Do you have bad dreams?

[anna_66]

primabella's post in Kirsten's "What kind of phobia do you have" thread got me thinking about this.

I constantly have dreams that I'm being killed or chased by a killer I wake up knowing that I'm in my bed, in my room but still can't get a grasp on reality, it really stinks.

How about you? Do you have bad dreams?

[catnapper]

I go through periods of time where I have bad dreams. I dream that I can fly. I would be flying around happy as can be, then all of the sudden somebody would start chasing me. Then I either can't go fast enough to get away, or high enough. All the while I KNOW I have the ability to do either. Then I wake up COLD because I've kicked all the blankets off the bed.

[finn's mom]

I used to have horrid dreams about insects. In germany, you had to leave your windows open all the time to ventilate your home, and, they don't have screens on their windows. we used to get these giant hawk sized mosquitoes in our room at night, and, man, oh, man, did i ever have some whacked out dreams! And, i used to wake up screaming bloody murder and crying from some dreams. i punched my ex husband in the face and gave him a black eye once in my sleep. he said i was dreaming, and it woke him up. he said i knelt over him and balled my fist up, and, just clocked him. i had no idea, and, he came home later with a shiner. scary. i haven't done anything like that in years, though, thank goodness. i usually don't remember dreams anymore, unless it's between waking up, going back to sleep for an hour or so and waking up again.

[Kfamr]

It's funny you post this because last night I had the WEIRDEST dream ever.

I was on some boat in Wisconsin (I'm not sure WHY Wisconsin, as I've never ben there, but I was told it was Wisconsin)
I was stepping off and fell into the water. In the water I stepped on some plant which put some kind of spurs into my skin.
As the day went by a plant started growing in my foot. I pulled it out and it hurt like heck. There was a good sized hole in my foot, but I left it. Then i was looking at my foot again later and there was another plant inside the hole. I pulled at that one and it made an even larger hole. The hole was full of dead body tissue but for some reason I could still walk (yes, I said this was a weird dream..)

When I went home I was still pulling plants out of my foot. Except now when I pulled them out, flys and more spurs came with them.. so then the plants moved to my arms and legs. Each time I pulled m out more flies and spurs would come out. I tried going in cold, cold water.. it just made them worse. I tried going in boiling hot water, it made them worse.

Then a tomato started growing on my pinky. I cut it off, and another one grew. I cut that tomato off and a bunch of bugs attacked me.

That was basically it but I woke up feeling like I had holes in my feet.

[finn's mom]

Originally posted by Kfamr
It's funny you post this because last night I had the WEIRDEST dream ever.

I was on some boat in Wisconsin (I'm not sure WHY Wisconsin, as I've never ben there, but I was told it was Wisconsin)
I was stepping off and fell into the water. In the water I stepped on some plant which put some kind of spurs into my skin.
As the day went by a plant started growing in my foot. I pulled it out and it hurt like heck. There was a good sized hole in my foot, but I left it. Then i was looking at my foot again later and there was another plant inside the hole. I pulled at that one and it made an even larger hole. The hole was full of dead body tissue but for some reason I could still walk (yes, I said this was a weird dream..)

When I went home I was still pulling plants out of my foot. Except now when I pulled them out, flys and more spurs came with them.. so then the plants moved to my arms and legs. Each time I pulled m out more flies and spurs would come out. I tried going in cold, cold water.. it just made them worse. I tried going in boiling hot water, it made them worse.

Then a tomato started growing on my pinky. I cut it off, and another one grew. I cut that tomato off and a bunch of bugs attacked me.

That was basically it but I woke up feeling like I had holes in my feet.

wierdo.

[moosmom]

I have strange dreams. When I do I write them down. I have a dream book and try to look them up and see what they might mean.

I dream alot about calling someone and no one answering, or going to houses and ringing doorbells and no one answers the door.

I also have dreams about drugs. My daughter told me NEVER to tell anyone about my dreams or I'll get locked up in a rubber room.

