Weird Dreams

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Weird Dreams

by Usksider ^Pro @ 01.07.2008 – 04:13:12

Do any of you guys have very odd dreams?

I don't just mean the everyday strangeness that dreams tend to feature.

I mean really weird dreams...

I certainly do and they are always worse when I'm that little extra stressed.

I'm convinced my dreams have been very much odder since I started taking medication to fight my depression... and as already mentioned, when something stressful is playing on my mind I can guarantee I'm in for some extra-weird night time experiences.

Woke myself up screaming three times last night... probably woke the rest of the household too... I don't remember what I was screaming at though... the general context of the dream was being back at work... anyway, my night ended somewhat prematurely.
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- NotBob ^Pro
- 01.07.2008 @ 07:35:02
All the time, and I can't blame them on meds.
I've blogged about some of the tamer ones, but sometimes I wake up screaming, too.
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  - 01.07.2008 @ 07:55:44
  I've always had some odd dreams, but there have been some real crackers in the last twelve months.
  
  I've read a couple of yours.
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- deleted user (Visitor)
- 01.07.2008 @ 08:43:31
By coincidence two people at work were saying yesterday how they'd both had the same dream at different times. They both dreamt that a plane crashed into some houses in their village. The first one to dream it never told the other one and yet when the second person dreamt about it and shared it with her colleague, it turns out that they both dreamt that the plane crashed into exactly the same row of houses. It's not a small village so it was weird how they both had exactly the same dream about exactly the same row of houses but years apart.
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  - 01.07.2008 @ 12:51:51
  Good lord... as a superstitious type, that's not a village you'd want to live in is it?
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- deana24
- 01.07.2008 @ 08:46:07
Work is enough to make anyone scream.
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  - 01.07.2008 @ 12:53:10
  The bloody university is, that's for sure.
  - - deana24
    - 01.07.2008 @ 13:33:01
    lordy, do you work in one of those as well?
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      - 01.07.2008 @ 13:41:39
      For the last 34 years....
      No wonder I've gone loopy is it?
      - deana24
        
        01.07.2008 @ 13:54:49
        
        I am greatly surprised your head hasn't fallen right off.
        
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        Usksider ^Pro
        
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        01.07.2008 @ 14:01:40
        
        There are worse things in life... but not many!
        
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- tylluanpenry
- 01.07.2008 @ 09:41:09
Meds (especially for depression) can have that effect... (especially Venlaflaxine apparently....) I find moon phases can affect my dream patterns, but generally it can be a way of the subconscious trying to alert you to something.

Our ancestors believed that elves and evil spirits caused nightmares, and you could quite literally be 'ridden by the mare'. One popular defence against nightmares was mistletoe although you could use any aromatic or thorny plant placed beneath the bed.

Another popular belief is that the really vivid dreams take us very close to the magical realms, where the threat of harm can be quite real.

My dreams are plain weird. I dream in foreign languages sometimes. But I don't wake up screaming.... somehow I always manage to talk myself out of trouble....
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  - 01.07.2008 @ 13:04:41
  Waking up screaming is something I'm not keen on, but it seems to have happened quite a lot this last 12 months.
  
  I'd be happy to blame the elves, but I suspect it has far more to do with my meds....
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- ajnspencer ^Pro
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- 01.07.2008 @ 10:39:54
Yep, more when I'm stressed.

Mine tend to work like clip montages, I go from one thing to another with no logical link and things appear that have no reason, but mix with another...

Seriously, if I recorded some of my dreams people would have me committed.
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  - 01.07.2008 @ 13:14:52
  Nothing wrong with being committed, trust me.
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- trintrin1x
- 01.07.2008 @ 10:54:21
Yeh i had a nightmare last night, thought Mo was a monster and was trying to turn me into one, woke up about 4 times, my back is killing me today for some reason. x
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  - 01.07.2008 @ 13:15:32
  Perhaps there was something in the midnight air...
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- xmillyxxx ^Pro
- 01.07.2008 @ 11:56:05
Yes....quite often! I came off all my meds 2 weeks ago as i was having some very strange and disturbing dreams. Still get them and they can feel very real at times. hope you sleep better tonight hun xx
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  - 01.07.2008 @ 13:19:22
  I've got a back to work type medical at 9:00 tomorrow morning, so it'd suit me to have another sleepless night tonight; sunken eyes and a vacant expression will help no end.
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