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Post by Sarge on Aug 21, 2020 14:13:49 GMT -5
I've had a few dreams where I'm trying to avoid getting bitten by a snake, and for some reason can't run (or am running in slow motion). Those suck. As do the ones where my teeth fall out.
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Post by toei on Aug 21, 2020 15:19:30 GMT -5
Sometimes when I'd fall asleep on a couch without the space to really lie down normally, I would dream that I couldn't fit my tongue in my mouth anymore. I'd try a bunch of things, then I'd realize it had just gotten too big. Then I'd wake up and my tongue would actually hurt, meaning I had bit it in my sleep. I think this might be because my head was in a position that made it hard to breathe and it activated this weird reflex. Happened a few times, too, always with that same dream.
Also, the last time I had the "punches don't work" dream, I just persevered and hit the guy in the face like 12 times, and he finally fell. Never give up!
I have no idea why were fighting.
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Post by Xeogred on Aug 21, 2020 15:30:05 GMT -5
Sometimes when I'd fall asleep on a couch without the space to really lie down normally, I would dream that I couldn't fit my tongue in my mouth anymore. I'd try a bunch of things, then I'd realize it had just gotten too big. Then I'd wake up and my tongue would actually hurt, meaning I had bit it in my sleep. I think this might be because my head was in a position that made it hard to breathe and it activated this weird reflex. Happened a few times, too, always with that same dream. Also, the last time I had the "punches don't work" dream, I just persevered and hit the guy in the face like 12 times, and he finally fell. Never give up! I have no idea why were fighting. That first one sounds like a nightmare. I had a weird dream somewhat similar but not really at all, where I was in grade school and got spooked one night (this is all the dream) and ran into my parents bedroom. They both woke up and when they both opened their mouth, they had sharp teeth ALL around like a worm mouth kind of thing. So I booked it out of there too. I think this was maybe one section of the dream where Jabba was in our kitchen and I had to leap over his tail. It was actually freaky though, I think he or some snake ate one of my favorite cats. One of those dreams where it seemed lifelike, like a huge crocodile was in our house. Eventually we all frantically got into my family Jeep (guess my parents were normal again) and somehow within moments we went from KS to a desert, all alone on an empty road, with a giant tornado behind us in the shape of Jabba's face trying to eat our car. This was all scarier than it sounds.
I watched the Star Wars OT when I was like 5 and Jabba never scared me at all. But for whatever reason he was the focus in parts of that dream.
Supposedly people can be more susceptible to night terrors when sleeping on your back, because it's such a vulnerable position. Maybe a similar situation to your position on that couch. Either way, I think this theory might be true. There was one year or two where I had legit night terrors for awhile and I once had that classic dream where I "woke up" only to see I was being pinned down into my bed by the grim reaper himself and went through several cycles of trying to fight this and move, "waking up" multiple times, before I truly finally did. That was freaky as heck, because it was another one of those that was like I could feel IT pinning me down into my bed and truly felt locked into place like I was concise in my dream.
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Post by toei on Aug 21, 2020 15:39:45 GMT -5
I think you're more susceptible to sleep apnea when you sleep on your back, too, and sometimes nightmares seem to be linked to physical things, so that could be part of the reason. I know when I was a kid, I always used to hear that eating stuff like pizza late at night would give me nightmares. I don't know if that's true, but if it is, the logic could be that anything difficult to digest could trouble your sleep, and nightmares would be a reaction to that somehow. Children are definitely more prone to nightmares; I very rarely have true, terrifying nightmares like I did when I was a kid. If I dream of something bad, it's mostly plausible situations like losing a job, getting deathly ill, relatives dying, etc.
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Post by Xeogred on Aug 21, 2020 15:51:35 GMT -5
Yeah, like all my childhood dreams were about things trying to kill me, lol. Even evil Transformers at some point. I had some childhood "blankey" cape thing around all the time that I used to shield myself from the giant orange evil tractor Transformer who was looking for me. But there was that happy N64 dream as a kid I'll never forget and probably talked about earlier in this thread. Well "happy" might not be the word, when I woke up realizing I didn't actually own one yet like my dream of playing a 2.5D Super Mario in my home led me to believe haha.
