I just had an awful dream where my teeth started coming loose and falling out for no reason. Within an hour, I'd lost three teeth! It was so realistic that I almost still believed it when I woke up. I guess I've been hanging around first graders too much--but believe me, it's not nearly as traumatic for them as it was for me. I was totally freaking out.

It was almost as bad as the one where my college professors tell me I've flunked my student teaching and am being kicked out of school after six years of hard work. I've had that one a lot, but I've only had this one about the teeth twice now.

Have you ever had a dream that was so vivid you actually still believed it for a minute after waking up?

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Oh yeah. Just for a couple moments though.

My favorite though is when I wake up at 4:45 AM and start to drag myself out of bed, then remember it is Saturday. I LOVE that feeling.

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"Within the next generation I believe that the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

Since I started on Effexor, I've had that happen almost nightly. Previously, I rarely remembered my dreams unless I was very sleep-deprived, now I wake up and take stock to remind myself that, yes, I'm still in bed, I'm still in my room.

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"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

Generally speaking, the most scary dreams are those where I or administration have made this horrible error, causing my study to take a LOT more time and effort. It takes a few moments to get over those, but the relief that all is solved causes you to sleep well afterwards.

There are bad dreams of course, but in general I like dreams. I mean, we've all done quite some things in our dreams we would have never experienced in the real world, yet while dreaming them it appears to be real. (in most dreams at least; you've got those situations where you're half awake and actually know you're dreaming, verrry nice when yo're able to steer a dream but it feels less real.).

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Oooo, yikes. I was on that stuff for about a month; it really messed me up too. I went off it as soon as they'd let me. I felt really detached all the time; like I was seeing the world through somebody else. And I remember my dreams were especially vivid at the time, too, even though it's been over seven years since I had it. I don't know anyone who's benefitted from the stuff; everyone I know who has tried it says they felt the same thing and hated it.

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Yeah I get that dream about once evey other month or so. My teeth will just start breaking apart or just falling out. First it's just one. Then another. Then another. Pretty soon it's like i've lost all my teeth. It's wierd, and I hate it.

It's about the only re-occuring bad dream I have anymore though. I'm remembering less and less of my dreams. I use to be able to wake up just about every morning and know what I dreamed about. Now it's pretty rare.

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What an awful dream. Small wonder you woke up panicking. :-\

Yes. A few years ago had a vivid dream about a male cousin dying. Woke up confused: Was it just a dream (hopefully), or had I received the bad news the day prior and dreamed about it too?

I had to telephone my mother to find out which. :-\ Cousin is alive and well.

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dreams about teeth falling out are supposed to be caused by anxiety, so I have heard. I have had a few myself.


as for lucid dreaming(where you realise that you are dreaming) I have had a few and some can be quite scarry because you wonder how you are going to get back to the real world.
I remmeber, I was in a dream and realised I was dreaming and it was all quite real and I pictured myself home in bed and thought "how am I going to wake up when I am already, in a sence, awake?". You have to calm yourself down and try to get back to some non-lucid dreaming and then, later, you can wake up.

I've had a lucid dream where I was already quite awake; I knew I was dreaming and indeed on the very edge of getting up, but I forced myself to stay asleep and explore dreamland a bit more. It waqs very nice, but in the end the getting awake won and that was the end of it. Also very nice are deeper lucid dreams where I am not near waking up at all but just realize I am dreaming. That realisation gives the perfect excuse for morally wrong decisions in my dreams. Muhaha.

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The dreams I remember are usually either scary, or so dang confusing that I welcome waking up. Being chased is a frequent component.

ADDED; about Effexor, I'm on a low dose (75 mg/day), on higher doses I get pretty whacked out. Of all the meds I've tried, this on e actually has the least side effects (no vomiting, no-- well, few --migraines)

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"If this were play'd upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction."
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Illuminati's Razor-The most complicatedly evil answer is usually the most correct answer. - Fazor
"Every book is a children's book if the kid can read." - Mitch Hedberg
"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

Really? I love those dreams. The second I realize I'm in a dream...well it's one of my favorite things about being a living, thinking, being. This will show my uber-geekiness, but occasionally I have dreams where I'm in some video game that I have been playing (usually FPS's....most often, Counter-Strike). Usually it's not the exact same as a particular game, but same idea (really, how much do FPS's vary?). It's like having the greatest video game system in the world when I'm in one of these but know I'm dreaming.


