Widdershins wrote: » Whereas with Sleep Paralysis, you're dreaming that you're awake. It's mad.
Gremlinertia wrote: » An extreme version of the falling type dream i think perhaps?
donkeykong5 wrote: » Don't knock it till you try it. !
Black Swan wrote: » Were you dreaming that you were dreaming Hugo, like a scripted line from the Ladyhawke film?
Hugo Stiglitz wrote: » I wonder if it was just a dream or perhaps just something brought on by stress or whatever. I'm not suggesting for one moment that it was an actual encounter though! I've no things like fresh scars or lost time etc.
northgirl wrote: » That was the first time I've had such a clear "experience". The man was definitely clear and then the woman was more vague and I guess I was sort of coming out of it by that stage (thankfully). I was sweating and gasping for air too when I woke. I sleep very badly in general and have a lot of anxiety/stress dreams to the point where honestly I've almost forgotten what a deep restful sleep is. The exception to that is sometimes on the weekends I might have a nap in the afternoon and for some reason those sleeps are much better quality. Have you had many experiences of apparitions?
Black Swan wrote: » donkeykong5 wrote: » If you put salt lightly sprinkled around the perimeter of your bedroom and sprinkle holy water on your bed including pillows. Your bad dreams will stop. Before posters start saying I am a nut job. Just try it. ! Well, occupationally as a research methodologist I would be very skeptical of such approaches to solve the incidence of nightmare dreams, there being no empirical evidence of rigour to lend support to such practices. Then again, we can cite the Thomas Theorem (1928), whereupon William Isaac Thomas suggested that if persons define situations as real, they are real in their consequences (for them). I would clarify that such defined situations may fall under faith or what has been often considered superstitious belief systems, that in turn raises the question if you believe something, could it affect your dream content? (We could have fun with this contrast and comparison of faith and empiricism I bet.)
donkeykong5 wrote: » If you put salt lightly sprinkled around the perimeter of your bedroom and sprinkle holy water on your bed including pillows. Your bad dreams will stop. Before posters start saying I am a nut job. Just try it. !
Widdershins wrote: » I get that. I haven't seen the old man and the woman, but I know what you mean when first you say you awoke to see them there, and later managed to rouse yourself. To all intents and purposes you are awake when whatever it is in whatever form it takes, is happening. My 'apparitions' for want of a better word were never as clear as that and there has only been one at a time for me. Could you see them really clearly? Mine would be like a dark, backlit silhouette against the cream coloured blind (a blind that doesn't actually exist on any of my windows!), the noise of footsteps hammering up the stairs really loudly, or a menacing sense of a presence in the dark.
Black Swan wrote: » Had a bit of a horrific incident when very young, and the memory would often follow me into sleep and dreams, so the "light" was a must for several years while growing up. Later in life this all reversed, and now that I'm a creature of the night I no long want night lights while sleeping.
donkeykong5 wrote: » I was only suggesting this method as I happen to know people it has worked on.
Widdershins wrote: » ...a menacing sense of a presence in the dark.
northgirl wrote: » I dream upsetting dreams most nights. I hate it. I had my first sleep paralysis episode a few weeks ago when I awoke to what sounded like scratching noises all around the room. I was thinking WTF is that? Then I saw an old man coming towards me from the foot of the bed.. and a woman appeared there too but I managed to rouse myself shortly after... horrible stuff. Light had to go on after that one.
northgirl wrote: » Light had to go on after that one.
donkeykong5 wrote: » I think it's often things that happen during the day and remain unresolved. And then the brain which does not turn off. Tries to sort it out when we are sleeping.
donkeykong5 wrote: » And then the brain which does not turn off. Tries to sort it out when we are sleeping.
Hugo Stiglitz wrote: » Dreams certainly can remind us all of sad times. The mind is a very powerful thing.
Black Swan wrote: » You had a sleep paralysis dream? I've heard about those, but never personally experienced one.
Lorelli! wrote: » The most vivid one, I think I had sleep paralysis with, which I've had a few times but not often.
Black Swan wrote: » Please do share them, and if others do too, we can have our own little Edgar Allen Poe story forum in Sleeping and Dreaming.
Hugo Stiglitz wrote: » Oh no! Sorry to hear that. Would you like to share them? It might help diminish their lingering negativeness. No pressure though of course.
Black Swan wrote: » With the intensity of real world work this week, perhaps my mind was baked?
Fathom wrote: » Spring break. Need one? Shake off nightmares. Works for me.
Lorelli! wrote: » I definitely had a cluster of upsetting dreams last night! Three separate nightmares in one night ffs!
Widdershins wrote: » Baked like a bun in the oven :eek:
Black Swan wrote: » Our perhaps Black Swan was chasing her tail akin to dream repetition Hugo?
Hugo Stiglitz wrote: » I wonder if the fact that it was baked in an oven with oestrogen and the fact that the dream kept on repeating itself. Like, was the next dream the part of the code that was missing in the preceding dream but it itself also was missing parts.
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