Holy shit...I just woke up and now I'm fuckin terrified to go back to sleep. It was just a fucked up dream, not even that scary until the end when I wanted to wake up and in my dream, I was asleep and I couldn't wake up. I dreamed that I was unconscious, but still somewhat lucid (if that makes sense) and I couldn't move or wake up, and my brother came in and picked me up and carried me down the hall and then just laid me on the floor and left. That was the point I really did wake up...I hate feeling like I'm just going to have those kind of dreams all night, they scare me so bad...meh. The idea of not being able to move frightens me probably more than any other fear I've ever had, so that's what my nightmares always pick on. Oh well...I guess I just needed to vent. I suppose since I do have to work the afternoon tomorrow, I should go back to bed and just hope for dreams that don't terrify me. Argh...
put some incense under your pillow. wild mint if you've got any in your yard. or from the spice rack if you've got some there. i had parallisys dreams/sleep parallisys when i was little and living with my parents too. being too much arround anyone who is too dominant probably has something to do with it. but you don't have to be a victum in your dreams. mint and looking at your hand as you fall asleep are things that people have done that work for them. =^^= .../\...
I love getting nightmares.... it's funny how we get creeped out by the silliest thing. The next morning when I actually think about my scary dream, it does seem odd that such things would bother me.
Poor girl I had a dream about Bella Desordre and fitzy last night, it wasn't a nightmare just... peculiar. We were traveling to St. Louis Canada which was in this Ontario-shaped territory (well, if you took Ontario and flipped it 'round) on the end of BC. From Seattle Saskatchewan. Yeah. And there were critters called fiends (I've been playing lots of Final Fantasy X lately ok?) while we rode on this very strange free transit thing and... it was just odd.
nightmares are no fun. back in august/september i had them constantly. hope you were able to get some sleep ---- hahaha, that does sound pretty wierd
sleep paralysis is totally normal. it keeps you from hurting yourself during your dream cycle. the malfunction is when you become aware of the fact that you're paralyzed. this is when people will have dreams of aliens or demons or bad men coming to carry them off while they're helpless. probably where the incubi and succubi come from, too. just know that it's totally normal. i used to have those all the tim, but once i found out the mechanism behind it, it really chilled me out. i'd just remember that it was natural, and told myself to go back to sleep. stress, anxiety, lack of sleep, anything that can disrupt your natural sleep cycles and jolt you from sleep will cause it.
Last autumn and early winter too, I had nightmares constantly, pretty much every night, and during the day I looked like a zombie coz I was either scared of sleeping or just couldn't sleep well. But I haven't had any in the past few weeks or so which is nice. Nightmares suck. Hope you managed to go back to sleep and have sweet dreams!
both of my babies have nightmares. kai's are so bad that it's heartbreaking. dave has had them his entire life, too. it's just so crazy. i really think the tendecy towards nightmares is hereditary somehow. i never have them. i've been a sleepwalker forever, and i've had those paralyzed problems with accompanying spookiness, but nightmares are really rare for me.
yea, i've had the sleep paralysis before a few times. the last time i remember was freshman year. after breakfast i'd go to the chapel to get some sleep, so i was napping there and i "woke up" but i couldnt' move. pretty scary. everyone else was normal - some were talking, i could hear them and see, and others were sleeping like i was.
i heard there's this dream where you're awake, and you're in bed, but you cant move - as if that isn't scary enough - then someone comes in, kneels on your chest and tries to strangle you. i watched a whole show on it, and the person who comes in, they discovered has a pattern depending on where you live. in Italy you see a with, and like Spain has some guy, strange. not sure if i believe its different in different places, but id hate to think i was awake and not be able to move
yep, when i would have those, it'd be my creepy neighbor. some people see aliens, more and more lately. it's an interesting study in the collective conscious, don't you think?
aliens, incubi/succubi, fae, witches.... all sorts of critters have been blamed for sleep paralysis. Nightmares are.... weird. I've only had a couple since I hit puberty, thankfully, but I still remember two nightmares I had when I was much younger that really scared the crap out of me. One about my father dying and one about my daycare getting attacked by Skeletor and Hordak (villains from He-man and She-ra) and I had to abandon everyone to save myself some details of 'em still give me the heebiejeebies
Well, I did go back to sleep, I was fighting it while I posted on here last night, but I continued to have not-so-great dreams. However, I didn't become aware of not being able to move again, so, I actually got sleep. Funny thing is, I've had a couple of bad dreams when Daniel's been beside me, but never anything downright terrifying. I think I'm going to try to find a way to get to work from his house so that I can just start staying there permanently. Maybe that was my brain's way of telling me to get the hell on it, lol.
you know, dave and both my girls, as well as most people i've been talking to about this (sorry, your troubles became a topic of conversation) all have more vivid nightmares and sleep paralysis when the moon is full. i have a theory that it's all the extra light coming in through the window disturbing your sleep. try putting a blanket over the window to extra-gaurd against light and tell me how it works. i know i don't sleep well when the moon is full, maybe the light is triggering your pituitary into overtime, causing extra stress levels...i'll feel like such a genius if it works.
Wow, that sounds right on, actually, kc. Wow. Now that I think about it, every single time I recall having a nightmare like that, the moon has been either full or close to it. I can never sleep with any lights whatsoever at night, because they freak me out. I don't know why...but night lights as a child always scared me, too. Maybe it's more than physical in my case, I think it's very much psychological. Haha, you guys should become my official therapists!
when i was little, i never ever slepts with the lights on. i had to sleep in my black as pitch bedroom in total silence. dave however, always sleeps with a tv on, presumably to distract his mind while he goes to sleep. kai prefers some sort of light, too. but i think this is why they're having nightmares. so whenever either of them are tossing about and having a nightmare, i turn the tv off and make it really dark in the bedroom. it calms them down. the fact that i'm always awake is just a function of being a mom, i guess. i sleep with my eyes open.
