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Nightmares

As I've no doubt mentioned before, my recurring nightmare was of walking along somewhere and being stabbed by a random passer-by. I'd clutch my right side in agony and wake up in a panic.

After having this experience a number of times I realised that the pain actually came from my own hand gripping my skin!

So I resolved to watch out next time I had the dream and to keep my hands away from the wound.

It worked and I woke up still stabbed but pain-free and never had the dream again.
 
Min Bannister said:
I get them but not very often. I am unable to scream while sleeping but wake up making a sort of grrrnnffle sound.
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One of the reasons my wife moved out of our room was because I would frequently drag myself up to wake from the depths of hellish action with a full-bellied roar. I didn't blame her. Would've done the same.

Nothing fun about stress nightmares. I can't recall when I last had one; having been out of societal pressure for a long time I expect the mind settles itself into warm ambulations.
 
My wife gets them on a regular basis - once a month or so, sometimes more. Real full-on screaming usually with whimpering first; I usually try to wake her at this point but don't always manage it. She regularly talks just when she's falling asleep too – totally clear words but no relationship to anything that's happened, like some sort of scrambled code: "It's the Chinese product in the garden" for example...

Last night I had one of my very rare nightmares. I was in South Africa, there was a rumbling in the distance, louder than thunder, then a rocket flying straight up, also in the distance, and then the boom of a nuclear explosion and mushroom cloud – in my dream I swore "Oh f***!" and then, not surprisingly woke up. I didn't sleep to well after that!!
 
I used to have a few when i was younger, my husband had to stop me climbing out the bedroom window, i believe i was gonna murder someone with an axe. The last time i had one was when i drank one of those lil tins of alcohol, the ones from asda, like a gin and tonic, and it was not nice, didnt drink it again
 
Lizard King said:
I do get nightmares from time to time and also very vivid dreams. I can wake up and feel really scared or really sad and it can take a while to shift that feeling. I am always amazed how in dreams we can feel real terror, happiness or sadness but when conscious memories can't recreate that intense feeling by thought alone.Of course with PTSD that can happen but I mean general memories as opposed to real trauma.Does that make sense?
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I suffer from this quite a lot lizard king, always have done for some reason (it also runs in the family as it happens to my elder brother as well) sometimes the dreams seem so real that it takes me a while to snap out of it. And yes like you I wake up sometimes scared or elated depending on the dream.

Only this afternoon I was having a post lunch nap, when I heard 3 loud knocks on the front door, followed by a female voice whisper in my ear “you had better get that as there is no one in the house to open the front door”

I get out of bed and half consciously stagger downstairs and open the front door to absolute no one.

I walk into the living room where my family are watching the TV and I ask if there was anyone knocking and get confused looks in return.

Annoying, as I could have done with at least another hour’s kip.
 
Dick Turpin said:
... Only this afternoon I was having a post lunch nap, when I heard 3 loud knocks on the front door, followed by a female voice whisper in my ear “you had better get that as there is no one in the house to open the front door”

I get out of bed and half consciously stagger downstairs and open the front door to absolute no one. ...
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It's common to experience such phantom alerts involving knocking at the door, the telephone ringing, and / or a voice summoning you. For example see the Three Knocks thread dedicated to the door knock version:

https://forums.forteana.org/index.php?threads/the-three-knocks.63795/
 
EnolaGaia said:
It's common to experience such phantom alerts involving knocking at the door, the telephone ringing, and / or a voice summoning you. For example see the Three Knocks thread dedicated to the door knock version:

https://forums.forteana.org/index.php?threads/the-three-knocks.63795/
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Thanks for that Enola. I read the first few posts and can relate to them 100 percent.

Weird that some people suffer from this and some people don’t.

My brother suffers dreadfully from sleepwalking, as did I when I was younger.

And whilst I’ve mainly grown out of it, he has not. Only the other day he woke up on a neighbours sofa.

He went to bed as per normal, but woke up on their living room sofa the next morning.

God knows what they must have thought of him- thankfully they are quite understanding people, but that will teach them to lock their back door in future lol.
 
I sometimes get a nightmare where I'm being chased by Yul Brynner's Gunslinger character from Westworld. It usually starts with me looking out the window and seeing him standing in the street with his back to me. Suddenly he turns and starts walking towards the house - then it's a case of barricading doors and climbing down drainpipes, jumping over hedges etc to get away.
 
