Have you been having Nightmares?

[alice1111]

This has probably been done before, but I am desparate. Many of my dreams have become lucid and I experience one nighmare after another, after another. In these nightmares, I panic and have no idea what to do. When I wake up shaking or sweating several times a night, the solutions seem simple, but while in the nightmares, I am lost as to what to do. This has been going on for a few years and they keep getting worse. It affects my waking hours in that I am tired, sore, and shaken.

I am a very open minded person and would appreciate any suggestions you may have to offer.

Thank you in advance,

Alice :eek::eek::eek:

[daria]

The idea is not to panic. There is this story about southseas island folk who teach their children to examine their dreams every morning. If a child for example is attacked by a tiger, the parents tell the child to fight back in the dream.
They do not have fights in that community.

Don't ask me for links. I heard this more than 20 years ago. Works for me. I haven't had monsters in my dreams for a very long time.

I do have stupid neighbours though, who try and interfere, but that is another thread

[alice1111]

Thank you Daria and stupid neighbors :D, don't we all.

[tootrue]

If your dreams are lucid - this is good!

To have Lucid Dreams is to be aware of the so-called Dream Stage!
The Dream Stage is supposedly the stage, through which consciousness goes, after it has gone through a short stage of calm

Believe it or not, you have just gone through a Stage of Calm, and at this very moment you are in a Dream Stage, too!

The Calm Stage, of our Consciousness involves the so-called Unconsciousness, i. e. there is no particular need to do anything or be anyone, at all! It is also called 'Infinite Love'. Consciousness rarely keeps any memory, of the Calm Unconscious State that it's gone through!
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As far as me having nightmares - they are nightmares to the entities that try to manipulate my illusory-self!

(It's a nightmare out there! Unless we deprogramme, that is!)

[alice1111]

If your dreams are lucid - this is good!

To have Lucid Dreams is to be aware of the so-called Dream Stage!
The Dream Stage is supposedly the stage, through which consciousness goes, after it has gone through a short stage of calm

Believe it or not, you have just gone through a Stage of Calm, and at this very moment you are in a Dream Stage, too!

The Calm Stage, of our Consciousness involves the so-called Unconsciousness, i. e. there is no particular need to do anything or be anyone, at all! It is also called 'Infinite Love'. Consciousness rarely keeps any memory, of the Calm Unconscious State that it's gone through!
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As far as me having nightmares - they are nightmares to the entities that try to manipulate my illusory-self!

(It's a nightmare out there! Unless we deprogramme, that is!)


Hi Tootrue.

Yes, I am deprogramming and perhaps that is what is upsetting the arseholes.
I know I am in a dream, a very persistant one at that. See Avatar. I just get impatient especially after a night like I had.

Thanks.

Alice

[zero1]

I wouldn't say nightmares, cos' I don't wake up sweating or panting or anything, but weird dreams, sure.

Last night I had one where I was in a library of some sort, and this guy kept dragging me all over the place and...I can't remember the rest of it.

A previous night, I had one where I was running around the streets between these two shops in my underwear (:eek:)!

I dunno.

My theory is that dreams are both A) Experiences we will never have in conscious life, and B) Creative reworkings of events in the past or future which meanings were not clear enough.

Anyway, OP, don't worry; dreams aren't so bad if the bad ones don't come true.

[tootrue]

Hi Tootrue.

Yes, I am deprogramming and perhaps that is what is upsetting the arseholes.
I know I am in a dream, a very persistant one at that. See Avatar. I just get impatient especially after a night like I had.

Thanks.

Alice

Hi,

This is interesting - 'See through the Illusion!' - http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=3981559333172512077&q=The+nature+of+Reality&total=1218&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=1

[dmt head]

Ive been having a lot of strange scary dreams recently and I always forget the fact that im dreaming, I know some people who can take control of their dream and do whatever they want, my mate told me to try and say a certain word in your dream and that will remind you that you are dreaming and you can take control of them, easier said than done tho. As I said I always forget but as ive heard people saying just try and remember thats its your dreams and any negative entities that come into your dream and try and scare you freak you out can only do that if you allow them cos after all it is your dream not theirs, they want you to forget that its your dream I think.

[mariag]

one scary dream that I have had recently is when i lost all of my teeth . I droped them on the table in a courtroom in my own trial. scary .
Fact is since that dream I have dropped 3 teeth:eek:

[lostinstrangeworld]

Nothing to fear except fear itself.

We are the dream-makers......and not the dream.

[alice1111]

Thanks for your replies. Well, the best I can come up with is that I am working through some things in dreams that might be overwhelming in this so-called waking dream.

I have had some premonitions. Here's a funny one. I bought a new pair of pants. I dreamed that the seat of them fell out and it was quite embarressing. Anyway, I put them on a few days later and sure enough, the seat fell out.:o

My dead grandmother comes to me a lot in dreams and tells me things that only we would know. She told me about her illnesses in dreams and I found out a few years later from a cousin that the illnesses were in fact true and that she had died.

Then I wake up with the idea that my father-in-law died or someone died at exactly 8:30am and the presence was with me in the room. Then I find out later that afternoon that he did in fact die at 8:30am.

Weird stuff?

Alice

[mariag]

Thanks for your replies. Well, the best I can come up with is that I am working through some things in dreams that might be overwhelming in this so-called waking dream.

