Wow what a trip... I saw the polls and looks like were all in the same boat.

Must be something in the water...

Anyone ever have a night terror?

You havin nightmares Julia?

i dont really have nightmares, depressing dreams that wake me up once in awhile but not really nightmares.

whats a trip is the tv series Life on Mars (BBC America) -- don't watch the US remake! it doesnt do it justice....

I wouldn't call mine nightmares cuz it's when I'm barely going to sleep. It's kinda like being caught in the middle... I'm not fully asleep nor am I fully awake, yet I can see everything as it is in my room and I can see a very small part of the dream (more like a black hole). I used to have them every week or when going to bed after a heavy meal.
I've always feared falling but more so, falling into water, like from a bridge or a cliff. The other night I lost my balance and fell into the water. I was frightened as I was going down and kinda thought to myself, "Oh well, here it goes, kiss your @ss good-bye!" I hit the water but it didn't feel wet or hard & I also thought I wasn't going to be able to breathe. I began to relax so I could float up and then I noticed I was able to breathe. I was able to take hold of the situation and came out alright.
I know that dream meant something and it has to do with what is going on right now with my mom & family.

whenever I have a nightmare, or a dream for that matter, I am able to figure out that im dreaming in my dream. So then i just start to fuck around with my dreams and its not that scary at all. Is anybody else able to figure out your dreaming during your dream, and then start to control it or just fuck around in your dream?

I had a horrible dream last night.

Both of my brothers tried to kill me. I pretended to play dead but then they still came back and found that I was alive.

They didn't want to shoot me but wanted me to eat this horrible thing so I could die a slow death.

BAH

I'm returning their xmas presents I got for them today.

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I don't have dreams that often. It seems like the older i got the less i recalled my dreams.

Once thing i do notice is, when i drink or and a few beers the night before i sleep i tend to dream that night. So if i want to dream i guess i need to have some drinks, because for the most part i never have dreams.

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Originally posted by djjoshuaallen Is anybody else able to figure out your dreaming during your dream, and then start to control it or just fuck around in your dream?

My buddy does that shit too, there's no way i can figure it out. I never realize its a dream. Maybe if i had dreams more often i would figure it out...

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Originally posted by KarenLuvs2Party I had a horrible dream last night. Both of my brothers tried to kill me. I pretended to play dead but then they still came back and found that I was alive. They didn't want to shoot me but wanted me to eat this horrible thing so I could die a slow death. BAH I'm returning their xmas presents I got for them today.

I LOL'd

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Originally posted by djjoshuaallen whenever I have a nightmare, or a dream for that matter, I am able to figure out that im dreaming in my dream. So then i just start to fuck around with my dreams and its not that scary at all. Is anybody else able to figure out your dreaming during your dream, and then start to control it or just fuck around in your dream?

I do this sometimes too. It's not like total control because there's still a random and totally unknown element, but I can influence it and often wake up and resume the same dream.

Years ago, a friend went to africa and had to take anti-malaria drugs when he got back (not because he had malaria, just as a precaution). When he started the drugs, for the next six weeks he had the worst nightmares he's ever had, and was considering restraints becuase he kept moving, fighting and even getting up while aspleep.

One particularly bad nightmare he told me about was that he spent all night getting killed in different ways (pushed off a cliff, shot, stabbed, strangled, poisened - you name it), only to come back alive and get killed again.

Note to self: Get anti malaria jabs if I ever go to Africa......

I've noticed that when I take Vicodin I have bad dreams.

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I know you guys will think I'm crazy, but I have to share what's been going on with me....

I have intense, disturbing, visual, vivid dreams/nightmares practically every night. I even have nightmares when I lay down to take short naps. In my nightmares, I can see colors, remember faces, conversations, names, numbers, details, textures... I can hear sounds, music, peoples voices, and sometimes even smell. I'll wake up a couple times a night (depending on how bad the nightmare was), and sometimes my heart is pounding out of fear, and I'm sweating. Sometimes when I wake up from a nightmare, I'll be thinking, "Holy shit, did that just happen"???? And I'll want to go online to google it or check my email to see if what I just dreamed happened or if it was just my imagination. I also have sleep paralysis maybe once or twice a year (I haven't had that in a little over a year though... and I hope I don't have to go through it ever again).

