🛌 Night Visions
When dreams meet reality, what do we end up with? .
It's been months since I had the idea of writing this post... just over 4 months and I've finally made some time to write it.
We're probably all familiar with the occasional nightmare (or bad dream). For me, it's hard to call it either. I'm not being chased by murderers or being attacked by a dog... although I did have one dream where I was. So I guess it's time for the traditional gorilla segue.
It will be many years ago now, probably in the mid-2000's that I was living with my then-girlfriend. We'd both have been asleep when I started dreaming about a dog attacking me. Presumably, I was fidgeting in the bed, fighting off the rabid mutt.
My poor girlfriend, not knowing what I was dreaming makes the decision to shake me to wake me up. Of course, the sensation of touch correlated with my dream - the association of her hands being the dog's jaws.
Fortunately, nobody was seriously hurt and it served as a warning for future events.
Segue complete.
For many years, I've half woken up and seen people in my bedroom. Not real people, all a figment of my imagination. They'd always be standing over me, often leaning in. Initially terrifying in nature, I've grown to live with these visitors and casually tell them to go away. If we did ever have an intruder, my casual response would probably scare them off.
Apart from on the occasion that I'm writing about now.
I don't know what made this night different, but this time, I decided to kick the shit out of the imaginary figure in my room. With such ferocious power and precision, I took the assailant's head clean off and woke up in the process.
I suppose my subconsious thought that I needed a new bedside lamp.
I know, not the most interesting or exciting story that I'll ever tell. I'm interested in hearing if anybody else has these kinds of visions so consistently, that you've trained yourself to ignore them?
I have experienced hovering figures only during a couple of sleep paralysis episodes but that was a long time ago. I don't usually get nightmares but whenever I do, I'm lying straight on my back. I avoid this sleeping position but sometimes I deliberately sleep that way just to check if my ghosts are still there. 🤣
During my final year in university, I had a Computer Architecture course taught by a professor who was a MIT graduate and was a genuis but his teaching method was not something an average student could grasp, even the toppers would struggle sometimes in his exams.
I remember fidgeting in my dreams for a week after the exam. Instead of human figures, data, memory and instruction registers hovered over me. My mind was stuck on a problem that I couldn't solve in the exam and my brain decided to solve it in my dreams. It sounds funny now but I couldn't sleep properly for a long time. The only thing that helped was not thinking about the subject in the waking hours. Thankfully, it was the final exam. I didn't have to deal with it anymore anyway.
Did it succeed?
I'll often do that. There are some problems that I know I can solve but concentrating on them makes the solution get further away! I'll even say now "Let's leave that. My subconscious will work it out" and more often than not, the answer will suddenly appear when I'm doing something else.
Like a slow AJAX request 😆
In reality, it succeeded. But my subconscious was stuck in a loop. It was annoying to the point that I started dreading sleeping.
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I don't have visitors in my dreams like you do, but
Many years ago, that is, when I was a teenager, I had a recurring nightmare. It was very scary.
Right next to the school I went to, there was a large warehouse for fruit and vegetables. And the nightmare was about that warehouse, it was on fire and behind the bars of the windows you could see people desperately trying to get out, but the bars were in the way of their escape.
Luckily, after a few years, I no longer dreamed about it, but it has been burned into my memory.
Pun intended?
Did the warehouse ever burn down? Was their a point in history when it did burn down?
I wonder why our brains choose to torment us with things that we don't like. Our brains should be nicer to us.
No it hasn't burned down, it's still there today.
The building has now been converted into a bakery and coffee shop.
Just hope that dream doesn't come true.
What exactly is a dream
I think about the fact that in dreams I talk to other people, it could be friends and it could be people I don't know. Are they also connected and we meet in the same dreams, who knows
If it does, we'll have to remove all traces of this conversation 😆
Mine are often an aggregation of things that have happened throughout the day - mashed up into an incoherent mess! Sometimes though, there'll be a lucid moment of revelation.
You can understand why some people make a lot of money "interpreting dreams".
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Obviously, there is something in your life that you need to get rid of or that just needs to be put in the right place I guess. I have had pretty crazy dreams myself recently, but it's more of a temporary imbalance and not really that consistent like in your case.
If only I knew what it was!
It used to happen a lot when I was younger. I think I was angrier back in those days. Of course, things still irritate me but not like they did back then.
I'll have to pay more attention next time it happens to what happaned that day and how I felt.
I'll often combine events throughout the day into a random dream - whcih ends up very confused!
I hope whatever's going on gets resolved soon and you can get back to "normal".
Años atras, aun vivia en casa de mi mama y una madrugada ya todos dormiamos, mientras yo lo hacia soñaba o sentia qie algo me tenia atrapada, no podia pedir ayuda, me estremeci tanto que logre agarrar mi celular y llame a mi mama, ella dormia en el otro cuarto, llego y prendio la luz y comenzo a orar. Con lagrimas en mis ojos no se que fue lo que paso.
