who else out there has doomsday nightmares?

[momophile]

Sometimes I am dreaming and all of a sudden there is blinding white light and everything goes hot. Then I wake up shaking. My nuclear dreams.

Anyone else?

[u4ic]

1. My disaster dreams usually consist of

tidal waves, nuclear explosions, plane crashes...people running about, panicking, and me, in the middle of it saying "don't worry, it's only a dream!" :P



I can control mine, so I can also just change the dream midstream.

[momophile]

3. that is very cool that you can control yours

I've only been able to change a nightmare once. I was about to be raped in a dream and then I changed it so I turned into a crow and flew away. It was liberating.

[u4ic]

15. I'm glad you were able to change it

that would have been a very scary dream. :hug:


I didn't consciously learn it, I have always been able to control my dreams.

[momophile]

18. This is really very neat.

I wish I could always do this. The one time I did it I assumed it was because I was half awake or something. But I don't think that was it. I think I just got fed up.

Anyways, you have a very cool ability.:hug:

[Mojambo]

2. I usually don't have disaster dreams

I had one skyscraper collapse dream a few months after 9/11, but that's about it.

[momophile]

5. that's creepy

I dreamt about planes a lot, but no skyscapers.

[BlueStorm]

4. Hurricanes...

earthquakes and drowning in an ocean. But then again I have strange dreams anyways.

Blue

[momophile]

9. I was walking on frozen tundra the other night

I didn't know where I was trying to go to.

As scared as I am of drowning, I don't dream that often about it. What an icky feeling.

[BlueStorm]

21. What were you doing on the tundra other than walking?

Was it all snowy?

Yes the drowning dreams are horrible, there have been times when I would wake up gasping.

Blue

[momophile]

23. I guess it was like walking in Antartica or somewhere

like that. It was solid snow.

But I know why I had the dream, even if I don't know where I was going in the dream. I had just seen 'An Inconvenient Truth.'

[Hissyspit]

6. Yup. The nuclear explosions off in the distance were more common

to me back in the 70s and 80s. Now I often have just general "sense of doom" dreams.

[momophile]

7. It's not that I'm happy that you once had

nuclear dreams. I'm just relieved that I'm not alone. They are so powerful.

[Redstone]

8. Yes.

Redstone

[momophile]

35. I hate nuclear or doomsday nightmares

I hope you don't have them very often.

[Redstone]

37. Only once or twice a year. Several other recurrent dreams as well, one of which

turned out DAMN spooky.

Redstone

[jus_the_facts]

10. I've had several nuclear nightmares since I was young....

....in the last couple years I've had several dreams of watchin' HUGH meteors falling from the sky...I'm SERIES!!!!!11 :D

[momophile]

14. what's with the meteor dreams

just in the last couple of years? Is it movie related?

[jus_the_facts]

36. I guess so...after watchin' Armageddon and gettin' a computer......

....I've read a LOT about space and kept a eye on the near earth asteroids!

a couple sites I watch which most likely leads me to have them...but ignorance must be bliss so beware of the possible nightmare or few... ;-)

www.spaceweather.com

http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/lists/Dangerous.html

[crim son]

11. I have disaster nightmares,

and faceless-murderer-out-to-kill-me nightmares. Regularly.

[momophile]

13. I've had lots of murder nightmares

and I've seen all of my family killed in nightmares. Too creepy. One reason I no longer watch horror movies.

I'm sorry you've had these. They suck.

[crim son]

17. You sort of get used to them.

The worst nightmare I've ever had was back in college. I'd been involved in a two year relationship with a very bad man. Anyhow I finally broke it off for good, just before summer break. About a week later, in bed at my parents' home, I had a dream that I was reclining in the sun, wearing a bathing suit. As I lay there I felt a peculiar sensation, like my body wasn't mine. I took my left hand and plunged it into my abdomen and it cut right through. The texture was somewhere between styrofoam and the black, powdery spores you find inside certain large fungi. Somehow I pulled up a solid wedge of my own flesh. It was solid, rigid, and blackish. A cheese wedge of my own body with a pale skin-covering, but the inside was solid grey. No blood, no organs. Just dark grey matter. Creepy.

[momophile]

20. that is intense

Do you think it meant something relating to you being in a relationship with this bad guy?

[crim son]

24. I think so. He was bad, criminally bad, which I didn't

discover until the relationship was nearly over. I remember that I was still missing him when I had the dream so there was probably a connection.

[momophile]

25. seems like that makes sense

without knowing anymore about the situation than what you wrote, maybe it meant that you weren't being true to yourself? Maybe some of your feelings were conflicting with what you knew to be true?

[crim son]

27. It's possible.

It was a long while ago. At the time I assumed the dream meant that I was dead inside, and the blackish stuff was mold. It's how I felt!

[VenusRising]

12. Mine are totally weird.

I always dream about multiple giant tornadoes, torrential rains and winds, and the always fun fireballs raining from the sky. Most of the time I am trying to flee the weather in a vehicle of some kind.

One of the worst dreams I ever had was being in a building with an elevator. There were people waiting downstairs to ID everyone coming out of the building. I was looking for a way out and went to a window and saw Bush rolling down the street in a tank. It was like a weird parade of the fuhrer kind of thing. It freaked me out.

I would take the tornadoes and fireballs over Bush any day.

[momophile]

16. this reminds me of a dream my mother had years ago

that she still talks about.

Nazi-type military showing up and going door to door. My mom running to hide in the closet. She heard them break down the door and footsteps coming toward the closet. Then the door opened and Jesus stretched out his hand to my crouching mom.

Okay. It's nothing at all like your Bush dream. But maybe as powerful.

[VenusRising]

19. I would much rather have had that dream, too.

I've never had a Jesus dream. The closest I got was dreaming that a deceased friend met me in a green courtyard, gave me a hug, and we floated skyward. There were other people around doing the same thing. I wonder what that dream means.

[momophile]

22. that seems like a pleasant-enough dream

It's very friendly, to me. The death of your friend must have had a big impact on you.

[VenusRising]

26. He died of ARC in the late 80s. It was sad.

He was the first openly gay man in my life who I couldn't help but love. He was my uncle's partner although I was too young to realize.

[momophile]

29. seems appropriate that this came up today

I'm sorry for your loss.

[VenusRising]

30. Thanks. I was thinking the same thing as I was typing.

O8)

[momophile]

32. and welcome to DU

:hug:

[VenusRising]

33. Awwww, thanks.

:hug:

[Codeblue]

28. Two things

My world ending disaster dreams usually revolve around some natural phenomenon that we are completely helpless to prevent like an asteroid or global warming triggering massive volcanic eruptions, tidal waves, earhtquakes and hurricanes so strong that they are far above our current means of measuring hurricane strength

The other thing...controlling the course of your dreams is known as lucid dreaming. You are somewhat aware that you are dreaming and it happens to me all the time. A majority of my dreams are lucid dreams. It's quite a cool thing actually.

[momophile]

31. lucid dreaming

Thank you so much for sharing that. It was a very cool thing the one time I did it. It leaves me wondering, though, if lucid dreaming allows the sleeper to get the deep sleep they need. What is your experience?

[Codeblue]

34. Seems like it should

I don't know whether I get enough sleep as it is. I don't think I ever feel "refreshed" I sleep for one reason or another. Anyway, lucid dreaming still happens in the REM stage of sleep which actually supposedly is more refreshing than that deep sleep.

As far as I know anyway, lucid dreaming allows you to have the same amount of sleep as any other dream. Lucid dreaming really only occurs when you're waking up in the morning anyway.