Following one of our conversations last night. I though I'd ask you all about your weirdest dream.
Mine stemmed from a Lincolnshire induced round of nightmares where planes would be screaming over my house and dropping bombs at me!!!
Then one day after discovering the 'Armadillo' Pokemon (anyone tell me what its called??) - my bombing nightmare excelled itself, and I was scurrying round my house trying to escape Armadillo Pokemon's being bombed onto my roof and boring their way through to get me........
I now dislike armadillo's and dont think much of Pokemon.... However, very luckily, I haven't had a single bombing nightmare since I moved to Sheffield.#If anyone knows what this dream means I'd be intrigued to know.....
any takers????

If not, don't worry - just share your weirdest dream with us all.

Your subconscious was probably telling you to 'get the Hell out' from where you were.

And you moved to Sheffield - Wow!

I have weird dreams all the time. I don't like them.

Last night

1) John Prescott was using my flat as an office because he had some business in Sheffield and the Labour Party couldn't afford an office for him. We ended up quite good friends (?!?!?!)

2) I was at the doctors and there was a scorpion crawling up the wall and when I told him he didn't believe me. Eventually he turned round and used a book to crush it and the book stuck to the wall.

Hmmm...

i have the same dream everytime i'm poorly with the flu or suchlike. its really abstract and i can't put it into words, but i wake up thinking i'm all bones. and my hands are locked tightly together in real life too adding to the bones effect. well wierd.

Originally posted by tinajones
i have the same dream everytime i'm poorly with the flu or suchlike. its really abstract and i can't put it into words, but i wake up thinking i'm all bones. and my hands are locked tightly together in real life too adding to the bones effect. well wierd.

Maybe it's just your form of a hangover Tina.

ps. you shouldn't have used the 'O' word.:lol:

doubt it - drinking makes you fat not bonesy!

Originally posted by tinajones
doubt it - drinking makes you fat not bonesy!

After fifty years of supping varying brews - am I fat - and don't dare mention the 'middle-age spread'.

cartainly not barry!

i guess you don't get the 2am kebab pangs.

No - I'm a pizza man - and how do I keep thin (apart from being 'of the greyhound breed' - as my grandma used to say)...

Sitting quietly, ...

I had a weird dream last night.
It was about this forum.
Nothing weird about that but i went to a job centre and in the queue in front of me wasn a guy about 6'11 he was massive and made me look every inch the 5'3 that i am.

Don't know why i was in the jobcentre but Geoff was on the desk wearing a beard andd glasses and the tall guy had a name badge on called Sidla.

Is Sidla 6'11 and male...........

Scarey.

I don't usually remember my dreams but I've had a couple of horrible ones recently. Hope I don't send you to sleep (boom boom) as I re-tell them to you.

I don't know whether I was a guy or a girl, but I know I wasn't me in the dream. I was in a lunatic asylum (nice touch). I was in a cell and I started moving towards a mirror that was on the wall. I saw my own face in it but I wasn't me in the dream, so I started screaming cos this apparently freaked me out. Then I woke up...

I think this might have had something to do with having to watch a video of myself giving a presentation on a presentation skills course recently! It was as weird as hell watching myself, so weird that I felt physically sick! It was like watching someone else. So maybe that's where the weird "it's me, but it's not me" dream came from.

The other one I can remember: I was doing this strange underground kind of assault course. There was lots of other people doing it too. I had to have help (ie I was lifted by the "helpers"/trainer type people) with reaching up to this hole in the ceiling. Then a pregnant woman tried to get up through this hole. (Don't ask me why a pregnant woman was doing an assault course). The trainers tried to lift her and dropped her. She lay crying on the floor worrying about her baby.

What nice dreams I have. :loopy:

nIGHTMARE - PRESENTAITON - skills wrkshop.
Reckon I'll have to do oneof them soon - and don't wanna!!!!

Not paid enough to be doing that rubbish - I would be a teacher if I wanted to stand up in front of people and talk!!

once had a dream and in it i woke up to go out and found out i was the only human left and the apes had took over lol thing is tho day before id watched the planet of the apes box set on dvd

I Once had a dream that i ate a giant marshmellow........i woke up and the pillow was gone. :loopy:

I did have a very strange dream whilst in Northumberland the other week.
I had a little boy and he was called Lysander. I love the name, but the child bit was incredibly disturbing.

ive had some weird ones lately

each one involving my friends... they are all quite bizzare........ in the fact im just doing everyday things like riding the tram or being at college :loopy:

i had this dream where eyelids were really heavy and I had to open them, because I was having this dream where my eyelids were really heavy and I had to open them becasue I was having this dream where my eyelids were really heavy and I had to open them because I was having this dream where...

This actually happened to me coming out of general anaethesia. I was **** scared, the most scared I had ever been because, after what seemed like an eternity of not being able to break out of the dream because everytime I opened my eyes, I was still dreaming.

I thought I was stuck. That no matter how many times I opened my eyes, I would never wake up. Thought I was dead, or that my brain had just closed itself off; I couldn't feel my body, only my imgainary lifting eyelids. Gives me the shivers just thinking about it.:(

friend had strange one in a foreign language with english 'subtitles'

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Originally posted by hiyabeing
nIGHTMARE - PRESENTAITON - skills wrkshop.
Reckon I'll have to do oneof them soon - and don't wanna!!!!

