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Dreams

Mersha — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 19:50:26 GMT

I tend to have crazy, intricate, in color dreams but sometimes one frightens you so much, it stays with you the day after.

This morning, I had to sit quietly upon awakening and get myself together. It was a dream of fright and stress. I have felt "off" all day because of it and can't seem to get rid of the negative vibe.

Does this happen to anyone else wherein you can't seem to shake the bad "feelings" of the dream?

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Puzzle Piece — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 19:56:12 GMT

Yes. I've strongly gone throug the deja vu as well.

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deepwaterdotter — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 20:08:21 GMT

I haven't remembered a dream in years, maybe that's a good thing?

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Kachina624 — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 20:18:59 GMT

I never have scary, vivid technicolor dreams and what I do have aren't significant enough to remember.

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LdyBugz — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 20:24:39 GMT

Yes, I have of those kind of dreams sporadically. I actually have three reoccurring dreams that drive me batty. Two of them are just annoying. One is where the electricity in the upstairs bathroom doesn't work all of a sudden, and the other is that I can't remember my high school locker combo and my class schedule! Weird!

The terrifying dream I have more often though is that I'm standing at the top of upstairs steps YELLING and SCREAMING at an intruder in the house to get out! That one always wakes me up in terror and I can't shake it out of my head for the day. Hate that one!

Hope you get some peaceful sleep tonight!

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Nightowlz — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 20:39:52 GMT

If I have dreams I don't remember them at all.

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Estellee — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 20:40:53 GMT

I remember having a few dreams I was so happy when I woke up, then again there were dreams that I wish could have gone on and on

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PA Mom-mom — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 08:17:24 GMT

@Mersha I usually get them if I wake up at 4 am or 5 am and go back to sleep for an hour. I know what's coming when I go back to sleep. I should just get up instead. On the other hand, your dreams are sometimes your subconscious speaking to your conscious . If my bad dream involves a series of impossibly frustrating events, I try to think of what is currently frustrating me and try to work through it.

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San Antonio Gal — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 20:47:02 GMT

@Mersha - I dream every night and I remember them when I first wake up. However, I usually forget them pretty quick. Every once in a while I'll remember one throughout the day.

Sorry you had a frightening one last night. Take care.

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QFashion — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 20:50:08 GMT

Yes me too Mersha, so sorry. They can be unsetteling. Try to take your mind off of it, I know that's easier said than done. Think of a good dream instead. Feel better

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kate2357 — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 21:01:32 GMT

@Mersha

Yes, I do have vivid, horrible dreams I can't shake. I attribute the vivid dreams I have to taking too much melatonin prior to bedtime. I have to limit myself to less than 5 mg of melatonin.

My dreams usually involve getting lost at some weird place and having no money, no phone and no idea how to escape. And by weird, I mean improbable locations that then morph into some other even stranger place. All in blasted color. Ugh.

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DRUMPF — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 21:03:20 GMT

The last 2 1/2 years I have had 3 horrible losses in my life. I have a very hard time getting any sleep but when I do get a few hours those hours are filled with terrible frightening dreams. AND most definitaley add to my already stress filled day.

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Mz iMac — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 21:05:21 GMT

My father kept a "dream book." I remember him telling us that certain things in dreams have meanings in real life like if you dream about fishes or one appears in your dream, it means $$$ will be coming your way. He kept that pamphlet on his bedroom dresser.

My parents bedroom was off limits to us so we never read it. Just knew it was there.

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Mersha — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 21:16:30 GMT

@DRUMPF wrote:
The last 2 1/2 years I have had 3 horrible losses in my life. I have a very hard time getting any sleep but when I do get a few hours those hours are filled with terrible frightening dreams. AND most definitaley add to my already stress filled day.

@DRUMPF I am sorry for your losses.

I understand how hard it is for sleep to come under so much stress.

I wish you sweet dreams ahead.

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ManyMeows — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 21:16:47 GMT

😴 I always dream. It doesn't matter whether I'm nodding off for a fifteen minute nap, or a full night's sleep, I dream. And I've also had some of those very unsettling dreams, and always am so grateful to wake up and realize it was only a dream. Yet that dream can often haunt you for the rest of the day. It's even worse if when you awaken, it's still dark outside.

Strange how the human mind functions.

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Mersha — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 21:20:54 GMT

@PA Mom-mom wrote:
@Mersha I usually get them if I wake up at 4 am or 5 am and go back to sleep for an hour. I know what's coming when I go back to sleep. I should just get up instead. On the other hand, your dreams are sometimes your subconscious speaking to your conscience. If my bad dream involves a series of impossibly frustrating events, I try to think of what is currently frustrating me and try to work through it.

@PA Mom-mom That is exactly what happened to me.

I woke up then dozed off again and the dream came.

It was something frightening I needed to accomplish but it made no sense and seemed absurd.

Hopefully, tonight I will be dream free or have the wonderful one where my dad is sitting on the moon smiling at me.

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SilleeMee — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 21:21:36 GMT

Ever since I started taking a magnesium supp for my bones, I've been having really deep sleep and very vivid dreams. Magnesium induces deep sleep throughout the whole night. I love it.

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ManyMeows — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 21:26:59 GMT

@Mz iMac

📖 I was once told to keep a diary of my dreams, and to immediately record the dream when I woke, because otherwise you won't remember them. In some instances I have often found that to be true, but the ones that scare the holy h*ll out of me seem to linger forever.

By the way, I never bothered to record a single one.

🤔 Perhaps if I consumed Chocolate, The Great Healer, before bedtime .......

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Icegoddess — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 21:34:37 GMT

My dreams are just too weird. However, I do have recurring themes. I should never get on an elevator in a dream. I know that, but I do it anyways.

When I was younger I was convinced I was going to die driving off a bridge, so much so that whenever possible I would drive the center line over bridges.

@SilleeMee what type of magnesium are you taking?

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SoCal Bred — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 21:34:36 GMT

I usually have dreams but I cannot remember them.....long ago I had a book on dreams and what their definitions were, very interesting, loaned it to a girlfriend and when I asked for it back months later, she could not locate it.