Nightmare discussion
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Thread Topic: Nightmare discussion
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just woke up from a nightmare and what really bothers me about all of them and what separates them from uncomfortable or bad dreams is that there's always an entity or presence in them that feels benevolent. always feel like there's something in my dream that wants to harm me and the entire experience is coated with my feelings of dread and anxiety around that figure. Does this resonate with anyone else? Is this a common feeling or more specific?
What are your nightmares like? Do you have any reoccurring themes? -
Death is a reoccurring theme for my dreams. Also, being unable to wake up or leave, often dreaming of a loop where I wake up only to discover I'm still dreaming.
I get the feeling that I'm never truly safe as I sleep lmao-
I can't recall a figure in my own dreams, outside of sleep paralysis but I've heard that's pretty common. It could be due to trauma? Maybe someone that you fear, has always been just around the corner. Watching your every move? So your subconscious is projecting that at you -
Ah guys do I have something wrong with me:
I somehow have a phobia of nightmares.I never watch scary stuff before bed.Whenever I’m scrolling on YouTube shorts and I see something creepy,I immediately go and watch something funny.Also my nightmares are mostly just all over the place,but a common theme is me getting murdered. -
I have dreams based on books I read or movies.
It's why I've never reread Lord of the Rings xD -
The part about the entity literally put a chill up my spine because I've experienced this incredibly weird thing a few times in my life that I have no way of properly describing. But basically it's like time slows into jelly and I can see/sense this smile in the back of my head, accompanied by a voice with really eerie intonation that speaks in a rather mocking way. Super weird and idk why or how it happens but it's there and I've just figured it's Satan himself or one of his smelly cronies
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Also everything in my vision shrinks like I'm seeing it from a distance. But as for actual nightmares, they usually tend to involve me being chased by someone (or something) trying to kill or abduct me, though I've had less of that as of late
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Alright, now that I'm home I've read through my dream journal to look to see some past dreams. I have apparently had an odd figure in my dreams afterall lmao. For me, the entity hangs around the edges of my dream, goading me into taking harmful actions against myself rather than against others, or threatening me itself.
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Tbf, as a schizo its fairly common for me to experience figures at the edge of my vision. So maybe it has nothing to do with the subconscious at all : p
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Most of my nightmares are about abandonment, since I'm always so vigilant about preventing it. I can't have any moments of clarity or peace, be it awake or asleep.
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I cant sleep without nightmares. Every night is an unpleasant dream, so I wrote it in my journal first thing then fall back asleep.
It's hell but it helps my therapist lmao -
Waking up reading what I wrote is a nightmare in and of itself. Definitely not recommended to write forum posts in a half asleep daze. Thank you all for commenting! Dreams and nightmares are a fascinating topic for me and I love hearing about everyone's anecdotal experiences.
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I used to have nightmares, but not anymore which I find strange. My dreams, which I have almost every night, are just an incoherent mashup of the previous day, except all my emotions are like 5x what they actually were during the day and it always ends up with me losing a family member or me dying - or me waking up lol
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I have PTSD and I take medicine to help the nightmares that I get from it so that I'm not tired all the time anymore.
My nightmares started when I was young and they are sometimes very graphic and bloody. Gorey. Guts, blood, organs, that sort of thing. Murder used to be a common theme in my nightmares as a kid, where I was snapping and killing people in my family (some who had been abusing me) in horrific ways and dealing with the fallout of that. Sometimes it was accidental, mostly it was just like I had gone into a fugue state and done it or smthn lmao idk how to describe. Once I got removed from that situation as a teenager I started having nightmares where I was being chased by the person doing the murdering. Usually related to my trauma and often adults who had harmed me. The most horrific thing in these nightmares is just how detailed and extreme the violence/gore is. I actually nearly threw up in a therapy session when recalling one when I was a teen, it was just that bad.
The worst, though, is the nightmares where I'm back in that house. Back in that situation. And I wake up in my half-asleep state thinking that it's real, that I'm back there. Waking up into a flashback. After so many years I've become desensitized to the gore of it all, to where they don't bother me as bad. The flashback ones still f--- with me.
I started taking medicine to stop me waking up from my nightmares because I was getting little sleep and having nightmares like, every night for weeks. The nightmares come in waves for me. It's a blood pressure medication that I take before bed and after adjusting my dosage it works pretty well. The nightmares are infrequent atm, and less severe. I actually can't remember the last time I had one. But I stay asleep now which is nice.
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