I have had some premonitions. Here's a funny one. I bought a new pair of pants. I dreamed that the seat of them fell out and it was quite embarressing. Anyway, I put them on a few days later and sure enough, the seat fell out.:o

My dead grandmother comes to me a lot in dreams and tells me things that only we would know. She told me about her illnesses in dreams and I found out a few years later from a cousin that the illnesses were in fact true and that she had died.

Then I wake up with the idea that my father-in-law died or someone died at exactly 8:30am and the presence was with me in the room. Then I find out later that afternoon that he did in fact die at 8:30am.

Weird stuff?

Alice

Not weird at all .The spirit is eternal and there are several of other consiousnesses and densities that the spirit moves between so it comes to no surprise to me . Dreams are other states of conciousness and awareness .:D

[alice1111]

Thanks Mariaq.

Alice

[nulltid]

I only have nightmares when I wake up. Or should I call it wakemares!?

[octopusrex]

Actually some pretty awesome wonderful dreams.

[mariag]

Thanks Mariaq.

Alice
You are welcome Alice :p

[cloudgazer]

Hey, I had a nightmare last night. I wrote it out already.

Omg. Last night I had a dream (at least I think it was a dream!), that I was being interrogated by a grey. Tho not the traditional interrogation, it was like flipping through my thoughts, trying to get information I think. But they were memories I don't even have either. I was resisting it and I kept saying something like “I don't know” towards it because I knew what it was and what it was doing. And I remember sort of flailing on my bed and seeing it right next to my bed (but not all of it, like it was invisible but I could see its eyes glowing) in my room, but I remember this as part of my dream, not as if it happened to me in real life. I felt like the grey was using me as a computer somehow. Also in the dream somehow I came to the conclusion that greys use cats to spy on people. Hehe. I don't really care about this because I still love my cat even if he is being used by them. He has a spirit like me!

Anyway, when I woke up I felt a sort of dread and very much imprisoned. I thought about what David Icke said about the body being a computer. I thought about our prison being more of a psychic one with invisible bars. It was an awful feeling. I thought “this isn't even my home, this is a prison!”. Though I have thought that before in the physical sense, since I don't like civilisation anyway. This sense however is far more dreadful, because it's about them imprisoning our spirit in this physical reality. It's so disturbing to think about. Also when I had woken up I thought I saw bars (looking like beams of light) along my walls. Not bright like, just barely there and somewhat flashing momentarily.

I know a lot of us are waking up to this now. It's hard for me to deal with this alone, so it's nice to remember that all of you are going through this too. Maybe you did or didn't have a dream like this, but I know we are all going through an uneasy sometimes frightening experience.

[revolutionary_jam]

sometimes.

[neil]

It's easy to say "Keep calm", but that's what you need to do. Your dreams cannot harm you if you don't want them to. It's just fear of fear - fear you've built yourself - playing out in sleep. And fear is just a story that you're writing and in control of. Write a new chapter, a different path...

Prepare yourself before sleeping by drinking a cup of something warm without caffeine. Try to avoid mental stimuli (TV, radio, etc.) and if you have noise external to your home wear earplugs. Take some exercise earlier in the evening to tire yourself.

Try thinking about what you want to dream about to inform your dreaming.

Last year during a bout of depression I had a similar experience. I tried the above and it worked.

Obliquely, around that time, despite powerful fear, I took a ride on a rollercoaster for the first time. Giving myself up to that experience - screaming, shouting, giggling, etc. - I realised that although I couldn't always control certain events, I could control my reaction to them. I'm finding that I enjoy coming to understand my responses to experiences, including dreams.

I have to say that being on antidepressants for much of last year helped begin to address my sleeping problems.

See how you're doing

[kblood]

You say you have lucid dream nightmares? The lucid dreams I remember the best was from my childhood. I remember one nightmare where I realised, hey this is too wierd, must be a dream. I better wake up, and then it gets even more wierd because everyone in the nightmare tries to help me wake up :D The monster chasing me, my friends and family in the dream, but I could not wake up. He, I guess that is what real life is like as well ;)

At least real life does not have to be a nightmare. It is a bit funny, because when I was a kid, I had lucid dreams all the time. They were so common, and I loved having them. Sometimes I was excited going to sleep thinking about what adventure I would be going on. A bit like the Peter Pan story I guess, after getting older I forgot all about it :o

I did not even remember having had these lucid dreams before comming to this forum and reading about what lucid dreams is, I might have had one this week, but I am not good at remembering them anymore. I guess I will have to work on that, catching the dream before it goes back into the subconcious again, just after waking up.

What I am trying to get at, is whenever I realised that a nightmare was a dream, I knew I could control it as a lucid dream, and therefore had nothing to fear, since in my dreams, I am the dreammaster :) The subconcious plays some wierd tricks on you sometimes though, and it takes quite a bit of selfcontrol to control the dream. One thing I did get good at, was returning to a dream I had already dreamt, which I liked and there "replayed".

So, if these nightmares are lucid, and you remember that they are a dream, then try to take control, and think happy thoughts. Maybe try to memorize good dreams that you can go into instead of the nightmare, or face the nightmare head-on, daring it to do its best. Expecting the worst probably makes it less fearsome.

[marpat]

I used to have nasty nocturnal problems a few years ago. While asleep I would have lucid experiences so real that I though there were things in the room with me and definitely real enough for me to get out of be and head straight for a light switch. Often I would see a large snake moving around on the floor, or large spider webs coming down over my face, and one time I saw a bat pass over me. Hasn't happened for a long time though but really scary when it happened.