Anyone having nightmares recently?

[DungeonmasterJim]

I haven't had nightmares in the longest time but over the past few months they've been creeping up on me. They aren't things that make up bolt upright or scream out but when I wake up I do feel a little frazzled. I think it's mostly because of my lifestyle for the past few months. I've been working 8 hour days a lot lately. It's not uncommon for me to work 20 days straight, then take off one Sunday and do another 20 days straight. It's leaving me a little rundown. And I've been playing Call of Duty games lately just before bed which is a lot of killing and violence. And I've also read 4 horror novels in the past two months. Again, I've been reading these just before bed just after playing Call of Duty.

So I think all of the above has combined to give me nightmares including two this past morning.

DM Jim

[Michael P]

Not really. One of my ongoing plotlines advanced recently, though.

[Corrina]

Yes. Those damn snakefish.

And I have a recurring nightmare that something awful usually happens when I'm driving the minivan.

I realize this means I'm worried about my kids.

I cannot wait to get a regular car someday.

[Stressfactor]

Oddly enough, yes -- had a nightmare last night that I was trapped in a university library with a bunch of strangers while zombies were outside trying to get in.

I could understand the library part since I'm working on a second Masters degree in Library Science and I had class last night and it met at (you guessed it) the university library but I really don't get the walking dead aspect since I don't like horror movies and NEVER watch them nor do I like anything dealing with zombies so I don't even read zombie comic books.

Either way the dream got so intense I had to pull myself awake at 2:30 am and not let myself go back to sleep right away so I wouldn't fall back into it.

[Sabrinaset]

Adrian Paul was in one of my dreams lately. I'd say THAT counts as a nightmare! :eek:

[Bo Bo]

Not exactly a nightmare, but I dreamt that I had 3 papers due and I haven't started any of em. When I woke up I had to take a moment to remember that I had nothing due whatsoever.

[Jack Zodiac]

I haven't had a dream I could remember in forever, let alone a nightmare.

[Gladiaria_Alata]

My mother thinks I used up my life-time supply of nightmares when I was a kid, I never get any now.

....Been dreamin' a lot lately though, as in every night. oO

[GeneralReadingMan]

I haven't had nightmares in the longest time but over the past few months they've been creeping up on me. They aren't things that make up bolt upright or scream out but when I wake up I do feel a little frazzled. I think it's mostly because of my lifestyle for the past few months. I've been working 8 hour days a lot lately. It's not uncommon for me to work 20 days straight, then take off one Sunday and do another 20 days straight. It's leaving me a little rundown. And I've been playing Call of Duty games lately just before bed which is a lot of killing and violence. And I've also read 4 horror novels in the past two months. Again, I've been reading these just before bed just after playing Call of Duty.

So I think all of the above has combined to give me nightmares including two this past morning.

DM Jim

Perhaps the collective consciousness of humanity is sending you a message that a great darkness is coming.

Or just too much bad sensory input before bed. one or the other.

[a. non]

Besides the constant nightmare of becoming my family, i haven't had a real nightmare in nearly 8 months. Prior to that i was on the edge of an existential meltdown, and had frequent nightmares of being murdered in a police state for being different, and dead bodies crammed into buildings. Then i started changing my views of the universe and who i really am, and the nightmares went away. Now i have mundane dreams, like dating Laura Prepon.:o

[heystacy]

Oddly enough, yes -- had a nightmare last night that I was trapped in a university library with a bunch of strangers while zombies were outside trying to get in.

I could understand the library part since I'm working on a second Masters degree in Library Science and I had class last night and it met at (you guessed it) the university library but I really don't get the walking dead aspect since I don't like horror movies and NEVER watch them nor do I like anything dealing with zombies so I don't even read zombie comic books.

Either way the dream got so intense I had to pull myself awake at 2:30 am and not let myself go back to sleep right away so I wouldn't fall back into it.

Another librarian? Cool. :cool: What area are you looking to work in. My friends and co-workers are like stay away from cataloging. LOL

[heystacy]

I've been having weird dreams. Not necessarily scary, but odd. Me and my brother fighting over stupid things.

A couple of weeks ago I took my allergy meds, and I had weird dreams that seemed to loop until I woke. :(

[Sabrinaset]

Besides the constant nightmare of becoming my family,

I, uh ... what does this mean? ... :confused:

[Dark Galaxy]

I used to have freaky (and sometimes scary) dreams all the time. Not so much lately.

I once had a dream that my husband was cheating on me with a lady who looked exactly like his mom, except with a different hair color. I was trying to confront her, but she kept white tigers as pets to protect her. But, as soon as I saw my husband (in the dream) I beat the crap out of him.:)

It was one of those dreams where I woke up still feeling enraged. Poor fella had to feel the brunt of it all day long.

[heystacy]

I used to have freaky (and sometimes scary) dreams all the time. Not so much lately.

