Odd Dreams, Nightmares, etc...

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Chuggs

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This will be a place to share those odd dreams that I assume all of us have from time to time, be they nightmares or, well, just odd. I'll start.

Once when I was a child I had a dream that I was teenage girl who was being chased by a mysterious ball of light. It wasn't a good ball of light, either, as I was terrified and running for my life. Something else odd about the dream was the fact that the world was black and white, like an old movie, except for the ball of light, which was bright blue.
 

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Ball To see or play with a ball in your dream symbolizes completeness and wholeness. It may also indicate that you need to be more in tune with the inner child within. The dream may also be a metaphor for the testicles. Consider also the phrase, "he's got balls" to indicate guts and strength.

To dream that you are watching a ball game indicates that you need to take more initiative. Your lack of action may stem from your shyness which you must overcome. Perhaps you are too overly self-conscious.

To attend a ball in your dream refers to your celebration of life. You are in a good place and are embracing what life has to offer.

LIGHT:
In general:
Light symbolises consciousness, perception, knowledge, understanding, trust and confidence, - what this refers to, arises from the concrete life situation. The old symbol donates hope, indicates a new beginning see ('the light of the world'), - we need to give ourselves no troubles, neither about our health nor about our well-being. If the light just begins in the dream, we can scoop in the awake life deep knowledge, - it burns in the distance, new, but attainable wishes become awake. If it goes out, nevertheless, suddenly and leaves behind us in the darkness, we could be shocked psychically or have to count at least on bad news. Also too much light which blinds the dreamer is to be valued negatively what other symbols should confirm. The 'light at the end of the tunnel' refers, for example, to the fact that the dreaming can conclude a difficult plan soon successfully. The light is the spiritual energy, is exposed - one sees clearly everything bright and. A light on' went 'for him symbolises sudden inspirations which lead to the problem solution.
Psychologically:
The light is a symbol for joy of life and vitality, hope, balance, knowledge, consciousness, clear way of thinking and mind. It brings brightness in different situations and removes ignorance and doubt. In the brightness the person is less timourous. As a dream symbol the light has these just called meanings, as well as the meaning of creative mind. If in the dream light plays a role, the dreaming is in a process in which he tries to improve. A very bright light often symbolises the development of intuition and examination. Also sexual-erotic fulfilment can enclose this vision with. Declining security and determination become in the dream by dim or dark light verbildlicht, internal and external difficulties also the fear of the age or death can be expressed by decreasing light in the dream. There are different methods with which one uses the flame of a candle or another source of light in the awake state to improve these abilities.
Spiritually:
At the spiritual level a bright light in the dream symbolises the manifestation of the divine and the truth or the 'direct Wissens'. Often this knowledge has no shape and appears, hence, the energy which the mind shows in the dream as a light.
 

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My dad once dreamed that he was cowboy that was shot by a Native American. He was shot via bow and arrow. Nothing so odd about this, really, a kid (my dad was a child at the time of the dream) dreaming about cowboys and Indians in a old west shoot out...what was odd was that when he woke up, he had a hole in his pajama shirt where he was shot in the dream.
 

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Two recurring dreams: from the time I was very small, each time we moved (and it was often) had a dream that started with a military reporter in dress blues doing a news report. He always behind with, "(whatever rank my dad was at the time) (my dad's name) and his family died today in a terrible accident." Then the dream back shifts and I'm being chased through a field/cemetery/something by and unknown someone, always holding one or another of my little brothers by the hand and shrieking, terrified. I guess I know where it ends, but I don't remember exactly what happens. Since I was (and am) a pretty shy person, moving every few months was traumatic, so it's pretty clear where THAT dream comes from (lol). I've lived in the same house for over 20 years, and I'll probably never move. The Man doesn't have to know that I just can't face that dream again, especially now that my dad and one brother have died.

The second dream is worse. It's more a recurring character than a single dream. In the one that comes back most often, I'm walking down a long white hall, lined with doors on either side. I have to open every one, even though I know The Man with a Hammer is behind one of them. I have to open them. Of course, he's eventually behind one door (though it's never the same one two dreams in a row). He smiles when I open the door and raises his hammer high...claw end toward me, of course. Then, if I'm lucky, I wake up. Sometimes he has Lon Chaney's face from London After Midnight (There was a particularly horrifying dream where he wore that face. The teeth, my dears...the teeth...), but he usually looks like anyone you'd see on the street. It's his smile that lets me recognize him. I actually quit a job once because one of the men in the office had his smile. And every once in a while, he peeks out of my closet like Mr. Flip in Cujo. Just for fun.

I remember most of my dreams, and many of them scare the crap out of me--lol. "Mama" was a fun one recently: Large, comfortably stuffed lady in a lunch-lady apron. The other night she sat down beside me on the bed (I actually felt someone sit down. As Mr. King would say, "Can you dig it?"), her mouth opened like a pirahna, and she ate my face.

Now do you see why I write nice, friendly chick lit?! LOLOL:D
 

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No recurring dreams. I had a dream last night, probably influenced by a recent exchange with DiO and watching some WWII history on AHC, where I was a sniper, and there were German snipers pinning down the Americans, and I snuck up above them, did the sniper thing myself, and put shots into their heads. But it was all part of a movie. And the shots were kinda gory, and I'm sitting there thinking, "How did the special effects do that?" And then climbing down past them to join the troops, and the bodies were all burned up.

It had a lot of clarity and detail. I don't know that I'd classify it as a true nightmare, but I didn't like it when I woke up, not at all. My interpretation: I have some personal demons to kill, and this time I'm more confident about it. A lot of times in my dreams, I've been physically impotent against bad guys.
 

