Can't stop dreaming

I've had extremely vivid, instense dreams throughout my life, but lately I'm dreaming every night and I wake up feeling exhausted. The dreams I'm having of late are not nightmares or bad dreams, just very active and colorful and intense. I have been having dreams about giant houses the most. The houses go on and on. There are secret hiding places in the houses. One time I was dreaming about getting away from this giant monster. I hid in a bedroom. the bedroom was very small. There was a small jungle gym in the room. I climbed inside. It became bigger when I climbed into it. There were other people hiding. They were hiding from their dream monsters. I went over to some kids that were climbing into a cuboard. I looked in the cuboard to see another secret hidden place. It was a cool place, The best one I have ever seen. When I was about to go in I woke up. I never got to see the place again but I have gotten to see new secret places. The wierd thing is that all of my dreams are in color.

Your dreams sound very interesting. What you are describing is being inside a structure that constantly expands with your perusal of its features, right?

Almost like you are the type of person who sees possibility in even the most restrictive of enviornments? Have you ever seen the outside of these structures?

I've had similar dreams, but never so colorful that I wake up exhausted. And when you say exhausted, do you mean mentally tired, or physically? Your tiredness does pique my curiosity.

When I am tired It feels as I have been dreaming to hard so that would be mentally.

ive heard of people feeling exhaustion when waking up from an intense dream.. somone posted on here over nine months ago about having a headache when ever he had a lucid or really intense dream.... i cant remember who it was though

Yes that is what happens to me. I feel like I am very sick sometimes.

Hi. I'm also a frequent LDer (everytime I sleep). I've had similar experiences in the past of feeling groggy or mentally exhausted due to extreme concentration during lucid or vivid dreams... What has helped me is breathing exercises. After you wake up try drinking a glass of water, then breathing deeply 5-6 times, then breathe evenly (semi-deeply), while stretching out or moving your fingers/toes very slightly. What this does is relax your mind while also creating a balance between your mind and your body and a balance of circulation and oxygen in your blood/to your brain. I've also found this to be very helpful to do before going to sleep or even during dreaming if you can. If you are lucid enough to make yourself aware of your body and more specifically your breathing WHILE you are dreaming, you can relax your mind, even while having intense dreams. I've been in the middle of very intense dreams before, then realized I was dreaming. Without waking myself or reacting to dream stimuli, I concentrated on evening out my breathing rhythm so that I wouldn't do things like shallow breathing, hyper-ventilating, holding my breath, etc. I think that I've done these things while dreaming without realizing it until after waking. Anyway, if you can concentrate on things like breathing rhythm, heartbeat, blood circulation, etc. I've found this helps tremendously for this kind of thing. Otherwise I would suggest waking yourself up first, then doing some calisthenics or stretching, etc. to get your mind off of the dream content.
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ha ha. That's funny. I dream all the time too about houses that are one size on the outside, then on the inside, there is no physical way it could contain all the space. Like the other day I dreamed about my friends house, accpet it wasn't his house.... that's pretty common, but anyway there was a secret room that was only half tall... you had to bend over if you went into it, it had no windows, so it could not be seen from the outisde... and from that secret room there was another door that led to this huge warehouse sized room with big windows and it was filled with sunlight. Accept..... before I entered the house it just looked like a regular house... there was no huge ware house sized room sticking out anywhere. It was so strange. Other times in strange houses there are rooms that seem to go on forever, like you go through a door, and cross the room to another door, go through it, and it will be the same room, only in different colors of like the carpet and furniture. And you can just keep going though the doors through the different colored rooms for miles. And sometimes there are strange stair cases to platforms that don't seem to have any purpose. Also staris down to basements that just keep expanding and expanding into almost city sized spaces. Like where does it end? I have house dreams quite often so this post is very interesting to me. Oh yeah, and sometimes I can revisit the same strange houses. Like have different dreams in the same setting.

Same here, recently I've had frequent dreams (about 3 a night), in the morning I feel exausted and go back to sleep. I think it's because of over-excitement the day before, thus the mind being over active and creative... Not to mention the bud smoking.

Now for something totally irrelivent... I had a dream last night where I shagged this lady after living up in a haunted mountain for a long time. We walked out of the cabin and all these people were walking behind us. They got closer and closer and then tried to grab me but I faded through them, they then grabbed 'the lady' and in an instant she turned into the most vile looking discusting slimely zombie creature you could think of. Then it grabbed me and I felt an excessive amount of flem come up from my through as I spat it out, more flem came up but the second time I tried to spit it was so thick that I couldn't. The creature then opened it's mouth 10fold and a little dancing frog came out with a hat saying "Bang the world!" :shock:

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Originally posted by Khronos
Same here, recently I've had frequent dreams (about 3 a night), in the morning I feel exausted and go back to sleep. I think it's because of over-excitement the day before, thus the mind being over active and creative... Not to mention the bud smoking.

Now for something totally irrelivent... I had a dream last night where I shagged this lady after living up in a haunted mountain for a long time. We walked out of the cabin and all these people were walking behind us. They got closer and closer and then tried to grab me but I faded through them, they then grabbed 'the lady' and in an instant she turned into the most vile looking discusting slimely zombie creature you could think of. Then it grabbed me and I felt an excessive amount of flem come up from my through as I spat it out, more flem came up but the second time I tried to spit it was so thick that I couldn't. The creature then opened it's mouth 10fold and a little dancing frog came out with a hat saying \"Bang the world!\" :shock:

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Holy crap man. I need some of what you got......

...Now that was just plain SCARY, Khronos. But distantly funny as well...

LOL!
Man that must have been some strong bud ... lol.

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Originally posted by Khronos

Now for something totally irrelivent... I had a dream last night where I shagged this lady after living up in a haunted mountain for a long time. We walked out of the cabin and all these people were walking behind us. They got closer and closer and then tried to grab me but I faded through them, they then grabbed 'the lady' and in an instant she turned into the most vile looking discusting slimely zombie creature you could think of. Then it grabbed me and I felt an excessive amount of flem come up from my through as I spat it out, more flem came up but the second time I tried to spit it was so thick that I couldn't. The creature then opened it's mouth 10fold and a little dancing frog came out with a hat saying \"Bang the world!\" :shock:

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No shit. That happened to me IRL once.


For real.