Nightmares are not the norm for me, so they really stick out in my mind when I do have them. I'm chalking this one up to the fact that I'm coming down with Alexa's cold and I'm not resting well. Unfortunately that didn't stop me from dissecting it via dream interpretation sites for the better part of a day (note to self: this is an even worse idea than diagnosing an illness via WebMD).
Maybe drinking a smoothie before bedtime would lead to sweeter dreams?
Looking for meaning in this random REM cycle triggered a memory of a recurring nightmare I had as a teenager.
In this nightmare I was walking with a large crowd of people (including my friends and family) into a stadium for a sporting event of some sort. I realized I left my wallet at home and had to turn around to get it. On my way back, I saw the entire stadium explode.
This nightmare came back at least five or six times over the course of my freshman year in high school.
Have you ever had any recurring nightmares? What's the worst nightmare you've ever had?
What a TERRIBLE dream to have over and over again! I have one recurring dream that has been happening since I was really young. It's really foggy and I can't see anything, but I know I'm on a wooden dock. I can hear the water underneath. And I keep walking forward, knowing I'm going to walk right off, but I don't stop. And when I do walk off, I just keep falling until I wake up. I never hit the water. I'd say that's at least a little better than watching all your friends and family blow up!
ReplyDeletei have nightmares pretty regularly. i've had them all my life. i actually had one last night. and the night before. they aren't that bad for me if i sleep through them, but if i wake up during one, it's really hard for me to go back to sleep and i end up dwelling on it.
ReplyDeleteI used to have a recurring nightmare when I was very young-I think 5 or 6. It starts with me in a cottage at the bottom of a very steep mountainside (the really weird part is that everything is very very small...the house, the mountain, me etc.) I'm walking down a long narrow hallway to a window. Once at the window I look up and see a boulder twice the size of the house rushing down the mountain toward me. I can't move-I just stare at the boulder. Just before it crushes the house, everything stops and now we're all just a little bit larger. I'm walking down the hallway towards the window again. This keeps happening over and over until I wake up. It really sucked!
ReplyDeleteI have had a reoccurring dream of some sort of random emergency happening (someone breaking into my home, witnessing an auto wreck, etc) and I just can't seem to DIAL 911, either the buttons are broken or I wake up before I can get help. I have looked it up and it seems to be me keeping something to myself instead of talking it out...pretty accurate if you ask me.
ReplyDeleteWow, that sounds like a really horrifying videogame.
ReplyDeleteIf I wake up during nightmares I always try to go back to sleep so I can "fix" them. Of course, that typically makes them even more terrifying.
ReplyDeleteYikes! Your nightmare sounds like a scene from a spooky movie. Who isn't scared of falling indefinitely?
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