I'm a dreamer. But in the bad way. I have incredibly vivid dreams almost every night. Usually it's not a problem because I'm used to them. But my mind is just creative enough to keep me on my toes. I'll get a real doozie probably every other week. You know, the kind of dream you wake up screaming to.
Luckily I also have a sleep disorder that causes night paralysis so my screams are rarely heard. After a bad dream or when I'm stressed, I'll wake up but my brain doesn't switch my body on. If you don't know what's happening it feels like someone or something is pinning you down. It's easy to think you're possessed. But you're not. It's actually pretty common. It runs in the family.
I've been a tad stressed lately and I have to say stress dreams are the worst. Does anyone else have stress dreams? Here are my top five most common stress dreams.
1. My teeth start to ache, become loose, then fall out. - I consequently brush and floss vigilantly in the real world.
2. I'm back in high school. When I was pregnant these dreams took an interesting twist. I was back in high school and trying to hide that I was pregnant.
3. I'm back in college and have a test or project that I just found out about.
4. This is probably my least favorite. I rot alive. I look down and huge patches of my body are rotting and gangrene. Very gruesome. When I wake up from these dreams I always feel my leg, arm, whatever piece of my body I'm sure is diseased, and make sure it's whole.
5. I'm in the water with sharks. I had this dream last night. I was stranded in the Pacific ocean, floating on a thin slightly submerged raft. Any movement sunk it deeper. And there were big tiger sharks patrolling around bumping into it.
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Man, these all sound familiar. Are you reading my mind while I'm sleeping? Wait until Reuben gets a little older, then the "misplaced my child in a crowd" dream will show up too. I have ALL the dreams you mentioned.
Freaky, and gee, aren't friends nice to give you some dream ammo :-). I don't think I have dreams as severe as yours but I've had the at school, can't find my schedule, can't find my locker, can't remember my combo, have no clue where the classroom even is, elevators don't work or are freaky, etc. Even since I've been done with school. But they are super stressful and hard to get over. I always feel like I have unfinished business, or am forgetting something super important. Weird stuff, man.
Sleep paralysis runs in my family too, my brother has it happen all the time and I get it occasionally. It happens to me more when I'm stressed about something.
Sleep paralysis sounds terrifying. Discussion of your creative mind giving you newly terrifying dreams reminded me of http://xkcd.com/390/.
the sleep paralysis is awful and it is the worst for me when I am stressed. I am sorry you have been having terrible dreams lately.
I always have the one where I'm going to school in my underwear. I wonder what my homeschoolers' dreams will be like since they come to school in pajamas half the time.
Merilee
last night I dreamed that my teeth were breaking off/falling out. That's one of my worst ones. But I also have the paralysis on occasion, but you knowk that already. Some of my new stress dreams include being pregnant or having a newborn baby and losing it, like forgetting where I put it or dropping it. haha.
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