Your nightmares.

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You cant/shouldnt be able to die in your dreams, because your brain would assume that there is no point in keeping your organs going if you did, and hence, you would actually pop your clogs IRL.

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I think
 
You cant/shouldnt be able to die in your dreams, because your brain would assume that there is no point in keeping your organs going if you did, and hence, you would actually pop your clogs IRL.

👎:irked:
I think

I'm pretty sure that was an ooold experimental theory that gained popularity in movies that erroneously stated it as scientific or fact.
 
For a while now I have been having quite intense nightmares. Lately its gotten so bad that I wake up in the middle of the night quite often. I'm going to up the exercise I do and make sure I have a better nighttime routine to try and counter this.

Maybe it's anxieties about being a new dad, maybe it's just eating the wrong things before bed? I can't pin-point what could be causing them. Do any fellow GTP'ers have any good advice on what I can do to try and lessen the frequency of these bad dreams?
 
Last one i remember it was something like:

I didn't seen my gf for months but then she finally came back and i went to hug her but it was like if she was transparent i couldn't touch her and she said "What you're trying to do you know i'm dead already" after that it was like i could see her dead body with a lot of blood on it

I woke up after that really scared for what i just saw, and was after that moment that i realized i should stop going to gore sites all the time.
 
I had a dream where there were 5 draugr Overlords trying to kill me while I was naked in the shower...
 
I haven't had a nightmare in a long time nor do I remember any in particular that I can think of from when I was a kid. I do have the falling dreams every once in a while but other than that I rarely have a nightmare.
 
Wow, hectic resurrection of a thread.

It's been awhile since I've had a nightmare, but when I do have on it's something to do with being scared or confronting something I don't like at the very end of the dream which causes me to wake up.
 
In my nightmares, noobs ressurect six year old threads and dead posters come back to life.


:D



The quality of my nightmares are less in what actually happens, but in the extreme sense of dread they produce.

Remember the first time you watched a truly good Japanese horror movie, and your heart skipped several beats? Now take that feeling and remove all sense of context from it. That's what my nightmares are like.
 
Do I still qualify for noobness? :dopey:

The dreams I have been having are utter chaos, involving people I know, apocalyptic scenarios and more that I couldn't really describe here.

I'm blaming cheese.
 
I can't consider this one a nightmare, but I dreamt that I was in animal court.

The judge was a Silverback Gorilla. Prosecution was a Hyena, and my defense lawyer was a Hippo in a suit with a Southern Accent. The jury was a bunch of bonobos.

Long story short, I ended up not guilty of animal murder (killed a cheetah in self defense).
 
Oh man, I could go on for days about my dreams. The majority of the time I don't remember them, but when I do they are normally quite vivid, and usually along the lines of a nightmare - I don't recall the last dream I had that didn't involve death or bloodshed. Last nights was a bit creepier than usual though...

..either way, still beats getting up and going to work.
 
I only dream when something interrupts my sleep and I fall asleep again. 90% of my dreams consist of me falling from a cliff or a boat into dark and murky water and slowly drowning in it. Sometimes its a river, sometimes a pond, sometimes my feet or hands get entangled in water plants. The funny thing is the water is never really deep and I'm aware of that in my dreams, its never deeper than 3 feet, but I always die, and in those dreams I stay calm and accept death without fighting.
Sometimes friends or people I know see me drowning in that water but just stare at me, and I stare at them.

I always feel unnaturally tired and depressed waking up after having those dreams.
 
I have had very, very weird dreams when I was little, but I've had no real nightmares.

I do vaguely recall having one dream though where some kind of disaster happened, the economy collapsed and the whole country went mad and it was essentially an apocalypse. Not really sure of much else though.
 
I have crazy vivid dreams. Last night it was my own version of 2012. The world was ending, chaos everywhere, etc. My friend Jordan and I were in survival mode with our Glocks and nothing else. I woke up several times, but for dreams like this I always try to go right back to sleep and finish where I left off. I love those dreams. Scary and intense but I don't want to leave.

The only death dream I can remember I had somewhere around the age of 5. I was flying in a life size Lego helicopter over an all things Lego world, and I fell out. To this day I remember that feeling and the images. Everything went black as soon as I hit the ground, then I woke up.
 
I only dream when something interrupts my sleep and I fall asleep again. 90% of my dreams consist of me falling from a cliff or a boat into dark and murky water and slowly drowning in it. Sometimes its a river, sometimes a pond, sometimes my feet or hands get entangled in water plants. The funny thing is the water is never really deep and I'm aware of that in my dreams, its never deeper than 3 feet, but I always die, and in those dreams I stay calm and accept death without fighting.
Sometimes friends or people I know see me drowning in that water but just stare at me, and I stare at them.

I always feel unnaturally tired and depressed waking up after having those dreams.

Maybe you don't freak out, because deep inside, your brain recognizes that it is a dream?

I very seldomly have dreams that are negative, or I die. And when I do have those types of dreams, even if I'm not completely aware that it is just a dream, I don't feel like it's a big deal that I'm in trouble, or I'm dying.

I have known two people who told me that they had suffered from series of serious nightmares in the past. Both described satanic-style dreams with flames, and crosses. I cared about both of them, but they were both emotionally unstable, and occasionally had bi-polar tendencies.

