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    Anyone else get them?? And how do you deal?

    Fuck man. I am talking graphic, graphic ones. I watch a lot of super scary movies and they never bother me, but my own brain could put Takashi Miike out of business. They are that bad, and they are layered; like I wake up from a nightmare, think I'm awake but am not, wake up in another nightmare, think I'm awake, finally "wake up" again and am awake. It's really disturbing.

    They tend to come in clusters about once a month. I went to bed this morning at 5am, and they were so bad, I was up at 10:45. I can't go back to sleep or they just continue.

    Thoughts, coping mechanisms? I'm grasping at straws here. Yes I'm stressed, but not too badly. I don't eat before bed, it cranks up your metabolism and can increase brain activity. I don't do drugs... I've tried sleeping pills (basic diphenhydramine) ad yeah they keep me asleep, thus making me unable to wake myself from a scary dream.

    Anything I haven't thought of??

    Here is an example of me describing one o my friend K:

    Me (12:13:54 PM): dude i have the worst nightmares.
    Me (12:14:07 PM): i went to bed at am and have been up two hours already because they wont stopppp
    K (12:14:16 PM): that sucks
    Me (12:14:28 PM): they are graphic as fuck too
    Me (12:14:47 PM): like acoss from my bed my closet is a full mirror
    Me (12:15:00 PM): and in my dream i sit up and see someone moving in the mirror in my living room
    Me (12:15:16 PM): and when i call them out its like a group of people who followed me home from work
    Me (12:15:28 PM): they come and sit around me on my bed and like lean in to peer at me
    Me (12:15:30 PM): i hate it
    K (12:15:47 PM): Whoa
    K(12:15:49 PM): that's nuts
    Me (12:15:52 PM): yeah
    Me (12:16:00 PM): thats not even a gory one

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    For me it's not so much the actual nightmare, but waking up from it and being too scared to fall back asleep. What helps me with that is putting something funny on t.v., that usually snaps my brain out of nightmare mode.

    I know that dreaming is a signal that your body is going into REM, and getting actual rest. So, when you are really exhausted, your dreams are more frequent and intense. Maybe it would help taking a power nap in the afternoon.
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    ^^^ Wow, i didnt know that, i thought nightmares were just the bodys way of streaming things/if you had particular things on ur mind. Im working a 5 day full time job combined with weekend dancing at the minute and ive noticed my dreams/nighmares are much more frequant! Im definetly going to get more rest!! Thanks J.D.!

    I got told that having nothing with caffiene in for a good few hours before sleep time helps stop nightmares (doesnt do much good if im drinking coca cola to say alert in the club and then trying to get to sleep at home though!) hmmm..im not much help!
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    What you dream about also tends to depend on what you were thinking about just before you fall asleep.

    Quote Originally Posted by mediocrity View Post
    I watch a lot of super scary movies and they never bother me...
    So, if you were thinking about the movies just before you fell asleep, your subconscious will keep right on remembering the movies and reassembling bits in random order....

    Try and read a humorous book or watch a humorous TV program not long before you go to bed.

    Quote Originally Posted by mediocrity View Post
    ...they are layered; like I wake up from a nightmare, think I'm awake but am not, wake up in another nightmare, think I'm awake, finally "wake up" again and am awake. It's really disturbing...
    Do you suffer from sleep paralysis?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis

    I do from time to time, and it used to scare the cr*p out of me. Now, I know the paralysis is because I'm coming out of sleep and if I relax for a couple of minutes it'll pass.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mediocrity View Post
    Anyone else get them?? And how do you deal?

    Fuck man. I am talking graphic, graphic ones. I watch a lot of super scary movies and they never bother me, but my own brain could put Takashi Miike out of business. They are that bad, and they are layered; like I wake up from a nightmare, think I'm awake but am not, wake up in another nightmare, think I'm awake, finally "wake up" again and am awake. It's really disturbing.

    They tend to come in clusters about once a month. I went to bed this morning at 5am, and they were so bad, I was up at 10:45. I can't go back to sleep or they just continue.

    Thoughts, coping mechanisms? I'm grasping at straws here. Yes I'm stressed, but not too badly. I don't eat before bed, it cranks up your metabolism and can increase brain activity. I don't do drugs... I've tried sleeping pills (basic diphenhydramine) ad yeah they keep me asleep, thus making me unable to wake myself from a scary dream.