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Have you ever had those dreams that feel so real, that it takes you a while after waking to realize that you were only dreaming? I've had at least three of those, and two were very similar. After work I'll go into detail of the dreams, as I don't have time just now.

Oh, yes. Like when I dream that I wake up, but I'm just at the next dream level. It doesn't happen often, but it's disconcerting when it does.

Or I dream I'm urinating, then suddenly wake up and wonder, "Did I just wet the bed?!?" And no, I haven't. But I sure do have to go. Boy howdy, I just can't wait for the day in my old age when that little inhibition falls to the wayside.
 

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This is one i have had several tmes in my life i remember it very clearly

My man and I are walking through the town and alot of things are on fire (like houses and buildings)

Its night and theres also this weird red sybol in the sky. we get to this one street and a cop warns us to get off the streets because its not safe

We finally get to this parking lot of a church that i recognize and when we get to the middle this shadow thing starts coming toward us.

we dont run but we just stand there and i always get this bad feelin like i know its evil you probably know what i mean if you ever had a bad dream

I always wake up as soon as it reaches us.

Idk why i have this nightmare alot but it freaks me out.
 

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Oh, yes. Like when I dream that I wake up, but I'm just at the next dream level. It doesn't happen often, but it's disconcerting when it does.

Or I dream I'm urinating, then suddenly wake up and wonder, "Did I just wet the bed?!?" And no, I haven't. But I sure do have to go. Boy howdy, I just can't wait for the day in my old age when that little inhibition falls to the wayside.
I've had this happen as well. Thankfully, like you, I've to wet the sheets...
 
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I've read a lot of good scary books and watched a lot of good scary movies. And by "a lot," I mean damn near all of them.

I always had to suspend my disbelief during characters' "terror scenes." I didn't believe that was really possible.

A couple of months ago I was attacked. Asleep in bed. Deep cavedark room. The gargoylic hobgoblin, for lack of an accurate description, jumped on me.

I fought back.

I ended up trashing my room (already in the disrepair of the untended) and ended up with several blue-green bruises later the next day.

Apparently I won the fight though, and banished the thing afterwards. I'd broken my bedside lamp, but that didn't really matter, because I had no idea where I was in my room. I could hear that my ceiling fan was on, so I was swiping my hand in the "full dark, no stars" trying for the pull cord of light and safety.

Couldn't find it. The way my heart was beating, it should have served as an echo locator.

Instead, I said, "I suggest you leave my room."

I found the pullcord, got some light, surveyed the damage, and proceeded to shake for a few hours.

That was more than a nightmare. At 41, I've been through a few ordeals, but that night I finally experienced true terror.
 

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Another strange one

For some reason there was a planet that had come really close to earth. Someone in my dream says it was only 400 miles away and you could see it really good and i heard some little girl say she couldnt wait to put the video of it on facebook

Anyway some how the planet starts turning everyone into drones that want to kill me and so i run off down the street with my bestie Marcy.soon i lose track of her as she gets lost in the crowd.

Eventually i found my Husbands friend Sergio in a garage and he has alot of guns laid out and he tells me to take w/e i need

Thats when i woke up.
 
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Chuggs

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I've read a lot of good scary books and watched a lot of good scary movies. And by "a lot," I mean damn near all of them.

I always had to suspend my disbelief during characters' "terror scenes." I didn't believe that was really possible.

A couple of months ago I was attacked. Asleep in bed. Deep cavedark room. The gargoylic hobgoblin, for lack of an accurate description, jumped on me.

I fought back.

I ended up trashing my room (already in the disrepair of the untended) and ended up with several blue-green bruises later the next day.

Apparently I won the fight though, and banished the thing afterwards. I'd broken my bedside lamp, but that didn't really matter, because I had no idea where I was in my room. I could hear that my ceiling fan was on, so I was swiping my hand in the "full dark, no stars" trying for the pull cord of light and safety.

Couldn't find it. The way my heart was beating, it should have served as an echo locator.

Instead, I said, "I suggest you leave my room."

I found the pullcord, got some light, surveyed the damage, and proceeded to shake for a few hours.

That was more than a nightmare. At 41, I've been through a few ordeals, but that night I finally experienced true terror.
That is creepy.
 

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Have you ever had those dreams that feel so real, that it takes you a while after waking to realize that you were only dreaming? I've had at least three of those, and two were very similar. After work I'll go into detail of the dreams, as I don't have time just now.
Ok, so I fibbed a bit on two fronts...I got home from work and didn't go into detail like a said I would, and for that I apologize. I also said that I would go into detail of the dreams...sorry, folks, but that's not gonna happen. I will, however, give a general overview.

One such dream that seemed so real was a real sad, sad dream. I dreamed that my wife had died. I remember walking along the street near the house were she grew up...only I'm not sure it was the actual room, if you know what I mean. Anyways, it was insanely sad, and after waking, I was sure that it had actually happened. I was devastated, then overjoyed as I realized that my wife was there, sleeping next to me, very much alive.

The second (and third, as it were) was a dream that I had cheated on my wife. I awoke this (these) time feeling like the world's biggest turd. Thankfully, over the next few minutes, I realized that I had only been dreaming.
 

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I regularly have dreams of college failure. Missed one class entirely for the final semester (didn't walk in naked, but isn't that sorta the same thing?), and there was no way I could pass.

I end up talking myself out of the dream. Why the hell are the you and I so worried about missing out on a degree that qualifies us to ask "Do you want fries with that?"

Besides, we already have a Juris Doctor degree. WE are qualified to ask the tough questions, such as, "Barbecue, honey mustard, ranch, or teriyaki?"