O/T Nightmares.

[Ginger]

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.

[suzanne]

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 :-)



 

[TightEnd]

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!!!

[suzanne]

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!!!

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

[Ginger]

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.....

[TightEnd]

yes its true, last Friday in the car

made me feel very old indeed..History!!

[suzanne]

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.....

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 :-(

[Snatiramas]

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

[Ginger]

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.

[Colchester Kev]

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

[matt674]

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

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

 

[Colchester Kev]

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

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

 

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

[Ginger]

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

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

[Karabiner]

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.

[RED-DOG]

I have no idea what triggers nightmares.

It's probably about Roy Rogers gaining weight.