    Anything I haven't thought of??

    Here is an example of me describing one o my friend K:

    Me (12:13:54 PM): dude i have the worst nightmares.
    Me (12:14:07 PM): i went to bed at am and have been up two hours already because they wont stopppp
    K (12:14:16 PM): that sucks
    Me (12:14:28 PM): they are graphic as fuck too
    Me (12:14:47 PM): like acoss from my bed my closet is a full mirror
    Me (12:15:00 PM): and in my dream i sit up and see someone moving in the mirror in my living room
    Me (12:15:16 PM): and when i call them out its like a group of people who followed me home from work
    Me (12:15:28 PM): they come and sit around me on my bed and like lean in to peer at me
    Me (12:15:30 PM): i hate it
    K (12:15:47 PM): Whoa
    K(12:15:49 PM): that's nuts
    Me (12:15:52 PM): yeah
    Me (12:16:00 PM): thats not even a gory one

    I get seriously graphic, nasty and sometimes I will wake up crying kind of nightmares.
    I tried tylenol pm, that was a mistake I couldn't force myself awake. I have found that when I am under major stress is when these happen and my doctor gave me something to relax me before bed. My last wicked dream involved watching, I wasn't participating in 3 brothers hacking their little sister to death, burying her and watching her dig herself out of her grave to get revenge. I have no idea what it could mean. My roomate tells me to write these dreams down they would make great short stories, he tried to make something positive out of a negative since he has watched me sleep through these nightmares, I guess I am really active, it must happen when we hit REM sleep. It has really helped having someone to tell my nightmares to and over the years I have adjusted to the horror film in my head.


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    I had terrible nightmares for most of my life. I even dreamed some really horrible things happening to myself or loved ones that actually turned out to be prophetic. I would dream things like my brakes going out on my car and careening out of control (brakes went out on my car and I careened out of control a year later).

    Had a nightmare of my bf shot in the head, laying dead in the bed next to me. There was blood on the wall, on floor, on the dresser, on the bed. When I touched his bare chest his skin was cold and clammy. I was in a stage somewhere between sleep and wakefulness, because he felt me touching him and woke up. I totally freaked out! I jumped out of bed screaming, fell over my own feet and did that crawl/run thing people do when in an utter panic. He turned on the lights and everything was as it should have been. He was 21 or 22 at the time. He committed suicide when he was 30, gunshot to the head, in his bedroom, with a 9mm pistol. It was very graphic and messy.

    I dreamed about a crush who also happened to be a co-worker in 2003. He was extremely upset about something and totally freaking out, tearing up the room he was in. He ran into another room and continued to act like a maniac. This guy was a male dancer who worked for the same club I did. We were very close friends, had been for years. I had never seen him behave like a person in a drunken rage, so this dream scared me very much. In the end of the dream he ran off in his insanity and I tried to catch him to help him. At the time of the dream I was in love with this guy. Turns out his brother and best friend had been in a car wreck and died the very same night I dreamt about my friend. He was later institutionalized. He had a nervous break down within a week of his brother's death. I only saw him once after that. I still miss him very much.

    Of course I've had other random nightmares through my whole life. They tend to be worse when I'm experiencing PMS. I found that smoking pot helps keep the nightmares away quite effectively, even in very small amounts. I became a regular pot smoker after the last prophetic nightmare. It is bad enough to dream about death and destruction, but it is even worse when those images come back to haunt you in reality. I just wish there was some kind of prophetic dream disclaimer, like before you watch an explicit tv show or something: "The graphic images in the dream you are about to experience will portend future events. Dreamer discretion is advised."


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    Do you eat before you go to bed?

    According to this recent study, reseachers have found that tyramine could be responsible for inducing nightmares.

    The following foods are known to contain tyramine, a chemical created in the breakdown of tyrosine, an amino acid protein. Tyramine acts as a brain chemical stimulant. The following foods and drinks are known to contribute to the formation of tyramine: all forms of alcohol, bacon, caffeine, cheese, chocolate, eggplant, ham, potatoes, sauerkraut, sausage, spinach, sugar, tobacco, tomatoes, and wine. People with sleep disorders should avoid these foods, especially at bedtime.
    http://www.unitedmedicalnetwork.com/...ions_sleep.asp


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    Dreams are your subconcious trying to tell you something. The more graphic and crazy the dream, the louder your subconcious is trying to talk to you. I would try some dream interpretation and analysis. You could also try lucid dreaming and just ask the people in your dream why they are there and what is happening. Try keeping a dream journal. You could learn alot about yourself. Just my opinion.

