Is it normal to have control during nightmares?

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Since i was really young i've had the same occurring nightmares i can go sometime with out one or they can come frequently thru out a week. It consist of me being pulled up in the air and taken away. I realized when i was young i could keep my eyes closed thru out the nightmare (i opened them once and saw a dark shadow looking figures) i havn't opened them since. Recently i've discovered that once my nightmare starts i know I'm dreaming, like in nightmare on elm st when they realize there in the nightmare..Once i realize i start shaking my body and i wake up shortly after glad that i got out!

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  • dirtybirdy
    11 years ago

    I never really had nightmares. Weird. Is that normal?

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    • kupokupo
      11 years ago

      Yeah, it's normal :) you're a lucky birdy though! I get them a lot.

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      • dirtybirdy
        11 years ago

        I typically have tweet dweams :)

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    • JustShoveIt
      11 years ago

      I've had less than 10 nightmares excluding sleep paralysis.

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  • RoseIsabella
    10 years ago

    I think you're experiencing lucid dreaming. I do that too sometimes. I've had some nightmares in which I'm able to actually pray when it gets too scary and then whatever the threat is just dissipates.

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  • PapzBSlim
    11 years ago

    I laughed at the "shaking your body" to wake yourself up. Quite normal and I do the same if I realize it is a bad dream.

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  • GlassDarkly31
    11 years ago

    Their called lucid dreams.

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  • Kitche
    11 years ago

    I can think and act accordingly in all of my dreams, and can also feel, taste, smell, etc. everything in my dreams, but cannot control or foresee my surroundings any more than I could in reality. I remember one nightmare about being in school in the middle of a slaughter. I saw piles of killed children heaped behind a short fence, and the survivors cowering against it. From this, I was able to figure out someone was killing them, just as I would in real life if I was randomly dropped in this situation.

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  • [Old Memory]
    11 years ago

    oh i thought you meant you could alter the course of yr dream, when the terror is very great it u wakes u up....interesting

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