I once had a dream that my husband was cheating on me with a lady who looked exactly like his mom, except with a different hair color. I was trying to confront her, but she kept white tigers as pets to protect her. But, as soon as I saw my husband (in the dream) I beat the crap out of him.:)

It was one of those dreams where I woke up still feeling enraged. Poor fella had to feel the brunt of it all day long.

LMAO! :eek:

[a. non]

I, uh ... what does this mean? ... :confused:

A bad joke. Short form: most everyone in my family's an asshole and treat each other like shit. I'm the odd one out because i've always been emotionally sensitive and tend to absorb hostile feelings from others. Everyday i fight racist and homophobic thoughts they carelessly emit, and i fear that one day i'll end up giving in and become as hateful as them. Hence, a nightmare.

[Kyuubi]

I had one after watching Cloverfield, which was awesome because I was also playing Grand Theft Auto 2 around that time and the nightmare was a mix of the two.

[saintsaucey]

omg I think I had one after watching Cloverfield as well. I did have a couple of weird dreams last night. One invilved me getting into a fight with the people I was trying to buy a car from and the other involved me my mo my brother and his wife driving in my mom's suv and every time she would go over a hill she would launch it into the air and the back end would come up higher than the front. the second time the car did several revolutions before landing.

[Spiffy]

Dan DiDio and Joe Quesada in Penguin suits. Not Tuxedos, but literally Penguin suits.

Both are holding lightsabers and smoking stogies. They are arguing over the rights to have a character named Captain Marvel, and its starting to get viscous. Joe gets really angry and throws his saber at Dan, but Dan ducks and it goes flying through the air and lands in my chest.

Spider-Man is standing over my shoulder saying "You could have saved me if you'd only tried harder." Superman standing next to him is saying "Son, you were a real dissapointment to me."

As I bleed out, and start to fade, I notice Calvin, of Calvin and Hobbes standing nearby, dressed in his Spaceman Spiff outfit. He's beating his stuffed tiger Hobbes with his fists and yelling "You lied to me! You told me I could be somebody!".

The last thing I see is Hobbes being eaten by a fat lady who looks a bit like pre-Jenny Craig Kirstie Alley (or maybe it's John Travolta in a fat suit) who's going on about how Xenu would have punished his ass good, so he should be happy its only her eating him.

Then blackness.

[BnL]

Maybe I'm in the minority, but I love having nightmares. I don't have them frequently enough, frankly.

I had one a while ago where I was on a college campus, and for some reason I had the ability to see and interact with a parallel dimension that was overlapping ours. It looked like something out of an MC Escher drawing, but dark and crumbling, and populated by little demons.

There was another one in which I was in a car that was driving over an extremely long bridge, suspended very high over a large body of water. The bridge was made up of several lanes that were suspended separately from one another and spaced apart, not joining as one large thoroughfare. The lanes were only slightly wider than your average sized car. There were no guard rails. And worst of all, the lanes twisted over and around one another like a big, complex braid. In some places, the lane would be at an almost 90 degree angle, which means you'd have to be traversing this deathtrap at a very high speed to avoid sliding off and into the ocean. Plus, if someone in front of you, or in a lane crossing overhead fucked up, it means YOU are probably going to be fucked too. I wasn't driving (I don't know how), so I just spent most of the time yelling variations of, "Who DESIGNED this fucking thing??"

Now that I've typed that out, there's probably lots of Freudian implications to that...

[the4thpip]

I had maybe 4 nightmares in the past 20+ years. They just kinda stopped with puberty. Guess I am lucky.

[saintsaucey]

Am I the only one who has the public nudity nightmare. Work school ect. I wonder if it has anything to do with the fact that I sleep naked. Keep in mind that I was having these dreams in like grade school.

[Stressfactor]

Another librarian? Cool. :cool: What area are you looking to work in. My friends and co-workers are like stay away from cataloging. LOL

Actually, I'm already an archivist and love that kind of work. I'm just trying to expand my horizons a bit -- someday I might want to work in a special collections department or a university archives and since most university archives often get put under the university library systems they insist you have an MLS degree to even get your foot in the door. It makes me a bit mad since it is an ARCHIVES and I already have a Masters Degree in ARCHIVES but they won't hire me because it has to be an MLS.

Either way, workin' with the old, historical stuff is what I love. Pictures, rare books, documents, manuscripts, old letters. Always fun.

(yeah, I know, I'm weird)

[LewisH]

the ones where I find myself back in school about to take a test.

I did have an interesting dream the other day in which I was helping House solve a mystery that somehow involved a mouse, a cat and a crocodile at a party. Unfortunately I woke up after catching the small albino crocodile and I'm not really sure what the mystery was.

[Jack Zodiac]

Am I the only one who has the public nudity nightmare.

That's a nightmare? :confused:

[Cam63]

I used to have freaky (and sometimes scary) dreams all the time. Not so much lately.