    I am sure eating before bed, drinking, watching TV/movies and imbalances don't help either. I always have crazy dreams when I need to go to the bathroom.

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    Ugh, I feel you. Lately I've been getting really bad nightmares and my sleep paralysis has been getting bad too. Not sure why it's happening.

    If I drink a few glasses of wine before bed, I usually pass out and sleep the whole night through - no scary dreams! But something about the long-term health implications to do with my method makes me think it's not a great solution.

    Quote Originally Posted by Phil-W View Post
    Do you suffer from sleep paralysis?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis

    I do from time to time, and it used to scare the cr*p out of me. Now, I know the paralysis is because I'm coming out of sleep and if I relax for a couple of minutes it'll pass.

    Phil.

    Ohhhh yeah. I have this - have my whole life. It's called something different where I'm from, but my episodes last a lot longer than most people, and are very frequent.



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    This might sound stupid, but before you go to sleep at night try repeating to yourself "I will not have bad dreams, I will not have bad dreams, I will not have bad dreams."
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    I don't think that sounds stupid.

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    Like Paris, I've noticed that pot alleviates this for me.

    Not saying you should do it, but just putting it out there.

    Since I've had to quit for pee tests, I've had nonstop nightmares. This post is really apropos for me right now.

    I also have those kind of prophetic nightmares, but I have a big mouth and I tell everyone about them and it intervenes in real life a bit, I hope. I'll never know.

    The worst ones are where I think a family member has died. I wake up with the worst kind of uncontrollable sobbing. I can't even stop it when I'm awake because the pain is so bad. I usually sob and cry for about a half an hour.

    My usual night is not this bad, but it's not the kind of dreams I had when I was a kid. Now, it's negative, scary, being abandoned by the world.

    The themes are usually being homeless again, watching people die, people being hurt, and losing my own life.

    For me, I look forward to smoking weed again. Then I had mostly good dreams about seeing people I like, doing mundane things, and TV shows. Go figure.

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    I get nightmares occassionally, they are terrible. I agree with you JD, it also sucks being to scared to go back to sleep. That's when I cuddle up closer to my hubby.

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    I have heard smoking pot and dissolving melatonin under your tongue is supposed to give you vivid dreams. Anyone ever tried it?

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    Pot may give vivid dreams, but not nightmares for me.

    Do not try this at home!

    It works for me, but to each their own.

    I have goood, sweet dreams on weed.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Phil-W View Post
    Do you suffer from sleep paralysis?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis

    I do from time to time, and it used to scare the cr*p out of me. Now, I know the paralysis is because I'm coming out of sleep and if I relax for a couple of minutes it'll pass.

    Phil.
    Yep and I freaking hate it. Interestingly I only get it when I have naps, not a full night sleep.

    Quote Originally Posted by Paris View Post
    I had terrible nightmares for most of my life. I even dreamed some really horrible things happening to myself or loved ones that actually turned out to be prophetic. I would dream things like my brakes going out on my car and careening out of control (brakes went out on my car and I careened out of control a year later).

    Had a nightmare of my bf shot in the head, laying dead in the bed next to me. There was blood on the wall, on floor, on the dresser, on the bed. When I touched his bare chest his skin was cold and clammy. I was in a stage somewhere between sleep and wakefulness, because he felt me touching him and woke up. I totally freaked out! I jumped out of bed screaming, fell over my own feet and did that crawl/run thing people do when in an utter panic. He turned on the lights and everything was as it should have been. He was 21 or 22 at the time. He committed suicide when he was 30, gunshot to the head, in his bedroom, with a 9mm pistol. It was very graphic and messy.

