Nightmares!

Philippines
August 15, 2011 7:39am CST
Having nightmares at night is not a very nice indication. Nightmares could lead us to death especially if we could not switch the bottom of waking up. Some nightmares are cause by stress, some are from over eating and many other factors of our day to day living... Have you experience being drowned, killed or chased? I would like to hear some of your experiences.
5 responses
@nytrisco (567)
• Philippines
20 Aug 11
Nightmares for me indicates that something is wrong or bothering me, or maybe I have a big problem that I cannot resolve for a while. Sometimes, it will just come by all of a sudden and all I do is to analyze that I am currently dreaming or inside a nightmare and I have to wake myself up. My biggest nightmare since I was a kid up until now is the sky is falling down on me, it's like the clouds will turn into those Roman round walls or foundations (like what you see on Roman buildings or structures) and will fall on top of me. So I need to run as fast as I could. Funny nightmare that I had was a giant chocolate mousse cake is chasing me and is trying to eat me, since it was a nightmare for me I ran and loose his tail.
@nytrisco (567)
• Philippines
22 Aug 11
I do believe that dream are extension of our experiences in the future. Believe it or not, I some times dream of what will happen to me in the future. Like passing the board exam, taking this kind of path, etc. Haha! So that means, I am craving for a chocolate mousse cake? Though I do love chocolate cakes. Funny one! =)
• Philippines
21 Aug 11
I have read an article that dreams are extension of our experiences. Sometimes, the things we don't want to happen or see will be unveil in our very own dreams... I can still remember what my grandmother always say to me regarding dreaming of foods. She said that if we dreams about foods it means we are hungry or we are craving for food. Hahaha... But i don't really know if what my grandmom said is true.. :)
• Philippines
27 Aug 11
So you mean like a dejavu thing? Well, slightly I agree with you regarding the dejavu thing because i have some dreams too that weird for a moment, then it will repeat the next days, i think 3 consecutive days. Then the next months or the next year, the dream will somehow have the resemblance with what have happen to me. It's weird but I'll just at it. Though i don't really take it very seriously, i am considering some of it's details and i will just think of it as a warning of what will going to happen to me...:)
@zoey7879 (3092)
• United States
16 Aug 11
Not so much as I used to. I used to have nightmares of being chased by two men in business suits, on a regular basis.... Through the familiar stairwells of a grande house that I used to live in, the stairway into my grandparents house, and finally into the attic of my own home where the only choices that I had were to hide and pray that I wasnt found... or Peter Pan out of the window to the ground three stories below. I havent had that dream in a few years now, but a medication that I need to take... if I take it two or three days in a row it causes some pretty disturbing and grusome nightmares. They have been disturbing enough that I've went as long as 5 days without sleeping from being frightened by them and even though I am supposed to take my medication nightly, I refuse to take it until it becomes an issue.. as I dont want to be haunted by such things!
@zoey7879 (3092)
• United States
18 Aug 11
Hydroxyzine hydrochloride, which is a generic name for Atarax and Vistaril.
@jaiho2009 (39142)
• Philippines
15 Aug 11
I had nightmares before, and I can't remember when was the last time,but I know that was really scary. So scary that we never want to sleep again or close our eyes. Usually it is due to some bad experience or due imagination -too much thinking of bad things that caused nightmares. Just pray and asks the Lord's help to have a good night sleep then. have a good day jaiho®
• Philippines
16 Aug 11
Bad experiences, stress and too much imagination brings about nightmares that makes us feel scared, anxious, or upset. When we wake up after nightmares seldom could we sleep immediately, so we do things/rituals to make us calm again and be able to go back sleeping. Just like what I'm doing when i wake up after a nightmare, i immediately pray and ask GOD to clear my thought - to be able to rest and sleep again calmly. Sometimes, i hold the rosary and sleep with the BIBLE beside me to make me feel at ease and comfortable.
@koperty3 (1876)
15 Aug 11
I had terrible nightmares last night. My partner told me that I was screaming so my dreams were pretty dramatic I think because I don't remember them well but I remember the feeling that my heart will jump out from my chest. I think we have nightmares while we are under big stress which I'm at the moment. I woke up more tired than I was getting to sleep last night.
• Philippines
15 Aug 11
That's pretty tough one. aside from screaming what else did your husband told you about last night? Reading your comment made me remember the time I've experienced it. The dream was I'm being watched by a man who's holding this big knife while I'm asleep.. The dream felt very real for me. I can see myself in bed lying and asleep. Even though i command myself to wake up, i can't. I can't even move my body no matter how hard i tried. My heart is pumping so fast and thoughts in my head shouts for help. It just happened that i was sleeping with my friends, if it weren't with my friends noticing me moaning and have this difficulty breathing, i will never be here now. When i wake up that time, i was sweating and I started crying in front of my friends.
@koperty3 (1876)
15 Aug 11
My nightmare always seams so real. And I feel so tired when I wake up. It's just horrible. I think till I will not have peace in my life I will always experience this.
• Philippines
16 Aug 11
Stress and anxiety are the most common causes of nightmares. And in some cases, major life events that have occurred before the nightmare. Based on the article I've read, talking about what is in our mind can help alleviate having nightmares. It could unload the things that's bugging in our mind before resting at night. It could also at least lighten us up and give us peace of mind for awhile.
15 Aug 11
I had a strange dream last night that I was being chased by ghosts. Totally weird dream it really was. In the dream I was working in a hotel as a cleaner and 2 ghosts kept following me and my fellow workers while we cleaned the hotel rooms. They looked like realy people but they put their hand through me and I felt nothing. This is just in the dream of course. I've been, in real life, working in old old buildings and my fellow workers have related stories of ghosts they've seen while working - if this is true or not I don't know! I've been drinking loads of coffee, been very stressed and eating lots of cheese so I think one of these factors or a mix of them is behind being chased like this. Scary scary dreams but I do wake up.
• Philippines
16 Aug 11
Early this morning, I've read an article about nightmares when i was browsing the net. The article mentioned that nightmares brings out strong feelings of fear, terror, or distress. And it also mentioned that anxiety and stress are the most common cause of it. Eating just before going to bed,drinking caffeinated beverages, raises the body's metabolism and brain activity making us much vulnerable of nightmares. In what you have said, i think one factor that triggered your nightmare are the ghost stories you heard from your workplace.
16 Aug 11
It probably was the ghost stories and the fact that one of my fellow workers is more scary than any ghost could ever be!
• Philippines
16 Aug 11
Hahaha... Really? Are you saying that to make fun of your co-worker? Or literally, your co-worker is like a supernatural being wondering the world? :)