I just had the worst nightmare

[Cowboy22]

I've personally never been able to remember any of my dreams after I wake up. I remember that I HAD a dream and if it was bad or pleasent but I can never recall any of the exact details. I have no clue why that is...

[Lefty Grove]

Originally posted by svosen
So the premise is that the human mind isn't powerful enough to conjure up a dream about lights or appliances being turned on or off with a switch?

That seems weird to me.

Not that I can specifically recall an instance in a dream where I've done those things...

Well, some signs of dreams are not being able to turn off the lights (you have to see in dreams), appliances not working, etc. If you look for them in real life, you're subject to look for them in the dream.

My recall is actually, for whatever reason, what good. If something affects me, I have no problem recalling it. I can remember a few nightmares from several years ago, not down to detail, but pretty well.

[sabbas]

Ya, there's something about dreaming that time always seems to be distorted (like those bad dreams where you're constantly running from somebody/something and never seem to get anywhere? I HATE those! haha), and I don't know why the light thing is different, but apparently it works. My GUESS is that the time thing has something to do with how fast time progresses in your dreams and in real life - I mean, we probably have several dreams a night, but from personal experience, a dream may seem very short when in reality several hours have passed...

[Gabriel013]

I'm sure I heard somewhere that dreams/nightmares last no more than a few seconds no matter how long or short you remember them to be.

[svosen]

I had heard that too, Gabe.

Also, I believe I've heard that the dream occurs somewhere in the "middle" of a person's sleep time. That always seemed weird to me, because sounds that wake me up sometimes get incorporated into my dreams (the alarm clock becomes a weird sound in my dream world).

Not sure how that can be if the dream occurred in the middle of the night.

Anyone know more about that?

[Prime]

When I was younger I had alot of nightmares. I also would sleep walk. A couple times my mom would find me wandering around and id start screaming and freak out. I didnt remember any of it.

Once, and this scared the shit outta my mom, but I had woken up wandering around about a block away at around midnight(i think I was like 10).

I usually dont remember dreams or nightmares, I might remember a detail that makes no sense. I have only one dream that I really fully remember. I realised I was dreaming and I think I had control. That was a few years ago.


Oh and svosen, an alarm clock or a bird or somthing that wakes me is often incorperated into the dream for a few seconds, and confuses the shit outta me, but Just cause the alarm wakes you doesnt mean you arnt in 'middle' of sleep. Because you might sleep a few more hours if you wern't woken up by it.

[Rosie17]

I dont like those dreams where places you know mix, like you end up walking out of your front door into your shopping centre or something like that. I dont think i've had any real nightmares since i was younger. The only one i seem to get a lot is where i am falling, it doesnt half make my heart race. Though i only tend to get it when i am stressed so its not too bad. xxx

[svosen]

My older boy has had a couple nightmares already - I think. He's not able to talk about them, really (just not able to talk at that level yet, being only 25 months old).

He had one again last night. He woke up screaming "NO" over and over. It was a terrified sound, which was a little unerving for me. He was sitting bolt upright in bed, facing a corner, yelling "NO," and trying to back away from the corner. It took me fully a minute to calm him down enough that he was able to realize I was holding him, and a couple more minutes to actually calm him down after that.

Not sure what a 2-year-old has going on to have that kind of a nightmare... I sure wish he were able to discuss it with me, though.

I don't think he remembers them, as he is never nervous in the mornings when he wakes up. So that's something to be thankful for.