    I dreamed about a crush who also happened to be a co-worker in 2003. He was extremely upset about something and totally freaking out, tearing up the room he was in. He ran into another room and continued to act like a maniac. This guy was a male dancer who worked for the same club I did. We were very close friends, had been for years. I had never seen him behave like a person in a drunken rage, so this dream scared me very much. In the end of the dream he ran off in his insanity and I tried to catch him to help him. At the time of the dream I was in love with this guy. Turns out his brother and best friend had been in a car wreck and died the very same night I dreamt about my friend. He was later institutionalized. He had a nervous break down within a week of his brother's death. I only saw him once after that. I still miss him very much.

    Of course I've had other random nightmares through my whole life. They tend to be worse when I'm experiencing PMS. I found that smoking pot helps keep the nightmares away quite effectively, even in very small amounts. I became a regular pot smoker after the last prophetic nightmare. It is bad enough to dream about death and destruction, but it is even worse when those images come back to haunt you in reality. I just wish there was some kind of prophetic dream disclaimer, like before you watch an explicit tv show or something: "The graphic images in the dream you are about to experience will portend future events. Dreamer discretion is advised."
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    Quote Originally Posted by kittygirl View Post
    Pot may give vivid dreams, but not nightmares for me.

    Do not try this at home!

    It works for me, but to each their own.

    I have goood, sweet dreams on weed.
    I hardly ever smoke pot but on the night no problem but for two weeks after I always have nightmares. bizarre.

    And to the OP. Yes I also have horrible nightmares and have my whole life. Not sure what causes them but this, along with sleep paralysis and a few other indications has led me to believe I may actually be narcoleptic. I'm going to ask for a sleep test next year to find out. Most people assume if you are narcoleptic you just suddenly fall asleep, but this is not the case. This website describes a lot of my sleep behaviours/patterns.

    http://www.nodss.org.au/index.html

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    Thanks everyone for the suggestions, but you all know by now I don't smoke pot and am not going to start. I have experienced the sleep paralysis before but not on a regular basis; and I don't do caffiene because even one cup of coffee gives me the shakes.

    I may start writing them down, and self-suggesting like Jay said.

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    Quote Originally Posted by kittygirl View Post
    Like Paris, I've noticed that pot alleviates this for me.

    For me, I look forward to smoking weed again. Then I had mostly good dreams about seeing people I like, doing mundane things, and TV shows. Go figure.
    Are you in a medical use state? Stress and anxiety are approved usages in some states. You could always ask. I don't currently have a rx but have considered it many times. Never actually had the balls to ask my Dr. about it, though.


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    I can say sometimes (at least in my situation) they can be a warning.


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    For me, pot takes away my dreams. It's really weird. I'm sure I still dream but I don't remember it. But whenever I don't smoke pot for awhile, the first week or so while it's clearing out of my system = WHOOOAA crazy dreams.

    Yes I also have very vivid dreams of all varieties, including nightmares. And I've had pre-cognitive dreams too... crazy experience. It happens a lot actually, but usually never about anything important. Like I'll dream about someone I hadn't seen in ten years since high school and then randomly run into them at the grocery store the next day, just stuff like that. I also had this one really creepy nightmare way back in the day that my then-boyfriend was doing meth behind my back. In the dream, I walked in on him and a mutual friend getting on one and I was SO upset I just cried and cried. I remember waking up that day and calling him and telling him about it and he seemed to react kinda strangely but I thought nothing of it at the time. It wasn't until two years later the truth came out that he'd been doing meth behind my back and lying to me the whole time, and yes, you guessed it, it began right around the time I had that dream. He told me later it freaked him out so bad when I told him about my dream but he was already caught by the addiction at that point... crazy stuff. Unfortunately I have no way of separating these type of dreams from my normal ones so they never do me any good.

    Just the other night I had a very vivid nightmare that I was visiting my family in California and something huge happened in LA, something to do with radiation or a nuclear attack. Everyone was terrified, trying to flee Cali into Nevada because of the spreading radiation. MIllions of people were dead. It was so scary I cried when I woke up. I sure hope that one wasn't a vision of the future!



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    that website is interesting thanks.
    I have always had alot of nightmares from a young age and now esp when im on my period.
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    Ok, so two nights ago I had a dream my baby sister was decapitated at a salon by accident. I think it's because I am worried about her.

    Also, when I came home last night, I found my bunny bit a hole in my Aerobed (I like them better than regular mattresses) and it was deflated. Fucking money down the drain. Then I dreamed I was being stalked.

    FML.

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