Last night I had a horrid nightmare that is still bothering me this morning. Has anybody else experienced fear of a dream & if so how long does it continue?
The nightmare was my cats & I were in a house ( not mine) and there were yellow insects ( about 6 inches long) that were trying to harm us.
I would stamp on them or hit them with something, but the parts of it that I crushed started to to grow back again. I was trying to save my cats & myself, then I heard my asthmatic cat crying for his breakfast at 5.10, so woke up.
I am normally very kind to insects & just put them out if they are a nuisance
I always think dreams are can be based on events in the day & yesterday I found 2 houseflies dead on my windowsillā¦but if that is what caused it why was I so scared?
A part content keep reoccurring. Wherever I am in a dream, the same event always takes place. Somehow Iām on deck of a bucking ship and all of a sudden a taught steel hawser close to me snaps explosively and the splayed ends come at me ā¦and thatās when I always wake up.
I donāt remember dreams but I know if I have been dreaming, especially nightmares. I can wake up in a cold sweat shaking like a jelly in a high wind, scared silly but I donāt know why. It can take ages for me to calm down, Iām just thankful it doesnāt happen very often.
When my cat woke me & he was fine I started to feel better but I saw a piece of tissue at the corner of my bed , when I got up to feed the cat & I just couldnāt pick it up without the long handle tongs that I use when I canāt reach something easily.
I have strange dreams but rarely nightmares, so this one really scared meā¦ yet I am rarely scared of insects!
It is good to know that others donāt just wake up and think " what a horrid dream" !
Itās been so long now, Iām used to the sudden awakening. Itās still recurrent though and in whatever situation before the ship occurs, I always end up on deck of the steel ship. I can say exactly, but Iād guess about once a month Iām back on deck.
After my thyroid ops and on medication, my nightmare every night was of a Chinese fighter guy, in all the traditional dress sitting on my chest trying to strangle the living daylights out of me. I always woke with my own hands around my neck Obviously something subconscious going on thereā¦I often wonder if I woke up during the ops but wasnāt aware of it at the time.
I sometimes dream thereās a plane flying very low towards my house, I am watching it through the window, frozen to the spot. Just before it hits the house I wake up shaking.
Many years ago OH & I saw the Trident plane crash on the outskirts of Staines, we were on our way home from his parents house. Somehow the pilot managed to land that one in fields, missing houses, but I think most, if not all on board, died, I remember vividly the tail fin of the plane sticking up in the air separated from the plane.
I think my dream relates to that experience.
That must have really scared you, to still be in your mind, hope you are starting to feel calmer
I have always had very vivid, technicolour dreams and nightmares and sometimes when I wake it can take me a good few minutes to realise it wasnāt real.
I always think they are my mind trying to tell me something and try to work it out
Iām your case I was wondering if you have health worried for your cats or yourselves?
Maybe something niggling you could get checked out?
It might explain the tissue thing to, which is weird as it wasnāt in your dream unless itās because it was on the floor and so were the insects?
Perhaps the insects represent other worries you canāt get rid of or people you think are against you?
Sometimes the feelings in my dreams can last two or three days before they wear off, but there are some dreams that I never forget, even if Iām not scared or sad about them any more. I can still remember dreams I had as a child.
Remember my friend in hospital, nasty electric burn to his handā¦ They stiched his hand into his chest so flesh would grow backā¦ā¦ well something like that
He was/is a powerful guy and his arm/hand was well strapped in
We visited him the night after he caused mayhem on the ward, I asked him what happened.
He explained he had a dream, his was walking through a park swinging a stick in his hand. When a big Dog grab the end of the stick, he pulled but the dog wouldnāt let goā¦ so he pulled swinging from side to side as hard as could.
And thatās when he woke up having pulled his hand out of his chest, blood everywhere nurses rushing back and for.
I donāt recall having dreams or nightmares, probably too busy sleeping if the truth was known! However, I do recall from when I was a youngster waking one morning, just as it was getting light, to find the family pet, a ginger cat, sitting on my chest looking right into my face! That frightened the living daylights out of me! Probably the closest I have ever come to a nightmare, but a waking one at that.
You must have lived in the same area then, then? We were going back from Staines to Slough where we lived.We got to the roundabout, saw the plane & I freaked out, Son was 5 & Daughter a one year old. Probably why I canāt get on a plane now, thinking about it. We moved here the following year.
Thank you for all your interesting replies. A lot of the info you gave me does sound like dreams are related to events in our lives.
Please feel free to post more as you seem to have cured my worries from last night.
You could be right as the cat that woke me has asthma & needs 24
Perhaps your mum sent the cat up to get you out of bed! from last night.
You could be right as the cat that woke me has asthma & needs 24 hour care, in case he needs his inhaler, so I am a very light sleeper. Also, last night the stray cat I have been feeding and keeping warm went out and I heard fireworks, but he is back safe & sound nowā¦
I was working at RAF West Drayton + the adjoining L.A.T.C.C and became snarled up in the traffic which became worse the more I tried different routes taking me well away from my preferred roads. I was over an hour late reaching the Heathrow Control Tower.
A dream of being inside a house, any house is a journey into your own subconscious. This was a house you did not recognise so it was a part of your subconscious you donāt venture into even in dreams. The fear means that it is a part of you where your deepest fears sit. The dream would indicate you have a deep seated fear of being out of control and a current life event may have triggered your dream journey to this place. Perhaps you are not even aware of the life event causing anxiety but your psyche is trying to cope with it at night.
The other reason for such dreams is a physical condition. Metabolism, medication, indigestion, blood pressure etc.
the main thing is that unless it has a physical cause, once you recognise what the dream symbolises and acknowledge that in real life, the dream should not recur. I used to have a vivid recurring dream that I had accidentally killed someone and had hidden the body, it was accompanied by incredible guilt and anxiety that I would be found out. It was actually about blocking off a part of my own psyche & emotions following a trauma. The guilt was my own towards myself, for keeping it from myself. Once I recognised this I have never had the same dream again.
I once saw an occupational psychologist during a stressful period at work and he helped me recognise the power of visualisation therapy in healing the soul. Dreams are just symbols of the component parts of our day to day life translated into images and metaphors.
Thatās a possibility I guess although she couldnāt have āsent the cat upā as we lived in a single storey building, one of those āprefabsā erected just after WWII, also I doubt she would have done that. That was many decades ago now, I can just about recall it happening and that is all. Itās strange what we do remember isnāt it, something from all those yearsā ago and yet sometimes an event from the last month is not easy to recall.
I have recurring dreams (though not lately) in which my late parents either make a brief appearance, or leave, and donāt come back. I am struggling to understand if maybe I canāt let them go? Or because of the way they both left. Dad had passed away in the hospital before we could all get there (July 2005), and mum, with her SAH on the ship, and later having life support switched off here in the UK (October 2012).
Not a nightmare, but not pleasant either, because in the dream I am always looking for them.
I am sure many of us who were not present when our parents passed away can understand your thoughts. Wouldnāt we all want to be there to say our last goodbye.
They will know you loved them so maybe they were trying to say Goodbye in your dreams!
I had a strange dream last night about me negotiating the price of a few lengths of tongue & groove floor boarding with the boss of a Chinese owned sawmill.
Obviously something subconscious going on thereā¦I often wonder if I woke up during the ops but wasnāt aware of it at the time.
