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Do you have nightmares?

Recently a therapist told me people normally do not have nightmares. Iā€™m curious if that is true. What is your experience?

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babsy 6 Apr 10
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Mine are like I'm on a toll road and when I get to the booth, I have no money and on and on where I can't get where I need to be. Another one is that I'm in college and find out during the last week of the semester that I was enrolled in some class and had never gone and then had to make it all up and take an exam that week.

and arent you naked too?

@btroje As a kid I used to have a recurring dream where I am at school, after a couple of lessons I'd realise I'm naked from the waist down, then the panic set in and I'd wake up

@GothRik I had that same dream but I was still in my tighty whities! What's up with that dream? Is it an achtype? Is that the word??

@farmboy2017 you have to wonder. I have had more than one dream showing up to work with no pants and not realizing it till I am there

@farmboy2017 archetype is the word. I am not certain I would call it that but I know what you mean. It seems pretty universal

@farmboy2017 @btroje I guess it's all to do with our 'unnatural' inhibitions that are indoctrinated and over-stressed from an early age

@btroje sometimes. Last time I had to tell Johnny Depp over and over that he was in the friend zone.

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Night terrors. Yeah. Frequently.

My son has them. Awful. Hope they pass for you.

@Archer mine stem from deploying to the middle east a few too many times.

I hope your sons pass as well.

@brandon-scott Thanks for your service. Sorry you are plagued by it.

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I used to occasionally, but not had one since becoming an atheist about 17 years ago. I think dreams reflect our fears and aspirations, (as well as other emotions). Atheism released a lot of fears in my mind, I may get the odd 'bad' dream, like someone vandalising my motorbike. but that is the worst they get. The good dreams/fantasies have got better over time. šŸ™‚
PS I couldn't vote, since there wasn't an option for 'Used to'.

@babsy Wasn't complaining, it's difficult to come up with every option, without hind-sight. i just wanted to add extra data for your poll. šŸ™‚

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I had a dream that actually came true. I dreamed that an idiot asshole because president.

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After 911 I did for many years, I think it has not happened in about 3 years. Iā€™m from Staten Island, watched the buildings go up, lost friends and all of my friends lost friends. The surveys never seem to include my answer. Took 3 days to get an email response from my best friend who was a fireman on the pile, all he wrote was, ā€œItā€™s hell, Joe is deadā€. Canā€™t even type that without it flooding back.

Sorry for your losses. So. Sorry. Hugs to you and yours.

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Glad I don't. But I do have reacurring dreams that have sequels haha

Ljane Level 2 Apr 12, 2018

Iā€™ve only had one like that but those are awesome!

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If I ever have a nightmare, that signals me that I'm not getting enough of certain hormone balancers.

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Seriously though...... night before last I dreamed I was in a hotel room with an old woman. She was taking a bath, and the phone rang. I answered, and a man said he was coming over. I told him he had the wrong number and hung up. A few seconds later I feel a tap on my shoulder and the same voice said "I'm here". I woke up immediately, and didn't go back to sleep for hours.

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I have a lot of dreams every night, and some of them are negative, and some are positive. Quite often something triggers and I realize I'm dreaming while in the dream and that's a lot of fun because I become all-powerful for about five or ten minutes. But to answer your question, yes I have "bad dreams," but I don't use the word nightmare because to me that implies boogyman type dreams and they're not that. My bad dreams are like falling off a cliff, or living with my x-wife (not joking) or being shackled to a young earth creationist. (not kidding, an actual dream I had)

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I dream often, have repetitive and serial dreams, with nightmare events occasionally remembering them.

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Not often. Maybe if I have the flu. Or a bad taco.

skado Level 9 Apr 10, 2018
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I don't remember my dreams - and I'm okay with that. That means no bad ones.

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As a child, I had recurring nightmares that were like a Salvador Dali painting. After my divorce from my first wife (who had borderline personality disorder and made life miserable), I had nightmares involving her for almost 20 years.

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I used to have very vivid dreams and nightmares in color every night, not so much any more. But I still have dreams that carry the same theme and occasional nightmares.

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I still have dreams about, or related to when my father beat me as a child. Dreams of helplessness to defend myself are bad, but the ones where Iā€™m unable to help my friends a family are worse.

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Rarely.

Coldo Level 8 Apr 10, 2018
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I can't share the article from a paid CME site but nightmares are common across the lifespan and occur more commonly with stress. THey are only considered to be pathological if they interfere with a person's function

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Now that I think about it... my nightmares ended when I gave up trying to be religious like my family and parents.

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I need to write them down or tell them into a tape recorder. Steven King has written a lot of his works based on his nightmares. If you want to induce nightmares sleep in a cold room.

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If you call conflict dreams nightmares?

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Haven't had the waking up screaming my lungs out because there were strangers in the bedroom one since my ex-husband left (yes for real) but normal garden variety ones still (usually some dark distortion of reality). Think there is a recurring them here, except when I'm running a fever my nightmares are always about the parts of my life I need to do something about (as if I need reminding.)

Kimba Level 7 Apr 10, 2018
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Depends on how you describe a nightmare, never had a night terror but most of what I'd call nightmarish are more creepy than frightening or a feeling of falling out of control as I'm not comfortable with heights

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Used to be a licensed electrician, I would have nightmares about wiring a new home and the drywall would be in place before I could wire the house.

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I DO have nightmares ocassionally. They usually revolve around my mother's stroke and subsequent death. Go figure.

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They are not nightmares anymore, more like Horror aventure stories that my mind makes up XD

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