Cant clown ... sleep will eat me!

Hivemind187

Most insomniacs dont dream, generally because they are lousy sleepers who dont get to REM sleep. However, some do and sometimes these dreams can be fairly rough going.

Anyone else get nightmares? I'm not talking the fun, horror-movie type stuff where you are more entertained that frightened to death but the more vivid type that you are certain you are awake and it's all gone horribly wrong.

For example, I take beta blockers for migraines and a number of other pills for arthritis etc and when these start to react or the dosage was ineffective I can get the weirdest goddamn dreams. This evening while desperately trying to get some kip I managed to drift off only to find myself unable to breathe and in a semi-paralyzed condition. It felt like I was about to die, that my heart was going to stop at any moment and that my only hope was to get up and turn on the light switch, only when I did the damn bulb burnt out. It sounds nutty now and patently ridiculous but it was so vivid I was certain it was happening.

Any other denizens of the dark get nightmares?

Aisling(",)

i've one nightmare which always stands out in my mind.i must have been around 8 when i had it but its one thats stuck with me.

it was in like the 1800's where horse drawn carriges were around and everything was in sepia(my dream was aswell)
i was in a rather posh house of some old lady who i presume was my granny and i was in a big white frilly dress and had my hair in ringlets.
we were sitting in the parlour eating tea and little cakes that the maid had brought in when she told me she had a big suprise for me.she reached behind the claw footed small sofa we were on and handed me a big box.i opened the box and there was a camera in side,an old fashioned one where you have to be still for two minutes for the picture to take with the little sheet for going over the photographer and the photographer was to hold a flas thing in their hand.
i was delighted and the old lady asked me to take a picture of her.i set up the tripod put the camera together and she posed on the little claw footed sofa in a long dress with buttons down the chest and a high stiff colar.i stuck my head under the curtain and clicked the shutter.the second i did this i saw a big horrible dark shadow of a man stangling the old lady but i couldnt move because it would take two minutes for the photo to take.when the time was up and i could move i ran over to the old lady but she was dead.her neck was black with bruises.i then instantly became aware of a horrible rough breathing down my neck.i turned around and the big dark shadowy unkempt man was right in front of me.
thats when i woke up but its the only nightmare i know il never forget and it scared me sideways at the time.

watna

I've had a number of dreams recently where I've been pregnant. I even need to pee in my dream and think it's the baby sitting on my bladder. Then I wake up and realise I need to go to the bathroom. They're all really vivid though. It takes me a while to realise I'm not pregnant when I wake up.

I told my bf and seriously freaked him out!

I also had a dream once I was being put to death in the electric chair and my dad was pulling the switch. It took me a while to go back asleep after that one.

Kiith

I used to get the same fream whenever i was sick when i was younger. It had something to do with large rocks...moving. Dont ask me why it was scary, but it ****ing terrified me. I think i could handle more rational dreams, as i can put a face to them, but there was something about these ones. Dont even like thinking about them tbh.

Steve_o

I ate a donor kebab after of 13 pints of Smithwicks last Saturday, had some weird dreams.... very strange they were!!!

Doctor DooM

When I was young I had a dream that I was poisoned by Mickey Mouse.

Sounds funny but it wasn't at the time! I know, issues.


I actually have that stereotypical hollywood dream where you wake up in your drem but you're still dreaming. Having to go to work twie in one day because the first time is in a dream really sucks.

entropi

I have had many many horrible dreams over the years but one will always stand out above the rest...

Involved this city being in rubble from an ongoing war, and the area i grew up in/still live was my hiding place. Me and my friends & family were trying to fight back the invaders whoever they were but i kept seeing them get shot through the head, or burned alive from a flamethrower or blown to bits from grenades etc and it really really scared me so much i woke up with my bed soaking from sweat and i screamed so my mam ran in to see what was wrong, i was only 10-11 at the time also.

The fact it was so vivid is what scared me most.

anonymous_joe

I had a really really weird one once where I was being chased through a forest on a Carribean Island at night. The oddest thing was, because they produce sugar cane on those islands, I imagined that instead of trees, it was a forest of Candy Canes. Odd as ****, but very scary. No idea what was chasing me either.

