Posted by Heather... at netcache-2001.public.lawson.webtv.net on February 27, 2003 at 17:03:56:
In Reply to: One question Poll posted by Matt Unwin on February 27, 2003 at 10:26:03:
I have nightmares prety much everytime i sleep form the mundane to the ones so intense i wake up with a migraine, out of breath and crying.
Mine have recurring themes:
Battling demonic creatures (no rubber pop monsters for me)
This is because, i feel, my faith. IN these dreams i am challenged by these creatures telling me i dont really believe and i am standing my ground in my faith in God/Christ (i am a (liberal) Christian) in the end the demon always does things like their face melts or some other kind of gross stuff
Being in a car out in the open with no shelter when i see a tornado drop down coming towards me, usually multiple tornados.
My husband cheating on me and being cold and mean to me. Which is so not like he really is. This may not seem like anightmare, but the sense betrayal and deep pain is so intense and real i stay somewhat shaken for sometime after waking.
Rape. Ijust had a dream about being raped earlier int he week, involving a situation where i discovered a secret group of "upstanding young men" who invited women to formal events then the big suprise of the evening was they were date raped.
My punishment was being forced to endure this ritual, while my husband did not know where i was or how to help me.
strangely the way the rapist is chosen for the victim in this dream was a trivia contest under the ruse you are playing for a private "date", when in reality you were taken back to a place with little tiny doorless rooms in which you were sexually assualted in full view of the others.
Being chased, someone trying to kill me, and falling. When i was a child i would dream of falling alot and wake with a actual physical bounce on the bed.
I also slept walk as a child, until at 11, my mother stopped me in the middle of the night with the keys in the deadbolt about to go outside.
I did not sleep walk again after that, i guess i was so freaked out it made my brain subconsiously make sure i never did.
Being in an out of control car. worst one was when i dreamt i went off a bridge in Arkansas that always kinda spooked me when crossing it because it just did not seem to be "right" construction wise. In this dream i went off the bridge into the water and actually drowned in the dream, i woke up choking for air. I gues i busted the myth about dying in dreams huh?
Dreams of killing or hurting badly those small minded ppl who tormented me in school growing up because i was fat. This freaks me out. I have had these dreams since i left school at 14 (later got my GED and a year of college), revenge on those who made every day in school a living hell for me. Sometimes it has been ppl who have really just trashed me as an adult like the guy who tried to poison my husband and everyone we mutually knew against me because he was jealous of the closeness i had with my husband and how it effected their friendship once we were married. I have alot of bad dreams about him because he actually did some pretty sick and phsyco stuff to me and my husbnad in real life.
I often have dreams about losing my cats hat upset me alot.
I have to mention, i do not sleep well, my sleep is so messed up, i take it where i can, sporadicly during the day/ I swear my brain does not sleep because i am always having intense dreams when i am asleep.
Believe it or not it was far worse before i started taking Paxil for ocd, anxiety, depression and social phobia. (all wrapped up in a nice litle package called Borderline Personality Disorder)
I think there is a direcrt relationship between my IQ (in the 140s) and both my nightmares and above disorder.I think the old addage about ther being a fine line between genius and insanity is very true.
I am not calling myself a genius, i spell like crap and type as bad, and my skills with math and numbers suck big time. i do not retain numbers at all. My husband however is able to remember numbers after only hearing them or seeing them once forever. So he is the number keeper of the house lol