My nightmares 2 nights ago

[chibirabbits]

After playing with my rabbits I went to bed. No scary movies just comedies. First dream was a little girl I think with a distorted face coming at me while I was sleeping and poking me. I remember swing my left hand trying to get her to stop and then I woke up. Went right back to sleep and the second dream was a person by the doorway couldn't tell if it was male or female, just staring at me and then I woke up. Went right back to sleep again and the 3rd and 4th dream was the same. I felt something running around on the right side of my head and then woke up. After that I had enough and decided to stay awake until I couldn't anymore which was probably around 4am. I knew it wasn't my rabbits since I'm in the bedroom and they're in the livingroom and the door is closed. Anyone know what the dreams mean and why I'm having them?

[JoannaB]

First of all, disturbing dreams unfortunately do happen to all of us at times. They are more likely to happen during times of waking life stress or if we have some kind of issue on our minds. However, the thing is that dreams are a bit more likely to be disturbing in some way than pleasant most times because an important function of dreams is issue resolution, problem solving, and such. And thus even when we are 98% happy, our dreams are more likely to focus on that remaining 2% of what's on our mind. That said, a nightmare is often in the eyes if the beholder. One person's nightmare is another person's interesting dream. You might have better luck adjusting the way you perceive such dreams, accepting them, and not being as disturbed by them, and it could be harder to make them go away. These dreams of yours sound to me more like hypnagogic hallucinations, the kind of dreamlets that we have as we are falling asleep (an similar ones happen as we are waking up). Not all hypnagogic hallucinations are disturbing but for some people they are. If that is it, it could be that you fell asleep more aware? If I were you, I would try relaxing more before going to sleep. Maybe put on some relaxing music or something. Also repeat to yourself that nothing in your dreams can hurt you. You are safe. Repeat this to yourself as a mantra during waking, and especially before going to sleep. Make sure to be determined and believable, not insecure, so that your message to your subconscious is clear "Nothing can hurt me in my dreams. I am safe. I have pleasant dreams." Good luck!

[chibirabbits]

Thanks I think you're right, I was more aware after the first nightmare. Yeah, last night I tried your method and told myself to relax and do not think anything bad. Kept repeating nothing can hurt me in my dreams. It still took awhile to fall asleep since my mind kept thinking about bad stuff.... No bad dreams last night. This is going to sound weird or crazy... I forgot to mention that the dreams I had was follow few days after the nightmare with the woman in black screaming in my face, but before the woman in black there was an incident a few weeks. I know I wasn't dreaming since I just came home from work and decided to wash the dishes. While I was washing the dishes I saw something pass behind me. I know because I saw the shadow of the figure on the wall and I felt a presence. It felt negative. It pass behind three times and after that I decided I'm going back into the living room and forget about washing the dishes. Since then I've been having bad dreams.

[JoannaB]

Well, that makes sense you got spooked while washing dishes, and that caused you to be nervous, it has been on your mind and that is what is causing the nightmares. As to what actually happened while you were washing the dishes, I don't know about that. But it does not matter what actually happened or did not happen then. What matters is that you got scared by it, and then you have been having nightmares since. I am not sure that I do believe in ghosts or demons and such, I rather think I don't but I am open minded enough to say that I am uncertain. However, if you do believe in them, and if you think what happened while you were washing dishes was something along those lines, do you also believe in the power of priest or other religious authority to through the blessing of a place make it a safe place again? If so, you might want to invite one over and have your kitchen blessed. I actually do believe in the power of blessing, of good thoughts and positive ceremony, resulting in safety and peace. So if you do as well, I recommend something like that. However, if you only believe in negative not in positive counteraction, then that is a problem, because it is important to feel safe in one's own kitchen and bed and such.

[chibirabbits]

I believe in good and negative and several people say I should get my place blessed and myself. The thing is I completely forgot about the dishes incident and I only started to remember after writing and talking about my bad dreams. Thanks for listening.