Here is some background info about me...

1. I've been having vivid dreams since I can remember, but I don't remember having them every night like I do now.
2. I had a concussion when i was 12 years old, in a coma for a couple days (maybe this causes nightmares?)
3. My first intense sleep paralysis experience was when I was around 20 years old. I remember having it a couple times before that, but not as intense as this one.
4. My nightmares have become unbearable within the last 2 years.
5. When I finally get out of bed in the morning, I feel like I didn't get a good nights rest, and sometimes the dream is so disturbing, that I'll be in an upset mood in the morning.
6. I'm always tired through out the day, and always want to sleep early.

I told all this to my doctor recently, so he had me take an MRI brain scan. He said my results looked a little "different", so he got an opinion from a 2nd doctor. The 2nd doctor said he noticed some brain shrinkage (aka early signs of Schizophrenia and Alzheimer's). The 3rd doctor said my brain is ok, and there is nothing to worry about. So in conclusion, my doctor said my brain is "ok". Well, I guess I'll trust my doctors opinion. (I did some research, and brain shrinkage starts showing when you're about 60 years old, and can be caused by drinking alcohol or being a vegetarian. I'm only 27, I don't drink alcohol often, and I'm not a vegetarian).

So then, my doctor had me take a sleep study at the hospital (this was a few weeks ago). Basically, they check your heart rate, breathing patterns, and they video tape you while you're sleeping. The nurse called me a couple weeks saying I have a little sleep apnea, but in general, my results came out "normal". I asked her there MUST be something my doctor can do... perhaps another sleep study that specializes in brain activity when you're asleep? She said she would ask the doctor and call me back, but she hasn't followed up with me since. (go figures... the medical insurance system these days)

I can't imagine having more stress in my life than the average person... so I don't think nightmares are directly related to stress. I don't know why I have nightmares. I just bought a Tempurpedic pillow top for my mattress, and a humidifier for my bedroom, hoping these two things would help, but I've still been having nightmares.

I'm not on any medication. I don't usually eat food late. I don't drink. I work out moderately a few hours before sleep. I usually relax before sleeping... either by watching TV or reading a book or magazine. What can be the cause for my intense nightmares? What can I do to stop them? I wish my brain would just shut off at night.

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Everyone I think gets sleep paralysis every once in a while. A friend of mine had it, I've had it a few times, where you see and hear demonic stuff and see things, horrific stuff, etc... They say its night terrors, I checked it out too and some people go to case studies and sleep centers to check themself out. Whenever I get a night terror I know I been staying up either too late or pushing my body past its limits.

There is a site I checked out a while back about night terrors, and looks as if there are alot of people that have em from time to time too.

http://www.nightterrors.org/

Crazy that your having nightmares practically every night tho.

Here's another thing that you might wanna take a look at. Its about Sleep Epilepsy.

http://www.epilepsy.org.uk/info/sleep.html

Sleep Apnea is not funny. Did you disclose your party schedule with your Doc? Sometimes being out late will take a toll on your body, and will cause different reactions to your system if you dont allow it to heal properly. Also could be some type of side effect to some chemical in a drug, or pill...

The pillow will help tho, some of them are made so that it allows you to breathe right.

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Originally posted by djjoshuaallen whenever I have a nightmare, or a dream for that matter, I am able to figure out that im dreaming in my dream. So then i just start to fuck around with my dreams and its not that scary at all. Is anybody else able to figure out your dreaming during your dream, and then start to control it or just fuck around in your dream?

I never have nightmares either. I am almost always self aware in my dreams too. It is like living my fantasy life, any woman I want, any place I want to be, driving what I want etc etc. I can wake myself up if I want to by just yelling WAKE UP in my dream.

I can also process data in my head while I sleep, for example, I will put on an episode of "The Universe" and fall asleep half way in. I then wake up the next morning knowing how far it is to the Andromeda galaxy and how that distance is found using Hubble's law. I first discovered my ability to do this a few years ago when I fell asleep during a documentary on Nikola Tesla and was able to produce facts and trivia on about Tesla without ever studying his life. Now I do this almost every night and my scientific knowledge has grown exponentially.

Anyone else able to do this while they sleep?

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