Hace poco lo volvi a sentir, esta vez yo dormia con mi esposo y mi bebe; el tenia 2 años: una madrugada mientras dormiamos soñe que alguien me amarraba de las manos y me tapaba la boca, y mientras yo intentaba pedir ayuda escuche unos pasos " pense que era mi esposo quien me queria hacer algo" pero tambien pense que se daria cuenta de lo que me pasaba y me ayudaria" resulta que el si escucho mis quejas y me desperto, le conte todo y me dijo que el no se levanto para nada. Antes yo lo desperte. Aun sigo sin entender el significado de eso que me a pasado 2 veces, y que en este momento ya me dio panico a que pueda pasar. Que sera!! Me gustaria saber.
Wow! I have no doubt that a "dream expert" would happily take your money and give you a reason!
A part of me believes that there are "other worldly" spirits present in these kinds of premonitions. From movies, books, etc. our subconscious has been trained to make us believe that they're all evil and have bad intentions... so I've slowly trained my brain to believe that if there were other spirits, it's more likely that I'm bringing them joy and that they are grateful to be able to watch our family.
Maybe your subconscious thinks that you talk too much 😆
I don't dream at all. Well - I certainly do, I'm just not aware of any dreams when I wake up. Do you know how bad that is? Compared to people with very colourful, creative dreams, you feel colourless and empty...
That can be trained if you want to remember it. Tell yourself that every time you dream you wake up. Place paper and pencil next to your bed and if you wake up you write down your dream and next continue sleeping. If you practise it a bit you can write in the dark and you will be surprised what you wrote down.. next step: translate it.
Interesting suggestion ;-)) Personally, I'm struggling to get my body / mind / anything to realise that when the alarm goes off, it's time to wake up... ;-)) Otherwise I sleep so soundly that a bomb alarm would only wake me up if I got the grenade directly on my skull ;-))))
That sounds like the perfect, deep sleep that so many of us (especially me) miss out on. I think that remembering dreams means that you're wokrn up before they've finished. So maybe if you set your alarm for random periods throughout the night, you'll remember some 🙂
Sounds to me that you are lacking large doses of drugs/alcohol in your system.
My advice would be go on a 2 day bender
Ha ha. I had these same "dreams" throughout my 20's - I can guarantee that there was more alcohol in my system than even the most generous of medical advisers.
The chances are that if I go on a 2 day bender, these figures will cease to be imaginary!
I have to admit that your dreams are quite unique. I have had nightmares, but they have never been similar to each other. The strangest thing about my dreams is that if I dream of someone close to me in a nightmare, something bad happens to them the next day. The last time I had a nightmare, it was my father, and the next day he had a hypertensive crisis and had to call an ambulance. It's probably just a coincidence, but such coincidences happen surprisingly regularly.
Do you make sure of that? 😉
That's so bizarre. I definitely believe that our subconscious is capable of observing things that goes unnoticed by us! Perhaps there are signs that only our subconsiouses pick up on.
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There were definitely several such coincidences.
It is likely that our certain premonitions and fears "materialize" in dreams.
I don't find your dream weird at all but I wonder why you broke the lamp! Did I ever ignore what I knew or saw? Once as I was about 7-8 years old and walking on the streets. I saw a lady walk in front of me and new she would die soon. I decided that I wouldn't tell and said: this isn't what I want to know.
It was silent for longer.
With the rest I lived and it doesn't scare me. If your read me once in a while you know who my best friend is posting at my bed. And the lamps? Some refuse to work for months and suddenly burn again. I am totally fine with it.
Dreams? Not what others dream it's more the time of writing and to reunite.
I agree with the remark made that there's something you should figure out or better decide. Instead of ignoring the question should be: what do you want from me?
I was kicking the bad guy... really hard in the head.
Oh, your lamp was the bad guy?
The lamp was where the bad guy's head would have been, had it not all been a dream. My poor lamp. I had to go and buy a new one.
When I’m in that half-awake dream state, I usually try to shape the dream the way I want. Luckily, I’ve never seen anyone standing over me though! But if I ever had that chance, I’d probably turn them into Deepika Padukone or Alexandra Daddario 😂
Ha ha, I try to do that too (only if it's a good one!) I'll try to go back to sleep, specifically thinking about where the dream was when I woke up.
It hasn't worked yet though!
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Dreams are an inexplicable part of our reality. Sometimes, they are good, sometimes bad, and sometimes, we revisit our terrors in them.
As one who knows quite a bit about bad dreams and has already learned to make a distinction between dreamtime and physical reality, I'm in total solidarity with your action, as, once, I too used to fight the demons in my dreams, up to the point where falling on the corner of my bedside table almost took my left eye, which included a visit to the Hospital.
So, if it ever happens again, to see figures going around your room, just do what the Beatles say and let it be. Even if they are real, you are lying in bed and at a disadvantage. You may as well pretend to be asleep.
That's what I do, anyway... Cheers, mate!
I had trained myself to ignore my visitors. It works most of the time but occassionaly I'll fight back - or wrap them in my duvet so that they can't get me. It's normally a kick though - that's the most powerful attack 😆