Not paid enough to be doing that rubbish - I would be a teacher if I wanted to stand up in front of people and talk!!
The trainer started the course by saying that on a poll/questionnaire to vote for the thing you find most scary, giving presentations came out top! It was higher than dying! So apparently we'd rather die than give a presentation! She didn't say which questionnaire it was but I found it amusing anyway.

Actually the course was hard work but I got a lot out of it. Good luck if you have to go on one! Remember, everyone else will be nervous too!

Originally posted by Phanerothyme
i had this dream where eyelids were really heavy and I had to open them, because I was having this dream where my eyelids were really heavy and I had to open them becasue I was having this dream where my eyelids were really heavy and I had to open them because I was having this dream where...

This actually happened to me coming out of general anaethesia. I was **** scared, the most scared I had ever been because, after what seemed like an eternity of not being able to break out of the dream because everytime I opened my eyes, I was still dreaming.

I thought I was stuck. That no matter how many times I opened my eyes, I would never wake up. Thought I was dead, or that my brain had just closed itself off; I couldn't feel my body, only my imgainary lifting eyelids. Gives me the shivers just thinking about it.:(

Ooh, sounds HORRIBLE. I'm glad that didn't happen to me when I woke up from the GA I had. I was having my wisdom teeth taken out and when I woke up somebody said "It's all done". I remember thinking "What already?". (Then the pain hit me!).

I found the loss of time really strange. I didn't dream or anything so I had this weird section of my life where I can't remember anything. I wasn't really expecting to have "dreams" as such but it's just nothing! From being in the pre-op room and being knocked out to waking up and somebody telling me that it was done. Felt weird, like no time had passed for it to happen.
Originally posted by Phanerothyme
friend had strange one in a foreign language with english 'subtitles'
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LOL!

i dreamt last night that i had invented wing mirrors for handbags - what's that all about?!?!

any of you guys had any crazy dreams recently??

I had a vivid dream the other week about a football match between Arsenal and Middlesbrough. I dreamt that the final score was going to be 4-1 to Arsenal. I forgot about the dream until I realised that Arsenal and Middlesbrough were playing each other in the Carling Cup just a couple of days after I had my dream. I put a bet on for Arsenal to win 4-1 at 17-1. It finished 1-0 to Middlesbrough. Then at the weekend following this Cup match they played each other again in the Premiership. Did I put a bet on? No. What was the final score? 4-1 to Arsenal. Arrggghhh!

I'm working on dreaming up the lottery numbers. :D

dreams can come true - or so the song goes!

but how unlucky was that! - how much did you put on at 17-1??

Ive had several bizzare dreams recently,

I drempt that Aurora Borealis was over sheffield, that i'd met my perfect girl (oh the disappointment when i woke up :( ) and some other crazy dreams about just normal life :confused:

Ive also been waking up a few seconds before I receive txt messages in the morning... almost like I know they are coming :o

hmm interesting!

i hate the dream where you meet the perfect grrrl and then you wake up - i've had that a few times!

lol, im not alone then :lol:
She had browny/ginger hair and a cheeky smile...
Maybe its someone on here :o but it was certainly not anyone I knew/seen before

mine are kinda loosely based on someone i know but who then quite often turn into someone else by the end!
or sometimes it happens the the other way round - ermm thinking about it this seems to be a recurring dream theme!!

Originally posted by RPG
She had browny/ginger hair and a cheeky smile...


cilla black?!

Originally posted by Bedhead
cilla black?!

Haha, no more my age :lol:

Maybe a dream reader is on the board?

I had a nightmare that I was a little girl and my bedroom was haunted... In the dream no-one would believe me as the poltergueist only started doing stuff when I was in the room on my own and when anyone else came in, the stuff that had been hurtling across my room would fall to their original position and I'd look like I was crying wolf!!!

I was really disturbed by this so I woke chris up and made him cuddle me back to sleep! aaah! :)

I am getting exremely vivid dreams every night and every one of them is linked to travelling and holidays. I dreamt that I was on Holiday on tour in China a couple of weeks ago, and we were taken to an authentic Cantonese restuarant, which was outdoors for no apparent reason.

The food was delicious, as much as you could eat for next-to-nothing. And do you know, this is too weird, I was stuffed full the next morning!

That's the truth.

Right strange, eh?

I rarely remember my dreams, but recently i had a really vivid dream that was very odd, as this is only the second dream i have ever remembered, and each one was totally different.

This one started that i was on ym way to a farmyard to go to an RAF recruitment day. I was given a big book of things i could do in the armed forces. Each person queued up to get an interview and i was on the ball and was at the front of a queue.

It didn't suprise me in the slightest that dermot o'leary was my interviewer but i told him what i wanted to do and he agreed, but he just had to ask me some questions so that he could be sure. He was really slow at asking the questions and eveyone else queue was moving really fast.

It got to the end of the day and i was still doign ym interview. All of the careers had been fille dup and Dermot said: "sorry, the only career left is crockery"

I stormed off in a huff and got really angry when while someon drove me home, i didn't join the RAF and i was mad about it.

What the hell does that mean? I don't even want to be in the armed forces!

Wilf

There is another thread somewhere to sort out problems of this magnitude... It may be on this forum.

