Do you have weird dreams?

AdaptAndAchieve said:
Hmm, never deliberately tried it, and having a look at that page I don't think I'd particularly want to - my sleep is bad enough now
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I did it purposefully in my 20s several times. Never since (I'm 63 now).
AdaptAndAchieve said:
Well my brain is totally out to get me today
Last night I woke myself up from an unpleasant dream (I'm a very light sleeper so I do that)

Then I fell back asleep and had a very weird and unpleasant dream, which morphed into a horror scenario with me trying to flee from the sort of nasty monsters you'd get in a horror film. Don't ask me what they looked like, you don't survive horror films by looking back at the monsters - you survive by looking where you are running, and not falling down!
Anyhow, I managed to wake myself up before they got me, decided I'd had enough of sleeping and got up.
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I had a dream about a week ago where I was being attacked by a man--a horrible nightmare actually, and my husband tried to wake me...I yelled in my sleep, "I'm going to kill you", and since then he's asked a few times if I want to kill him. I tried to explain I was talking to my attacker, not him. I really think it's better to just let people work through their dreams, even when bad, and not try to wake them.
 
I’ve had a few nightmares recently all involving family members who are very much best kept at arms length trying to reconcile and in the dream (as in real life) I think people change and things will be different, then (in the dream) once the reconciliation is well established and they’re back in my life they start to behave in the same terrible ways they did before and the nightmare unfolds.

Not exactly cryptic that one ay! 🚨 🚨 🚨 😂
 
AdaptAndAchieve said:
Hmm, never deliberately tried it, and having a look at that page I don't think I'd particularly want to - my sleep is bad enough now
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You can greatly increase your incidence of lucid dreaming by waking up a couple of hours earlier than normal, getting up and doing something for about 30 minutes, then going back to sleep again. This happened to me a lot during the years that I got up to get my kids ready for school, then went back to bed.

There are also phone apps believe it or not, that will ring little alarms at pre-determined times to raise your sleep level from deep to intermediate and those can actually work too.

It's a fascinating topic.
 
vernplum said:
You can greatly increase your incidence of lucid dreaming by waking up a couple of hours earlier than normal, getting up and doing something for about 30 minutes, then going back to sleep again. This happened to me a lot during the years that I got up to get my kids ready for school, then went back to bed.

There are also phone apps believe it or not, that will ring little alarms at pre-determined times to raise your sleep level from deep to intermediate and those can actually work too.

It's a fascinating topic.
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Interesting - I have the ability to lucid dream, but I’ve never worked at it or tried to - I just kinda can. I’ll be halfway through a dream, realize it’s a dream, and then from there I can kinda control what happens next.

I can’t do this with every dream (and unfortunately it doesn’t seem to happen with nightmares at all), but I can do it sometimes.
 
I don’t have a lot of detail on this one, but I dreamed I was at my hair stylist’s (not my current one, but an interim one I tried out but didn’t quite mesh with). I was there to get a skunk stripe dyed into my hair, which was jet black in my dream.

The thing was…at first I was the only one in there, and it was a single-chair space. Suddenly, there was another chair in there, someone in that chair, and before I knew it, another chair suddenly appeared on my other side.

Chairs (and clients) kept appearing out of nowhere, and we were all crowded in on top of each other, and I had some tinfoil thing on my head, with a small bunch of my hair pulled through, and all this sort of lotion-like stuff slathered on, and then…I was just walking down the street that way, still wearing a cut shirt and everything, just walking along window shopping.

That was it.
 
TastyReuben said:
I don’t have a lot of detail on this one, but I dreamed I was at my hair stylist’s (not my current one, but an interim one I tried out but didn’t quite mesh with). I was there to get a skunk stripe dyed into my hair, which was jet black in my dream.

The thing was…at first I was the only one in there, and it was a single-chair space. Suddenly, there was another chair in there, someone in that chair, and before I knew it, another chair suddenly appeared on my other side.

Chairs (and clients) kept appearing out of nowhere, and we were all crowded in on top of each other, and I had some tinfoil thing on my head, with a small bunch of my hair pulled through, and all this sort of lotion-like stuff slathered on, and then…I was just walking down the street that way, still wearing a cut shirt and everything, just walking along window shopping.

That was it.
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sleep ... the gateway to insanity 😶‍🌫️
 
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