O.T. Does anyone have recurring dreams or nightmares?

Yvsa

Yvsa

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Just what the title says. Does anyone have recurring dreams or nightmares, besides myself that is?
The thread about H.P. Lovecraft is what brought the subject to my mind.
I woke up last night from a recurring dream about the difficulties in setting up and running a particular differently threaded part on an automatic screw machine.
In this case I couldn't call it a nightmare but it almost borders on it, almost any work related dream is almost a nightmare.;) :D

I have a few nightmares that recurr from time to time and one would think I could tell them from rote but I can't, at the moment anyway.
I can recall them right after I wake up from them but I try not to hang onto them which no doubt explains why I can't recall them by rote now, probably not a bad thing.
There are only generalities. One of 'ems subject is a horrible car wreck, another falling into, or driving off a bridge into water with Barb in the car, Barb can't swim...
Then there's the one I have had since I was a wee young lad about falling, but it's more like flying as it was done on purpose, just never have hit the bottom though.
There are more that I can't recall but have me waking up with uncontrollable crying on my part and the covers wet with tears.:(

Then on the flip side are those funny dreams where I wake Barb and myself up with uncontrollable laughter. Those are the good ones.:D

Methinks the best dreams I've ever had was when I had conversations with God, or at least insights of real Spirituality when I was stoned out of my gourd on pot.:eek: :D
I really miss those.:D ;)
 
The worst dream is when I think that im waking up to go to work/school, then I find out that I really am! :eek:

Seriously, I have a dream where I have a brass stake through my torso, Iam in the middle of a vast dark desert and having an ongoing conversation with a glowing bird perched on a cactus.

Now thats a dream id never tell anyone about except for you psychos!

Yvsa, I never imagined you as the kind to get toasted! For shame! ;)
 
Jebadiah_Smith said:
Yvsa, I never imagined you as the kind to get toasted! For shame! ;)
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Jebadiah_Smith said:
If there is anything I should know by now its to never attempt to change anyones mind on:

1. Religion

And ill leave it at that.
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Now you're going moral on me Jeb.:rolleyes: :p :D ;)

Just tzn Jeb. That was back in my younger days but I have to admit that if I could get on medical marijuana for my disability pain I'd be on it in a heartbeat!
Pot is cheap and an excellent pain reliever!!!!

Now to your dream, nightmare! Whatever caused you to wind up in such a predicament?!?!?

My dreams/nightmares have a beginning and a middle, just usually no ending. I always wake up before the worst happens and I hope I always will.
Your imagination protects you when you're reading or telling stories but to actually see something can drive one over the edge!!!!:eek: :(
 
I dunno, maybe I pissed off the bird? :)

My dreams never have a plot, just a jumbled mess of melancholy/fear. My dreams are never good, at least the ones I remember, and I always feel powerless in them. In real life im always able to "git 'er done" so maybe im just worried about not being able to someday. :confused:

Or maybe I should stop chewin them peyote cactuses!! :eek:
 
I certainly have recurrent good and bad dreams, and had some whoppers as a child.

I always assumed that everyone had them. Freud came up with the idea of the self-destructive instinct because of repetitive nightmares in his patients. This was what led him to go "Beyond the Pleasure Principle."

I prefer the repetitive good ones.
 
Jebadiah_Smith said:
Or maybe I should stop chewin them peyote cactuses!! !:eek:
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That's "Cacti" bub.:p ;) :D

Jebadiah_Smith said:
In real life im always able to "git 'er done" so maybe im just worried about not being able to someday. :confused:
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Could be, dreams are strange to say the least.:(
 
Yvsa said:
That's "Cacti" bub.:p ;) :D (
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well soorrrrryyy!!

I thought Danny was supposed to be the resident engrish teacher here!

Although you can be the botanist :p :)

Tonight ill have dreams about improper grammar :eek:

Oh and by the way:

cac·tus ( P ) Pronunciation Key (kkts)
n. pl. cac·ti (-t) or cac·tus·es
Any of various succulent, spiny, usually leafless plants native mostly to arid regions of the New World, having variously colored, often showy flowers with numerous stamens and petals.
Any of several similar plants.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=cactuses
 
I'm one of those odd (let it go!) people who remembers may be 1 dream a year. Always been that way. Never had nightmares as a kid, just REAL difficulty falling asleep if I was thinking about something scary. Like "The Adventure of the Speckled Band", a Sherlock Holmes story that scared the guano out of me. It's a wonder I ever read them as an adult (sort of).
 
It was a long time before I understood that nightmares (and dreams in general) are a blessing. It took a few weeks without dreaming for me to understand.

You don't have to remember them for them to work their magic.
 
Aardvark said:
I'm one of those odd (let it go!) people who remembers may be 1 dream a year. Always been that way. Never had nightmares as a kid, just REAL difficulty falling asleep if I was thinking about something scary. Like "The Adventure of the Speckled Band", a Sherlock Holmes story that scared the guano out of me. It's a wonder I ever read them as an adult (sort of).
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Wow! When I was a kid my parents bought me a Reader's Digest collection of horror stories, and "Speckled Band" scared the hell out of me as well! I loved it though, and as an adult I think I have 4 or 5 different sets of Conan Doyles Sherlock Holmes works and have read them all more times than I can count.