Other than the teeth thing, which I always assumed meant I was grinding my teeth in my sleep, which could be linked to anxiety as mentioned...

..the only bad dreams I have are when I'm in a situation, usually I'm in uniform as a Police Officer or something, sometimes it's someone breaking into my home, other times it's war-time, and still others it's like tv-style gun-violence-esqe (think Sopranos, even tho i've never seen it)... anyway I'm being chased or shot at by the "bad guys". I keep trying to return fire but my gun just won't fire. I have to pull and pull on the trigger as hard as I can. Every now and then I get a shot off but never when I'm actually aiming at the guy(s) because the gun is acting up. Occasionally it will be working fine but no matter how much I shoot the villian(s) they don't die. Which, in both cases, quickly turns into the very terrifing feeling that you are definately going to die.

Dreams are funny things. I love them though, and am happy to take the bad with the good.

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What I always have in dreams is that I can't hit somebody hard when I need to. Never ever did I have a dream where something evil needed a good punch, the field was wide open and I was completely ready to give the punch, and I actually could give it hard. It always feels like being underwater or something, I really can't put any force into it. I end up giving the evil creature a gentle tap when i want to smash its head off. Maybe my dreams tell me i'm not a violent person .

Funny how you've got the same thing with guns.

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Reminds me of Val Kilmer in the movie Top Secret, where he's beaten unconscious by the prison guards and has the dream where he shows up too late for the Chemistry final in college. Then he wakes up, realizes he's still being pummeled and tortured by the guards, smiles and gives a sigh of relief.

Funny how you've got the same thing with guns. well, actually have had similar to what you describe too. Usually it's running however. Sometimes away from something bad. Sometimes to save something. Or less dramatic, just have to get somewhere by a certian time (like catching a bus). But it's like I'm running through water, and the harder I try to run, the slower I'm able to go. I always assumed this was caused by being under the blanket so my body feels like it is wrapped up.

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I've had that one many times! Wow. Wonder what that means? Maybe I don't want to know...

Could indeed be because of the blankets. What I also sometimes feel, is that even though I want some major plot event to happen (like hitting the evil hard ), it seems like I cannot imagine what would happen next and hence the dream is stuck in its plot. Just like I never getto see a person's face in a dream when I can't imagine what he would look like. Often a familiar face is used just to have something to look at (that's why you see loads of relatives in dreams, to fill in faces), but when that really isn't suitable in the plot even for dreamworld definitions of suitable, I just am unable to see the face. I heard from others on the board here that they were able to imagine random faces in their dreams of which they were quite sure they'd never seen them before.

But anyway, what's really interesting is that this being unable to hit hard or to run hard also occurs for pulling a trigger. That one is not covered by the blanket theory .

What I also love is the creative ways in which a dream gives the plot a twist when you need to wake up (you're drowning in your dream and to stop you from holding your breath, your dream suddenly blows you out of the water by a major wave, at which point you wake up) or when something real happens to you (in a split second you find yourself in a balloon and falling out of it, when you fall out of your bed). I assume it is the combination of factors external to the brain (bodily safe functions, falling out of bed, noises) and the brains paths of "logic" (no matter how farfetched, things are connnected and happen in a given situation, in order to remove abstract characteristics which aren't natural in our daily lives where everything happens somewhere and in a "story" flow) that create these desperate attempts at plots wihtin your dreams.

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ok your brain simply is screwed up, the blanket theory stands.

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Now let's show off. Most incredible things you've ever done in your dreams. (real "sleep dreams" that is, not conscious fantasy. Lucid dreaming is allowed though). "Incredible" may be both totally unrealistic ("lifted the earth and threw it towards the sun in curling style") or realistic but amazing if it would be for real ("flew the X-15").

I'm curious .

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Could indeed be because of the blankets. What I also sometimes feel, is that even though I want some major plot event to happen (like hitting the evil hard ), it seems like I cannot imagine what would happen next and hence the dream is stuck in its plot
Yeah I've wondered that too. Back to the gun dreams, I've never shot anyone before so I thought perhaps my mind just doesn't know what to put there. But at the same time, I've never been shot or died before, and both have happened to me in dreams. Dunno

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