Crazy dreams and possible meanings

[Turtle]

Somebody just told me about this book the other day. She said it helped a lot!

Sleep Paralysis: A Guide to Hypnagogic Visions and Visitors of the Night by Ryan Hurd

[Ciaran]

Originally Posted by Turtle

Somebody just told me about this book the other day. She said it helped a lot!

Sleep Paralysis: A Guide to Hypnagogic Visions and Visitors of the Night by Ryan Hurd

It really can be incredibly frightening. I try to understand it - in particular, what is it about some of us that causes this to happen.

For me, the presence that I feel in the room is always demonic. As a Catholic, I'm never certain what of these experiences can be partly explained in a rational, medical sense and what cannot.

[girl_dee]

there is a theory that you dream about what you want the most, and what you fear the most.

[ruffryder]

Originally Posted by Cajun_dee

there is a theory that you dream about what you want the most, and what you fear the most.

Sex ! bahahaha..

Seriously, what I used to dream about a lot was that I was in high school and I kept forgetting my combination to my locker or I was running late to class. Also, trying to out run a skunk and having to jump over a chain link fence. LOL!

Also dreams that woke me up of just falling.. I never knew where I was falling or if I hit bottom because I would just wake up in the middle of the fall.

[Rockinonahigh]

Over the years I have had very vivid dreams,so much that I can smell,taste and feel whats going on and where I am.In my dreams often im on a dry lonely place searching for who knows what,in this journey I see things I cant reach,sounds I should hear but cant...then Bam right in the middle of it all im feelin all I hadnt before ...then its all gone again.In the end part I just sit and wonder what,when and why I feel like i'v run a long way and have more to go.
When I wake up im all sweaty,the bed is a mess and I feel like I have run till I couldnt any more..maybe I did.I dont have this one so much now but I really dont like it when I do.

[girl_dee]

Lucid dreams is dreaming and being aware that we are dreaming. Supposedly in the minutes of falling asleep and wake is when most lucud dreams occur.

I had a few books on dreams but i left them behind but i remember reading that dreams we remember the most are ones we should pay attention to.

[Ciaran]

Originally Posted by June

Ciaran -- I've been meaning to ask you about the sleep paralysis, you had mentioned it to me before.

I had something like that happen a couple of months ago, I was napping in the middle of the day, kind of laying on my side when I felt like someone was leaning over me, pressing down with their upper body so I couldn't move. I was trying to call out for help, but of course, no sound would come out, it felt very real to me, like I was awake and could feel the pressure acutely.

Is that similar to what you have experienced? Or does yours not manifest with a "being" pressing down on you?

June - yes, that very definitely sounds like sleep paralysis to me and is often very similar to what I would experience. I usually feel like I am being held down and, although I struggle, I just cannot move. I assume that this is where the term "paralysis" comes from. I do try to call out but, again, am unable to.

Of course, I never see the person holding me down, other than a dark shadow. Occasionally, I do not have the "held down" feeling but still feel a sinister presence in the room and am unable to move. All-in-all, it can be very frightening as it all seems so real and, in at least some senses, it is all too real.

I'm interested in sleep paralysis and trying to understand why I suffer from it, esp. as it seems much more prevalent in some cultures than in others and, also, that the person / force that people belive is holding them down differs, presumably depending upon their own belief system - probably why I always assume / perceive a demonic presence whereas it may be different to those with other beliefs.

[deedarino]

We did a little research on this in one of my psych classes...our bodies are immobilized during REM sleep. In cases of sleep paralysis, the person somehow is awakened before the end of the process...this doesn't give your body a chance to "come to" before you do. Often you are still not all the way out of it so you can experience visions or nightmares. Your eyes can see a chair in the corner but your brain isn't registering it as a chair...it can become a monster. If you are aware of the feeling of something on your chest, you can believe that someone is there holding you down. It is frightening.

Sleep paralysis can be caused by stress and can be a symptom of narcolepsy.

[girl_dee]

Wow lots of good stuff here, i have major issues around dreams/nightmares but it's nice to know i am not the only one.

