have you ever had nightmares???

@maribea (2366)
Italy
May 31, 2007 4:26pm CST
I hate nightmares but I am often experiencing them....as it always happens, they can quite upset me..the worst are those who are about bad experiences I lived and that I relive during the nightmare..this early morning I was awaken twice by a nightmare and now, even though I am very tired because I hardly slept four hours, I am a bit scared of going to bed..so I thought I could start a discussion about nightmares..the idea is to please them by giving them a sort of popularity and fame!!!..if they are busy here, they are leaving me ..free of their presence!!! I am going to sleep smiling after having had this good idea!! a goodnight kiss to everybody!
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21 responses
• United States
2 Jun 07
I've had nightmares. In fact, i've had a lot of them. But i'm used to them. But they still come by so fast I can't even write them down in my journal, or even type them in my laptop. But sometimes my nightmares are very creepy, and I kinda see these "end of the world" nightmares, and sometimes about my family i'm trying to move away from. I keep a "Journal of Dreams and Nightmares" just in case to keep track of what I saw. But as I said, nightmares are normal to me.
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@maribea (2366)
• Italy
7 Jun 07
hope that your nightmares cannot scare you...sometimes they scare me very much...anyway..yes it may be common to have nightmares...unfortunately..let's hope to have more good dreams
• United States
31 May 07
Yes i have, sometimes i dream that i'm falling and wake up after that. Dreams or just that dreams and i don't let it freak me out the whole day driving me crazy.
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@maribea (2366)
• Italy
1 Jun 07
of course I try to forget nightmares as soon as I can but at night it can be difficult..or at least yesterday night was a bit difficult for me..but I can tell you all that I slept better..thank you to everybody!!!
@mimpi1911 (25464)
• India
1 Jun 07
hi maribea, i went through a very bad phase a fewmonths back, i am still going through it. but those were the days when it just started to get so bleak. i came down to parents' house and living with them. i can still remember those terrible nights when i just couldnot sleep. whenever i go into sleeping, i felt some man is standing in front of me and trying to touch me. it was a vague silhoutte of figure and i was so scared that i just wanted to scream out my heart, but couldnot!! all this came into my dreams.. i am still shivering as i ma sharing...it was terrible and i couldn't tell this to my mom instead i prefered sleepless nights with lights on and books. it was out of insecurity and the current breakup, i knew that but the nightmare was not in my hands!! now, hopefully, i am almost over it. still just to be cautious i keep my TV open till...sometimes all through the night. thanx dear.
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@mimpi1911 (25464)
• India
2 Jun 07
thanx maribea for your thoughtfullness.
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@maribea (2366)
• Italy
1 Jun 07
i think it is a good thing talking about what frightens us because it is a part of the healing process..it is something similar to putting them into light..maybe you have to find which is the reason you feel so uncomfortable where you sleep..if you find it, you might find a solution for the problem..if not, you can at least think about the problem and little by little it will be better..I thank you for opening your heart to me and everybody else and I hope it helped you
@Willowlady (10658)
• United States
31 May 07
I like nightmares. I read horror books so if I have a dream that would qualify for a nightmare I rather enjoy it. I know in dreams I can control things so I usually fight back and wow I seem to win. I guess it would be considered mind over matter in that case. I hope you don't have any dreams that you cannot manipulate.
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@Willowlady (10658)
• United States
1 Jun 07
It is a truth that works for you. Some people are warriors and the others somehow are support. We all have a part to play in this world. Thanks for responding to me.
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@maribea (2366)
• Italy
1 Jun 07
well I must admit I don't like either horror books or horror movies..but anyway things that I can be insensitive when reading horror things, but I am scared when they come into my dreams...unfortunately this is the truth!!!
@aidonia (4209)
• Greece
1 Jun 07
I haven't nightmares often but when I have it's too scary and i think that I have very little times nighmares make them even more scary. My husband use to joke with my sleeping.I just touch my head on the pills and I sleep.In just few minutes after I go to the bed.I suppose must fell lucky about these.I can have a terrible day or I drink a cup of coffee little before I sleep and when I go to the bed I sleep very quickly.So I learn sleep fast and have easy sleeping all the night so when I have nightmares is too hard for me. PS.1:I hope you had a good night yesterday... PS.2:Do you have any news from your translating work?
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@aidonia (4209)
• Greece
1 Jun 07
So here is my idea: Reading here helped you yesterday at your sleeping problem so as a doctor you can write at prescription for sleeping pills......your referral link for mylot.You get referrals and the patient solves him sleeping problems without even take a pill,just writing here.....
