Recurring elements in Nightmares

[rimv2]

When you have bad dreams, what is something that happens to you over and over in them?

When I was little the things that repeated most in my nightmares were:

Animal prints in snow (Bird cat dog) - For some reason I would always think prince charles was coming when I saw them. Prince Charles is that scary A$$ puppet from Mr. Rodgers.

Feeling tied down/ unable to move/ forgetting how to move- This most happen right before I awoke which I guess is because the mind turn you into a rock when you dream.

Cant talk would go with above as well I guess

Flower pot with browned shrubs. I usually always saw these before I saw the animal footprints.

Every changing buildings- I was like GTA3. Turning my back for a second meant that everything around me would change.

Being chased and not being able to escape- sometimes I'd kick mobster in the nuts and then run. They'd always catch me right before I woke up.

When I was in highschool I didnt dream much, but I recall one nightmare were a guy in a red shirt got angry and attacked me- Probably had something to do with my conflict issues (i've been in a lot of fights i didnt start- one of the benefits of being smart -not in the attitude sort of way).

Now my nightmares seem to be composed of things that move in ways no natural being can- Image a human-like figure moving moving across a room like a chess piece.

FREAKS ME OUT!!!


Y TU?

[luvslive]

definitely the not being able to move or speak part right before awaking.  this usually happens when i take naps during the day.  so i do everything in my power to try to move myself.  this started in college when i would nap between classes and i would stress because i needed to get up and get going.  usually this terror is accompanied by my imagining various people are coming into my room and i cant  talk to them.  the first time it happened i could "see" the side of my nose/face but still couldn't move.

other recurring factors for me:
when i go and spend the night at my parents' home in my old bedroom i will dream that i am locked in an unfamiliar scary place (attic, basement, dungeon, etc).  this was made even worse the last time i was home by the fact that i woke to find myself pressed up against the icy window looking outside.  in my dream i was climbing up some stairs and discovering i was locked in a basement in pitch dark ...yikes.

airplanes crashing, looking into the sky and seeing it covered in bombers, war and natural disasters (so many flood dreams)...

[rc]

I typically have more nightmarish dreams than pleasant ones. Loads of recurring themes. For a while the world always ended. Talking to friends there seemed to be some similar elements when the world ended in our dreams: it always blew up in a bluish light, and we always floated upwards slowly like in water when it came our time.

A lot of the time my dreams will move fairly chronologically and play out like a movie... So after the world blew me up, I would become an observer of the disturbing post-apocalyptic world.

Another theme was dolls. They scare me enough in reality, in my dreams they come to life and are always trying to get near me. I always try to kill them, but they won't die and just keep coming back no matter what I do, which scares me even more... hmmmm, for all I know the dolls might just want to be my friend, hahah!

Now my nightmares seem to be composed of things that move in ways no natural being can- Image a human-like figure moving moving across a room like a chess piece.

FREAKS ME OUT!!!

This was always the worst one for me, especially if I'm sick so the nightmare will blend with delirious half-waking... I would dream what was actually happening, so the setting was my actual bedroom. Then the bed would feel like dead leaves, twigs and grass. Everything would go out of proportion; blanket felt like lead, my hand would become monsterously huge, then the rest of me, fluctuate between being tiny and huge. All more kinesthetic than visual. Then everything in the room would start slowly floating and bouncing around, while the size of everything fluctuated between huge and tiny, including the room itself...

Once in this state I became convinced that I threw my brain out the window, which is a very bad thing to do. I woke up making my bedding as smooth as possible, trying to make amends for destroying my brain.

[Tash]

the one connecting element in all my nightmares- leaving my electric blanket on too high when i fall asleep (in reality, not in the dream)- i have come to the conclusion that nightmares are a result of getting exceptionally overheated in bed and thus cause you to become delirious and have crazed dreams

[luvslive]

Tash-I agree!  When I nap during the day I always overheat with the sun pouring in the windows, and therefore have the crazy dreams where I can't wake up.  I honestly think body temperature has something to do with the lunacy. 

[brahmsian]

I used to have this recurring nightmare about a ghost that was in my basement. In the dream I would go down the stairs and see and object floating around by the freezer, and would be scared to death. I would call out "who is there?" numerous times with no answer. All the times this dream occoured, this is where it would end, with me running up the stairs in terror. However, the last time it happened, the ghost answered me, "my name is webster." Ever since I have never had this dream.

Kinda weird.....

[klavierkonzerte]

last week i had about 3 nightmare about a women and a baby

the first one was about a women that adopt a baby then one day when she was putting him in bed the ghost of his real mother shows at the window and starts looking at them then suddenly she grabes both of them and starts screaming


the second one was about a women and her child and then a human-ghost thing, which is as scary as hell i still get scared thinking about it, gives me a book with what's going to happen for the women and her child there whole life and then it apears that the ghost is her husband then he dissapeared and feathers and blood exploded out of him then his wife and child started screamin, that was one of the worste nightmares ever.

one of the dreams that i had more than once is that i jump then start flying and i can't go down and i'm scared that i'll go to space and die.

the most recurring dream is about bugs like i'm in a train station then cokroaches fill the ground like waves or somtimes i dream that one is sticking on my stomaches or getting out of my mouth.

somtimes i dream that i find myself suddenly naked in a public place.


many might not belive me when i say this but i swear to god i'm not exaturating
all my life i have hated my mother i hated her so much that i prayed she would die
then one day i had a dream that my mother died and then after a while she got out of her grave and came to me and talked to me and asked me how i was doing and she told me that she loves me and cares about me then she returned to her grave.

when i woke up i was crying and changed my way with my mother and she changed ALOT in return and you cannot belive how much i started loving her after that dream.