If not, fone tony.

Originally posted by Bedhead
dreams can come true - or so the song goes!

but how unlucky was that! - how much did you put on at 17-1??
Not sure now, I think it was only 2 or 3 quid. I'm not a big gambler I just do it for fun now and again. Although I've never won anything!

Threads merged... *cough* search *cough*

Had a strange dream last night that a cat kept attacking my foot. It kept clamping its claws in to the skin of my feet... what was really strange is that I could feel the pain in my dream, so I guess it was more of a nightmare... I was certainly glad to wake up.

...and no, we don't have a cat.

An Australian aboriginies greeting is "how is the quality of your dreams".
The brain never stops neither does your body cease to function while you sleep.
Surely what happens during your consious waking hours affects your unconcious ones.
Some people believe that in sleep your soul has the freedom to rid itself of it's mortal coil for a brief time and therefore do the things it has to do. Due to the amount of stuff going on, the memories of these events become jumbled and manifest themselves as weird dreams.
I don't know if this is true , but I've had a few vivid dreams that have been spooky and accurate , but only after time.

I like the idea of the Aurora Borealis (I had to copy that to make sure I spelled it right :) ) being over SHeffield.

I would LOVE to see it properly (found a website once of some bloke who lives there and posts loads of his own photos on website for us all to look at - it was marvellous) and will be much cheaper if it comes to me!

I'm not sure about the handbags with wing mirrors - handbags are bad enough (and probably contain mirrors for re-applying that lippy at crucial moments) without adding accessories to them.

Glad some of you are sharing your strange dreams - sad to report that I don't think I've had any strange ones recently - or if I have I can't remember them.

I like strange dreams - although they're usually not particularly nice.
:thumbsup:

I know there has been a post on the meaning of dreams, but whats your weirdest dream that you can remember?

I had a very weird one last night, it was my 21st birthday (a nightmare in its self) and I was at home with my mum and boyfriend (who I dont have and appeared to be Vernon Kay which was quite nice), anyway my grandma came in and put on a video on of me in this grainy black and white footage where I was a baby wearing a veil. It went on for ages of me growing up wearing this veil and it turned out that my entire family were in some dodgy religious cult and my sweet little granny was the evil lord of it all and I was meant to be the successor! My boyfriend Vernon wasnt having any of this and legged it-as did I, and the last part of teh dream was me running after my mum trying to get her to explain what was going on but she wouldnt.

Then I woke up-I actually rang my grandma to check she wasnt the leader of some dodgy cult as it was so vivid. Im excited about going to sleep tonight, I might be an evil ruler when I wake up hehe!

The most vivid dream I can remember is the dream which gave me a slight fear of spiders.

I can't remember exactly what was happening in it now but i remember walkign around a house (which i lived in, though in real life i don't even know the place) and i could feel unmoving spindly legs sticking out from the back of my throat. When i moved my whole jaw from left to right they twitched slightly also.

In the end I put my fingers into my mouth and pulled at these legs pulling out a giant spider the size of a dog from my mouth and threw it on the floor where it scurried off!

I must have doen this 4 or 5 times in the dream and in the end i strarted to chase after them, ending up in some massive waste pipe you could drive a huge truck down (to give you the scale of the tunnel). After this is all goes even hazier but i remember something vaguely about my former primary school being infested with these spiders at the end of the tunnel.

Freaky, huh?

Wilf

I used to have a repetative dream about weebles. It started off in the Brownie storage cupboard which we had to go into to get the toad stool and brown owl thing *yes I was in the brownies*

The somehow i got magically transported to weeble land. I wasn't a weeble but all the weebles were my friends and they warned me not to go in the dark woods. Whenever they warned me - which is all they seemed to do - i always looked and saw red eyes peering at me.

The dream stopped once i went down the path to the woods.

I also had a dream about the house i had in Barnsley - that at the top of the house is where the devil and his minions held conference. There were all manner of trap doors and secret places to go thru and it was fun but scary....

Okay that is enough of letting you in me head.

Moon

I have one particular dream fairly regularly. It always leaves me feeling unsettled.

In my dream I have killed someone. I never find out how or why, though I always know who it is.

I have killed a girl called Sharon that my brother and I knew in our teens. We called her pongo because she stank!! She once stayed at my brothers flat and climbed into bed with him in the middle of the night! In my dream I have killed her. It's years later and the police come knocking on my door asking if I know of her whereabouts. I tell them I haven't seen her for years. My brother calls round and I ask him if he remembers her. He says yes he does and don't I remember killing her? The memories come flooding back. I remember us wrapping her up in a rug and throwing her down a well in a secluded wood. When I wake from this dream I find myself asking if I really did it. I know I have never killed anyone and never could but it all seems so real. It really freaks me out I can tell ya!!

I had a dream one day last week in which I had become a young boy again.
No Wife, No Kid's, No Stress, That's when I woke... Damit.

Originally posted by Moon Maiden
The dream stopped once i went down the path to the woods.



This is supposed to be quite common. In my dream (below) no matter what I did I could never open the darn door!

For many, many years from my childhood I had a recurrent dream involving me being in some building or other. The dreams often started differently but sooner or later I'd find myself in some sort of corridor with a door at the end. For some reason I knew there was something REALLY horrible behind the door, but I was compelled to open it.....

