About Dreams...

[Darth Mandarb]

When I was a kid I used to have that same dream (about jumping/falling down the stairs).  One time I had the dream and woke up at the bottom of the stairs.  No injuries so I don't think I actually did it, but it was creepy.

Another time I had a dream I was in a cramped space ship and woke up in the hamper in the bathroom.  Talk about crazy!!

[Revan]

If I don't realize I'm dreaming, I can't run... But if I know its a dream I can do anything.. but usually wake up after a few mins... I have had sleep paralysis twice in my life... It's the most scariest thing I have ever witnessed. I lay there only able to move my eyes.. My lungs seem to be moving on there own and I cant say a word. When I was about 14 I had the first one... My mum came into my room looking for my little brothers school work... (He use to have to get up an hour before me and we shared a room). I 'woke' up into this paralysis and I was screeming in my head trying to move / tell my mum to wake me up. When I told her after about 20 mins she was shocked and never heard of it.

scary stuff I tell u...

[Domino]

I use to Sleep Walk sometimes when I was a lot younger.

I remember sometimes I would sleep in my bed and then wake up on the couch in the living room, and not even remember how I got there.

One thing that scared me the other night is that I thought I had woken up and had lighted up a cigarette in bed and was smoking in bed under the covers...Then I thought I had dropped the lit cigarette onto my bed.  I started flipping out because I knew that the whole bed would start on fire.  This is when I must have woken up, because I got up, ripped all the blankets off my bed, moved the mattress, looked under the bed and could not find a cigarette anywhere in sight. I could not even smell smoke.  I totally went into panic mode thinking I was going to start my house on fire.  Then I realized, I must have been half asleep pretending to be smoking.

I was so upset during this, I could not believe it. My brain was playing tricks on me, because I never was smoking in bed, nor have I ever smoked in bed.  It was part of a dream that I really experienced.

Since last week, I have been looking for any cigarettes in my bedroom and have found none.

Very weird...Very scary.

[Akatosh]

Weirdest thing for me is that my dreams always come with a "GUI" of some sort. As in, when they're starting to turn into nightmares, I usually find myself thinking "fuck this" and "quitting" the dream via a pop-up menu, thus waking up. Maybe I've played too many computer games. No lucid dreams, sleep paralysis or alien abductions here, though.

[Blue]

Weirdest thing for me is that my dreams always come with a "GUI" of some sort. As in, when they're starting to turn into nightmares, I usually find myself thinking "fuck this" and "quitting" the dream via a pop-up menu, thus waking up. Maybe I've played too many computer games. No lucid dreams, sleep paralysis or alien abductions here, though.

Lol! Why don't I have a GUI in my dreams??

Anyway my dreams are always weird. I never experience ordinary things when I sleep. It's always weird places, weird creatures and stuff. Sometimes.. well most times.. They're good dreams where I just wander about.
I haven't had nightmares for years (like some of you mentioned). However they've come back now.
I have them almost every night.
I'm certain the reason I have them, is because I got a new job, and I'm not yet at this point where I can take it easy. - Every day is a new challenge to me where I get uncertain and anxious and of couse this results in bad dreams.

E.g. I've had a nightmare where I thought I'd woken up in the kitchen with a glass of water in my hand. Going into the livingroom, I see three large white blankets that have been hung op, dividing the livingroom in two.
The lighting in the room comes from a small white lamp in the corner, that glows rather bright for its size.
The sofa is also cowered with a blanket and when I see it i realize that I am actually tired, so I lie down. Something about the hanging blankets disturb me and as I try to focus on the darkness behind them I wake up for real in my bed by some sudden noise.
I guess it doesn't sound that scary, but I was a bit confused because I thought I was already awake.

[sharprm]

I had the sleep paralysis thingey ... also agree about it being a good explanation for the alien abductions.

Here's something I want to know? Did anyone when they were young dream up solutions for adventure game puzzles. I remember doing that for Simon the Sorcerer, something about a snowman in a tower and then I woke up, remembered it, after a bit i realized it didn't work though.

The other one i have is i'm dreaming, i realize its a dream, but think its a really good plot for a movie. Then i wake up, remember it, and after a bit realize its a just crap like a scoobey doo plot. Anyone get those as well?

[paolo]

[...] I often have sleep paralysis.  [...] Another time I awoke, on my back, and there was a little man standing on my chest.  I couldn't lower my head to look directly at him, but I could just see him in my lower peripheral vision.  He didn't talk, but just stood there.  I could even feel his feet on my chest.