[morningstar55]

i have a lot of dreams which there's always horses.
sometimes i have dreams where my truck is a issue and driving wierd roads... i know that stems from my job.......
i remember some dreams i had like yrs ago...
and sometimes i have dreams where when i wake up ......... i know i had one about something but cant remember it ....

not to long ago..... i had a dream where i was above the earth and looking for this place in space where i sleep at .. and couldnt remember how to get there. ......... now that has stuck in my mind and was soo vivid.
I have no idea what that was about.

btw ... nice thread

[Ginger]

I dreamed I lived in a studio apartment with a lover and my parents.

I got up to make sure the doors were locked, and saw a man chasing another man in the street and yelling, "You have to love me!" I thought to myself, that gay couple is having a fight.

I continued locking the doors, and had a hard time with one of them. I moved on to the next door, and suddenly, the two guys from outside, plus a woman holding a burning pan of food, were standing in the apartment with me.

I sensed that they were extremely dangerous. "You have to get out," I said, and the woman said, "We just want to talk with you about something." I knew they planned to kill me and I yelled for my father.

I woke up yelling, "Dad!" I was so shaken, I couldn't remember where I lived. I thought the bedroom was the whole apartment. I couldn't remember who I lived with. My heart was pounding for a long time.

It's the worst dream I've had since college. I felt really anxious the next day.

My dad, in real life, is very sick and just had a stroke, but he's not in imminent danger of dying.

I think though, that as we lose our parents in middle age, the cushion we thought we were long over, is suddenly scary to lose.

[Tuff Stuff]

Originally Posted by T-Rex

Ciaran -- I've been meaning to ask you about the sleep paralysis, you had mentioned it to me before.

I had something like that happen a couple of months ago, I was napping in the middle of the day, kind of laying on my side when I felt like someone was leaning over me, pressing down with their upper body so I couldn't move. I was trying to call out for help, but of course, no sound would come out, it felt very real to me, like I was awake and could feel the pressure acutely.

Is that similar to what you have experienced? Or does yours not manifest with a "being" pressing down on you?

When this first happen to me I had to slap myself to make sure I wasn't going crazy.I woke up feeling someone or something laying on top of me. Happen every night for one week and each time this entity woke me up it felt to me less and less weight. Like the first time I felt like its "whole body" on me and buy the fifth night it felt like only its top upper torso pressing down on me.It was not sexual in any way, that's how I took it,but it wanted something.It felt like a nightmare I could not wake up from, truly a scary experience.It came back a few more times and I took some drastic measures and finally succeeded driving this being out of my life.

I gave more detail about this to people who study the paranormal and was told a succubus had made contact with me.I am not a sis male but I do have strong male tendencies.I also believe in the native American two-spirit and this thing whatever it was simply mistook me for a man. Can't say it be the first time I was identified that way..in this world and the spirit world.

[girl_dee]

So last night I had this crazy dream that I was at an amusement park. There was this huge water ride which was so high up that people have to be lifted up by crane to get to the top. I wanted to ride this thing so badly that I stood in line forever in the heat and just when it was my turn they told me the ride was closed.


According to my dream dictionary amusement parks indicate I need to relax.

[Teddybear]

I don't remember my dreams except when it involves a death. Last year I had a dream and sure as chit within 2 months my dad had passed. I had a dream that I found my mom passed. I live with her and this is the one thing I really worry about.

I hope it is just fear invading my unconscious mind. Only time will tell

[girl_dee]

Originally Posted by Teddybear

I don't remember my dreams except when it involves a death. Last year I had a dream and sure as chit within 2 months my dad had passed. I had a dream that I found my mom passed. I live with her and this is the one thing I really worry about.

I hope it is just fear invading my unconscious mind. Only time will tell

they say you dream about what you want the most, and what you fear the most.

[Tuff Stuff]

Originally Posted by girl_dee

they say you dream about what you want the most, and what you fear the most.

That may hold some truth.The other night I dreamt of someone's screen name (from this site) and went looking for her in my dream.In my dream I saw a row of houses and felt she was inside one of these homes but which one? I just kept thinking her screen name.
I didn't dare call out her name(screen name) because,well,she scares me.