blonde poker forum

After only being asleep for less than 2 hours, I realised I was in the middle of a horrific nightmare, again.  Sadly this is nothing new and I suffer from these quite regularly, I’ve sort of trained myself into recognising what they are and eventually manage to wake myself up from them.

Unfortunately this will now be all the sleep I get tonight (they are that bad and lucid), so I’m after a bit of advice.  Does anyone else still suffer from excessively bad dreams, other than thinking nice thoughts as I’m dropping off is there anything anyone knows of to stop them? I’ve always had pretty bad dreams but these extreme ones have been going on for roughly 7 years now, so it’s they aren’t linked to any current life situation, any idea as to what might trigger them?

I’m open to suggestions, fire away.

I used to suffer from nightmares a lot when i was younger so I know how upsetting they can be and I can still recall all the gory details.

Same nightmare, same result...I find my family carved up in pieces, i cant save them and after running away down a dead end being chased by the bad guys in a car I would climb a wall and drop into the sea, try to swim to safety and just as I thought I was getting away I would turn and see the most ginormous tidal wave. I would wake up in a panic with visions of dead children and cows and trees all swirling around me sinking into the bottom of the sea.

I still get them now and again but not so much.

I feel for ya hunny and to be honest I dont know a cure.

Hope someone can come up with something.................















..............no I didnt mean you Kev :-)



 

Me too tonight, very vivid, and not images I have encountered before.

Onto blonde for 30 minutes...read certain threads that shall not be named, off to sleep again!!! :D

Is your sig true?? That in itself is a nighmare!!

My nightmares are not usually a single recurring dream - although I think everyone gets those at some time in their life, these are just random horrific 'events' in full technicolor glory that stay in my head for hours after I wake.

I understand that certain food etc can trigger them, and I've worked with all that for years with no help. I've done the soothing music when I'm going to sleep and that does seem to help a bit but not always. I've read several dream books and I'm at a bit of a loss.

Oh well, off to put a film on and by the time it finishes the kids will be getting up for school.....

yes its true, last Friday in the car

made me feel very old indeed..History!!

I remember back in the year..god knows what...just paid a fortune for the latest/best/when only the single and well off could afford them video players :-)  me and my boyfriend went to the biggest and best video hire shop in Edinburgh and took out 3 films at £2.50 each or 3 for a fiver woohoooooooooooo. Stopped off at the offy and got 8 cans of special brew and a menu for 2 at the chinky and we went home for a night of entertainment. It took about 3 hours to set the bloody machine up (and he was a techy guy back then).

First film we watched was "The hills have eyes"..........I swear I threw up when the guy bit the head of the budgie...even to this day I have nightmares about that :-(

Dreams have always fascinated me. Used to have terrible nightmares until I happened to be listening to some old tosh on the radio about how if you go straight back to sleep upon waking up from a nightmare you can actually change the dream.

Nonsense and piffle I hear you cry but actually it works and I can change my dreams or rather turn them into version 2

Funny thing is I rarely get them now

Not nonsense or piffle at all, I totally agree with that and I have done it many times before. That use to be how I would deal with them, the trouble with these 'current' nightmares is they scare the bejesus out of me so badly that I have zero chance of getting back to sleep.

You think the nightmares are bad now ... wait til you wake up on Thursday morning :)  ;carlocitrone;

Being a spurs fan surely you witness more nightmares whilst awake than you do while asleep?

 ;whistle;

Spurs and Burnley  ..... double the pain.   still even supporting those 2 serial under achievers is less traumatic than being a Charlton fan Monkey boy !! ;)

LOL I was expecting some smart arse to bring that up, but I wasn't expecting it to be you!

What an odd coincidence, I occasionally have vivid gruesome nightmares, and I had one last night.

The image was so gory and horrible that it woke me up with a start, and it took a good half hour before the memory had faded enough to get back to sleep.

I have no idea what triggers nightmares.

It's probably about Roy Rogers gaining weight.

At the age of 9 i had a recurring nightmare where I got gassed by an electric streetlight........no wonder I am messed up

PMSL , I dont know what you had for breakfast mate, but you are on form today :D :D :D

 rotflmfao

I have to live with flushy, it's one long drawn out nightmare Jane, so no sympathy from me.

Seriously though, I know you have said you sometimes listen to soothing music and this helps a bit. Have you tried any meditation techniques before you sleep? Being in a complete state of tranquil calm is bound to improve the rest you get before you sleep.

When I used to have nightmares, I could generally link them to feeling a bit stressed or flustered whilst falling to sleep, maybe about something in particular, maybe just in general but if i meditate (which can be as simple as spending five minutes in silence or with gentle music on with your eyes closed taking deep, slow breaths) I always sleep very soundly.

I'll msg you later with a few more ideas.

Cheers MrCat, ideas and suggestions most welcome.

I learnt a few relaxation techniques when I was having the children, and I still try to practice them when I notice I'm a little tense falling asleep. Things like focusing on a certain body part and willing it to relax -  mentally relaxing each part of your body starting at the toes and working upwards, it's quite shocking how tense you can be without even realising it.

As for your daily Flushy nightmare, well sorry mate no sympathy. You volunteered for that nightmare!

Yeah, I can imagine you'll be doing that a lot after Thursday...

Looking through the smilies and there just isn't an appropriate one to answer that.

LOLOL!!!

Jane, Jane, Jane,
I think I have the answer to your problem...!!!!

Try this...!!!

When you go to bed, sleep on your side, but, it has the be the side that makes you face away from Kevin..!!!  LOL...  You will never have another nightmare..!!!  ;nana; ;nanana;

Check out this youtube video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM8pf5-COw8

There is a great book by a guy called Stephen Laberge (sp?)   .    I knew a guy while I was still in School who had a sleep mask and he could dream about whatever he wanted.  I tried the mask a few times, but it gave me a bad headache.  By using the techniques in the book, it is possible to get the same results, however it is tough to get past the tingling stage just as you are dropping off to sleep and still aware .   I know that Ayrton Senna used dreaming exercises to practice driving techniques. 

mmmm.. that sleep mask thing sounds interesting... I wish I had more control over my dreams.

I dream very vivid dreams every night - usually at least two different ones a night. Usually they are pretty good, but sometimes they can be really bad... I also 'suffer' from sleep paralysis once every couple of months - sometimes this can be really unpleasant - infact it's what a lot of sleep experts believe explains alien abductions..  There's also something called 'The Entity' that people believe you can see when you're in this state.... Ooooh errrr!! Scary ey!?

Not sure I believe in any of that, though as it's something that happens to me quite often, I've always meant to research it further... One time, my girlfriend at the time had to shake me awake as I was sweating and hyperventalating (even though I was fast asleep!!). Crazy stuff!!

Even so, sometimes sleep paralaysis can be really good, as in total out of body experiences - like you're flying. Absolutely awesome!!! :) And I hope I always get these experiences for the rest of my life.

Anyway, Ginger - I hope the nightmares get better!!! :) I don't have any tips I'm afraid, as I have no idea why one night I'll dream a great dream, and another night dream a horrible dream :(

I guess it could all be down to stresses - maybe your body's way of telling you to 'slow down'...? Eat less cheese too! ;)

---
James Dean once said "Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today". Don't know what that has to do with anything, but it's a quote I like! :)