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And by "dreams" I mean the good ol fashioned kind that occur when you're deep in sleep...not the consciously manufactured version that give you reason to wake up and get through each day.
Anyway, ever have a dream that was just so *real* that when you woke up you felt disjointed and not fully aware of your current, waking life circumstances? Could be a good dream that was just so good you really didn't want to wake up...could be a bad one or even a nightmare that you were grateful to be free of, but still somehow unsure of the boundaries between conscious and sub-conscious realities.
I dream vividly. I nearly always remember at least one dream when I awake each morning. I love this about my brain and am thankful for it. But once in a while I have a dream that just truly touches upon something- etches grooves throughout my psyche- that effects me for the entire day after...or longer. I had one of those dreams last night. It seemed epic- as if the dream WAS my life and didn't just take up a few hours of my sub-conscious mind. When I woke up I was almost startled. I wanted to go back into it. I tried to fall asleep again, but my brain and body generally won't let me sleep past 6:00 am no matter what might or might not be happening that would require me to be awake at that hour. It's now 1:40pm and my entire day so far has been colored by this bizarre, but oh-so-real dream.
-K
Anyway, ever have a dream that was just so *real* that when you woke up you felt disjointed and not fully aware of your current, waking life circumstances? Could be a good dream that was just so good you really didn't want to wake up...could be a bad one or even a nightmare that you were grateful to be free of, but still somehow unsure of the boundaries between conscious and sub-conscious realities.
I dream vividly. I nearly always remember at least one dream when I awake each morning. I love this about my brain and am thankful for it. But once in a while I have a dream that just truly touches upon something- etches grooves throughout my psyche- that effects me for the entire day after...or longer. I had one of those dreams last night. It seemed epic- as if the dream WAS my life and didn't just take up a few hours of my sub-conscious mind. When I woke up I was almost startled. I wanted to go back into it. I tried to fall asleep again, but my brain and body generally won't let me sleep past 6:00 am no matter what might or might not be happening that would require me to be awake at that hour. It's now 1:40pm and my entire day so far has been colored by this bizarre, but oh-so-real dream.
-K
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Re: The power of dreams
Mon, August 3, 2009 - 8:28 PMI have a recurring nightmare that has been part of my life for over 30 years. Each time that I have it, the entire day is less productive because I'm on edge from the fear and panic that I experience in the nightmare. In addition I feel physically weaker for much of the day because I have spent what seems like a long part of the night before running away from something that I fear. After much counseling I understand what I am running from but I can't seem to make the nightmare go away.
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Re: The power of dreams
Tue, August 4, 2009 - 5:36 AMThat sounds horrible, Deb.
Have you tried any of those techniques designed to help you take control of your dreams? I don't remember all of them, but there's one that works well for me when I remember to use it. I memorize my right hand- every last detail. Then while I'd dreaming if I happen to notice my right hand (I haven't quite figured out how to MAKE myself notice it) it will remind me that I might be dreaming and I can test it by doing something seemingly impossible or ridiculous. It doesn't always work, but it has a few times,
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Re: The power of dreams
Tue, August 4, 2009 - 1:47 PMK;
I haven't tried any techniques like you are describing, possibly because I haven't referenced them or had them discussed with me by a counselor.
The counseling helped me to understand what I'm running from and I think I have an idea of what triggers the nightmare so I work on that aspect in the conscious hours of the day. This has helped to reduce the frequency of the nightmare. However the trigger is potentially and often beyond my control because it has to do with how others speak to me or treat me. When I was a child, I was molested by a male family member. The nightmare involves me running away from that person in the dream and as the nightmare progresses more people are chasing me - usually male although not always. As the crowd of people gets closer to me, I am shocked awake and screaming out loud usually with heavy sweating. It is a fear response so a lot of adrenalin seems to be involved too.
If I could figure out how to stop the nightmare that would be wonderful. For the moment, I try to analyse and process how I feel from an interaction with people in the here and now so that the crowd in the nightmare doesn't get bigger. -
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Re: The power of dreams
Mon, August 10, 2009 - 2:48 PMI used to have a dream of someone chasing me and I thot it was the devil. I told myself to stop running and turn around and face it, and eventually I remembered to do it in my dream. When I did, it disintigrated into nothing and I never had a dream like that again. I think it was a lesson to look at things in real life too and not run away from things that scare me. -
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Re: The power of dreams
Tue, August 11, 2009 - 8:04 PMD'Nah;
Thanks for that suggestion. It is probably a valid one. The counseling I received surrounding the childhood abuse was helpful for me to make a plan for dealing with this family member in the here and now. I still need to face it in my unconscious, I guess. And other abuses have piled on since so there are other issues to face.
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