I alwya swoke up at that point in varying degrees of panic. I'd wake up rigid, scared to move and often in a cold sweat. This carried on for years. In my teens I had this dream about once every 6 weeks, and it decreased as I got older. Last time I had this precise one was when I was about 19.

I've had 'one off' nightmares since then, an occasional night terror and the occasional hypnagogic dream. The latter are great...they're the very vivid dreams you have when dozing....cool...:-) I've not had many 'bad' hypnagogic dreams.

I rationalised my recurrent dream with the idea that it was because I was unsure of the future. Oddly enough in later life, no matter how stressed my life was, I've never found a correlation between my dreams and my waking state of mind.

Joe

Joe

I suspect it's something to do with death and our subconcious attempting to come to terms with it. One the one hand we have the certainty of physical death but on the other the uncertainty of a continued existence beyond it.

Your door and Moon Maiden's path to the woods are journeys you can't complete because you don't know where they lead.

I have this conviction that if in fact Heaven and Hell do exist then I shall surely end up in Hell. But for me the idea of eternal sweetness and light is as unattractive as an everlasting pit of fire.

Not that I believe any of it :P

Hi greybeard,

That's an interesting way to look at it - it would fit because for several years in my teens I was rather scared of dying, but then got used to the idea and now view it, as someone once said, like passing between two rooms in a big house.

I'm usually quite good at suggesting meanings for other people's dreams, but tend to not analyse my own!

Joe

Im glad to know im not the only weirdo hehehe (only joking guys! please dont pm me with abuse!)

Last night I road-tested a Unimog on a BMX track.
The windscreen wipers didnt work.

Dreams are dumb.

had some deeply bizarre dreams recently... finding it quite hard to sleep for various reasons then when I do its bizarre!!!!

Sat night - dreamt that there was a cowboy union :loopy: and the PM (who looked oddly like Magnus Magnuson) was issuing warnings that the cowboys were campaigning to have guns so everyone else would be secretly equipped with guns in order to protect themselves, then for some reason I had to go to this hotel type place with my partner in crime (Rupert Grint.... dont ask) in order to steal a radio that was vitally important in order to stop the dark forces of the cowboys....

Sun night - and this really freaked me out... dreamt that the dentist had to do pioneering surgery in order to remove teeth that were growing out of my back!!!!!

anyone think that the whole insomnia type thing affects dreams when you do finally fall asleep ie makes em weirder???

Originally posted by magicgem
Then I woke up-I actually rang my grandma to check she wasnt the leader of some dodgy cult as it was so vivid. Im excited about going to sleep tonight, I might be an evil ruler when I wake up hehe!

... and of course she denied it all !? hehe

i have been having many odd dreams for the last couple of months. To summarise a recent one; i had to protect my wife and baby (not sure where they appeared from) from one of my best mates. To cut a long story short, i had to shoot my mate and several others. I woke up thinking it was v weird. I went back to sleep to be having quite a lucid dream chatting to another of my friends in her house. it all seemed very normal, and I discussed the previous dream and how odd it was. We had a long conversation about the dream, much in the way we would do in real life. I was fully aware that this part was a dream, but I was quite happy chatting with my friend as I new I needed to chat and if I woke up I wouldn't be able to. I did wake up again, eventually, and fell asleep again, to have another lucid dream with other friends of mine. We were travelling to my house in Sheffield from Liverpool, and had a party. Again i was aware of being in the dream, but stayed in it anyway. The reason being that I had the chance to talk to my best friend that i lost last year. I don't find this particularly upsetting or morbid, but I have been having a lot of dreams that involve conversations with him. I generally wake up from such dreams feeling really relaxed and content.

Erm anyway, waffled on there. Dreams do fascinate me. I sometimes think that my mind understands what's going on better than I do, and presents this to me in the form of dreams.

I had a very bizarre dream a couple of nights ago. I was On Bradfield Road in Hillsborough and was walking past the Petrol Station. Lo and behold, there was Bernard Cribbins driving a bright red, very flash car, that even though it didn't look like it, it was KIT from Night Rider!! He was driving really really fast, in and out of the garage, round and round in circles, revving the engine. He had random TV theme tunes blaring out from the stereo!!

Then I woke up ........ thank heavens!!

Last one I had, I was in a room with a bomb, and it went off.
The shock waves from the blast killed my dog:( Then some sort of gangster had the dog stuffed and mounted on a wooden shield and hung him from the wall:o
Said gangster turned out to someone I know in the pub:suspect:

Bet you all can better this one:D

Er had one the other week that Fr. Christmas was delivering red, raw, slabs of human flesh to people for presents.

Don't know where that came from.

I just NEW that someone could better my dream:D
Where they wrapped in nice paper?:heyhey:

I had a very strange dream once, and it was quite significant...

What happened was, I was sat in Mum's car, trying to drive, but being a non-driver, I was sat in the front passenger seat leaning over to the steering wheel and gears etc... Anyway, driving this way I'd managed to drive all the way across the M18 and M180 to Cleethorpes (my 2nd choice of Town to live after Sheff), but following this drive of about an hour I was tired so I pulls up in a car park... Next thing this Copper comes up to me and says he'd been watching me "driving" and wondered if I was legal...