The teenage dreams were about happier things. I'm sure the subject is obvious.
Now as an adult, dreams are just bizarre. Generally not happy or bad, just weird stuff.
I kind of wonder if I have sleep apnea. Would like to get a sleep study done someday. Just doesn't sound very ideal trying to sleep somewhere else for that.
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Post by anayo on Aug 21, 2020 18:07:00 GMT -5
Sometimes when I'd fall asleep on a couch without the space to really lie down normally, I would dream that I couldn't fit my tongue in my mouth anymore. I've dreamed this a few times. My tongue would stretch out like a frog or a chameleon or something, but it wouldn't go back in. It would just hang out of my mouth.
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Post by toei on Aug 21, 2020 19:01:07 GMT -5
A memorable adult dream:
I had insulted somebody on the Internet, and now they were coming to get me with a whole posse of rednecks. I was back in the house I lived in the longest during my later childhood & teen years, and a bunch of people were there. I knew the enemy would be numerous, so I had provided every body with makeshift weapons and placed them around the house. Finally some of them broke down the rear windows and door and they started coming in from all sides, but we were fighting them off with everything we had. I think I had a bat or some kind of stick. It was an epic battle. I was kind of disappointed when I woke up that this was actually just going to be another regular work day.
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Post by anayo on Aug 21, 2020 19:39:31 GMT -5
A memorable adult dream: I had insulted somebody on the Internet, and now they were coming to get me with a whole posse of rednecks. I was back in the house I lived in the longest during my later childhood & teen years, and a bunch of people were there. I knew the enemy would be numerous, so I had provided every body with makeshift weapons and placed them around the house. Finally some of them broke down the rear windows and door and they started coming in from all sides, but we were fighting them off with everything we had. I think I had a bat or some kind of stick. It was an epic battle. I was kind of disappointed when I woke up that this was actually just going to be another regular work day. That dream is particularly unsettling because it could actually happen. I'm generally okay with where I've ended up as an adult but I do kind of miss that about childhood. As a kid I would dream about wild stuff like: - getting abducted by the martians from the movie Mars Attacks - going into a general store in a frontier town where the owner was an anthropomorphic cartoon elephant - donning space marine armor and fighting giant extraterrestrial cockroaches in a shopping mall But as a grown up I'd dream about: - getting behind in a class - getting into arguments with my family - somehow getting a job in the North Korean version of the white house (idk wherever Kim Jung Un works) and stressing out about the parking, because all the high ranking people had special parking places and I was just a peon or intern or something and had to park in the plebian section but I couldn't find where that was Sometimes in adulthood I do still have wild, fantastical dreams, but even those seem to have taken on a shade of banality now.
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Post by Sarge on Aug 21, 2020 22:01:09 GMT -5
I hate the ones where I imagine I've signed up for a college class, and forgotten to attend all semester. Or even worse, for some reason I'm back in my old school pre-college. Those are really weird, because my brain actively rebels against the notion. "Why am I even here? I've graduated college!"
One weird dream I had was one where my parents had turned into some sort of cyborgs. I absolutely know this was inspired by the bit in Superman III where the lady gets pulled in by the supercomputer and turned into one, so... yeah.
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Post by Ex on Aug 21, 2020 22:22:20 GMT -5
Also, the last time I had the "punches don't work" dream, I just persevered and hit the guy in the face like 12 times, and he finally fell. Once I dreamed I shot a guy in the head but he didn't die, so I shoved the gun barrel through the bullet wound, until it impaled his brain, then he died. The two times I have had that happen, I was sleeping on my back, with my arms raised above my head. Both times I dreamed that I couldn't breath and couldn't move, until finally I woke up terrified and gasping for breath. I don't sleep like that anymore. I think you're more susceptible to sleep apnea when you sleep on your back It's true. Sleeping on your side is safer for multiple reasons, also combats snoring. Sometimes I have dreams that I'm inexplicably working at the first job I ever had again. Sweeping a machine shop. That was an after school job I had in high school. I'm always freaked out, and feel like I've failed so badly at my career, that I'm all the way back at the beginning again.
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