Dreams and Nightmares.

Discussion in 'Dreams' started by backtothelab, Jul 13, 2004.

  1. backtothelab

    backtothelab Senior Member

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    What's the difference between a dream and a nightmare? Alot of the time it seems that when I have a nightmare, it's just as normal as a normal dream. The only real difference is that a nightmare has a very confusing evil type of quality to it. Like I can feel it in the dream. Is everyone else's nightmare's like this, or are there spacific bad things that happen in the dream that make it a nightmare?
     
  2. themnax

    themnax Senior Member

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    nightmare, at least the only way i'm familiar with the word
    being used, is simply generic for any dream
    this generaly frightning or specificly unpleasant.

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  3. SageDreamer

    SageDreamer Senior Member

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    I can only speak for my dreams, but I generally wake up from a nightmare half ready to scream.
     
  4. seamonster66

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    I see what you mean. Some dreams have an unsettling surreal quality about them, but not in a traditional "I'm being murdered" nightmare sense.
     
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    MillerLiteRedneck Banned

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  6. backtothelab

    backtothelab Senior Member

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    Yeah, that's exactly what I mean.
     
  7. Moving_cloud

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    Hi backtothelab

    i think the difference is not made by the dream but by you and your desire to look from those places where fear takes you, and deeper.

    There are parts in you that are as intense and it is like they are touched and stirred and coming to life then out of your own need to hear and embrace them even if it is with voices that sound like screams. Still it is you who draws them into your experience, from a place where you feel most fragile and vulnerable and most alive as much and in the end this is where you wanted to be, to become more complete and whole inside.

    The point is to not be afraid of fear and not take it as a bad thing.
     

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