Oh no! I thought, and slumped into the seat, unfortunately at this point I woke up before I could resume the dream to find out whether I got done for driving on the wrong side of the car or whether the Cop saw the funny side and let me off.... :lol:

The dream was significant to me as it signifies my desire to learn to drive, which I have already set the wheels in motion for as I've sent off for a provisional license and am looking into lessons, and also my eventual desire to possibly live in somewhere like Cleethorpes or Grimsby as I went to College there about 10 years ago and fell in love with the area.

I don't know, daft innit? :lol:

I had a very bizarre dream a couple of weeks ago.

I got on a 31 bus and Simon Cowell was on the back seat. I sat next to him and asked him what he was doing here. He said he was looking for me of course and started to kiss me. (yeukk yeukk yeukk!!) We got off the bus in Hillsborough and he bought me a huge bouquet of flowers. The next minute I was in Woolworths, looking into a huge fridge. He asked me what I was doing and I replied that I was collecting my partners winning bets for him so he wouldn't go mad that he'd bought me the flowers and kissed me. His winning bets consisted of bottles of larger and whiskey with raffle tickets on them!

The next minute my daughter was complaing that we had no money. Micky from Eastenders appeared and suggested selling some fake stone ornaments and asked me to make some posters with felt tip pens and A4 paper. I stuck the posters on the window of Headlines Hairdressers and they sold the ornaments round the back of the shop.

At this point I woke up!!! Thank goodness for small mercies!!

Very strange and disturbing especially as I can't stand Simon Cowell!!!

Lots.

Every sleep session. I usually dream around alarm call time for some uexplicable reason. Then I usually dream that I'm awake as I attend to my morning ablutions, but obviously sleep is so powerful that I am forever a nightmare.

Then when I realise that the dream that I wasn't having in the first place was in fact a someone celse's dream.

I had a really bad nightmare ... I was stuck in a giant piece of macaroni and I couldn't get out because of all the sticky cheese! I guess it was a lesson not to eat macaroni cheese just before going to bed!:)

My dreams are normally most vivid and weirdest after eating chilli. My advice is plenty of cheese on top and knock yourself out....enjoy

When I was a kid I used to have a recurring nightmare that Russain spies were hidden in the wardrobes and were plotting to kidnap my dad!

Last night in my dream I was at a black tie do at a swanky golf club and I was wearing a lilac and peach ballgown! Very odd!

Originally posted by beckb
When I was a kid I used to have a recurring nightmare that Russain spies were hidden in the wardrobes and were plotting to kidnap my dad!


I used to have a similar recurring dream as a kid. German soldiers would be sticking pins into me as I pretended to be asleep. I knew if I responded to the pain and became 'awake' they would kill my dad!
Any Freudian/Jungians here to help, please:P

Originally posted by draggletail
I used to have a similar recurring dream as a kid. German soldiers would be sticking pins into me as I pretended to be asleep. I knew if I responded to the pain and became 'awake' they would kill my dad!
Any Freudian/Jungians here to help, please:P

Doing Freud at college on my psychology course at the the moment, Mick. Really weirded out stuff. Ids, egos and superegos.

Someone help me please!!!

How cool are the flying dreams, i dont have many now, but had loads as a child.
and the naked dream? where you are at a public place or something and you realize you are naked.
then the running dream where your legs are like lead, or stuck to the ground.


I have reacuring dreams about aeroplanes crashing or falling from the sky, or bouncing in the air??

Flying/soaring dreams - aren't they a sign that you have left your body and are 'astral travelling?'
(Thats if you believe in that sort of thing);)

I used to have flying dreams all the time when i was a kid,they were more sort of floating dreams really.If i pedalled my legs i would go higher and faster!Now i have dreams that i can't remember but know they aren't nice.

I flew in a dream on Saturday night and asked some very obliging flamigos to pay my parents a visit. The ensuing hallibut was far less accomodating and created a mini tsunami in protest to my request. Damned hallibut - never trust a fish. It soaked my Mum and Dad and made me feel like a prat.

I often fly in dreams - I breath in to ascend and sometimes frighten myself as I have a healthy fear of heights - or rather, of falling!

Although I am very interesting in understanding why I dream what I dream, my dreams are now getting so intense that I feel I havent actually slept when I wake up.

I doubt if there is anyway of stopping myself dreaming but if anyone has any suggestions, it would be much appreciated.

Just want to say, I have cut out certain foods and dont drink or eat close to bed time. I have tried relaxation exercises before going to sleep. My room is a good temperature with ventiation and dark. The only thing left for me to do is buy a new mattrass. Maybe that could be the answer I am looking for. We shall see.

cheers xx

Originally posted by Miss_smiley
Although I am very interesting in understanding why I dream what I dream, my dreams are now getting so intense that I feel I havent actually slept when I wake up.

I doubt if there is anyway of stopping myself dreaming but if anyone has any suggestions, it would be much appreciated.

Just want to say, I have cut out certain foods and dont drink or eat close to bed time. I have tried relaxation exercises before going to sleep. My room is a good temperature with ventiation and dark. The only thing left for me to do is buy a new mattrass. Maybe that could be the answer I am looking for. We shall see.

cheers xx

Its all to do with your mind and your sub concious... I notice that when i have had thoughts during the day or talked about something... at night whilst sleeping i will dream about it... maybe not in the same way could be slightly different...