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@maribea (2366)
• Italy
1 Jun 07
wonderful idea!!! I have to think about it!!! of course I will give them the name of soem wonderful people here..like..aidonia and pola and mimpi and heavensent and maries and woodpigeon and so on...let's make a group..the anti-nightmares group!!!
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@maribea (2366)
• Italy
1 Jun 07
my dear friend..I envy you this ability!!! my sleep is always so light that I can be awaken by everything..anyway, I got used to sleep few hours and I am quite accustomed to my light sleep..the fact I hate is having nightmares..but there are things I have to work on..during the day I can concentrate on other things or Ican try to forget..or I pretend to forget..but at night my mind does as she pleases!!! anyway, yes tonight I slept well and it was a great help writing my problem here and I am sohappy to find you so numerous..and I am still waiting for my payment..let's keep fingers crossed!!!
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@haridev (36)
• India
1 Jun 07
i had many nightmares in the night and this is obvious for any individual
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@Lydia1901 (16351)
• United States
2 Jun 07
I hope you had goodnight sleep. I got one last night and I just hate it so much. It would be nice if we can only dream good dreams.
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@maribea (2366)
• Italy
7 Jun 07
as I often say...I wish I could dream about finding a gentleman at least in my dreams!!! but the fact is.either I am not a lady, or there is no gentlemen left..not only for dreams..he he
• India
1 Jun 07
I don't get nightmares, but I don't sleep early either. I tend to think a lot about things and sleep quite late. The best way I guess is to go to sleep tired. Exercising daily sure helps. That way we wont have to worry about nightmares.
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@maribea (2366)
• Italy
7 Jun 07
oh well I am always tired at night after a long day at work and my gym ...but this doesn't help me very much!!!
@maddysmommy (16230)
• United States
1 Jun 07
I don't like the nightmares if you can call them that, when you are falling. I wake up with a sweat and scared. Only last night my husband woke up all of sudden after having a strange dream/nightmare that involved my mom and me. He said that he was so angry about something that he was throwing things at me and he kept missing me. My mom came out and he started throwing things at her and hit her all over her body. He woke up thinking it was real. Now how scary is that (by the way my husband is not a violent person and hardly ever raises his voice) :)
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@maribea (2366)
• Italy
1 Jun 07
of course he is not!!! dreams are a very peculiar things and we doctors cannot sincerely say that have completely understood their nature!! unfortunately nightmares can be very scary but sometimes we have to look at our bad dreams to better understand ourselves
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• India
1 Jun 07
Yes i will get the nightmares everyday i usually seen the horror movies everyday and after i slept i will get so many dreams and i suddenly weak up and i think it is dream and i will slept!hehehehe
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@maribea (2366)
• Italy
7 Jun 07
i hate horror movies...but my nighmares sometimes seem like a horror movie!!! I'd better become a screeplay writer!!!!
@easyzheng (666)
• China
1 Jun 07
I did not have the exact kind of nightmares I guess. But I did have dreams that made me nervous, sad or stressful. I think it's all because of some unpleasant experiences in my childhood. I often saw in my dreams some people who I was eager to see in real life, but I just could not see him/her clearly though he/she was standing not far away from me, or sometimes, the person would have a veil covered on his/her face that I tried to unveil but my hand was too frail to lift up and this made me cry in the dream.
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@maribea (2366)
• Italy
1 Jun 07
yes these kind of dreams are very distressful!!! the fact is that while dreaming, each emotion is enormous..if we are happy, we are the happiest in the world..if we grieve, there is nothing that can comfort us..
@Woodpigeon (3710)
• Ireland
1 Jun 07
I hope you slept better last night. I get them from time to time, but they are usually worse if I am feverish. When I was little I used to get night terrors, which are like nightmares on steroids. I still get them if I am feverish, or if I take a certain kind of antihisitimine/decongestant which seems to lower some threshold in my brain. With nightmares I am usually too freaked out to go back to sleep, but with night terrors, the terror doesn't last long and I am usually really confused and out of it and can't quite even remember what the problem is if I am brought out of it. It's a bit like sleepwalking.
@tolyme (305)
• Argentina
1 Jun 07
yes i had some nightmares
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@maribea (2366)
• Italy
1 Jun 07
i hope they are not so numerous..I tried to do so many things..I tried listening to some music, very soft music..I tried reading my favourite book and I also tried thinking about something pleasant..mostly they work very well for me, sometimes they don't!!!
@bewd13 (3)
• Brazil
1 Jun 07
I always have nightmares with monsters like jason, freddy, and so on! Its so real!
