Author Topic: Tell me what you know about them night terrors every night (Read 11714 times)

DQ12 · « **on:** March 14, 2015, 11:23:50 AM »

So there was a stretch roughly 6 months-a year ago where i would have terrifying dreams absolutely every night. Basically everything you could think of that's horrible. Being shot at, being mugged, parents dying, etc. The absolute worst was when I dreamt I got on a train and started killing people. I remember thinking in that one "my God, what have I done?!" Just the other night I was on a train (with 8mp actually) and rural Illinois was under attack. Bombs falling everywhere.

The only silver lining i guess is that waking up brings a sense of relief. But I've had some serious freddy krueger crap goin on and it sucks. Terribly stressful way to start my day.

Do YOU have bad dreams? Am I crazy? Is there anything that can be done to stop them when they keep happening?

Spracne · « **Reply #1 on:** March 14, 2015, 12:47:55 PM »

Sounds like nightmares, to me. I have had some pretty terrifying episodes of sleep paralysis, though.

wetwillie · « **Reply #2 on:** March 14, 2015, 01:00:03 PM »

You should learn and implement techniques to become more likely to have lucid dreams. That way you can control the scenario.

mocat · « **Reply #3 on:** March 14, 2015, 01:27:52 PM »

I love kid cudi and I'm pretty sure I always will

OK_Cat · « **Reply #4 on:** March 14, 2015, 02:20:27 PM »

I think for most people it comes and goes in phases of your life. Extra stress, perhaps?

steve dave · « **Reply #5 on:** March 14, 2015, 02:22:32 PM »

dlew, any new medications during that stretch? were you eating right before bed regularly? the eating thing can ramp up your metabolism and make your body feel like it should be active and cause them. sleep deprivation can also cause them if you hadn't been sleeping a lot. really bad night terrors run in my family. I had them as a child but don't recall them. would be screaming and unable to be woken up. mom still has them and will yell at night all the time during her sleep. I don't have them anymore luckily.

DQ12 · « **Reply #6 on:** March 14, 2015, 02:31:43 PM »

FTR, I know they're not night terrors. Strictly nightmares. Still, it was weird to be getting them literally every time I went to sleep. They've slowed down a lot -- the only recent one was the train bombs one.

And I don't think I was eating anything odd during that stretch. It was over the summer time when I was living in this shitty apartment in Chicago. Kind of a stressful period I guess. My living situation made me pretty miserable (it was just a really really bad apartment; right next to train tracks; no car in the city; just sucked). No new medication.

I was having a terrible time getting to sleep during those months though. Tossed and turned without sleep once every two weeks or so. Man sleep is just the weirdest thing.

steve dave · « **Reply #7 on:** March 14, 2015, 02:34:57 PM »

yep, I think we've located the problem. glad you're doing better.

CNS · « **Reply #8 on:** March 14, 2015, 02:46:10 PM »

My sis in law has them, but instead if screaming and stuff she jumps off the bed like she is hiding, wakes my bro up, then says "the're inside. They came in through the window and have a gun." My bro knows what's going on and it still freaks him out.

steve dave · « **Reply #9 on:** March 14, 2015, 02:50:06 PM »

Quote from: CNS on March 14, 2015, 02:46:10 PM

My sis in law has them, but instead if screaming and stuff she jumps off the bed like she is hiding, wakes my bro up, then says "the're inside. They came in through the window and have a gun." My bro knows what's going on and it still freaks him out.

well, that's rough ridin' terrifying

stunted · « **Reply #10 on:** March 14, 2015, 02:50:23 PM »

If it ever comes back, try and relax before you sleep. End your day with funny youtube videos. Could have been a negative feedback loop where on top of feeling shitty about the apartment, having anxiety about the nightmares caused it to happen every night.

stunted · « **Reply #11 on:** March 14, 2015, 02:53:30 PM »

Night terrors sounds like some of the times I have sleep paralysis, except when I try to scream, I can't.

Mostly when I have it though I am floating through the universe in what I imagine a dmt-like trip. For some reason there is a LOT of pressure on my balls, and is very uncomfortable. Otherwise its mind-blowing and I don't mind it.

mocat · « **Reply #12 on:** March 14, 2015, 02:57:03 PM »

I don't really get nightmares often but one time not too long ago i had one that was the most terrifying thing of my life. I was hanging our with Mrs mocat and we were like laughing and rolling around or something and all of a sudden myface changed and I said in a demon voice I WILL STRANGLE YOU IN YOUR SLEEP. I woke up shaking and scared like they're was someone else in the room, like a spirit or something. Its really hard to describe how frightening it is when the scary thing in your dream is you, yourself.

steve dave · « **Reply #13 on:** March 14, 2015, 02:59:26 PM »

all mine are still, like, I haven't gone to class all semester and there's a final today. or I'm late for football practice. It is such a great feeling to wake up and realize I'll never have to take a test I've not studied for or go to football practice again.

