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.
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: » 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. !
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?
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.
Black Swan wrote: » Were you dreaming that you were dreaming Hugo, like a scripted line from the Ladyhawke film?
donkeykong5 wrote: » Don't knock it till you try it. !
Gremlinertia wrote: » An extreme version of the falling type dream i think perhaps?
Widdershins wrote: » Whereas with Sleep Paralysis, you're dreaming that you're awake. It's mad.
Fathom wrote: » Confusing dream content.
Widdershins wrote: » By the way, this is general, but I was re-reading the Jungian dream theories and archetypes.
Fathom wrote: » Got DVD. Classic dreaming line.
Gremlinertia wrote: » Weird one earlier, was in the countryside on some kind of tour, in a wooded area, quite hilly and came across what originally appeared to be the ruins of a castle.. As i wandered it turned out that the further in i went the more modern the castle was though still very hilly. Eventually got to an area that was clearly lived in and then all of a sudden it became impossible to move about. Every time i turned a corner or reached a step the angles went all crazy and i got very bad vertigo. Struggled to wake from that one and quite jumpy for hours after. An extreme version of the falling type dream i think perhaps?
Fathom wrote: » Dream interpretation? Art not science.
Widdershins wrote: » A fun art. Very interesting that the symbology is common to most if not all cultures.. I wonder if we internalise this symbology from the childhood stories we knew, and it reappears in our dreams.
Widdershins wrote: » I've had two upsetting dreams in recent weeks. The first: I brought a very close friend to hospital because she had a bad cold in the dream. When I went back to visit her that evening, I entered the hospital through a different door, and it was the width of a train carriage, with beds against the walls, under large train style windows. I approached the bed I thought was my friend's but it had become a cot, and the baby in the cot was my friend. I didn't realise this was not right, in my dream. I was talking to the baby for a while when I suddenly realised it couldn't be my friend and I jumped up in panic, apologising to the nurses in embarassment for having sat there talking to someone's baby for ages. I then ran in panic through the hospital to try to find my friend, thinking something had happened to her. The dream started to improve. The corridor opened out and my friend came running toward me and hugged me. She was completely well. Last night, I dreamed I'd put my friend into her taxi and waved her off. Then half an hour later, realised it wasn't a taxi at all, it was a stranger's car. Complete panic, wondering how to find my friend. I don't remember how the dream ended.
Hugo Stiglitz wrote: » Two scary dreams there.
Widdershins wrote: » There was another one, scarier, I can't even type it out. My friend is what some would call vulnerable. Out of all of the dreams I've posted about in this thread, these ones are worrying me.
Hugo Stiglitz wrote: » *hugs* Sorry to hear that, W.
Widdershins wrote: » Thanks, Hugo. Posting in this thread is catharthic!
Hugo Stiglitz wrote: » It really can be.
Fathom wrote: » Good purpose.
Fathom wrote: » Upsetting dream. Dying. Taking out brains. Still alive. Freezing them. Saved for future studies.
Widdershins wrote: » Yours, or were you doing the procedure?... It's fascinating but sounds like a very upsetting dream.
Fathom wrote: » Operating on self during dream. Scull cap already removed. Using scalpel, retractors, forceps, clamps, etc., before a mirror.
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