on nightmares

**nokhor** · 05-03-2005, 12:51

just woke up from a nightmare this morning. so its still fresh in my mind. but my experience is, whenever i have a nightmare, it feels like a 15 min long scenario that just keeps getting repeated in more and more complex iterations. they always involve one thing, say me being chased by monsters in a huge building [thank you video games and b-movies] but i never leave the building though i am always racing to get out. anyways the scenario keeps looping because as i'm about to get out of the building, i somehow find myself back to where i started and the chase begins anew.

the wierd thing is, with each new iteration, the whole scenario gets more and more complex and absurd and as that happens, i also begin observing my consciousness slowly beging to wake up as it gets stronger with each new iteration. because in the nightmare i begin noticing more and more absurd things like 'these monsters shouldn't exist', or 'why am i being forced to repeat the same things over and over again.' then once my consciousness reaches critical mass, say after 5 different iterations of the same scenario, i become fully aware and wrest myself from the nightmare.

about 30% of my nightmares are finished by my alarm clock and 70% are finished by me realizing the silliness of it all. but it is wierd observing myself become more and more aware over time of the absurdity of the scenarios. just wondering if others have similar experiences.

**Cha** · 05-03-2005, 13:25

I used experience what you did when I was a kid. I stopped having nightmares as I grew older. I think it's because I'm aware that I'm dreaming.

**Ronin** · 05-03-2005, 13:38

that happened to me a time or two......i don´t have nightmares anymore...not is a very long time....but when i dream the dream usually ends because i become aware that i´m dreaming...so i usually wake up in a couple of minutes...

the up side is that after i become aware that i´m dreaming i can control the dream anyway i want....so in certain dreams that can be a very "entertaining" 2 minutes

**Big_John** · 05-09-2005, 11:46

Originally Posted by Ronin

the up side is that after i become aware that i´m dreaming i can control the dream anyway i want....so in certain dreams that can be a very "entertaining" 2 minutes

yeah, i must have some kind of censorship panel in my head. every time i'm lucid enough in a dream to start "entertaining" myself, the dream shifts or i lose lucidity. sucks!

worst one was when i was with a dream-woman in a certain act.. my hands where on her head.. she was kneeling, i was standing.. you get the picture i hope. just as it was getting good, i suddenly start losing lucidity, as i struggle to get it back i notice that her head has become detached and i'm holding it in front of me.. and she was angry about something so the disembodied head was berating me. that one left deep emotional scars, i'm sure.

anyway, i've never really had nightmares though, i mean not really scary ones. very occasionally i'll have one of the embarrassment ones.. like discovering you're naked in public or something. most of my dreams are just so f'ing weird, i try not to think about them.

**Monk** · 05-09-2005, 16:40

You want to talk nightmares? i once had a dream where I was forced to moderate the backroom. I didn't last 10 minutes...

(dead serious actually

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**LittleGrizzly** · 05-09-2005, 16:55

Whilst semi-awake, I was thinking through how I might have a conversation with someone about something... I envisioned myself on some stairs... and I slipped. I found myself having a sort of spaz-attack in bed, trying to save myself from falling all the way down the stairs.

yeah ive had that quite a few times can't remember what i was falling off though

**Byzantine Prince** · 05-03-2005, 16:26

Yeah Nokh I have the same thing hapen to me. I am always being chased by penguins or people who want to kill me. Thanks Qunetin Tarantino and Batman movies!
But the most ennoying part is that they always give you a bad feeling afterwards.

**Craterus** · 05-03-2005, 17:50

I like the feeling after nightmares. I don't tend to get them much anymore but it's still nice when I do.

**Mikeus Caesar** · 05-03-2005, 18:33

You're lucky though....you're dreams are weird and wacko, like mine. All i dreamt about for 6 hours staright was a cow wearing a grass skirt playing the ukelele.

**Uesugi Kenshin** · 05-06-2005, 04:41

I rarely dream and only about 1/100 of those are nightmares. The feeling afterwards is kinda cool, adrenaline and all. Overall mine are related to something that I recently saw/heard or experienced. Generally I notice they are nightmares and subconciously end or mess with them so they are no longer sleep disturbing.