton. · #7 (**permalink**) May 10, 06

I like a good nightmare.

vaporize · #8 (**permalink**) May 10, 06

i've been dreaming smoking weed in dream and actually feeling high...

oh wait im still smoking it

Play-it-hard · #9 (**permalink**) May 10, 06

Could be somthing you are worried about subconsciously, try and think of somthing that is pissing you off or that worries you. Maybe try and think of things that put you in a good mood before you go to bed.

Vitamin-X · #10 (**permalink**) May 10, 06

I've heard that the most common disturbing dream people have is of being chased. I think everyone has had one like that one time or another.

vaporize · #11 (**permalink**) May 11, 06

when i was little, i have these dreams of falling off cliffs... it was scary and the adrenaline was awesome

the funny thing is that i've never dream when i go to sleep after rave... hmmm

tiedye · #12 (**permalink**) May 11, 06

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Originally Posted by Ever666

I like a good nightmare.

me too, actually. And I've only had one in the last year or two, after watching John Carpenter's 'Cigarette Burns' on Masters of Horror (rent it!).

Lee · #13 (**permalink**) May 11, 06

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Originally Posted by trance-luver

when i was little, i have these dreams of falling off cliffs... it was scary and the adrenaline was awesome

the funny thing is that i've never dream when i go to sleep after rave... hmmm

I think it has something to do with the amount a serotonin in your brain. Serotonin inhibits REM sleep or something like that

Goodfellow · #14 (**permalink**) May 11, 06

stress can cause shit like that

you work at west, it can be pretty stressful?

g!ggles · #15 (**permalink**) May 22, 06

I had a scary dream last night that I had a heart attack and I woke up choking. It seriously took me like 10 min to just lay there and realize that it was just a dream b/c I couldn't move. It was as if I was paralized. Crazy shit!

Pussy*Kat · #16 (**permalink**) May 22, 06

i dont get them when i sleep with ppl
i think i have a fear of sleeping alone which causes them......which kinda sucks......

Clayton. · #17 (**permalink**) May 22, 06

That's what you get for talking to Wyatt before you go to bed that would give anybody nightmares.

Grapes · #18 (**permalink**) May 22, 06

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Originally Posted by g!ggles

I had a scary dream last night that I had a heart attack and I woke up choking. It seriously took me like 10 min to just lay there and realize that it was just a dream b/c I couldn't move. It was as if I was paralized. Crazy shit!

I've heard about this before. It's something physical that happens to you in your sleep, and I think triggers the nightmare (not the other way around). I think there was even a thread about this before, and I've experienced a very mild case of it.

I don't think it's dangerous but it's guaranteed to be freaky.

I think in the thread someone mentioned that in olden times people thought there was a demon on your chest, stealing your breath.

Come to think of it, I haven't really produced a better, more scientific answer than that, have I?

So yeah, probably a demon.

g!ggles · #19 (**permalink**) May 22, 06

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Originally Posted by Grapes

I've heard about this before. It's something physical that happens to you in your sleep, and I think triggers the nightmare (not the other way around). I think there was even a thread about this before, and I've experienced a very mild case of it.

I don't think it's dangerous but it's guaranteed to be freaky.

I think in the thread someone mentioned that in olden times people thought there was a demon on your chest, stealing your breath.

Come to think of it, I haven't really produced a better, more scientific answer than that, have I?

So yeah, probably a demon.

haha oh I see.... i was thinking more of a high stress level or something along those lines. *lol*

decypher · #20 (**permalink**) May 22, 06

yeh sleep paralysis. I've had it a few times near the termpaper part of the semester. Scary shit.

fable · #21 (**permalink**) May 22, 06

sleep paralysis or sleep apnea

sleep paralysis can be a result of withrdrawl symptoms and or stress

sleep apnea is usaully a result of some physical ailment. Its commonely because of being overweight (this can mean anything from a few pounds to lot), narrow nasal chamer or chronically conjested sinuses, excess scar tissue in the nasal or synus cavities(perhaps a broken nose once in your life?)

In the end it could be something as simple as having something on your mind, or being apprehensive about something you are not quite ready to admit to yourself.

But in the end, go see your doc!

Grapes · #22 (**permalink**) May 22, 06

I would say it's not worth seeing a doctor unless it's happening frequently.

esoter1c · #23 (**permalink**) May 22, 06

Get a dreamcatacher.

-evil-duerr- · #24 (**permalink**) May 22, 06

i get the nightmares when Iam stressed out or eat junky food right before bed.
I think some medications might cause them too. I get really strange dreams when i take my allergy meds.

Sarah... · #25 (**permalink**) May 22, 06

two summers ago I had the same nightmare, but in a different environment each time for almost two months straight...
I hated it so much...I would dream that I couldnt open my mouth and when I tried my teeth would crack out from all this pressure that I couldn't control. I would actually feel the pain too....
sometimes I would be standing in the mirror staring at my teeth and just watching my teeth crack and I could taste the blood...
When I got back from tree planting last summer I had a hella lot of dreams inside of dreams...(I think they are called lucid dreams?)
But I really felt as thought I was just waking up and doing shit but I was actually dreaming that I was waking up.....

There were a few occurances that would happen and then my body would start floating above my bed and I was really scared and it felt like ghosts were comig in my body or something....Its just fucked when you think your dreams are real

But anyways....I love dreams... I get realy disapointed if I dont remember my dreams when I wake up..