I came here looking for answers to my strange dreams, but see others are enduring them as well. They must not be as strange as I thought. I'll describe a few anyway. First off I have Sleep Apnea and use a CPAP machine, but my sleep has never in my life been normal, I seem to be on a rhythm that makes me want to be awake like 18 to 20 hours then sleep 8 to 10 hours. Anyone who can do simple math can tell you there's not enough hours in day for that, therefore my time awake seems to rotate around the clock, this week I may be sleeping days and next week sleeping nights.. or somewhere in between the two times, it's just never the same. My bad dreams run the realm of what I've always called Sleep Paralysis but that may not be the right term for it. I always think I hear something and try to wake up and can't move. My head seems to move and I try to use it to help flip me over, but my arms and legs, and torso even, just won't move. The odd thing is I often recognize that I'm dreaming, yet it's still horrible never the less. I'm an avid shooter, I love guns and hunting, and target shooting, I have all my life. Sometimes I dream that I'm in the midst of some kind of gun battle, or someone is after us, or me alone, and I always end up with this tiny little gun and I never have the right ammo for it. LOL .. that is so crazy I swear. I've dreamed that 100's of times over my life. I've dreamed of being shot also, but not of dying. I'm also a tornado dreamer, I love them because they are an amazing part of nature, I find beauty in them except when they become killers. I always escape them in my dreams yet watch them coming and getting closer and closer and yet feel terror while trying to find a place to hide from them. Dreams are funny, I have reoccurring dreams, and I recognize them while dreaming, I remember telling myself in the dream that I'm just dreaming. Maybe I'm not losing my mind all together but I wish I slept normally. SnowCajun
My father has sleep apnea, he's on that machine also. Chances are high that I have it, as it runs in my father's side of the family. Im already showing some signs of it, but we'll see how that goes. As for the sleep paralysis - Im not sure. SP is a function the body uses to prevent people from acting out their dreams in real life, like if you were running in a dream, you certainly wouldn't want anybody who may be sleeping next to you to be rudely awakened by a big kick in the forehead hehe. They say everybody, at least once in their life, will wake up and still be in SP. Has never happened to me yet, thankfully, I imagine that would be quite scary. But you say that when you feel this paralysis, you're actually still in a dream? That deffinatly wouldn't be the same as SP, but I think I know what it is that you're reffering to. This has happened to me before, some what. I've been in dreams where I simply couldn't move, or couldn't move some body parts, or that they were much heavier than usual. I've had this same dream a couple times. In the dream, I'm trying to fight somebody, but I just can't seem to throw any punches lol. Like my arms are just way too heavy and they won't move.
I hope you don't, it's not very pleasant. I can't sleep without my CPAP and that eliminates going camping in the deep woods unless I want to fork out $800 for a generator ... then think of all the load I'd have to take. I guess this is the penalties of growing old? I had dreams when I was young about running from something, either from my brother or something else and it felt like was trying to run in mud, that I could hardly run at all. I've never had the fighting dreams but just last night I had one of those where I was unable to move, like I was laying on my sofa and woke up but couldn't roll over. I was jerking my head trying to flip my body over. Odd thing is that even in my dream last night I recognized that it was a dream, never the less the fear issue was still there. I think the funny thing is that when I had this last night I thought to myself in my dream, "oh God not again" .. lol. Getting old is hell, I'm still looking for the "golden years" my mother spoke about. I think she lied! SnowCajun I'm old, there's no cure!
I have dreams about tornados all the time. Running from them in cars mostly. I've never been hurt by them or had anyone die from them in my dreams but they scare the crap out of me none the less. I have no idea why I would dream about tornados in the first place, I've never really expierenced one in reality. There was a very close call when I was younger. I was at a relatives house in Texas and I remember being woke up and told to get into the hallway. The wind was howling and the screen door was slamming against the door frame. I don't remember being scared, I don't even think I knew what was going on. I had to of been 4 or 5 years old but i'll never forget how loud and amazing the wind sounded.
I'm not sure our dreams have reason, I've dreamed about things I've never experienced in life other than maybe seeing it on the news or somewhere. All I think it takes is an imagine in your mind and it's just there. I was a volunteer firefighter for awhile, went through EMT school also, but we were a rural dept. so there really wasn't that many horrible things I saw. Oddly the few really bad things I saw I don't dream about. I found a seven year old boy who had been murdered in Houston back in 1979 yet have never dreamed about him, and I found him out in a field at night that had old dead trees and tall grass and mounds of dirt, a really spooky place to begin with. He was missing and I volunteered to help look for him. His throat was cut ear to ear and I could see more than I wanted to see .. but I've never had nightmares about that. I pulled a few bodies from burned homes, mostly mobile homes, yet no bad dreams about those. I've seen a few tornados, one in Houston crossed over the loop about a 1/2 mile in front of me, but I was having nightmares about tornados long before then. I don't know what triggers our dreams, I'd like to know. SnowCajun I'm old, there's no cure!
