What was the last nightmare you had?

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I rarely dream anymore, and when I do it's even less likely to be pleasant. I haven't had a genuinely happy dream in years, the kinds where you wake up an wish that you were still asleep. Not to be confused with waking up and wish you were asleep because your life is a misery, my heart goes out to people who live like that.

The last nightmare I had I dreamed I was in my home in a zombie apocalypse, since I watch too many zombies movies/shows and I love zombie games, and all the people I cared about were there, and we were hiding away in my home, trying to prevent zombies from detecting us and breaking in, and we were looking through our home for junk to craft items with and I went into a room and it turned into a tunnel that isn't normally connected to our home, and it lead to a completely different place outdoors, and I suddenly thought how I needed to find someone I cared about, so I went looking for them, encountered zombies with a huge fear I actually felt and didn't just imagine I felt, and the fear woke me up.

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Originally posted by permanent name:

Originally posted by Cloverleaf:

I don't personally believe that dreams are something tangible that can be interpreted as a reflection of reality, if that's what you're trying to infer,

I think this is the very essence of dreams and why we have them.

but I do recognise that the subconscious mind does tend to take bits and pieces of things we know and try to glue them together in a fractured way to piece together real things in dreams, even if they are completely non-sensible. Dreams, most of the time, mean nothing in regards to real life and the events that happen in it. But sometimes real things show up in dreams, even if completely altered, and sometimes our moods can help to cause nightmares in the first place.

I find a distinct difference between meaningless dreams and the ones which are a result of something being communicated between my conscious mind and my brain.

Generally speaking the meaningless ones are completely forgettable, whereas the ones which are clearly meant to communicate something tend to stick.

I assume this varies from person to person.

So it either means nothing, or it means something, which is why I asked. So, no, I didn't assume anything.

I think you might be reading into my hostile tone, which I didn't mean to direct at you.

Rather, I find the established order's decision to interpret dreams as meaningless and to popularize this interpretation as a medical fact to be both self-serving and borne out of ill will.

The sheer volume of intentional and well-catalogued attempts to subconsciously manipulate people must necessarily put the machinations of the subconscious mind, or dreams, at odds with the intent behind such practices.

Thus why so much effort goes into framing them as meaningless, often through the use of circular and contradictory logic.

You admitted to having frequent violent nightmares, which is odd. I've had dreams of my teeth being ripped out because of a fear of losing my teeth, but other than that emotion and what causes it the nightmares aren't based in reality at all. I still don't frequently have violent nightmares, which is the thing.

It used to be that if I didn't brush my teeth I'd have nightmares about them crumbling, most likely due to the physical sensation of plaque crumbling off of my teeth as I ground them.

In contrast this was a dream about social relationships and circumstances, which are a lot more complex than the 'dreams are junk data' interpretation ought to support.

Edit: I guess it being a nightmare is a good sign, since if it was something you personally enjoyed you could either be someone severely abused or someone hiding a darker nature. But if you enjoyed it you wouldn't feel fear and would likely not view it as a nightmare and more a dream.

I felt like my friends were being manipulated into attacking me, and this was the basis of the nightmare.

I have pleasant and unpleasant dreams, but nightmares always have a distinct aura of darkness around them. Even when they're about happy things.

To reflect reality? I don't think so. Most dream aspects don't make sense and tend to shift reality. At most there are just aspects from real life you recognise sometimes, but most of my nightmares don't make sense, and have something happening that has never truly happened, or is outright not possible. All dreams are "meaningless", there is no structure to them, it's randomised emotions and imagery loosely thrown together in a surreal way. If you want science behind it there is none. There is no genuine explanation for why dreams/nightmares occur, how they're formed, or why we only sometimes get them.

I more have a fear of losing my teeth. Like when I get older and my teeth fall out whether I've taken care of them or not, or if I were to get in a car accident and my teeth get knocked out because my mouth/face is hit. You never truly know what could happen.