DQ12 · « **Reply #14 on:** March 14, 2015, 03:05:56 PM »

Quote from: steve dave on March 14, 2015, 02:50:06 PM

Quote from: CNS on March 14, 2015, 02:46:10 PM
My sis in law has them, but instead if screaming and stuff she jumps off the bed like she is hiding, wakes my bro up, then says "the're inside. They came in through the window and have a gun." My bro knows what's going on and it still freaks him out.

well, that's rough ridin' terrifying

yikes. and i thought i was bad with my snoring.

Quote from: mocat on March 14, 2015, 02:57:03 PM

Its really hard to describe how frightening it is when the scary thing in your dream is you, yourself.

Yes I 100% agree. By far the worst nightmare I had was the one when I gunned down the subway car. Extremely traumatic.

Spracne · « **Reply #15 on:** March 14, 2015, 03:11:05 PM »

I had a series of maybe 4 episodes of sleep paralysis in about a 4 month span. I would wake up feeling tingly and unable to move. Then this female spirit would whisper things in my ear. She always started out calm, but then she would get angrier and angrier until she was basically screaming. Her screaming sounded like standing in a wind tunnel. She said she loved me and was always trying to protect me from the other spirits, but it was becoming too much and she wasn't sure if she could hold them back. Also, she really hated my girlfriend. I think I had a weird succubus thing going on. It stopped after I moved. The last time it happened was before I moved. She was pissed that I was moving. She said, "...and if you go to the house on the big hill, you will never go back agaaaAAAIIIIiIiIIINN (whooshing screaming sound)."

Spracne · « **Reply #16 on:** March 14, 2015, 03:12:21 PM »

I've also had those sleep paralysis dreams where I hear someone or someones enter the house. I can hear them walking around and whispering, getting closer to my bedroom door.

steve dave · « **Reply #17 on:** March 14, 2015, 03:15:04 PM »

interesting dream thing, you know like you are having a dream and you dream an alarm or other sound that is your alarm clock and then your alarm clock goes off? or how you know you alarm clock is going to go off in your dream and then it does? this may not happen to everyone but it happens to a lot of people. anyway, that's not actually you knowing your alarm is going to go off it's your mind retroactively adding the alarm to your dream after you hear your alarm. like, in your mind you already dreamt about the alarm sound but in reality you didn't. I don't think I explained that very well but hopefully you get what I'm saying.

steve dave · « **Reply #18 on:** March 14, 2015, 03:15:58 PM »

dreamt the other night I went to work with just a shirt and shoes on. like I'm in a brooks bros non-iron, some wing tips, no pants or underwear. pretty humiliating. worse than forgetting a belt.

DQ12 · « **Reply #19 on:** March 14, 2015, 03:21:20 PM »

Quote from: steve dave on March 14, 2015, 03:15:58 PM

dreamt the other night I went to work with just a shirt and shoes on. like I'm in a brooks bros non-iron, some wing tips, no pants or underwear. pretty humiliating. worse than forgetting a belt.

yes! i know exactly the feeling. in your dream you're just like "ugh, this is a new low, dlew. how could you forget to get dressed this morning?!

"

8manpick · « **Reply #20 on:** March 14, 2015, 03:32:02 PM »

I always have weird/bad dreams if I have any Tylenol PM or NyQuil or anything like that.

DQ12 · « **Reply #21 on:** March 14, 2015, 03:54:28 PM »

oh don't get me started on melatonin dreams.

hemmy · « **Reply #22 on:** March 14, 2015, 04:20:18 PM »

Every dream I have (remember) either myself or most of the people I know are killed in very final destination style ridiculous events.

Kat Kid · « **Reply #23 on:** March 14, 2015, 05:58:25 PM »

Steve Dave and I may have the exact same dream scapes. I however, mostly don't remember my dreams. However, I often times will wake up just before my alarm when I have something important or something I am excited to do that day.

Asteriskhead · « **Reply #24 on:** March 14, 2015, 06:07:06 PM »

I used to take the dietary supplement ZMA for a while in high school, because I read somewhere that it improved your ability to recover after workouts. The one thing that I do know that it does, is give you freaky dreams. I don't remember any specifics, but I can remember awaking terrible frightened. Those dreams were why I stopped taking it. I have no idea if it helps workout recovery.