Like when i was younger i had a party near a farm in a hired hall... When we opened the door to leave there was a goat standing there... was quite scary as it wouldnt move lol... anyway that night i dreamt about this huge bear it was a horrible dream... obviously the goat was still on my mind when going to bed...

Another time...

I went through a spell of watching Orca & Jaws over and over again... until one night... I woke up in a panic... running into my parents bedroom demanding my Dolphin back... This Dolphin was laying at the bottom of my bed an all of a sudden it was gone... i lept out of bed ran in shouting at my parents 'where's my Dolphin? you've taken my Dolphin' 'give it back... its mine' etc... my Mum told me it would return when its ready lol an put me calmly back to bed lol

I was wide awake when this was happened i knew everything i was saying... It was really strange...

I dont really feel you can stop dreams... like i say its all in the sub conciousness...

We all dream. Your problem is that yours are vivid and you are remembering them (and maybe causing wakening and hence tiredness?)
I think people have phases like this, usually when life is stressful in the day. If there is stress look at ways of alleviating it.
You are doing the right thing with the relaxing exerscises. Try not to worry about it too much or you may get into a cycle. If you like a bevy, give that a rest for a few weeks as well.
I think you will find that this "condition" will just disappear

This isn't totally directly related, but recently I had a lot of vivid dreams that I remembered in the morning. Then after several nights of this, I figured out that I was dreaming - while I was dreaming. I can never remember this happening before. I had a wave of relaxation and calm wash over my whole body (is this something to do with whats called lucid dreaming?)

Since then I haven't remembered any of my dreams.

Originally posted by Ned Ludd

I think you will find that this "condition" will just disappear

I do hope so. The thing that concerns me is that in the dream things happen, like a coach crash killing half a dozen people and although everyone rallied round and sorted it out, no one thought of it as shocking or upsetting. It was as if it was the norm.

I have seriously considered not watching or reading about current affairs because of all the violence that seems to be becoming 'acceptable' in this day and age but I do like to keep up-to-date with things.

I have also addressed the stress in my life so I can only hope this intense dreaming will revert back to my normal dreaming soon.

Thanks for your comment tho.

PS Yodameister, I have also had a dream in a dream. Very strange I thought.

Originally posted by Yodameister
This isn't totally directly related, but recently I had a lot of vivid dreams that I remembered in the morning. Then after several nights of this, I figured out that I was dreaming - while I was dreaming. I can never remember this happening before. I had a wave of relaxation and calm wash over my whole body (is this something to do with whats called lucid dreaming?)

Since then I haven't remembered any of my dreams.

just mentioned this in the other thread about sleep. Lucid dreaming is when you are aware of being in a dream. You can control your actions and do as you please within the dream. It's quite a cool thing to have. I suppose your situation is kind of like lucid dreaming; dreaming within a dream sounds quite special. i've never heard of that before. I want a go!

Originally posted by Miss_smiley
I do hope so. The thing that concerns me is that in the dream things happen, like a coach crash killing half a dozen people and although everyone rallied round and sorted it out, no one thought of it as shocking or upsetting. It was as if it was the norm.

I have seriously considered not watching or reading about current affairs because of all the violence that seems to be becoming 'acceptable' in this day and age but I do like to keep up-to-date with things.

I have also addressed the stress in my life so I can only hope this intense dreaming will revert back to my normal dreaming soon.

Thanks for your comment tho.

PS Yodameister, I have also had a dream in a dream. Very strange I thought.

I'm no expert... But what you have said about your dream... Seems quite a violent dream... Are you experiencing any high levels of stress at the moment... Are you having bad days at work? Start chart... see if there are any links to the kinda day your having to the kinda dreams you have...

Just an idea... always like to help :)

I too have had a dream in a dream... I was laying there talking to my partner (of the time) thinking i was awake... i knew what was going on and what i was saying to him... but then when i woke i had to be reminded... its all very strange...

I was dreaming that i was awake... thats my conclusion.... lol

I go through phases of having vivid dreams; sometimes they are quite disturbing as you mentioned miss smiley. The most vivid and bizarre dreams I've had occurred when I was taking anti depressants a couple of years ago. I actually started to enjoy it; it was like having a little adventure every night. I really looked forward to going to bed, which is good considering I'm usually a complete insomniac.

I'm having a lot of trouble sleeping at the moment. I fall asleep easily enough but wake up many times through the night. It takes a while to get back to sleep as I always seem to wake up in a panic. I'm completely knackered in work, and the more tired I get the more broken my sleep becomes at night. Not good.

If i exersise before i go to bed i cant remember the dreams i had.

The best ways to avoid dreaming are to 1) tire yourself out with exersice and 2) wake to an alarm clock because most dreaming (the bits you can remember at least) occur when you are waking up. The alarm will stop you getting the chance.

Another good solution is to sleep to low 'chillout' music. Play a bit of soul when you go to sleep.

Hope these help.

Actually angel, you've just reminded me, I have had that sort of dream a few months ago. I remember waking from the dream within a dream and telling my friend about it. I then woke up from that dream to be with other friends and told them about the other dreams. It seemed to go on for an eternity with lots of little adventures in each dream. I remember waking up properly and being amazed at what had just happened inside my head.