What hostile tone? I didn't take anything you said personally and I wasn't trying to give you attitude, either.

The "established order?" Do you mean the government? If you do that isn't how I would expect most people to word it. I don't think dreams are seen as "meaningless" because of misinformation and ill-will rather than a lack of information about the brain to have any true idea of where dreams come from or how they're made in the first place. If you know something I don't, than a link would be nice.

You're talking about the media, or the government? You'd have to be more specific in regards to exactly what you're referring to in regards to "manipulations", or which manipulations, specifically, that you're referring to. If you're reading information from a news site than you'd have to make sure their information is correct.

How do I explain what I said more clearly? I don't know. If you were having violent thoughts, and it translated to you having violent dreams, that would make sense to me. If you weren't having violent thoughts, but have an odd amount of violent nightmares, then I'm simply curious over why. I wasn't assuming you were having violent thoughts, but you named several violent nightmares and I was curious why yours were more frequent than other people seemed to be having. You said I was assuming you were having violent thoughts, but I wasn't assuming, which was why I asked. Because I don't know why. I wasn't basing the question off of anything, I just had no other explanation. Not all assumptions are bad.

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Originally posted by GageTheSpartan:

Originally posted by Cloverleaf:

That would be awful, I would have likely woken up the same way.

It is awful. I was sad and scared for a long while.

I believe you, it's not easy to reflect on the loss of a loved one, even if it hasn't actually happened.

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Originally posted by Walach:

I awoke in the middle of the night. I heard the sound of sloshing, and the cracking of bone. With a trembling hand, I reached for the light. It didn't turn on, the electricity was out. I stood up, and tried to look around the dark room. I was at my grandparents, they are both dead, and I haven't been in their house for years. I still remember most of it though.

The sound echoed from outside the door. Being smart, I sneaked closer, and turned the doorknob. The sound increased, and I turned my head toward the source. The moon lit up the end of the corridor. Slowly, I advanced. I entered into the living room where I sat my eyes on the silhouettes of two people turning their limbs in unnatural ways. I couldn't see clearly what was happening, but I still knew what caused the noise. It was their bodies being torn as they twisted into a nightmarish monster. Both of them turned their attention toward me, and I awoke in my bed.

Again. :P

This sounds like a story you wrote, and it makes me think it could be one of those stories submitted to the "one line horror" kind of contest. Very well written, if anything. Although... what if it's just your grandparents and they have arthritis? That wouldn't make them monsters!

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Originally posted by Sergio:

Months ago. My mother dismembered in a cupboard, I woke up horrible.

Not sure if English is your first language or not, but the way you worded that made me chuckle. I'm also noticing an odd pattern of people having mostly violent nightmares.

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Originally posted by Zef Davenport:

Originally posted by Cloverleaf:

Almost sounds like a shattered memory, although you are on Steam, so, maybe it's the games?

No, the dreams I have about games or any media I watch/read usually end up in me being all like "what the fu-" and then the dream ends, mostly because I recognize they're something I'm watching/reading.

But you may be onto something with the shattered memory thing.... I did have almost full amnesia at the age of 16 after all.

Originally posted by Cloverleaf:

That's funny, most of my dreams are me having no control. I did know someone once who told me they had a dream like this once, where they thought "I'm going to do _____" and then did so. I saw someone else commenting on here this is what a Lucid Dream (LD for short) is, I didn't even know what a lucid dream was so I had no idea. I thought it was something like those people who think they have sleep paralysis or disassociate when they're half asleep so they think they're having an out of body experience.

I've had lucid dreams many times, and most of those times I would use my dream powers to turn the dream into whatever I wanted.

I mostly tried to fly. It's harder than it looks, I had to concentrate to stay airborn.
The problem with those is that you're kind of using energy on them, so you wake up tired.