I once had a dream that my husband was cheating on me with a lady who looked exactly like his mom, except with a different hair color. I was trying to confront her, but she kept white tigers as pets to protect her. But, as soon as I saw my husband (in the dream) I beat the crap out of him.:)

It was one of those dreams where I woke up still feeling enraged. Poor fella had to feel the brunt of it all day long.

Every day's an adventure, eh ?

[Cam63]

A bad joke. Short form: most everyone in my family's an asshole and treat each other like shit. I'm the odd one out because i've always been emotionally sensitive and tend to absorb hostile feelings from others. Everyday i fight racist and homophobic thoughts they carelessly emit, and i fear that one day i'll end up giving in and become as hateful as them. Hence, a nightmare.

Good luck, A.

[heystacy]

Actually, I'm already an archivist and love that kind of work. I'm just trying to expand my horizons a bit -- someday I might want to work in a special collections department or a university archives and since most university archives often get put under the university library systems they insist you have an MLS degree to even get your foot in the door. It makes me a bit mad since it is an ARCHIVES and I already have a Masters Degree in ARCHIVES but they won't hire me because it has to be an MLS.

Either way, workin' with the old, historical stuff is what I love. Pictures, rare books, documents, manuscripts, old letters. Always fun.

(yeah, I know, I'm weird)

Naw, Special Collections is where it's at. All your rare and expensive books go there. There are these fashion books that are over $500.00 that people *Don't* get to see at my library because nobody is aware of them. The older, rarer books are even more exciting. :cool:

[Tyr]

Adrian Paul was in one of my dreams lately. I'd say THAT counts as a nightmare! :eek:

Only if there isn't any sword fighting involved.

Once, while I was recovering from my surgery and the drugs they had given me, I dreamed that Goddess Hella payed me a visit, that was probably the most terrifying dream I've ever had.

Since where on the subject of nightmares, has anyone ever experienced Hypnagogia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnagogic_hallucinations)?

[beetlebum]

Oddly enough, yes -- had a nightmare last night that I was trapped in a university library with a bunch of strangers while zombies were outside trying to get in.

I could understand the library part since I'm working on a second Masters degree in Library Science and I had class last night and it met at (you guessed it) the university library but I really don't get the walking dead aspect since I don't like horror movies and NEVER watch them nor do I like anything dealing with zombies so I don't even read zombie comic books.

Either way the dream got so intense I had to pull myself awake at 2:30 am and not let myself go back to sleep right away so I wouldn't fall back into it.

It sounds like an episode of Buffy. Except, it was vampires trying to invade the library, and the zombies tried to invade her house during "Dead Man's Party".

Maybe your dreams were just a reflection of your anxiety? Either way, I wish you success in all of your endeavors. :)

[Karl H]

No but some very weird dreams, like I'm still at school. When I left 10 years ago!

For example, I'm travelling now and I dreamt that when I got back I'd have to redo my A-levels. Very odd.

oh and my ex has appeared in about 5 dreams that I know of in the past month. Doh!

[beetlebum]

A bad joke. Short form: most everyone in my family's an asshole and treat each other like shit. I'm the odd one out because i've always been emotionally sensitive and tend to absorb hostile feelings from others. Everyday i fight racist and homophobic thoughts they carelessly emit, and i fear that one day i'll end up giving in and become as hateful as them. Hence, a nightmare.

Sorry a.non. ((Hugs)) If anything, I think you're totally awesome and I'm glad you're around. :)

I think you can overcome and avoid being like your asshole family. You're too awesome not too.

[beetlebum]

No but some very weird dreams, like I'm still at school. When I left 10 years ago!

For example, I'm travelling now and I dreamt that when I got back I'd have to redo my A-levels. Very odd.

oh and my ex has appeared in about 5 dreams that I know of in the past month. Doh!

Either you really miss her, or those voodoo spells are working.

If you start spazzing for no reason.....:evilsmile:

[Tobias March]

Ugh...I just woke from one. It was a bit odd. I was in a market owned by Ben Kingsley (sorry, Sir Ben Kingsley). He recognized me from a wallet left into lost n found, with a bunch of my id cards in it. Inside was a letter threatening me not to report in, written on the back of a restaurant menu from Tullough (see this is already just freaky brother!).

Oh and Seth Rogen worked there. And he invited me to a comedy night revolving around Nazi humour, which shocked everyone with in earshot. And the only thing stolen was my work ID card.

Um...then I ran into a shouting couple loading their kid into a taxi. Um I guess it was just flat out weird and not scary as such.

[shrike]

Holy crap I JUST had a dream I was going to be on Big Brother, I had zero prep time and my mom packed my bag for me. When I got there, I had no hair products, tops or underwear in the bag and I was PISSED. Oh, and my cell phone was gone. It sucked!

As a side note I have yet to see an episode of Big Brother, so I have zero clue why I went there.