@maribea (2366)
• Italy
1 Jun 07
never dreams monsters..not yet at least!!! but yes nightmares can be very faithfully to reality..unfortunately
• United States
3 Jun 07
yes i had one just recently after watching movie called black christmas wierd
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@polachicago (18716)
• United States
31 May 07
Our subconscious mind is playing games with us, isn’t it? I have nightmares once a while. Some of them are telling mi about the future and I don’t like it at all. Dreams come from emotional expectations during waking hours that are not fulfilled so the emotional arousal is never 'switched off.' We dream to 'complete the circuit'. The majority of nightmares intend to shock us in order to get our attention—shock therapy from our subconscious mind. When nightmares continue over a long period of time, they become destructive. Write it out. Write out the whole scenario, including what happens when you wake up, if you sleepwalk, etc. You can rewrite the nightmare and replace disturbing images with comforting images. Imagine a more pleasant ending. Talking to someone also helps….and the best is to talk to your mylot friends…:)
@maribea (2366)
• Italy
1 Jun 07
generally I try to forget nighmares unless they are frequent and talking about well known events of my life..and you are right..I decided to post this discussion here yesterday night to get rid of my bad feelings and to talk with mylot friends!!! and it helped me a lot!!!
@Shaun72 (15959)
• Palatka, Florida
7 Jun 07
I have a few times but not in awhile. I have learned not to read or watch a horror book or movie before I go to sleep or I will. I haven't in awhile. I have had sreams of drowning and of snakes that seemed so real untill I woke up.
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@anonymili (3138)
31 May 07
I have nightmares sometimes and they really freak me out at the time but later on they seem less scary. Last night I dreamt I was in a strange house with my husband and another couple (in the dream I knew them but I can't remember who they were). I was aware that we were all hiding from someone or something but didn't know who or what we were hiding from. Suddenly someone put a hood over my head and tried to suffocate/strangle me and I was calling out for my husband and I woke up in a sweat. My husband had already left for work and I was quite shaken up at the time. Later in the day I remembered that I had watched Desperate Housewives last night and one of the characters hung herself - I don't know if that's what made me dream that someone was trying to strangle me but it seemed like a completely random dream. I often try to analyse my nightmares as soon as I can after having them as if you don't think about them quite quickly after you've had them they tend to fade from memory quite quickly. Usually nightmares I have are a mixture of things that might have happened during the previous day and/or something that might be troubling me. Often when I have nightmares it's when I've been watching a serious film or something with even a slight bit of violence or horror in it. Basically I avoid horror films like the plague and if there's a scary movie, even with comedy in it that I want to watch, I'll record it and watch it during the day! The best way for me to avoid having nightmares is to do or watch something fun just before going to sleep. Doing something fun, I'll leave to your imagination LOL! Watching something fun usually means an episode of Friends, I have all 10 series on DVD and have watched them all over and over - they fail to make me laugh and cheer me up as well as help me unwind. Big hugs to you and think sweet thoughts! x
@maribea (2366)
• Italy
1 Jun 07
i think it very useful discussing with others about many subjects..for example I am often dreaming of being killed or having my parents or friends killed and this is very upsetting!!! reading your post, all the people who have nightmares like this one can feel better thinking they are not alone!!! anyway you are right..of course reading scaring books or watching scaring movies is not a good choice before going asleep..but yesterday I was just a bit upset and I was feeling too lonely or sad and so I thought I could do a good thing and write my bad experience here..this helped me expressing my fear or concern and I felt a little better..it was just like talking to a friend..to each friend I have here..and I hope this discussion was of help for somebody else, too
@tess1960 (2385)
• United States
31 May 07
Good luck to you, I hope this works for you. I call my nightmares, "night terrors" as they are quite real to me and my hubby says I will scream out and be terrified when I waske or he wakes me becasue I am screaming. Mine are reliving past events also or events that I greatly fear happening. I have PTSD, undiagnosed, but I know this is in me. Through therapy I learned that bad past life events, can revisit us unannounced and unexpected. I will usually take a sleeping pill the next night as then they (the dreams or terror) cannot enter. And ususally it is needed as sometimes I will lay awake aftr as you get afraid to sleep. Sometimes though these night terrors will happen and the next morning I don't remember any of it or even screaming out. I hope yours are not this bad. Sweet dreams!!
@maribea (2366)
• Italy
1 Jun 07
unfortunately sometimes mine are very bad and as a doctor and a person I can quite understand you|||I hope your disease is getting better little by little and thanks for the encouragement..I need sweet dreams!!!
• Philippines
6 Jun 07
yes sometimes.. like one night i just woke panting beacause of a bad dream. really bad dream
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