What are the worst kind of dreams?

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BD231

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the ones that shape your future, but always manifest in ways that never see your dreams met !
 

Carson Dyle

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The worst AND the best are dreams with my dead Mom and Dad. The dreams are always pleasant, usually with them and myself and my siblings. But then I wake up and I'm in a state of confusion for seconds, even minutes. First, I'll recall that Mum passed away 20 years ago. Sad, but Dad is still here. Wait. No, he's not. Is he? No. No, they're both gone.
 

brianmanahan

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The worst AND the best are dreams with my dead Mom and Dad. The dreams are always pleasant, usually with them and myself and my siblings. But then I wake up and I'm in a state of confusion for seconds, even minutes. First, I'll recall that Mum passed away 20 years ago. Sad, but Dad is still here. Wait. No, he's not. Is he? No. No, they're both gone.

:(
 

Chaotic42

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I hate the dreams where you keep "waking up", but you don't really wake up. They feel like they take weeks to end. Dreaming about peeing always crack me up - I'm usually somewhere with dozens of urinals and toilets and they never work.
 

BurnItDwn

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I envy people who have dreams.

I don't think I've ever dreamed in my sleep in my entire life except for the few months when I was on nicotine patches. If I forgot to take the patch off before bed, I would sometimes have some dreams at night.
 

snoopy7548

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Anyone ever experience sleep paralysis? Your mind wakes up so you're conscious and alert, but your body is still "sleeping" and you can't move at all. That's not so bad, but you often see/hear or feel demons/figures approaching you. I've had it a bunch of times but not in a while, and it seems like it has only happened if I fall asleep on my back.
 

skull

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Jun 5, 2000
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Anyone ever experience sleep paralysis? Your mind wakes up so you're conscious and alert, but your body is still "sleeping" and you can't move at all. That's not so bad, but you often see/hear or feel demons/figures approaching you. I've had it a bunch of times but not in a while, and it seems like it has only happened if I fall asleep on my back.

I've had it a few times, the worst was when I was sick and fell asleep on the couch watching tv in the middle of the day. I could see nothing but shadows dancing around and it felt like I was actually struggling I was using all my force to get up and move but something was holding me down. Went on way longer than any other time I had it.

When I was a kid I used to sleep walk all the time. I used to try to leave the house in the middle of the night. One time my mom woke me up asking me what I was doing, just peeing mom, shes like yeah your pissing all over the closed toilet lid.
 

lxskllr

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Anyone ever experience sleep paralysis? Your mind wakes up so you're conscious and alert, but your body is still "sleeping" and you can't move at all. That's not so bad, but you often see/hear or feel demons/figures approaching you. I've had it a bunch of times but not in a while, and it seems like it has only happened if I fall asleep on my back.
Happened once in my first apt. The place was old as shit, and that made me think it might be haunted. Felt like I was being held down in bed. Never happened again, and the reality was much less interesting :^(
 

Skunk-Works

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Not sure if these are the worse, but they can be a bit stressful: School dreams. I get those every now and then and it seems to have several reoccuring themes, sometimes all in the same dream.

- forgetting where a certain class is
- forgetting my locker combination
- forgetting where my locker is, sometimes forgetting my combination too! So I need to brute force each locker.

Funny thing is I've been out of school for over 10 years.

A newish theme, being in class, and having a sudden realization that I havn't been to math class in months, and realizing that I have not been looking at my schedule but rather just remembering it from memory... except for math. I eventually wake up, then I go into panic, thinking "wait, when IS the last time I went to that class?" Takes me a bit then it's like "ohhhh right, I'm not even in school anymore, thank God!".

I'd say the ones that are even worse though are dreams about waking up, usually dream that I wake up, and take my shower, and do all that stuff. Only to wake up and realize that I dreamed all that, and then having to do it all over again. It's like "I just did all that! Now I have to redo it".


I've had the same exact dreams! Forgetting the locker combination is a common theme with going to the information desk to print me out a new classroom assignment thingy what ever it was called.

Perhaps this is due to not doing so well in school and wishing you could go back and do it all over again. ;) I think that's true for me. I dropped out sophomore year in high school. Got a GED a few years latter.
 

Skunk-Works

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The worst dream you ask? Waking up right when you are getting it on with the most beautiful female specimen you had ever seen. Damn that sucks!
 

crashtech

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Odd that I, like others here, still dream of not being able to find the right classroom, not having my textbook, or otherwise being bewildered or unprepared for class. I've not attended college in over 25 years, but when I did, I was always over-prepared, if anything.
 

BoomerD

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I hate the dreams where you keep "waking up", but you don't really wake up. They feel like they take weeks to end. Dreaming about peeing always crack me up - I'm usually somewhere with dozens of urinals and toilets and they never work.

I hate the "dreaming about peeing" dreams...I HAVE to get up and go pee...and not many things make me madder than waking up from a good sleep, just to go take a leak. I suppose taking the leak THEN waking up would be one of those things though, so.....
 

DietDrThunder

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Anyone ever experience sleep paralysis? Your mind wakes up so you're conscious and alert, but your body is still "sleeping" and you can't move at all. That's not so bad, but you often see/hear or feel demons/figures approaching you. I've had it a bunch of times but not in a while, and it seems like it has only happened if I fall asleep on my back.

Unfortunately I have these types of dreams way too often. Either someone is chasing me, or someone is trying to kill me, or I'm in a coffin being lowered into the ground, then I realize I'm in a dream, and become conscious, but I can't wake my body up. I then try to move my body, make noises, or scream to wake myself up, but it doesn't work. My wife hears all the muffled screams I'm making (can't open my lips) and it wakes her up. She then starts pushing on me to wake me up and tells me to wake up you're dreaming. Usually I wake up within a couple of seconds of her touching me, but one one occasion she started to freak out because I was still making all these muffled screams, and she said it took her several minutes to wake me. I could feel everything she was trying to do to wake me up, but it just wasn't working. Once she started screaming at me and shaking me violently, I finally woke up. Needless to say she didn't sleep the rest of the night as she was totally freaked out.
 

snoopy7548

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Unfortunately I have these types of dreams way too often. Either someone is chasing me, or someone is trying to kill me, or I'm in a coffin being lowered into the ground, then I realize I'm in a dream, and become conscious, but I can't wake my body up. I then try to move my body, make noises, or scream to wake myself up, but it doesn't work. My wife hears all the muffled screams I'm making (can't open my lips) and it wakes her up. She then starts pushing on me to wake me up and tells me to wake up you're dreaming. Usually I wake up within a couple of seconds of her touching me, but one one occasion she started to freak out because I was still making all these muffled screams, and she said it took her several minutes to wake me. I could feel everything she was trying to do to wake me up, but it just wasn't working. Once she started screaming at me and shaking me violently, I finally woke up. Needless to say she didn't sleep the rest of the night as she was totally freaked out.

It's probably good I'm not married or I would totally use that to play a practical joke with blood capsules. Pretend I'm having an episode and start moaning, then when she starts screaming bite down on the blood capsule in my mouth. Then again, I do like sleeping on the couch.