Question of the Day, Feb. 28

larussa

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I'm sure glad to see this month end, we got so much snow this month it's not even funny. Most of the time someone shoveled for me but still.

Do you ever have nightmares. I get them once in a while. I try to stay away from horror movies, guess I wonâ€[emoji]8482[/emoji]t be going to see the latest Wolfman movie, even the commercials scare me. I have had nightmares all my life but far and few between. What about you?
 

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Fortunately, I only have them rarely....maybe once or twice a year. My most recent one was this past Wednesday. I dreamed that my Dad had died. I woke my self at about 2 am yelling, "NO!!!" I had to wait nearly 6 hours to call, and hear his voice.....It was terrible.
 

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I occasionally have nightmares. Most of mine tend to be day to day kind of stuff rather than monsters or the like. The most common one that I've had involves being enrolled in a class that I completely forgot about. It's the end of the semester and I'm panicking because I just remembered the class and realized I will fail it unless I do something very fast. The class in the nightmare always seems to be something like English Composition, too. As a math/science type of guy, those classes are scary enough to begin with.
 

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I have them occasionally as well, in fact I had one last night.
Horror movies don't make me have them though. In fact I LOVE a good horror movie.
 

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I haven't had a nightmare in decades. I was put into a study when I was a kid, though, for the recurring nightmares and night terrors I used to have (combined with asthma attacks so I couldn't scream to wake up). Pretty horrible.

My sister Linda taught me to lucid dream and change the endings when I was young so that helped a lot. It also helped when I moved out of the abusive household I grew up in.
 

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Not usually. I have very vivid dreams, but I rarely have nightmares. As someone above said, maybe once or twice a year??
 

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Actual scary horror movie type nightmares? Never, not even as a child.

I don't have any I'd consider nightmares now, either. Vivid dreams that are more like action movies, yes.
But I do have some dreams people might consider to be nightmares - whenever I have any sort of problem I need to fix (say a computer/software issues) I'll work it out in my sleep.
 

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I don't have horror movie type nightmares either, but sometimes my dreams are not pleasant, but they are always just ridiculous, like I am never myself in my dreams and if someone I know in real life is in my dream, it's never physically that person, it's always someone else who symbolizes the real life person. The surroundings are never the same either, some characteristics of a place for example are the same but others are filled in by my imagination. That's probably how it is for most people, but I haven't really heard anyone else describe that.
Typical nightmares for me are gaining weight, looking for Jake and not finding him anywhere, someone I know dying, failing a test....
 

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I know I have the occasional nightmare, because I realize I have screamed and DH is checking that I'm OK. But it's not very often at all -- maybe a couple of times a year -- and I never remember what I was dreaming. I seldom remember any dream for that matter.
 

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The last nightmare I had involved my favorite childhood cartoon characters, Carebares. In my dream, they talked like that freaky thing on the movie "Leprechaun". It was quite disturbing!
 

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Originally Posted by kara_leigh

Not usually. I have very vivid dreams, but I rarely have nightmares. As someone above said, maybe once or twice a year??
same feelings here.....


But this happen when I´m under pressure of work...
 

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For me, I guess it's how you define nightmare...

According to dictionary.com: a terrifying dream in which the dreamer experiences feelings of helplessness, extreme anxiety, sorrow, etc.

Now, I have long, detailed, and usually totally unrealistic dreams. Some of these dreams, maybe a few year, are scary in hindsight. Like, when I wake up and think of it, I think "what in the WORLD is going on in my subconscious??" Generally, they consist of death, and it scares me after the fact that I would dream of such a thing... To the point that I won't tell you guys here, for fear you will think I'm insane like I sometimes wonder.


But, I ALWAYS know when I'm dreaming, so it's not like I am actually scared or experiencing those feelings while dreaming... It's just when awake, it scares me that I would dream such a thing!

As a side note, my dreams are the same Utopia's, in that no one or where is actually what they are in real life! I just know that is them! I call it "acting".
 

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Originally Posted by LaRussa

Do you ever have nightmares. I get them once in a while. I try to stay away from horror movies,
Nightmares: Maybe 1 or 2 (3 max) a year

Horror movies: There was a time when I avoided them, but now if I see one (always on TV - I won't pay) I just laugh because I know there's a director nearby yelling "Now scream!" and cameramen and makeup professionals too, etc. So fake.
And the "victims" get to go home, brush their teeth, shower and go to bed just like the rest of us.
 
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