Yeah, your right. It's amazing what our mind can produce with no prior experience to go on. I know I have had enough dreams dealing with things completely other-worldly that no has ever experienced. That is a terrible thing to witness, you are very brave. I can only imagine that something like that would haunt me terribly.
Thank you for saying that but I really don't feel brave. I saw a lot of things I didn't enjoy seeing and I guess some may have haunted me, well maybe not haunted me but really bothered me, maybe that's the same thing! I think that's why I really wasn't cut out for it I guess, though I did it anyway. I've always liked helping people, and I do have some really good memories also. I remember a few lives I've touched from the training I went through, at least that has paid off for some folks lives! SnowCajun
just wanted you to know you're not crazy. i've had dreams about all of the things you mentioned all of my life. i've never heard of anyone else having the tornado dream. one of my theories is that it has something to do with an event that will occur in our lifetimes. just a theory. i think we've all had the dreams of trying to get away from something and not being fully in control of our bodies or capable of getting away. it's strange to me that shortly after beginning to have these dreams, i seemed to remember my dreams less often. i've also dreamt of being shot. i awoke with a strange burning sensation where the bullet hit me. i've suffered from sleep paralysis and a few rare occasions of sleep walking all of my life. i'm sorry, mind's eye, but that wasn't 100% correct in all cases-sp can and often does include an awareness of still being immersed in the dream world. it is a symptom of a kind of blending of your conscious and subconscious minds. tell me, if you want, that is-do you feel there is a presence in the room when you have these experiences?
Verbal fights. Your arguments are impotent. Problems which seem over whelming. Tornadoes probably symbolise chaos and destruction, making us feel impotent, that we are not in charge of our own lives and that we are helpless to fight against sweeping changes which also affect others.
I can't agrue overwhelming problems in my life, when my ex and I split 14 years ago after 23 years together she had managed to turn my children against me, I've not seen or spoken to my two sons since then, nor am I allowed to know my grandchildren. My sons are of age, both in their early 30's now, but they bought their mothers story 100% and won't have anything to do with me. What she did was wrong, they've been lied to but I doubt I'll ever see them again in my lifetime. My only ... I hate to call it satisfaction .. is that this is something so awful I'd hate to be in her shoes and have to stand before God and be judged on having done that to my spouse. I can't think of much in life more cruel than denying someone their children. Still, in all honesty, I was dreaming of tornadoes long before any of the above, never the less the marriage was a mistake and I realized that five years into it, but stayed because of the children. I was raised to believe that if you make children you take care of them, I just didn't realize that I could have taken care of them while not being in the marriage, but my mind didn't accept them not being raised with their father actually being there, it was so different than I'd been raised. It's true though, we're definately not in charge of our own lives, we may be able to guide ourselves this way or that, but that's about all. Thanks for your input, SnowCajun
This has happened to me several times since my parents moved into our new house about 5 years ago. I'd be lying in bed maybe asleep... maybe between sleep and awakeness or awake... and i would feel something press on my body. I wasn't paralyzed however. I could move but only like my hands and feet and turn my torso. The first time it happened I thought, maybe I have SP but the second time it happened, I heard a voice and saw the sheets move slowly over my body and then it was as if someone had pushed my head into the pillow and put their hand over my mouth very tightly, i could feel my skin pushing into my face and i was half asleep this time and it was around 3 in the morning that it completely woke me. I remember hearing myself scream a murmur within my mouth but whatever was over my mouth wasn't allowing noise. It's happened several times to me (not recently_thank God) and it happened to a friend i stayed with one night while i was laying next to him in his bed and he was fully awake because we were talking then he got quiet and i said his name and he grabbed me and gasped for air and then told me what happened. So I have felt a presence in the room and heard voices. But this happens to me when I'm fully awake... feeling a presence and hearing faint voices (not the crazy kind that tell you to do things but the ones that seem to whisper to you randomness).
no one can be normal because there is no such thing. but it is possible to be sane and not too unusual at the same time. but these ARE two VERY different and seperate things. =^^= .../\...