Solid Lifters nightmare from the first page, I don't know if he was serious, but I actually saw one when I was a kid. Very cruel for the kid who the thing belonged, and very cruel of his classmates to show the boys in our class as a amusement. If I was my dad and saw myself laughing at the poor kid, I'd knock myself on my ass.

Back on topic, I just realized my worst dream ever: I dreamed that I won some huge lottery jackpot. It felt so real, I woke up literally looking for my winning ticket. :guilty:
 
My dreams don't make a lot of sense, i could be talking to someone and from one minute to the other the person changes. Also a lot of these stressing dreams; having lost something, needing to get some place as quick as possible, needing to find some loved one but not being able to...

Quite 🤬 if you ask me, even tough i'm quite a relaxed person in daily life.
Maybe i compensate my laziness during the day by stressing at night and running all over the place :)



Ps Question for you people: on a scale of 100%, which percentage of your dreams would you experience as negative and not happy or relaxing? I'd say 60% negative dreaming experiences for me sadly.
 
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I used to have a recurring nightmare where the world got destroyed by a flying rocking horse. :P
That seems fun! In my case lately I've been having the seam dream... It's always the same happy dream. It's just so believable. When I wake up I wake up with a huge grin and some sort of deep happiness and when I realise it was just a dream I kinda get bummed out. But during the day I tend to stay positive no matter what happens. :) I'm not a sad person anyways. I always look at the bright side of things. Not worth living life sad all the time.
 
My nightmares usually have to do with running from something and i can`t go fast (can only walk slow even if i want to run fast), and wanting to see but i can`t open my eyes even if i try hard.
 
I haven't had a nightmare, for years. The only dreams I've got, is the inspiration to my book (which I'm currently writing).
 
No bad nightmares really, just dreams where I can't find my car or had something stolen or lost. Or I'll be running and jumping but jumping long distances with each one getting progressively longer until I jump so high I realize I'm going to fall like 50 feet then I wake up.
 
No bad nightmares really, just dreams where I can't find my car or had something stolen or lost. Or I'll be running and jumping but jumping long distances with each one getting progressively longer until I jump so high I realize I'm going to fall like 50 feet then I wake up.

Had one of those once. I feel epic when i wake up!
 
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My nightmare, Jumping out of a plane, without a parachute, and i felt it like i was falling. i woke up. i thought i was dead but i wasnt.
 
As a kid I had numerous dreams where I jumped out of our family's moving car and into a river. I always woke up before hitting the water, but had that weird sinking feeling afterwards.
 
As a kid I had numerous dreams where I jumped out of our family's moving car and into a river. I always woke up before hitting the water, but had that weird sinking feeling afterwards.

I know right....


I did have nightmare Sexual dreams. But Lets me not talk about them.:sly:
 
Posted this in the So, how was your day? thread, but kikie pointed out it could go here, so here it is:

Really bad night last night, I think I had some sort of night terror.

Whilst in a dream I dreamt I was sat on a sofa, and it felt like I was dying. I woke up from the dream in my bed but the feeling hadn't subsided and I still felt as though I was dying. It felt like my actual brain was dying, my whole body felt numb, my head kept drooping and I thought I was going to black out. I genuinely thought I was going to die, it felt so real, so much so I had to think about my girlfriend, willing myself to stay alive for her sake.

It might sound like I'm a colossal drama queen, and you may laugh but damn it was scary. I have never experienced anything like that, it's hard to put it into words.

Even now I'm still feeling a bit odd, every now and then my head goes all fuzzy and my feet go numb. Normally a dream is just a dream, you wake up and it's all over, but this carried on, and even got worse when I was awake. And like I said I'm still feeling the effects now.
 
Have you eaten enough? Low blood sugar can be a trigger for a night terror, and your symptoms (fuzzy head, faintness, feeling cold/shivering) fit with hypoglycemia.

If I were you i'd drink some fruit juice or eat some fruit, just incase you are bordering on going hypoglycemic.
 
Posted this in the So, how was your day? thread, but kikie pointed out it could go here, so here it is:

Really bad night last night, I think I had some sort of night terror.

Whilst in a dream I dreamt I was sat on a sofa, and it felt like I was dying. I woke up from the dream in my bed but the feeling hadn't subsided and I still felt as though I was dying. It felt like my actual brain was dying, my whole body felt numb, my head kept drooping and I thought I was going to black out. I genuinely thought I was going to die, it felt so real, so much so I had to think about my girlfriend, willing myself to stay alive for her sake.

It might sound like I'm a colossal drama queen, and you may laugh but damn it was scary. I have never experienced anything like that, it's hard to put it into words.

Even now I'm still feeling a bit odd, every now and then my head goes all fuzzy and my feet go numb. Normally a dream is just a dream, you wake up and it's all over, but this carried on, and even got worse when I was awake. And like I said I'm still feeling the effects now.

Wait, back up. Was this a dream within a dream or did you fully wake up and still feel like you were dying?
 
PeterJB
Wait, back up. Was this a dream within a dream or did you fully wake up and still feel like you were dying?

I woke up fully from the dream and still had the same sensation.

MarinaDiamandis
Have you eaten enough? Low blood sugar can be a trigger for a night terror, and your symptoms (fuzzy head, faintness, feeling cold/shivering) fit with hypoglycemia.

If I were you i'd drink some fruit juice or eat some fruit, just incase you are bordering on going hypoglycemic.

I've been eating regularly, and well. I've just scoffed down some oranges and what not, I do feel a bit better.
 
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