[Help] I hate my dreams Updates to this post /post/181582-i-hate-my-dreams Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:11:17 +0100 Reply from annetteholme /post/181582-i-hate-my-dreams#reply-4997116 Wonderful writing. I have similar dreams. I’ve always had them, but I now think my blood pressure and cholesteral meds are making them worse. Much to the dismay of my kids, I’m eliminating them one at a time to find the culprit. I know that Trazadone is one.

]]> annetteholme Fri, 08 May 2009 10:43:33 +0100 Reply from Kanabi /post/181582-i-hate-my-dreams#reply-4021708 i know how you feel about those dreams. They’re so scary, but you find yourself wanting to go back to them.
I once had a dream about my ex, who i hated, and we were back together, and it actually scared me so bad that i wanted to go back when I woke up, when I did, he was pleading with me to forgive him…since then, I’ve dreamt about him everynight until one day I did. they stopped then.
Dreams are basically just a part of your subconcious bringing forth issues weighing on your mind so much that you dont even realize until you close you eyes and let your thoughts flow. Don’t let your dreams control you. Write them down and try to make connections to them. Good luck and sleep well

]]> Kanabi Mon, 28 Jul 2008 02:44:05 +0100 Reply from Opeth /post/181582-i-hate-my-dreams#reply-3999069 Dreams are just manifestations of memories, experiences, something you’ve read or something that’s been on your mind. Sometimes these ideas and experiences gets mashed up into something that doesn’t make sense.

The other day I had a dream where I was engaged to this girl I used to be best friends after dating her for two years, then we broke it off because she was cheating on me. And I’m also a girl, and straight. The dream basically has no relevance to anything. So most of the time dreams don’t make sense. It’s silly to believe they’re supposed to. I also believe dream analysis is a bunch of crap, since you can’t predict the future with them or anything.

]]> Opeth Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:32:57 +0100 Reply from Alexaxas /post/181582-i-hate-my-dreams#reply-3999042 My ‘bad’ dreams are vague at best and not very common; only an issue if I set off the neighbors by shouting at three in the morning.

It’s the ‘good’ dreams, and to a lesser extent the ‘neutral’ ones, that make me want to carve out the part of my brain that’s responsible. Dreaming about how awesome it would be to have things that I can’t ever have does not make my waking life easier.

I write down the dreams I can recall clearly, the non-incriminating ones, anyway. What really irks me, looking at those, is that my subconscious’s credentials seem to be a mix of film-school drop-out and bad ‘family television’ writer. The symbolism is either so simple and saccharine that it requires no analysis or so surreal and obscure that none is available.

A friend of mine has a few books on dream symbolism that I’ve leafed through in the past. When I dream about my memory failing and my cell phone catching fire when a girl asks for my number, well, I don’t need a book for that. It’s pretty obvious. But none of those books give the slightest indication what hauling a barrel of ‘plutonium’ (which, of course, looks like hard cubes of green jello) around and shooting a guy for stealing a handful is about.

]]> Alexaxas Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:17:54 +0100 Reply from Opeth /post/181582-i-hate-my-dreams#reply-3998591 I have really powerful dreams nearly every night, and I always think it’s actually real at the time. Sometimes I wake up crying because they feel so real to me, and a lot of times I just want to wake up from them but I can’t. I have dreams about practically everything - death, drowning, failure etc. And I experience the feelings as if they are real. And on the other side of the spectrum, I have amazing dreams about things I want, but again the feelings are so real to me, that when I wake up I have to cope with the fact it’s never happened.

Try not to focus on your dreams - I’ve had to learn to do that, else my dreams would just drive me crazy. I just repeatedly tell myself “It’s just a dream” and I seem to be numb of them now. Every now and again I’m really affected, but I just try to block it out. Or like jaizon said, read up on lucid dreams. I can control my dreams really easily which usually helps.

]]> Opeth Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:22:48 +0100 Reply from Rand0 /post/181582-i-hate-my-dreams#reply-3998569 Wow - this is so interesting.
You do write well, but I think you have to communicate a little more.
I remember a brief time in my life when I had these type of -”situation” - which I couldn’t get out of and I really felt suicidal for a few days/weeks/ - the pain was really intense and my dreams were like - well, really similar to what you’re describing -
Go for it - explain yourself, as much as you can. What helped me in the end was just “UNLOADING” all that stuff, whether it was true or false or unknown or whatever, in the end, I just had to let it go so I could sleep - so go on, if you need to, open up.

]]> Rand0 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:09:24 +0100 Reply from jaizon /post/181582-i-hate-my-dreams#reply-3998438 Dreams as I understand it is a inner ordeal that our brain is trying to sort out when we reboot (sleep)
You write beutifully btw….
Personally i have grown used to dark dreams, and at this stage they no longer bother me…
Perhaps read some shamanic books about it… Could be informative :)
Or maybe read up on lucid dreaming and try to learn to do that, nothing like having the power to change ones dreams…

good luck :)

]]> jaizon Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:30:33 +0100