[misskristin5]

Chichirabbits, I followed your post from another forum and wanted to reply there, but for some reason, I was unable to register. So I did a search and found your story here. Sorry--that made me feel kinda stalkerish, but this is weird, and I really felt like I needed to contact you. Maybe it's a coincidence, but my story seems to have a few elements similar to yours, only from the opposite perspective. I'll explain: When I was 8 (year was '91), I was waiting for my mom to get home from work. I was bored, lying on our blue couch, just staring at it. You know how sometimes you can make out patterns in material if you stare at it long enough? Like clouds or whatever? Well, I was staring at my couch for a bit, and suddenly, a woman doing the dishes appeared. At first, I thought it was just a really detailed illusion, but then I saw her moving, cleaning the dishes. She had her hair up. I stared at this for a while, and then it really started freaking me out. This pattern in my couch was so detailed! No colors or anything, just a very clear outline of a woman, maybe in her 20s or 30s, doing the dishes with her hair up and wearing what looked like an apron or dress. Plus, this figure was moving. After a while, I got a little too freaked out and ran my hand across the material. It's not a suede couch, but the material has that same kind of effect--when you move it around, the little fibers in the material will also move, changing whatever pattern you see in it. (I hope that makes sense!) Anyway, when I did this, nothing happened. The woman was still there, she was still cleaning the dishes. So, obviously, this was a little jarring. I rubbed the couch again, hoping to change the pattern of the fabric. The woman was still there, but it looked like she stopped moving, almost as if she could sense me there. At this point, I'm thoroughly freaked out. So I rub the couch really hard, for a while, trying to get this image to go away, wondering if I just had a REALLY good imagination (though nothing like this had ever happened to me). So when I stop rubbing, she's still there, standing still. Then, I see her look toward me, almost as if she heard me or felt me or something. So I screamed, jumped off the couch and didn't go near it until my mom got home. I remember this very vividly, and it's easy for me to say I know what I saw, but the logical side of me has always chalked it up to just being a kid with an overactive imagination. I've recounted it to friends and coworkers, and they've offered their interpretations (a wrinkle in spacetime, etc), but I've always just brushed it off, because it happened when I was little. But tonight, I was on a supernatural story kick (guilty pleasure), so I thought about that childhood experience again. The woman always seemed scared to me, like she had no idea what was going on, and I always mentioned that detail in telling friends about it. Anyway, just being kinda silly, I wondered, "What if that woman I saw doing dishes is out there somewhere?" Not expecting to find anything, I searched "washing dishes, something weird" and your post was the third result. I clicked on it, read your story and got goosebumps. Granted, I was looking for something, but even my extremely skeptical boyfriend admitted it was odd. When I was 8, I had really long, black stringy hair. In your other post, you mentioned a woman with long black hair in your dreams, so that stood out a bit. Then, when I got to the part about the little girl poking you, it just seemed too coincidental. I figured I should at least tell you my story. Also, the woman I saw as a child was facing right. When I was rubbing the image on the couch, I was rubbing what would be the right side of the figure. I'm not sure how you feel about this; it would be great to know your thoughts. I'm not sure what I believe. I'm a half skeptical, half completely open-minded person. But this just seemed really coincidental to me, so I thought it worth sharing. Either way, I hope all is well since your nightmares and weird experience! Feel free to DM/email me if you like.

[chibirabbits]

Hi MissKristin5 I don't know what to say. When I first read your post I thought I didn't have a dream about a woman washing dishes and then it hit me oh you're talking about you might have saw me washing dishes. I'm like you a little skeptical but open minded as well. That's why I came here and another forum to discuss my dreams or whatever it is that I"m seeing to understand them. Thank you for sharing what you saw. I wonder if we did somehow cross path in a different time or whatever you call it. The shadow or whatever it was I saw while washing dishes felt like someone taller than me though but I could be wrong. All I know is it freaked me out and every now and than I'm afraid to go in the garage at night where the sink is, so I usually wait until morning. Thanks so far I haven't had any bad dreams but weird experience I still have. If you read my post in the other forum you know what weird experience I'm talking about. Please let me know if you remember anything else or any other vision you seen. I had a lot of weird things happened to me and some I remember and some I do not.