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I used to have a recurring nightmare when I was a child that I was at a circus and it was burning down. Now I have a recurring nightmare that I'm in a hotel and it's burning down. So a change of location but the same kind of dream. It's always a different hotel.
I also have a nightmares about finding dead bodies or severed heads in strange places.
 
Bigphoot2 said:
I sometimes get a nightmare where I'm being chased by Yul Brynner's Gunslinger character from Westworld. It usually starts with me looking out the window and seeing him standing in the street with his back to me. Suddenly he turns and starts walking towards the house - then it's a case of barricading doors and climbing down drainpipes, jumping over hedges etc to get away.
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thats literally my ideal dream ... i would pay to have that dream
 
Not a nightmare, but recently I've had dreams that all my dreams come true. I then wake up and that feels like the nightmare, not that my life is particularly bad, but after such amazing dreams its a bit of a come down :(
 
I have a repeating dream since forever and I cannot say it is really a nightmare so sorry about hijacking the thread.
Whenever I dream about seaside I know that there is a tsunami coming. It is always a tall shadow in the distance, touching the sky and slowly getting nearer. Now, since I had this zillion times, I don't even wince in the dream - I just admire it from the shore and watch the beast coming towards me....

The closest thing I saw in movies were the tsunamis in Interstellar (the ones they mistake for mountains, for the peeps who watched it).

There were a periods in my life (esp during divorce hell months) when I went to bed actually asking God of Dreams for my tsunami friends... sad
 
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I used to have dreams where nasty things happened but found that at the scariest part I was somehow able to accept it and not be afraid.
Only one where I woke crying was the one I wrote about once before where my child ( the one I had there) was stabbed.
 
I don't really get them anymore, i remember one, i awoke and saw it sitting on me, ugly lil imp like thing, i started laughing at it, and it buggered off, guess it didn't like that, it was a looooong time ago, if i do get them i don't remember, bit like normal dreams do not remember much of those either.
 
Shady said:
I don't really get them anymore, i remember one, i awoke and saw it sitting on me, ugly lil imp like thing, i started laughing at it, and it buggered off, guess it didn't like that, it was a looooong time ago, if i do get them i don't remember, bit like normal dreams do not remember much of those either.
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Laughing at it sounds like the thing to do!
 
A lot of close correlation between this thread and the 'Vivid Dreams during Covid' thread. My dream of last night was definitely a nightmare.

However, I have taken frequently lately to waking from half-remembered dreams with an enormous gasp and sitting bolt upright. I'm not sure whether this is because of the nightmarish quality of the dream, or whether I am suffering sleep apnoeia and holding my breath, to wake suddenly with an inrush of breath.
 
catseye said:
A lot of close correlation between this thread and the 'Vivid Dreams during Covid' thread. My dream of last night was definitely a nightmare.

However, I have taken frequently lately to waking from half-remembered dreams with an enormous gasp and sitting bolt upright. I'm not sure whether this is because of the nightmarish quality of the dream, or whether I am suffering sleep apnoeia and holding my breath, to wake suddenly with an inrush of breath.
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Maybe you're in a movie, because that's exactly what characters do when they wake up from a dream in those.
 
Lost of zombie action and aliens and spacecraft. The spacecraft are often related to the ones I watched during a strong acid trip I did donkey's years ago.

They are scary but fun.

I occasionally get an MR James/Grudge jumpscare dream - which usually is enough to wake me. I hate those.

I'd say zombie-type dreams 1 in 20. Jumpscare dreams 1 in a 100.
 
Schrodinger's Zebra said:
There are some nightmares, though, which I did know the reason for. A year or so ago my GP started me on some medication for my anxiety...

And almost from the start I was plagued with horrific nightmares in which I'd be walking around some building or other, slashing at random people with some sort of weapon; . . .

Anyway, I stopped taking the medication* after a couple of months because I couldn't bear to keep having those dreams.
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This is a good contender for the Oh, The Irony thread!
 
GNC said:
Maybe you're in a movie, because that's exactly what characters do when they wake up from a dream in those.
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Meant to post this ages ago but forgot:
The same day as you posted that, a character in something we were watching did exactly that and I remarked on it to Techy -
'That's what people waking up from dreams in films ALWAYS do!'

All wise and observant. y'know. :cool:
 
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