That almost sounds like trauma, I would suggest talking to someone more professionally suited for that. I thought trauma was more situational amnesia in regards to trauma, and that most trauma exhibits more as emotional issues, fear, avoidance, anger, aggression, etc.. I always thought the amnesia part was just movie exaggeration, similar to how schizophrenia was portrayed as DID for years. Not trying to say you don't have it, since I wouldn't know what you've been through, just that times I've heard of it were someone blowing up out of nowhere because of something that reminded them of their trauma and that I always found losing your memory part entirely hard to believe.

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Originally posted by ⛧Coeur du diable⛧:

I had a dream of a corpse fall'n to bits. Then I woke up and the nightmare was me. -anastasia

Uh... okay?

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Originally posted by Li77lehorn:

Originally posted by Autamor:

I think my last nightmare was of me being made of glass and afraid to itch my face because I was going to break if I did. Then people close to me started teasing me and threatening to scratch me to make indelible marks until parts of my feet, like my toes and heels, started cracking. I was afraid to do anything about it because I was afraid of shattering.
I think I woke up after that.

Nice one, that reminds me of a dream I forgot. Where I turned myself invisible using a technique like that.

" 9th Jan 2010

I dreamt I was waiting in a line for as amusement park ride. I was just waiting with my son who was pointing to the ride and saying how cool it will be. So I bent down a little to look at him closely and I said "watch this" and then I made myself turn into crystal. Starting at my hands and feet so that the separate crystal pieces grew one over the other and ending in the centre of me to cover me fully. It only took a few seconds and then I turned the crystal into glass by just thinking about it. Which made me go fully invisible. "

Why does it look like you're quoting something? Otherwise that's kind of interesting.

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Originally posted by Samwise:

I was chased by a monster, which had lizard like upper body, horse legs as legs, and massive angry dog head. It caught me and strangled ♥♥♥♥ out of me and started forcing spaghetti in my throat. I woke up and noticed my underwear rubber band was gone.

That's odd, maybe you ate your pillow.

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Originally posted by GageTheSpartan:

It is awful. I was sad and scared for a long while.

Originally posted by Aguker:

nothing too violent or sad, but it still scared me enough to wake up and go check on him...

i think these things and "back in school" etc fit the bill of 'nightmare' better than any chased-by-monster or such.
the latter feel more like entertainment imo since that is basically what they are rooted in.
but the ones that feel actually real (as in "could actually happen", even if unlikely) can be quite disturbing and might even leave you doubting your memories/senses a bit.

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Originally posted by Cloverleaf:

Originally posted by Li77lehorn:

Nice one, that reminds me of a dream I forgot. Where I turned myself invisible using a technique like that.

" 9th Jan 2010

I dreamt I was waiting in a line for as amusement park ride. I was just waiting with my son who was pointing to the ride and saying how cool it will be. So I bent down a little to look at him closely and I said "watch this" and then I made myself turn into crystal. Starting at my hands and feet so that the separate crystal pieces grew one over the other and ending in the centre of me to cover me fully. It only took a few seconds and then I turned the crystal into glass by just thinking about it. Which made me go fully invisible. "

Why does it look like you're quoting something? Otherwise that's kind of interesting.

It's a quote from my dream journal. I looked up glass. I do edit them to keep my dreams shorter when I type them here now at the moment because I don't want to pay for microsoft word in order to copy/paste. (you never had to pay before : \ *You should read my glass angel dream lol

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I sleep once like every five nights

So I don't really get nightmares....I get flashbacks constantly. Lovely no cure for ptsd. So it's like constant nightmares that happen in front of my face, which prevents me from sleeping.

So when I sleep after days and days, it's such deep sleep that it's just blackness.

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Nah you're being weird. Seeya.

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Originally posted by permanent name:

Nah you're being weird. Seeya.

Ok bye *friendly wave*

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I also have nightmares(?) where I've killed my own brother. I despise him with every fiber of my being so that's probably why, but it's still not good, is it?

Sometimes it's not killing him though, sometimes it's just beating the ♥♥♥♥ out of him and really screwing him up, leaving him hospitalized.

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That someone stole my pc.