Regards,

Norm
 
I remember one dream when I was a kid. there was this little cartoon house with the sunflower and picket fence. It was crushed by this giant bowling ball and there was nothing I could do to stop it.
I had that one over a number of years.

Once I started working for the medical examiner, I started having my bad nightmares that eventually forced me to quit the job.
I dreamed I would go to work and the people I went to "process" turned out to be loved ones. It was graphic.
Terrible terrible.

I dont even like remembering them.
 
Yes.

Two constants, for instance, when I'm not on the right path, are I dream of wandering around rattlesnakes; and sometimes of being in the dark and colliding with a Black Widow Spider in her web in a shed or garage.

I'm not bit; it's the presence- the feeling of being in danger you cannot control.



munk
 
Not in the last three years after I started taking one gram of Xanax before I go to bed. Otherwise, when my head hits the pillow my mind would start obsessing on a subject that would leave my mind racing like an engine at full throttle in neutral. And it involves ME making retribution for the treatment I was given.
 
IS THe title of a book by a guy I stayed with in Icleand, Thorstein Guthjonson. There are numerous types of dreams, and the it has been a hobby of the Scandinavians to interpret dreams for thousands of years.

Yvsa, the Icelanders tell me that flying in a dream is the sign of a magician, or medecine man. They believed that when the magician was able to see that dream is the reality, or reality is the dream (whichever path one chose to the enlightenment), then the magician's power can fully realized/actualized. (also you're description of falling and missing the ground is the key...certainly works for satellites around the earth, etc. etc).

I do have some recurring dreams, or have i the past. The one real constant in my dreams for the last two years is landscapes, almost always near a large lake or ocean, which is heavily populated with all manner of sea creatures, big and small. Often the water will be flooding the land, washing out a road I'm on, or a big wave will break over the shore unexpectedly, etc.. There's never any real sense of danger for the water, but it does seem to have a lot of vigor and personality in the dreams.

I have also had running dreams that had a theme, but it turned out that the two main recurring dream I had were linked by a final blockbuster of a dream that explained all of the stuff for the prevoius six months of dreaming.
.....Scene A: The chase--always seemed like I'd get followed, then eventuall the 'followers' would make a move on me (I felt that they would capture me or kill me or something, dunno why), and I'd be the fugitive. One very vivid part of the chase one night took me into a mobile home ouside a gas station, and I was hiding, then a Tractor trailer came blastying thru the wall, and i'm jumping thru a window to run. Lots of foot chasing, lots of paranioa, they were out to get me.
.....Scene B: The White Facility--In a seemingly unrelated recurring dream, I find myself well dressed, relaxed, almost leisurely, while I stroll down these white well lit halls in some very modern-architected building, which may also house shops in its huge atrium. White halls connect many open air rooms, with tall brushed steel arches and much glass which always lets in the sunniest of sun. the sky is always blue. The place seems to defy echoes, even in its most cavernous places. I'm walking with a man in a suit, talking with him about something, but I am always too diistractd to really get the gist of things. we're touring the vacility, showing me computer workstations, other library and research places, educational centers, etc. I never hear the words he actually says.
.....THe wrap up--So after six months of these things recurring, the "fugitive" and the "facility" each playing over with new characters and settings, basically the same things in each scene, something changes. As scene A becomes tense and it looks like I'm gonna get caught, about a dozen guys in suits come outta nowhere and wrangle up the guys chasing me. I recognize one of the guys in the suits as a guy from Scene B, the "Facility", which I now begin to see are connected. They take me in a big car to the "Facility," where they say everything will be explained. I get there, shower up, get dressed and fed, and I meet with the "Facility director" guy and his assistant (One of the rescuer guys). Turns out that I was working with them/being used as a decoy to bring some bad guys out of the woodwork. The computer center was monitoring the action of the chases with small cams and microphones implanted in my hair follicles, the library was some sort of research facility, and the educational center was where they programmed/debriefed folks before and after operations. other labs were for hypno-treatments, so that I would not know that I was just 'playing' a role, it wouldn't have worked to lure the 'bad guys' out. The hypno-therapy could be removed by a single word if things got bad, the man in the suit told me.

It was quite a trip, and I haven't had them since.

Keith
 
Try sleeping with a (sheathed) khuk under your pillow. They are all different.

Sleeping with an unsheathed khuk is NOT recommended. It would be like sleeping with my ex-wife! Dangerous, cutting, possibly emasculating.

Details and pictures at eleven.
 
How about recurring smoking dreams? I haven't smoked in almost 15 years, but I occasionally have dreams about buying cigarets. The object of this lust is a plump pack of Lucky Strikes! Which I can never quite acquire. Although in the dream, it's quite harmless! When the nicotine hook goes in, it goes in amazingly deep. :grumpy:
 
classic, Bill! LMAO!

When I quit smoking, uh, "green cigarettes" I had lotsa dreams about getting, uh, lifted, so to speak. The dreams were more psychedelic than the real thing!

Keith
 
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