Nightmares as an adult?

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Last night was the first night in about 20 years that I had a nightmare. I don't normally remember my dreams, and even this I only remember 1 specific part of - a spider.

It scurried across the floor as spiders do, then stopped and sat there. Then its body opened up like eyelids to reveal a human-like eyeball which just stared back at me. It didn't attack me or anything, it was just freaky. Next thing I know I'm sat bolt upright in bed pouring with sweat.

Does anyone else still have the odd weird/freaky dream which wakes you up?
 
Yes. The last one I had was probably about a year ago now though. I was running home to my parents old house while being chased by some wolf type creatures. As I got to the front door it wouldn't open and just as I was about to get eaten I woke up gripping the head board and sweating.
 
Can only remember one since i was a kid. Dreamt a graboid like like creature was burrowing through my bedroom wall, woke up in suck a state I was completely paralyzed for about 10 seconds.
 
jsmoke said:
Probably about five a year, probably due to stress. You been watching movies or reading about spiders?
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I fell asleep watching The Expendables 2... don't think there's any spider-related bits in that which got into my subconscious :)

Could be stress related I suppose as there's been lots of little things which have gone wrong in the last few weeks. I haven't felt particularly stressed though.
 
I had one a couple of weeks ago. I'm sure it was to do with tarantulas. I just sat bolt upright in bed, smacked my arm against the wall and yelled "AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGHHHHH!" at the top of my voice. Then burst into hysterical laughter when I realised what was happening.
 
I get nightmares of 2 subject matters. 1st type is related to Synaesthesia (coloured-hearing) and fear of the dark. I get this type a few times a year. 2nd type is usually about fights but I'm never involved in the fight, just watching it in 3rd person. I get this type once every few years. Aged 34 here.
 
Didn't realise stress causes them, just thought it was random.

I know its a old wives tale but I have had nightmares after eating cheese, and its very rare I have a nightmare.

Come to think of it I did have lots of nightmares as a child!
 
I have them a few times a year

Had an awful lot when my gran died a few years ago. Can't remember what they were about, but I would wake up or the OH would wake me up cause I was sobbing my heart out :(

Other than that, recently I keep talking in my sleep, begging people not to leave me OR begging something to stop doing something - no idea what or who. Its very odd and not nice...

I have all the sads now thinking about them :(

Wish I never opened the thread.... :( :(


e:....i need a hug!
 
I haven't had a nightmare since I was a kid. Somewhere along the line I developed a part of my 'brain' that never really sleeps. As odd as it may sound, it's like their is a small part of me (and it feels like it is at the top right and rear part of my brain - for all the sense that makes) that is aware when I'm dreaming. Thus, if I start to have a bad dream I simply wake myself up. The converse is true if I'm having a VERY good dream. Weird but damned useful. I swear, if I could only work out how this came about I'd let everyone know. :)
 
With playing War-z and watching zombie films recently ive had endless nightmares about surviving a zombie apocalypse.. think i should hold off on the zombie games for a while..
 
If I nap or go to sleep less than 8 hours after waking up, I am almost guaranteed a complex, multilayered nightmare which is extremely hard to wake up from.
 
yes, I suffer with night terrors (well thats the medical name apparantly)

At times it gets to the point where I dread going to sleep, a few times I've basically stayed awake through nights to the point I physically cant stay awake anymore.

Luckily I dont often remember the dreams but the waking up part scares my wife - I'll sit bolt upright in bed, heart pounding feeling like its going to explode or in a blind rage, or utterly convinved the ceiling is collapsing, someone has broken into the house..

On the funny (?) and according to my wife I'll have a full blown argument with "someone" or I'll have a conversation with her and then she'll realise I'm not actually awake.

"To sleep, perchance to dream; aye there's the rub"

No...unlike Hamlet i'm not talking about suicidal thoughts but its an interesting quote that sums sleep up for me.

I dread dreaming when I sleep.
 
I think the main reason something like that is scary is because you don't know what might happen next. Even though its constructed by your own brain!

Funny how good the brain is at scaring it's self :D

I'd hate to talk in my sleep... some of the sick twisted crap I might come out with...
 
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