My ex was a proper insomniac, and when we were together, the odd times she did sleep she'd often have pretty awful nightmares. Many a night like that was spent holding her while she sobbed uncontrollably. She never really liked talking about them, but they usually involved her waking up and finding that everyone had abandoned her.

trout

In my late teens, I had a recurring dream where I'm wading through concrete.

The concrete is drying out on top, so there is a crusty dry layer, cracking and flaking, and this is moving faster than I can catch up, so I'm straining and lurching in vain to try and outrun it. Nothing else can be seen, just dry, flaky concrete in all directions, and me slowly sinking beneath the surface.

I used to wake up sweatin' from that one ... coughing out lumps of concrete.

I still have trouble getting to sleep if there is any kind of noise like wind or rain ... even though I know it's perfectly normal and safe, I just cannot settle. They tend to be good nights for boards, or insane infomercials.

Delirium

When I was young I used to have a recurring dream of being inside of a washing machine. To add to that,
it would be constantly hit by lightning bolts.

I maintain this my reason for my adversion to doing the laundry.:D

Stercus Accidit

Hivemind187 wrote: »

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Sounds a little like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis

You could well have been half awake and unable to move, happened to me once, I was absolutely sh1tting it, because I was awake, but completely paralysed.

Problem is, if you are sort of half awake, you may be half dreaming, so it will seem very surreal, the dream may continue, the light bulb thing in your case.

By telling you your dream may have been real, have I freaked you out even more?

KnifeWRENCH

I never have nightmares, just really really bizarre dremas!

Recently I dreamt myself and my friend were walking up a spiral staircase. But then it somehow turned into the Statue of Liberty and we were clinging on to avoid falling off.
Then, the statue started moving upwards and went through a trapdoor: we ended up in the middle of a UCC production of Les Miserables! And when the statue finally stopped, everyone stood up and applauded us.

Also, I've had dreams involving
* a priest hitting me on the head with a telephone pole.
* working in McDonalds with a group of friends and trying to avoid the health inspectors.
* rescuing a lemur from a rich lady who wanted to turn him into a coat.
* recurring dreams about Chinese food.

Bob the Builder

i sometimes have dreams where i'm at the point of struggling for survival. for example, i'm underwater, and sturggling to get my way back up, or being held at gunpoint.

i usually wake up just as the gun is fired, or when i'm beginning to drown, but if i do dodge the bullet and survive the shot, it turns into a really adrenaline dream where it turns into an exciting drama.

i actually love it when my nightmares go well, and i break free and go on the run, and it turns into a dream, but when i get shot, it just makes me jump in the bed for a second..

thankfully, i dont have many sleep problems, and when i do, they are usually caused by drinking coffee/coke, or some simple stupid thing like that.

minidazzler

I just have the one dream, I hold his head under until I hear that one final bloop.....bloop.


I have alot of asphyxiation type nightmares, probably because it is the one way in which I would be really scared to die!!!!

Also, I get the paralysis!!!! It seems so real that I wake up in cold sweats.


Other than that most of my Dreams involve me being a hero!!!! So it balances out fairly evenly!!!!

TeletextPear

i used to have two recurring dreams when i was a kid, both in sepia. one where i was walking on the road by my house and there was a car coming towards me. i was trying to roll out of the way of the car, but i couldnt move and i was stuck lying in the middle of the road.
the second one, i was at dunnes with my mother. she was going to get a shopping trolley, and a guy working in dunnes came over and cut off one of her fingers. there was this really weird music playing in both of them as well.

both very very odd, havnt had either of em in about 15 years but ive always remembered em

Fly High

It does indeed sound like sleep paralysis. I suffer sometimes myself, I find it happens to me when I'm particularly stressed and anxious before trying to sleep. Then I get the thought sh1t it's going to happen again tonight. It is a horrific experience and you lie there for what seems like hours.