This is a common feature of sleep paralysis, and was explained in pre-scientific times as being due to a demon called an incubus (a male demon lying on top of a sleeping woman, attempting to have intercourse with her) or a succubus (female demon; male sleeper). The Latin word "incubus" is the origin of the Italian word "incubo", meaning "nightmare".

Here's something I want to know? Did anyone when they were young dream up solutions for adventure game puzzles. I remember doing that for Simon the Sorcerer, something about a snowman in a tower and then I woke up, remembered it, after a bit i realized it didn't work though.

I think that's just that when your conscious mind is at rest, ideas come up from the subconscious mind that were previously being blocked by the conscious mind. This happens to me all the time at work - I stew over a problem for ages, trying to fix it one way, then go and do something else for five minutes, and a new way of tackling the problem just flows into my mind.

[Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens]

I've never really had paralysis dreams (aside from just being really afraid), and most of the 'alien' dreams I have involve me punching aliens in the face when they try to abduct me and then doing judo chops on their shoulders to knock them out of the air (they like to hover like retards in my dreams for some reason). 

I had a dream that I was Optimus Prime once, and then after having sex with Arcee, Megatron attacked the base.  I think I transformed into the diesel and actually flew into the air for no reason.

I also had a dream I was Superman and got into a fight with Lex Luthor who was wearing kryptonite armor, and there was this recurring dream I had where this midget skeleton that glowed green kept creeping towards me for some 'scary' reason, and as I got older the dream changed to where I kicked the thing and it ran up into an opening in the ceiling, and when I followed my brother was suddenly there and we had to fight this cthulhu-style tentacle beast that popped out of a treasure chest. 

Probably one of the scariest dreams for me as a child was one I had where I would be on a swing, but when I jumped off of it I would cannonball out into space.

[InCreator]

Run?
I've been always able to run.

Once I dreamt about being in my grandmother's kitchen and one angry and big tiger chased me... I ran around and ended up jumping onto a cupboard. I don't remember if tiger caught me or not.

But mostly, my worse dreams are about being in a car and car starts rolling downhill, towards the river and I can't do anything about it. It's always in my country house, we have river on one side of the property and it's lower than house.

It's very likely connected to car accident I had when I was 4. I climbed into parents' car (ZAZ like this) and crashed right into house. Broke my nose beyond recognization, and still have little scar to remind it. That event has given me hundreds if not thousands car dreams/nightmares...

[jfarwyke]

This is an old thread but I wanted to make mention of the sleep paralysis. I've had it at least a hundred times to be sure. I was very interested in the phenomenon, so I used to keep a journal every time it happened, making note of every condition and factor that can contribute to it. Most of the times I've had it, I've gone to bed late and had been extremely tired. Also, when I drink too much coffee before bed I sometimes have it. I found that once I break free of it and go back to sleep I re-enter the state. However, if I change sleeping positions, it usually won't reoccur. Perhaps the most interesting thing about it is while I was keeping the journal, I was having it more and more regularly. For some reason an idea struck me that if I stopped documented it and paying attention to it, I wouldn't have so much and so I stopped my journal and the paralysis stopped with it. At least for a while. Now I have it occasionally. And it is still terrorfying and I'll never get used to the experience. I have noticed also that while in the paralyzed state, sound is received much louder and warped than in the normal state.

I should also mention to those who have never experienced it, it is not a dream in the usual sense. The feeling of panic and terror come from the realization that you are awake and lying in bed but cannot move. The paraysis occurs upon awakening. Sometimes I'm given the impression that I can move a little, but I suspect this is a trick of the mind to reassure itself. I should like to video tape myself one day while under to see if I really can move a little.

I apologize to anyone who has a problem with people replying to ancient threads, but I'm new to this forum and was reading this thread and wanted to say something.

[Trent R]

Maybe a bit too old (6 months) but at least it's an interesting topic.

I've actually been having dreams recently. One was about a girl I went to highschool with (I graduated a year ago, btw) who was my girlfriend in the dream eventhough we barely knew eachother. The dream I had last night was a nightmare which included a mix between the characters from the movies The Grudge and The Ring. Scared me awake at 4am and I didn't go back to bed this morning.

I usually don't dream, but it's interesting that I've had them 4 of 7 nights a week for the last few weeks.


~Trent

[cat]

I recently had a weird dream. I was in an Adventure game of Ben, but actually not an existing one. I think it was many the colour scheme. However, it was a nice game and had some fun inventory puzzles