Re: Dreams

CalminHeart · ‎03-09-2010

I had a recurring nightmare when I was younger. It freaked me out and thought about it too often so it was always on my mind so it kept occurring. The brain does wonderful things about addressing things in our lives while we sleep....and not always in ways we like or want. Who knows why you had this dream but I wouldn't give it much credence.

AuntG · ‎03-09-2010

Write down that description - you might need to refer to it some day. The only dreams I can remember happen in the morning after DH has gone to work and I sleep for another hour.

Shanus · ‎05-17-2010

@rms1954 wrote:
Anyone ever have a dream and you can clearly see the person but you've never met them and don't know who they are?

I've had dreams about dying before, but this dream has me on edge because I can clearly see him and describe him to a tee.

A young man with some kind of instrument, something sharp and flat with a rounded edge, walked up to me and stuck it in my left leg on the inside of my knee. He was looking me right in the face with hate and he was very close. We never lost our gaze. He removed it and then stuck it in my groin on the inside and then forced it up and held it as I was dying. My heart beat was getting weaker and weaker and as I was about to take my last breath I woke up. My heart was pounding so hard.

I can't stop thinking about his face. I wish I knew who it was (or maybe not).

@rms1954 Are you thinking this is a premonition? If so, it is really scary. I'd try to jot down the details and see if any or more info develops.

chrystaltree · ‎05-10-2010

Stop thinking about it, it as nothing more than a disturbing dream and obsessing about it is making the memory of it worse. Let it go. We all have disturbing dreams and they ca last for years, a lifetime even. I had one about the devil when I was 6 or 7 years old and it's still as fresh in my mind as it was when I first had it.

Shanus · ‎05-17-2010

@chrystaltree wrote:
Stop thinking about it, it as nothing more than a disturbing dream and obsessing about it is making the memory of it worse. Let it go. We all have disturbing dreams and they ca last for years, a lifetime even. I had one about the devil when I was 6 or 7 years old and it's still as fresh in my mind as it was when I first had it.

So @chrystaltree, if you read your own post and the advice you gave the OP, you never took your own advice to let it go and stop thinking about it. Your dream about the devil is still very fresh in your mind?

BlueFinch · ‎08-31-2019

I think we can effectively allow many disturbing events (that we cannot change) to lay dormant in our brains, but they resurface with triggers.

With good coping, we can put them back in their place, until the next time. We never forget our fight, or flight moments, but we can learn to control them.

Ruminating about such things results in unnecessary stress, with the resulting wear and tear on the body. We already carry enough of that just with day-to-day living.

chrystaltree · ‎05-10-2010

@Shanus wrote:
@chrystaltree wrote:
Stop thinking about it, it as nothing more than a disturbing dream and obsessing about it is making the memory of it worse. Let it go. We all have disturbing dreams and they ca last for years, a lifetime even. I had one about the devil when I was 6 or 7 years old and it's still as fresh in my mind as it was when I first had it.

So @chrystaltree, if you read your own post and the advice you gave the OP, you never took your own advice to let it go and stop thinking about it. Your dream about the devil is still very fresh in your mind?

That's because I was 6 or 7 and smart as I was as a kid, I've learned a few things over the decades. That dream was embedded way back in my childhood. While I remember it, it's not a scary dream the way it was when I was young. But it is still a strong memory.

J Town Girl · ‎06-13-2011

Certain medications that one is on can cause nightmares. One of the medications that I take have the known side effect of causing very vivid dreams. When I spoke to my doctor he said if the nightmares become too much of a problem he can try a different med.

Since I am doing so well on it I am hesitant to try a different one. Some nights the dreams are very frightening and other nights the dreams are actually very pleasant and I hate to wake up. The other night I had a dream that we were moving to Paris. What a disappointment when I woke up. Lol!

rms1954 · ‎06-06-2019

I'm not saying it's a sign or prediction about what is to come. I don't believe dreams have anything to do with what you eat before you go to bed. I don't know why I can see this person so clearly. Oddly I was not scared. I didn't fight this person, I didn't scream, I just accepted that I was going to die. I felt no pain -- it was almost calming (the dying experience). I felt my life slipping away so when I woke, it was almost as if my heart started up. I felt my heart go from nearly no beat and jump right to beating full strength.

I don't know what any of it means or if it means anything at all. I am not dwelling on it nor am I obsessed about it. But I'm just trying to make sense of something that makes no sense. I sound looney. I just wanted to talk about it and get it out. I want to be listended to and taken seriously.

Thanks all.

Bird mama · ‎03-12-2010

@rms1954 So you know, I'm taking you very seriously. Dreams can be funny as in odd funny.

I don't necessarily look at them as predictions of the future however when I have a scary kind of dream where I am in jeopardy I will take extra care when I am out an about. I figure as long as it doesn't make me paranoid, extra care can't be a bad thing.

After my husband died, ironically on the same night that I my sister also dreamt of him (we matched down to what he was wearing in each dream), my sister had a dream that my husband was in the house and pointed to a man outside of the window who was talking to me in the front of the house. My sister said she looked out the window in her dream in the direction that my husband was pointing and my husband told my sister that the man I was talking to was a threat. My sister could describe this unknown man to a "T" and I never did figure out who the dark haired man was that was a threat. It's been years and I find myself extra careful even now with dark haired men.

I'm not making a joke.

It has to be somewhat unsettling for you to have such a clear image of a man who killed you in your dream and you don't know this guy.

There are times when you must speak, not because you are going to change the opposing side, but because if you do not speak, they have changed you.