During my sleep paralysis I often have the feeling that something horrible/dangerous/aggresive is just out of my line of sight but as I cannot move there is no way to see what it is, again I think this is the axiety. I often try to wake myself up but to no avail. I've never sought any help for this as it generally passes after about a week or so... All I can say is I hope you get some peaceful kip again soon! If you manage to wake up get outta bed, have some tea or something and try again, I generally don't manage to wake myself up so, if you get the chance get up...

kowloon

I used to think had nightmares until I accepted that I can't distinguish the difference between dream and realty, maybe real life is the nightmare?

weeder

Hivemind187 wrote: »

I managed to drift off only to find myself unable to breathe and in a semi-paralyzed condition. It felt like I was about to die, that my heart was going to stop at any moment and that my only hope was to get up and turn on the light switch, only when I did the damn bulb burnt out. It sounds nutty now and patently ridiculous but it was so vivid I was certain it was happening.

Motosam wrote: »

Sounds a little like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis

You could well have been half awake and unable to move, happened to me once, I was absolutely sh1tting it, because I was awake, but completely paralysed.

Problem is, if you are sort of half awake, you may be half dreaming, so it will seem very surreal, the dream may continue, the light bulb thing in your case.

By telling you your dream may have been real, have I freaked you out even more?

have to agree with sam on this one hive,if im going to bed overly tired im plagued by this, or somthimes it happens to me out of the blue
nly advice i can really offer to ye is to not panic hard as it may be, last time it happened to me was around 5 minutes before it happened to me prior and i was in a bit of a state after coming to.

COH

When I was a kid I dreamt that I managed to take out my mams brain and put it in a sealed glass orb. Panicked when I realise I couldnt put her brain back in into her head and that she was dead. Strange. The best part was that I actually woke up feeling very guilty because I thought it had actually happened, and went downstairs to apologise to my dad. I was crying and all, then I realised my mam was sitting beside my dad as I was apologising for her accidental death, so I wandered back up to bed feeling confused and slightly embarrassed.

I think they were as confused about it as I was

c-90

what is this invasion of the airsofters? me included:eek:

Hivemind187

Moto, sleep paralysis? You know I was aware of it but I hadnt considered it a possibility but it does make a lot of sense when you say it.

And yes, thanks. Now I am a lot more worried that it may have been real ... git

Doctor DooM

c-90 wrote: »

what is this invasion of the airsofters? me included:eek:

I don't know. But please don't shoot any of the other regulars, I kind of need them.

Bijoux

I'm on medication that really messes with my dreams... my most disturbing one recently involved the graden around my house being full of old waiters, who were all wearing tuxedos, holding silver platters high in the air, and walking around in aimless circles. They were all over the place. In the dream my Dad panicked and took out a revolver, shot a waiter (who squawked like a chicken and then fell to the ground). My dad freaked out and we decided we had to shoot all of them as they might grass on us. Eighty dead bodies are better than one, apparently. Then we heard a garda siren and my dad freaked out so I got a knife off one of the platters that a waiter had dropped, chopped them into pieces, and compressed them into plastic bin bags, which i hid in a pile of freshly-mowed grass while the cops checked out the garden.

I woke up and I was thinking....WTF?!?!


Also had a dream a few years ago about a day at school, from when my alarm went ofdf in the morning until i fell asleep.....seemed so real....i woke up convinced it had actually happened, made such a twit of myself!

Crumble Froo

i have a bit of a ...emm... traumatic past during certain points, and, particularly in my teens, i would deliberately avoid sleep, as i suffered horrific nightmares reliving all that stuff. would just power nap during the day, rarely to never suffered nightmares then, but hell, i kinda initially became an insomniac on purpose, and my body just got used to the sleep deprivation after that, took a loooooooooong time before i could get a good nights' sleep again.

was really stressed out last night, and had really bad, intermittent sleep, and, of all things to upset me... dreamt that my mouse was running away from me... there were lots of weird elements to that dream, but the most vivid is my mouse wanting to get away from me... i got really upset about that

krd

I have dreams of waking up paralysed with dead girls in my bed. But only after I've been spending a few days bingeing on extasy.

I've never dreamed in Sepia tone. I thought to do that you'd need some talentless imagination free media course graduate operating video controls in your brain,,,,,,,,,,,to get that particular chessey effect.