Originally posted by Angel05
I'm no expert... But what you have said about your dream... Seems quite a violent dream... Are you experiencing any high levels of stress at the moment... Are you having bad days at work?

I would say my daily stress levels are relatively normal although I do have a career with a fair amount of responsibility, I do worry about my poorly dad and I am in the process of selling my house and hopefully my offer on another will be accepted. I am taking anti-anxiety tablets (after a tough year last year) and I am undertaking visits to the ladies hospital for horrible biopsies etc.

That may sound quite a tough life but when I look around at other people, I do feel quite lucky that I am not as bad off as some.

Maybe I am not dealing with things as well as I might be and conning myself into thinking I am (bad english or what lol).

I suppose reading the above, it may explain my dreams. Once things are sorted for me, maybe my dreams will sort themselves out. POSITIVE THINKING.
:) :)

Sounds like you get on with things in the day but your subconcious mind is bringing it all back at night (even if the dreams don't match daily events)

Originally posted by Ned Ludd
Sounds like you get on with things in the day but your subconcious mind is bringing it all back at night (even if the dreams don't match daily events)

This is the point i was trying to make... the subconcious sometimes can have alot to answer for...

Although your feeling ok and dealing with things as you feel right... your innerself isnt coping an is playing on your mind without really knowing...

Think this is getting too indepth now... hope i am making sense :?

Whatever the outcome of all this Miss_Smiley... I hope you get things sorted :)

Ah... just thought of something else you could try... if you have had a bit of a bad day have a go at writing everything down... could take time i guess... but it gets it out of your head? before laying it down to sleep...

Just an idea...

Cannabis stop you from dreaming.

You'll fall asleep and before you know it you'll be awake

Then again, not dreaming is far from healthy. Dream sleep is the part of sleep that soothes your brain and gets rid of all the stuff that you no longer need.

Originally posted by Andy78
Then again, not dreaming is far from healthy. Dream sleep is the part of sleep that soothes your brain and gets rid of all the stuff that you no longer need.

Well i never knew that... I myself love to dream... Nice dreams of course... :)

Originally posted by dylan_61
Cannabis stop you from dreaming.

You'll fall asleep and before you know it you'll be awake

I would never get that desperate!

Originally posted by Angel05
Well i never knew that... I myself love to dream... Nice dreams of course... :)

Yes, dreaming is healthy. If you have a dreamless sleep, you generally find yourself still feeling tired the next day. Having said that, we dream most nights but often can't remember it unless we've just woken up from the dream.

Originally posted by Andy78
Yes, dreaming is healthy. If you have a dreamless sleep, you generally find yourself still feeling tired the next day. Having said that, we dream most nights but often can't remember it unless we've just woken up from the dream.

We always dream its just that... if we get up an cant remember what we have dreamt about we think we havent had one...

Where in fact we dream several dreams a night and only last amount of seconds...

This might sound a little patronising [that is not my intention], but why not have a warm, milky drink prior to sleep. Make sure that you don't engage in anything, read anything or watch anything "intense" immediately before settling down [which sounds undeniably banal...], and ensure that you are comfortable and warm. Stop torturing yourself with the idea that you are not sleeping. Whilst the dreams may be intense, your body is "repairing" itself whilst you are unconscious. I am no expert here, but I would hazard a guess and suggest that, in addition to stress, diet may play a part here. Do you drink much alchohol? Overindulgence in alchohol, particularly spirits, has given me dreams that would baffle Salvador Dali! Here's hoping you enjoy milder dreams in future.

Originally posted by timo
This might sound a little patronising [that is not my intention], but why not have a warm, milky drink prior to sleep. Make sure that you don't engage in anything, read anything or watch anything "intense" immediately before settling down [which sounds undeniably banal...], and ensure that you are comfortable and warm. Stop torturing yourself with the idea that you are not sleeping. Whilst the dreams may be intense, your body is "repairing" itself whilst you are unconscious. I am no expert here, but I would hazard a guess and suggest that, in addition to stress, diet may play a part here. Do you drink much alchohol? Overindulgence in alchohol, particularly spirits, has given me dreams that would baffle Salvador Dali! Here's hoping you enjoy milder dreams in future.

I feel dreams occur of what has happened during a day not what you do or say within the evening or just before you go to bed...

I am not so sure if this will work, but how about curtailing your sleep time. Go to bed late and wake up early before dreaming starts. Sleep might get deeper with the drowsiness and tiredness.

Angel, I think you are partly right here re dreams consisting of what has happened in the day, but I feel that what happens shortly before sleep is also relevant. I think it can sometimes make a difference.

Originally posted by timo
why not have a warm, milky drink prior to sleep. Make sure that you don't engage in anything, read anything or watch anything "intense" immediately before settling down [which sounds undeniably banal...], and ensure that you are comfortable and warm.

Unfortunately I am not one for warm milky drinks but if I do fancy a drink I try a herbal tea before bed (that makes me sound really boring indeed).

My ex told me I used to really worry him in the night because I used to stop breathing and he used to have to nudge me. I mentioned it to my doctor once and he said to ignore it as its a 'current fasionable problem' to have. Maybe this might be a cause.

I am totally covinced that when I move house, get a new mattress and get my life a little more calmer, the manic dreams will stop. I am going to re-introduce a little relaxation time before bed and I am considering having a go at yoga.

