The nightmare thread. 😱 🛌

[Buzz Rules]

The nightmare thread. If you have had a nightmare recently, feel free to discuss it here. I recently had a nightmare being back in high school and being made fun for not achieving my dreams yet. I guess I dreamed that because most of my friends have graduated from grad school already and I'm still working on saving enough money for law school. I know I will eventually make it to law school but sometimes it just feels like I'm behind my peers in terms of success. I know life goals aren't a race but it sure can feel that way once in a while.

 

[MIGrandma]

I’ve been retired from waitressing 15 years and I still have nightmares about work. Being “in the weeds.” No clean glasses, can’t find the silverware, I walk forever to get ice, etc.

 

[tarheelmjfan]

I have dreams nightly & nightmares way more frequently than I'd like.

In my last nightmare, I was in a hotel. DH was on a jobsite. The manager comes in to tell me a tractor trailer blew up & he was killed immediately. I'm in a state far away from anyone I know & the manager is trying to help me.

I woke up in a panic & called DH immediately. The thing that made this particularly scary was that reality mimicked the nightmare way too closely. I was in a hotel far from family. The room looked exactly like the room in my dream & DH was on a jobsite. The tractor trailer was the only anomaly.

On a similar topic, for the past couple years, I've started waking up from a nightmare with severe brain pain. Fortunately, it only lasts 10 to 15 minutes. Have any of you had this experience?

 

[tvguy]

I have a former co-worker who retired 20 years ago and he still has work related nightmares. I have them but I have only been retired 3 years. But when you do the same job for 42 years it's kind of hard to shake the routine.

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

I taught for 20 years, and I have been out of teaching for almost 10 years. I still regularly have nightmares about schools. It can be anything from student behavior to record keeping.

Teeth falling out is another regular nightmare for me.

Not a nightmare, but for some reason I regularly have dreams about thrift shops.

 

[tarheelmjfan]

I think work nightmares are very common. I still dream I'm behind and have to fake the paperwork for a job I had 30 years ago. FWIW, I never faked paperwork on that job. I think high stress jobs just stick with us.

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

Well, I had another one, I forgot about the occasional nightmare about being in school (as a student). It is like the end of the year/semester and finals are coming up, and there is a class that I forgot to attend the entire time.

 

[TiggerTrigger]

I’m prone to these epic, surreal, and highly unsettling dream/nightmare sequences. I literally had a trio last night and I can’t shake it. I know it’s all symbolic, including the most heinous stuff that happened, but it’s still alarming.

The dream started in my backyard. We’d put in a pool but drained it due to issues. It was nighttime and I went outside because I heard something. It was a rat and I killed it… like stepped on it and crushed it like a bug. Then a baby showed up in the same drainage tubing as the rat. I didn’t trust that it was an actual baby, so I killed it like the rat…although it took more effort. My family was horrified, but I was just focused on disposing of it all. Next thing I know, I’m in an office setting with people I worked with over 20 years ago. I remember thinking that the baby stuff must have worked out, just to be handed a large goat that I was supposed to hold and keep calm at all costs. The goat wound up urinating all over me and nobody seemed to notice i existed when I put it down. When I got up to clean up, the goat split into several smaller goats and were blocking my way. It was especially strange because a girl I disliked but tolerated professionally showed up and loudly announced herself and how sometimes she has to be out for a while if she’s sick ( she was never sick in real life). I tried to climb over the goats to get away from her and clean up just to end up in an old house with mutant dogs roaming around. Some were sweet and some were aggressive. I managed to get downstairs just to find more mutant dogs as well as family and friends. My husband said it was time to go, but when I went outside, a couple of mutant oversized pugs with weird ruffle necks wouldn’t leave me alone. DH wanted to know if I was going to get the car, but in a panic, I noticed it was gone. It was supposedly parked inside the living room and a friend offered to pull it out when I freaked out and refused. The mutant dogs kept biting at me as I tried to get in and everyone was standing around us, staring, with this creepy look.

An incoming text woke me up. It was just so bizarre and unsettling. I’ve found a lot of symbolism explanations, including the disturbing baby stuff, but this is one that’s going to stay with me for a while.

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

I had another one like Thursday night. I was back in school again. This time I decided to burn cardboard boxes on the parking lot and ended up catching the school on fire. I woke up soaked in sweat.

 

[Buzz Rules]

Any new thoughts?

 

[LuvOrlando]

I find the feelings in nightmares are the thing my mind is trying so hard to reconcile so I look for things in my life that could be inspiring that feeling. One of my common ones is being in a terrible situation and not being able to scream for help and when it happens there is always something or someone making me feel powerless. A person who looks like someone but isn't that person is a cue that I have been in a situation before so like I need to pay attention. If I dream about losing someone I am afraid of a loss somewhere - when I take the time to look the everyday thing usually reveals itself.

I treat nightmares like an SOS from my mind to notice things I am pushing aside and drag them to the surface to help myself.

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

Last night was a rough one for me, I had a nightmare where (I was in college) and I had to take a test that I forgot to study for, and I only knew one answer, and I had a final for an English class coming up that same day that I had forgotten to attend all semester. I woke up literally soaked in sweat. Once I went back to sleep, I had some dream (not exactly a nightmare but close) about having to go through high school graduation again.

 

[citruscurtis]

Last night was a rough one for me, I had a nightmare where (I was in college) and I had to take a test that I forgot to study for, and I only knew one answer, and I had a final for an English class coming up that same day that I had forgotten to attend all semester. I woke up literally soaked in sweat. Once I went back to sleep, I had some dream (not exactly a nightmare but close) about having to go through high school graduation again.

Well...look at the good side..in my English class nightmare my wardrobe was questionable

 

[citruscurtis]

My shopping cart was stolen from me while at Goodwill...it had a bronze Remington stored under a blanket... while I was looking at pots for plants...a common anxiety high stress dream of mine