Anyone else notice how you can be in a nightmare, wake up completely terrified, then realize the next day you got scared over something stupid that IRL wouldn't even make you flinch?
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Anyone else notice how you can be in a nightmare, wake up completely terrified, then realize the next day you got scared over something stupid that IRL wouldn't even make you flinch?
I know this may sound funny, but it really did happen. I had a nightmare of a talking cheese ... Yeah, I know ... Suprising how your mind plays games on you ...
Yes. Nearly all of my nightmares are like this. I have few nightmares that sound genuinely scary, most were just of being scared of silly little things.
As a child, the most common was stars or moonlight. I'd be in a dream and the moon would shine in and for some reason it would be terrifying to see it (I'd hide my face or run away, and my parents would be like "we're going outside, come out of that corner" and I'd be screaming "NO! NO NO NO!!!"). Sometimes it would be about a really big bright star... :confused:
I haven't had a nightmare of a scary monster or anything like that in years. These days there's sometimes just a strange feeling of dread that something bad is going to happen- usually in a lucid FA, strangely! It's weird how you can get convinced something is scary at the time, then look back and be like, "What was I thinking?"
I guess its like they say, emotions are magnified in dreams. Even lucid dreams.
Yeah, a lot of my nightmares are like this. Well, they used to be like this; so far (since I started LDing) all (one) of my nightmares have been lucid.
Anyway, sometimes I would tell someone about a nightmare I had, and almost all the time I'd be laughing by the end of it.
Hell yes... when I was little I had numerous nightmares about poo (no I'm not kidding xD). I think the scariest dream I had when I was little was once when I was wondering around this place filled with random furniture. Most of them were antique style and usually had a color scheme of dark brown and gold. There were also these giant pieces of poo just randomly there... they didn't do anything, but I was scared shitless (no pun intended) by them for some reason. I didn't want to go to bed the next night, and when I tried to describe the dream to my mom it was quite akward :D
I can't believe I almost forgot about this dream... I definitely have to add this to the weird dreams thread!
Sometimes finding out I'm dreaming gives me a chill. Like I don't actually think I'm dreaming but then it's like "wait 9:84???!!! Impossible!". They're not really nightmares though, just have to calm myself.
As far as non-lucid nightmares, if I'm not having a nightmare about zombies, it is usually something stupid. I can't really recall anything though and it's annoying because I know I've had them as a kid plenty of times.
Me too. Thinking everything I've done never happened, and I am really in my bed. It scares me to pieces.Quote:
Originally Posted by louie54
I've never felt that upon becoming lucid. I'm usually just happy that I realized I'm dreaming. ^^ I guess I can see how that could be scary though, especially if it was a really realistic dream.Quote:
Originally Posted by Loaf
Damned walking fish...
I dreamed my computer was under attack from a virus. To be honest, I wouldn't worry about that in RL. I have protection for that.
When dreaming your emotions are ridiculously heightened so if you would even be the slightest bit scared or feeling wierd, you would feel terrified and freaking out in a dream
I used to always have dreams like that. If anything was at all different with my computer in a dream, it'd be like my nigtmareQuote:
Originally Posted by The Invisible Man
I once had a dream that a paperweight I had broke, and this was so sad I cried for about an hour in the dream. I wasn't even that sad when I lost my DSi IRL.
My nightmares usually involve school. Like getting an F on a math test. I was devastated and asked the principal to fire my math teacher :lol:
Just last night I had a lucid, but I had to do about 10 reality checks to make sure. I'm serious, I do the nose plug, and I was like 'I could breath, WTF?:panic:'
That is gold! :cackle:Quote:
Originally Posted by LRT
Same here! Happens to me all the time. I generally uplug the computer, but it keeps working. It sucks.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Invisible Man
Lol, nice. Gotta love dream logic. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by EspadaInMyCloset
I had a dream like that. It was a human being I was afraid of. He kept peeking into my room to look at me and I had a sense of pure fear like my life was in danger. I was under the blankets and I was paralyzed (funny cause when I woke up I think I was in SP but only for like a milisecond).
Um...actually, most of my bad dreams involve bugs, and I freak out. I would IRL too if they were doin what they were in my dream. BUT, I'm sure in general, yes. I had a dream where this owl was starin at me...then started to fly towards me, and I woke myself up (as in on purpose. My specialty :D). Sorta lucid, but only lucid enough to wake myself up, sorta.
I had a dream I was being chased...
...by a turtle.
:doh:
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Originally Posted by Supernova
Wow, you even got it before the edit.
Okay I requoted.
I give fast responses. Thats what people want. :P