Dream analysis #1 - waking nightmare

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Ugh, I wrote a huge long thing and it logged me out. I'll do this in parts then.

Throughout my life I've always had very vivid dreams. Ones which I can remember well long after I've woken, with few exceptions.

Here's one that isn't so much a dream, as a hallucination. Or maybe not. That's why I'm asking you guys.

So here goes

Every now and then, much more often when I'm sick with a fever, I will wake in a cold sweat. I'll get up, and in the shadows are silhouettes of tiny people. Not dwarves, I mean just small people. About as high as my knees. I can strain my eyes and my ears but I can never make out any features on their faces, or discern what they're saying. They always keep their distance from me, and as I get out of bed it feels like I'm moving through treacle. I feel compelled to get up and do something to try and ignore the whispering. Usually I'll just get up and get a drink, or go to the toilet. As I start to move though, their whispering gets louder, and they start getting agitated. They almost dance around me, circling but never coming close. Soon their previously passive whispering has reached an angry, aggressive screaming crescendo. I'm shaking by this time from fear, and usually that's where it stops abruptly. The nightmare is accompanied by a sense of absolute terror, and a slowed sense of time.

As far as what it actually is, I'm pretty sure it's a type of waking nightmare, although I'm not sure that's accurate. I am fully awake at the time, and have control over my body. It might be possible I could be sleep walking, and I wake up when the nightmare ends abruptly as I have often found myself in the kitchen or the bathroom, clutching onto something white-knuckled.

Does anyone have any insights? It's been happening my whole life, and each any every time it happens I am scared sh*tless.

Sorry about the wall of text guys, although I would like to post about some of my other dreams

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  • [Old Memory]
    13 years ago

    Ummmmmmmmmmmm..........

    Im pretty sure ur doin drugs

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  • smuffle
    14 years ago

    It could be something similar to sleep paralysis, my ex-boyfriend had that. He sometimes hallucinated on waking and found it very difficult (if not impossible) to move. Sometimes it's a chronic condition, sometimes it just happens once or twice. In medieval times people thought it was witchcraft or demons!

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  • L_ExX
    15 years ago

    well...first of all...hav you ever heard of a "Lucid Dream"?
    if you havent....well here it goes:
    basicly..wen you sleep...your body and your mind is unconsious,then you dream..having no control or say of what happens in your "non-lucid" dream.
    but.....on the ther hand..when your experiecing lucidity...your body is unconsious (in sleep paralisis)...and your mind stays concious. pretty much what im trying to say...is that when your lucid..its exactly like real life,but you know your dreaming.
    personally,it sounds like your having a lucid dream.
    (seriously..look it up..its really interesting. and if you are lucid....you can train your mind to understand and reconize when that happens....giving you full control over your dream..leavin you with no more night terrors,you might wanna look that up too)
    on the otherhand....you cood be sleep walking......inside of your lucid state of mind.....ya feel me?

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    • AlexW
      14 years ago

      Indeed. To add to this if you are lucid then try to change the dream as you have complete control over it thus making you able to do anything. Not sure if my information is correct but I believe it may be somewhat correct.

      I'm sorry to say this but I would like to have a dream like yours, sounds strange of me. :/

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  • Guess_Who
    15 years ago

    Wow. I've never heard of that one, but it's very interesting. But anyways, are you having the same dream over & over again? If so, maybe, when this nightmare occured for the first time, you fear that it might happen again & you think of it too often. & you nightmares did happen, again & again.. You should start thinking of happy thoughts before going to sleep instead of being scared about sleeping. Sometimes it helps, sometimes it don't. I have a sleeping disirder (atleast, that's what I think) But I really think you should go & see the doctor. That's only helpful way I can only think of. Goodluck. :)

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  • TashaG16
    15 years ago

    Sometimes it's just your subconscious mind being active at night but other then that most dreams don't mean anything and some dreams are just your thoughts being exxaggerated.

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  • Jim_Pfoss
    15 years ago

    Dreams don't mean anything, and it's healthiest to just forget them.
    It's just some routine neurological maintenance activity that your brain confabulates into images.
    If you enjoy them, great. If not, just let 'em go.

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    • dagreat
      14 years ago

      some dreams do have meanings. i dream all the time, sometimes they come true, and before it does, i already know b/c i have been warned by the dream the night before. --very weird.

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