I did wake up last night,,, and I swear I could see the hairs on the back of my hand were having a battle with each other, but my housemate says it's just lucid dreaming from the herbal sleeping pills I've been taking.

But you never know. maybe the hairs on the back of your hand do have fights with each other when you're asleep... how can any one tell if the don't.

Hivemind187

krd wrote: »

how can any one tell if the don't.

... show me the bodies.

animan

OP sounds like sleep paralysis. I sometimes get it.

cHaTbOx

I am one of the only people I know who actually hits the ground when they fall in a dream.It's so weird because it feels like i go right into the bed and right up again.

I also dream all my family is dead.

But on the whole my dreams are really brilliant.But I sleep for 4-5 hours usually.

Futurecrook

I usually have pretty insane dreams. But the scariest one I had was a Chucky-style one where a doll came to life and was trying to kill me and I just couldn't get away from it. It was absolutely terrifying.

When I was a kid I used to dream about an evil blue dog chasing me and I'd start to run but then I'd fall and couldn't get back up. Also quite terrifying when you're 7 years old.

Dinxminx

I get the worst nightmares at least twice a week. They're always very graphic, frighteningly realistic, and leave me feeling exhausted in the morning. I have yet to find a way to get rid of them. They're the bane of my life.

Joe Cool

Dinxminx wrote: »

I get the worst nightmares at least twice a week. They're always very graphic, frighteningly realistic, and leave me feeling exhausted in the morning. I have yet to find a way to get rid of them. They're the bane of my life.

Eating late?

I used to get some pretty strange ones from eating stuff before bed, not necessarily nightmares, just a thought.

cHaTbOx

Joe Cool wrote: »

Eating late?

I used to get some pretty strange ones from eating stuff before bed, not necessarily nightmares, just a thought.

It doesn't do anything to you,apart from its not advised.

Joe Cool

random chatbox wrote: »

It doesn't do anything to you,apart from its not advised.

I dunno, I used to have pretty strange and sometimes unsettling dreams after eating before going up.

Possibly coincidence but it happened a bit and the only common factor was the eating of either crisps, apples or a combination of things.

cHaTbOx

Joe Cool wrote: »

I dunno, I used to have pretty strange and sometimes unsettling dreams after eating before going up.

Possibly coincidence but it happened a bit and the only common factor was the eating of either crisps, apples or a combination of things.

Fruite definitly wont trigger anything like that but if you are ever down in the dumps eat an orange.:)

Joe Cool

random chatbox wrote: »

Fruite definitly wont trigger anything like that but if you are ever down in the dumps eat an orange.:)

I always blamed the old chestnut: Cheese.

Can I have a kiwi instead of an orange?

cHaTbOx

Joe Cool wrote: »

I always blamed the old chestnut: Cheese.

Can I have a kiwi instead of an orange?

Well I done it with both together but just orange.not squeezed.An actual orange.

condra

I've had some pretty dark scary nightmares.

There was one I will never forget.

I was in my old primary school building (OLV Ballymun- huge 3 story building) being chased by a demented hunchback retard, who was of course trying to kill me, but the freaky thing was that he didn't understand why I was running away, and he kept calling me God.

Being chased by someone who thinks you're God and need to be killed, it's proper scary.

Anyway, in the end the cops got him, but just like in any good thriller movie, he managed to make one last lunge before being shot dead. All of this, in hyper realistic widescreen fulll-on REM mode.

Scared the **** out of me.

missingtime

I had one recently enough where I wasn't really sleeping just in between awake and sleep. My vision was completely black and the girl from the ring movies jumped towards me. I roared (i think) and started spasming in the bed.

Very weird.

Jaunte

Oh wow, this thread just reminded me of a dream I had when I was a kid - I ony remember it bcos I wrote it down at the time.

My whole family had to evacuate my house because of some war, but my dad got left behind, and when I went back 100 years later he'd turned into a huge circular iron door which had rusted shut. And the house was surrounded by pools of lava and flying ravens.

It wasn't so much terrifying as heartbreaking, woke up in floods of tears. It's amazing how powerful they can be, even when they're completely random or ridiculous