[K9soul]

From time to time, I have dreams about losing someone close to me, both human and pet. Those are very difficult and frightening. I also sometimes dream that someone I've lost is alive again, and those can be hard too, to wake up and realize it was only a dream. I had those a lot the first couple years after I lost the collies, and I've had them off and on since I lost my grandpa in 2003.

I tend to be a fairly vivid dreamer so I've had everything from good, bad, terrifying, weird, and mundane dreams. Those bad dreams can really be hard to deal with. I find I often feel down/anxious the rest of the day when I wake from a bad dream.

[smokey the elder]

Sometimes I have dreams that I'm someone else, and I get the sense that I know everyone in the dream, but when I wake up it's whointheheck ARE these guys? Boy the brain does weird things when it's archiving data.

[ParNone]

I use to have one recurring nitemare that involved a serial killer breaking into the house and waking up with him standing over me. But I don't have it anymore since I got the Collies. My mind must realize that nobody's getting in the house unannounced anymore. The decibal level of their barking alone would scare anybody away I'm sure.

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[IRescue452]

All the time. It took me two years to get my drivers' lisense because I had dreams that my brakes went out on the drive home. I also have strange dreams that birds are attacking our town and that I'm being chased by people. I need to lay off the junk food at night!

[LKPike]

I usually have several really stupid, nice, or scary dreams, about 5 to sometimes 8 a night. The good thing is that I can usually tell which ones are worth writing down and interpreting(sp?)

[wolfsoul]

Most of my dreams are quite happy and not scary at all. Every once in a while, I'll get a bad dream. When I dream, however, I always know I'm dreaming, and sometimes I have a habit of controlling my dreams. Only, the more I try to control it, the less control I have. Usually the BAD dream is of someone chasing me, trying to kill me -- these dreams aren't always scary -- sometimes they are alot of fun. The adrenaline rush is great. But if they have a knife in their hand, then it gets really scary. Eventually I stop and make friends with the person so that they won't kill me lol. It always turns out to be a misunderstanding.

But the worst, scariest, most horrible dream I can have is a dream about cookie monster. I used to sleepwalk all the time, so I always thought my cookie monster dreams were real when I was little. He was my friend, but one day he bit my foot. I had nightmares about him from the time I was 4 until the time I was maybe 13 or 14. I still have a dream about him every once in a while, but it's never that bad. In fact sometimes I encourage him to come up from under my bed so I can beat him LOL. I know, my dreams are weird.

[sandragonfly]

I always, always have nightmares (deaths of me, cats and relatives) but they don't scare me anymore.. and still LOVE dreams. they mean something to me and tells me I've been suffocating. in them, I often finding myself hugging an object (bigger than me such as cement wall, tree, elephant or a pole)..

anna, is someone is not treating you right? I hope not! but looks like it's the only that...

kay's dream, do you think you dreamed it because you tried so hard being a veggerian?

[Vette]

I woke because of a bad dream today.
i normally dont remember what i dream. unless i wake up during it,, or it scares me awake...

the one nightmare i keep having is that i walk up to check the mail(which is a long ways from the house) cross the street and get the mail.. and go to cross the street to come back and theres this dude driving a grey truck. but hes driving it way slower then the speed limit. so i beat it across the street and try do the gate up as fast i can. but no matter how hard i try i cant lock the stupid thing up. and end up trying to run down our rather long drive way to the house.. but the guy in the truck always catches up to me. and i cant scream or cry out to my parents to let them know somethings up becasue im always out of breath. then i wake up.

doesnt sound too scary,, but i feel strange when i dream that. like i know im going to die if he catches me.. and i can feel a really terrible panic-fear corse through my body.

[chocolatepuppy]

I've had many dreams about being in a maze of rooms. Usually it is someplace I've been, only different. And more rooms to go through everywhere I look. I suppose this means I'm confused?