Nightmares

[T-Shirt Ninja]

Last night I had a terrifying nightmare of driving an ambulance alone to a gas station and getting out only to find out it was in the process of being robbed. I also dreamt that the criminals had guns and I somehow knew that they had no conscience and wouldn't have a second thought about killing a person. So I ran and hid while they looked for me. Fortunately, the police came and they were arrested and held them while trying to interview witnesses. I wanted to talk to the police but at the same time I didn't want the robbers to know who I was and that I was the only person who witnessed their crime. The police questioned people out in the open where there were tables all set about next to the gas station. The arrested men were there and I wanted to give my testimony and started to talk to people but nothing ever came of it. It was then that I woke up.

After reflecting on this, I'm amazed how my nightmares for me and most people change from childhood to adulthood. In childhood people dream of monsters or other primal things that we as adults know aren't always real. Yet nightmares in adulthood change to different things. I'm an EMT and my job does require me to go to places where there could be dangerous people lurking nearby. Most of my nightmares are of me being late to work and/or not being able to make it on time because of circumstances I can't control. I tend to wake up rather frustrated after this happens.

Just some 2cents on nightmares.

-TSN

[Pilgrim]

I have had a recurring nightmare from the time I was in highschool until now. I'm 40 now. I'm in a plane and suddenly the plane is out of control. It's a jumbo passenger plane and it's doing barrel rolls and loop-d-loops. At some point the plane is navigating close to the ground between mountains or bridges or other objects. Eventually the plane is nearing a crash. I lean back in the seat and say, "Lord, into your hands I commit my spirit." The plane crashes. I stand up from the wreckage and walk away. The only difference in adult hood is that my wife is on the plane with me. Usually in another row. After the plane crashes we find each other in the aftermath and walk away holding hands.

Just this week a variation emerged. I'm on shore, on a stone piper with a jetty sticking out. The waves are crashing all over the bay and over rock outcroppings in the bay. I see the tail fin of a plane that is sinking. With out thinking I jump in and make for the plane finding one body in the water. An older woman. She is already dead and sinking. I try to grab her hand but she just sinks out of reach. I scramble to the rock outcroppings thinking, "how can I get back to shore? The waves are too violent." Through some weird dream geography I am able to basically jump back to shore where I look at a bystander and say, "my God, did you see me do that?" Then the waters are calm and along with other rescuers I am inside the sinking plane looking for survivors and going through bags and back packs looking for something. I don't know what. I do see some money and let it go not wanting to be accused of stealing. One of the other searchers takes it and pockets it. Then I wake up.

Weird eh? Some say dreams of plane crashes are about things bigger than us in our life, things which we have absolutely no personal control over, spinning wildly out of control taking us with them. So, what life situations are we in when the dream happens? Job issues, family issues? I don't know. What do you think?

[Hamster]

I dunno, sometimes I still have nightmares about monsters

I have recurring nightmares about being forced to return to situations such as high school, my old family life, and my old job. There is always a feeling of shame that goes along with these dreams. Somehow they're worse than the dreams about the unspeakable horror at the foot of my bed.

[Pilgrim]

I have "time travel" dreams as well. But, I feel mostly nostalgia. I wake up wishing I could pull it off.

[rogue06]

Last night I had a terrifying nightmare of driving an ambulance alone to a gas station and getting out only to find out it was in the process of being robbed. I also dreamt that the criminals had guns and I somehow knew that they had no conscience and wouldn't have a second thought about killing a person. So I ran and hid while they looked for me. Fortunately, the police came and they were arrested and held them while trying to interview witnesses. I wanted to talk to the police but at the same time I didn't want the robbers to know who I was and that I was the only person who witnessed their crime. The police questioned people out in the open where there were tables all set about next to the gas station. The arrested men were there and I wanted to give my testimony and started to talk to people but nothing ever came of it. It was then that I woke up.

After reflecting on this, I'm amazed how my nightmares for me and most people change from childhood to adulthood. In childhood people dream of monsters or other primal things that we as adults know aren't always real. Yet nightmares in adulthood change to different things. I'm an EMT and my job does require me to go to places where there could be dangerous people lurking nearby. Most of my nightmares are of me being late to work and/or not being able to make it on time because of circumstances I can't control. I tend to wake up rather frustrated after this happens.

Just some 2cents on nightmares.

-TSN

Exactly. My nightmares always involve all too real situations. While I've always had the occasional SciFi/Horror-type dream they haven't bothered me since around 2nd maybe 3rd grade when they became "Adventures"!

[Manwë Súlimo]

I have a recurring dream of the ocean swelling up or the tide coming in extra strong, swallowing me up.

[Sundance]

I have a recurring dream of the ocean swelling up or the tide coming in extra strong, swallowing me up.

That is a typical horny man's dream

[justgin]

My nightmares always involve either tornadoes, or trying to turn on light switches that don't work, someone chasing me, or dialing a telephone and forgetting the numbers.

[mossrose]

I dreamt once that my husband was not home, and I was alone in the house. I woke up and he was there beside me, and it scared me something awful!

[Pilgrim]

I also have performance anxiety dreams: it's Sunday morning and I don't have a sermon, or I can't find my robes. That kind of thing.

[Hamster]

I'm not sure if this qualifies as a nightmare, but for like eight or nine years straight I had a recurring dream where I am at Disneyland and family members / friends are sabotaging it with their behavior. For some reason I'd feel frustration and sadness. I can only imagine what it's a metaphor for. The dreams stopped when I actually went to Disneyland a couple years ago...