Bad dreams/Nightmares

[Abbey Marie]

I don’t have nightmares, in the traditional “scary things are after me” sense.
What I do have, and frequently, are dreams of not being able to get home, or of rejection.

I’m usually in some city, often New York (where I used to work), and I need to take the train home, but I have no money or cards to buy a ticket or token, no phone, no ID. So I’m left wandering the streets in an almost-panic as dusk approaches. And for some reason, I almost never ask anyone for help.

Rejection dreams come in all forms. Friends, lovers, employers, people at the grocery store; you name it, they are awful to me.

I used to have recurring dreams where I’m in a public restroom with numerous bathroom stalls, and every time I open a door to use one, the toilet is full of the most foul stuff you can imagine.
And it’s not that IRL I have to go, either. For some reason, those dreams are thankfully no more.

I’m sure a therapist could have some fun with all this!

Do you have recurring bad dreams or outright nightmares? Care to share?

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

I don’t have nightmares, in the traditional “scary things are after me” sense.
What I do have, and frequently, are dreams of not being able to get home, or of rejection.

I’m usually in some city, often New York (where I used to work), and I need to take the train home, but I have no money or cards to buy a ticket or token, no phone, no ID. So I’m left wandering the streets in an almost-panic as dusk approaches. And for some reason, I almost never ask anyone for help.

Rejection dreams come in all forms. Friends, lovers, employers, people at the grocery store; you name it, they are awful to me.

I used to have recurring dreams where I’m in a public restroom with numerous bathroom stalls, and every time I open a door to use one, the toilet is full of the most foul stuff you can imagine.
And it’s not that IRL I have to go, either. For some reason, those dreams are thankfully no more.

I’m sure a therapist could have some fun with all this!

Do do you have recurring bad dreams or outright nightmares? Care to share?

Yes, I do quite often. However, since I so love dark poetry, I turn mine into fodder to compose poems based upon what I can remember of each dream.
I have been doing this for about 40 years now and it in a way makes having such so often-- a gift..
No stinking toilets tho'.... just some really vicious monsters/beasts, demons/ and demonic man hating women in mine... -Tyr

[Abbey Marie]

Yes, I do quite often. However, since I so love dark poetry, I turn mine into fodder to compose poems based upon what I can remember of each dream.
I have been doing this for about 40 years now and it in a way makes having such so often-- a gift..
No stinking toilets tho'.... just some really vicious monsters/beasts, demons/ and demonic man hating women in mine... -Tyr

Now that’s turning lemons into lemonade!

:coffee:

[The Sage of Main Street]

Yes, I do quite often. However, since I so love dark poetry, I turn mine into fodder .
.... just some really vicious monsters/beasts, demons/ and demonic man hating women in mine... -Tyr


You've been spending too much time watching CNN and its paraded pandemonium of freaks and shrieks.

[aboutime]

After all my years in the navy. I retired in 1995. I still have dreams about being late for duty on the ship, not having the right uniform. Being in a shipyard, and I can't find my ship, and usually, before my dreams wake me up. I am always looking for a bathroom...Which...is why I wake up!

Glad I don't dream about politics. My Rubber Room would never be empty!!!!:lol::lol::lol:

[High_Plains_Drifter]

Seems that just lately I've been having some really wild dreams, while taking a nap. My right hip has been bothering and there's even some pain down that leg, especially when I'm trying to sleep in my bed. My mattress is probably ten years old and I do think it's time for a new one, so I don't sleep that well and I'm tired so I take a nap, on the couch. Well I guess I fall into a deep sleep rather fast and have some doozies for dreams. I've had two recently, but I can only vaguely remember the second one. Something about someone looking for me and I wanted to avoid them, and I was in some big building trying to get away from them and wound up outside and more or less came to a dead end because there was huge fences and no where to go, then I woke up. I can probably relate that to when people call or text me and I just don't feel like answering, so I don't, I'm avoiding them, but every once and awhile someone will pop over unannounced, and I don't like it.

I'll remember this thread though, and if I have another one I'll put it in here.

[Abbey Marie]

After all my years in the navy. I retired in 1995. I still have dreams about being late for duty on the ship, not having the right uniform. Being in a shipyard, and I can't find my ship, and usually, before my dreams wake me up. I am always looking for a bathroom...Which...is why I wake up!

Glad I don't dream about politics. My Rubber Room would never be empty!!!!:lol::lol::lol:

It’s a similar idea, so you know how it feels. You reminded me of all the dreams I’ve had about showing up for college or law school finals, only to discover I somehow never went to class all semester and just figured that out, lol. Or I’m in college and I can’t find a schedule of my classes anywhere. So frustrating.

[Noir]

I wouldn't dream much at all, never mind recurring dreams, but I do know someone who consistently has their dreams end with them being guillotined, which just seems miserable.

[Elessar]

Most of my dreams are just strange encounters, nothing horrible

Strange how the mind that we are not fully aware of will work!

Be Well, Abbey

[CSM]

I seem to re-live a few past episodes from my past (Vietnam in particular). Not fun. I am told I get rather feisty when having those dreams.

[The Sage of Main Street]

I seem to re-live a few past episodes from my past (Vietnam in particular). Not fun. I am told I get rather feisty when having those dreams.
I've never dreamed about Vietnam. It was so intense an experience that it got buried too deep to retrieve in a dream state, which is superficial fluff floating at the outer edges of the subconscious.

I did have a few dreams while I was there in which I knew I was dreaming but could not wake up until I was afraid I'd be stuck in that coma state forever and forced myself into consciousness.

[Elessar]

I seem to re-live a few past episodes from my past (Vietnam in particular). Not fun. I am told I get rather feisty when having those dreams.

Dad had nightmares about both WWII and 'Nam

[Abbey Marie]

Dad had nightmares about both WWII and 'Nam

I’d imagine that’s all too common. :(

On a lighter note,
My Dad was in Italy in WWII. My Mom told us that one night a couple of decades later, he was talking in his sleep.
All she could make out was him laughing and saying, “The Polish Army, hahaha!”.

[Abbey Marie]

I wouldn't dream much at all, never mind recurring dreams, but I do know someone who consistently has their dreams end with them being guillotined, which just seems miserable.

Good lord!

[High_Plains_Drifter]

I wouldn't dream much at all, never mind recurring dreams, but I do know someone who consistently has their dreams end with them being guillotined, which just seems miserable.
Hmmm... that's interesting, since I've heard that sometimes the body can react to strong subconscious thoughts, as in if you get hurt in your dreams, you're injured for real.

https://www.scienceforums.net/topic/82516-dreams-causing-real-injuries/