This is a great forum for suggestions and support. Talking about worrying issues really helps. I think I have spent my life thinking I have to be stong and bottle things up - Totally British Attitude - and maybe not the right way to live.

:) :) :)

Cheers peeps xx

Originally posted by timo
Angel, I think you are partly right here re dreams consisting of what has happened in the day, but I feel that what happens shortly before sleep is also relevant. I think it can sometimes make a difference.

Yes i meant through out the whole day including the evening... not just one or the other...

Dreams dont occur just in what you have done in the evening...

As someone has already pointed out - getting stoned stops you dreaming for sure - you'll sleep like a baby too. Having said that - don't start smoking just to stop your dreams :)

Originally posted by Miss_smiley
My ex told me I used to really worry him in the night because I used to stop breathing and he used to have to nudge me. I mentioned it to my doctor once and he said to ignore it as its a 'current fasionable problem' to have. Maybe this might be a cause.


I do the same thing apprently. Stopping breathing in you sleep means that you wake up frequently as thats the body's automatic reaction to make you breathe again. If you wake up every time you stop breathing then you will remember whatever dream you were in at the time.
Waking up so often in the night (whether consciously or not) will also make you constantly tired and stressed etc during the day.
Go to a different doctor and see if you can get anything sorted to help your sleep, don't get fobbed off again!
Em

stopping breathing in your sleep is called 'sleep apnoeai(sp)' and in rare cases can actually be fatal.

Originally posted by fnkysknky
As someone has already pointed out - getting stoned stops you dreaming for sure - you'll sleep like a baby too. Having said that - don't start smoking just to stop your dreams :)

Confession - smoking that stuff sets me off in fits of laughter and takes ages to wear off so dont smoke it anymore. Not that I did much of it and I dont smoke cigarettes at all.

:)

I used to have really bad dreams that bothered me. I decided to stop worrying about it and just allow them to happen. Its weird but you can try to learn to enjoy the dreams and even be active in your dreams. If your dreams are like mine you will know that you are in a dream when you dream and you can be aware of this and allow stuff to happen. After a while the dreams just stopped happening because I encouraged them rather than running from or worrying about them.
Also drugs and alcohol may stop your imediate dreams but I would suggest that they will cause more problems later. So don't do it!!

Don't worry. Be happy!!:clap:

There are two things ypou can do to stop dreaming, or at least to help control them.

The first is to make yourself much more tired before you allow yourself to go to sleep and make sure you are woken up by am alarm clock, not naturally. This will result in you having a much deeper sleep and missing out on the light sleep when you are waking, which is the time when you dream.

The other trick, and it works for me, is to actively think about the thing you don't want to dream about. I found this one works when I realised I never have nightmares after watching a horror movie.

As for all this stuff about what you eat or drink. I think it's nonsence!

Originally posted by fnkysknky
As someone has already pointed out - getting stoned stops you dreaming for sure - you'll sleep like a baby too. Having said that - don't start smoking just to stop your dreams :)

I'm of the opinion it stops you remembering any dreams. I don't think it stops you having them.

Try using a dreamcatcher ive used 1 in the past and it worked 4me
they r sopose to filter ur dreams it mite b mind over matter but at least its worth a try 2 c if it works
good luck
ange

Originally posted by Ange
Try using a dreamcatcher ive used 1 in the past and it worked 4me
they r sopose to filter ur dreams it mite b mind over matter but at least its worth a try 2 c if it works
good luck
ange

Yeah - we were all coming up with serious suggestions and then you ruined it. Dreancatcher? You better not use a pratcatcher or you are going to get well and truely caught!!

Dreamcatcher? What complete and utter arse!!!!!!!!!:loopy:

I've been unnecessarily grumpy this morning and then I remembered I had one of those ex girlfriend dreams last night in which everything was lovely and fluffy – I then realised the reason for my mood.

Do other people have these dreams, if you could have the ability to have them removed would you or are those brief glimpses of the past a good thing (I'm getting a bit Eternal Sunshine here aren't I) - do they help you enjoy miserable music more?!

I have occasional dreams about my late mother which make me a little sad when I wake up, but I wouldn't want to lose them.

To me, part of the process of maturing in our lives is to develop the ability to deal with unhappy memories; having them taken out would, for me, remove part of what it means to be a human being.

Or perhaps I'm just a masochist...:)

Yeah agree, I sometimes dream about my parents to who are both no longer with us.
My Dad used to work away a lot, infact all the time when I was a kid and he died in 1980.
The dream is he comes back to us " like he has been away for ages " then has to go away again.
In the dream I know he is dead but still feel he is working away and come back for a short visit.
I do wake up disapointed he is not here but soon snap out of it.
My Mum who I lost last year hardly appears in my dreams but maybe after time she will.

I know the EXACT dream your on about uniB.

Everything is perfect, you get along lovely, your madly in love and the world is a great place to be at that moment in time. I bet it was a brilliant sunny day as well!!

I sometimes have the same dream and i wake up confused and angry. I even get the nark on with Mrs Vidster (although she never knows why). This mood sometimes last's a full day, if not more.
But then slowly, the real memories start coming back. The fights, the constant bickering, the cheating and loveless relationship that was REAL.

That's when i realise that my dream was infact a manifestation of what i really want in life and not what i had in the past.