Usually, the first few teeth are fun to pull out, then I realize that I have no teeth. Horrifying nightmares involving monsters and zombies or fighting to stay alive are, IMHO, invigorating and I enjoy retelling them. Natural disaster dreams like enormous waves hitting my house or tornado dreams always seem the most real to me. In the tornado dreams I always find myself saying, "It's really happening this time, I am not dreaming!" with joy. Then, to my dismay, I wake up and I really was dreaming. There was a time when we were in a severe weather watch. My husband called me outside and there really was a funnel cloud forming in the clouds directly over us. It fizzled but that wasn't a dream. The most horrifying nightmare I ever had was when I was about ten, an invasion of Snakemen (See the movie Dreamscape), had killed everyone around me and surrounded me in the street. The sun was so bright, I couldn't keep my eyes open and everytime I tried to stand up and run, I would get dizzy, spin, and fall again. I awoke when they had gotten within arms length but never forgot that dream.
The two types of dreams I hate are; when you are trying to defend yourself but it feels like you are trying to punch someone through water. The other is when I can't save my kids from something. One in particular, I dreamt that my 6 yr old daughter broke away from me in a garage parkinglot and a guy backing out of his spot ran over her head. It was horrifying and I woke up shaking and crying but it served a good purpose. I don't believe in psychic dreams or anything, it just made me more alert because it stayed with me for so long. A while after that, we were in a parkinglot and that daughter, excited to get to her birthday party, bolted out the door and almost ran right into the car that was backing out. It was a close enough scare that I pulled her down in a tackle. The guy even got out of his car a little shooken up and telling me he was sorry he didn't see her. I certainly didn't fault him for it and assured that she was down because of me. Whoa I am shaking now just talking about it.
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Originally Posted by Fazor
edit: me being the...er..."savant" that my sig suggests I am, I forgot to post the link. Here ya go.
There was a very interesting article on NYTimes (might require registration, but it's free) that I suggest anyone who's interested in dreams take a look at. I don't know how much of the information provided is new; I just found it to be a very good read.
But it made me think, how many of you are like me, in that you like nightmares?
There's certian ones I don't like; the most frequent being any dream that involves my teeth to start to break apart and fall out (ick!). But most others; even ones where I'm in immediate and mortal danger, I find to be fun. Sure, there's moments where your pulse rate gets goin and you're scared. But I love that feeling.
The last two paragraphs of the article also give a possible utility for these dreams:
Which I thought was pretty cool. Makes a lot of sense too.
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