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Thread: How Do I Give Myself Nightmares?
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2012-11-03, 10:25 PM (ISO 8601)
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I guess im lucky, most of my nightmares turn into lucid dreaming and I force myself awake. Not out of fear, or horror, or soul wrenching sorrow, but boredom. Once I start looping, like, as an example, evil thing is chasing me and I start running laps around the same place, its like I realize how stupid this all is, force myself awake, then try to fall asleep and dream of something else. Even when I go back to my old dream, its like smacking a repeating record and knocking the pin loose, it moves on to something else besides the endless loop.
Or my dream starts getting incoherent and jumping all over the place, I wake myself up and basically hit the reset button and try again. I hate it when I am in a dream, cool or otherwise, and it just starts getting incoherent and fading all over the place. Like one second im fighting against an army from my foxhole, then blur and im running along a line of bunkers, then blur and im talking with someone, then blur and im awake. Ugh, I like my dreams logical thank you very much. Even if the "logic" is a bit dubious, like discovering that if I jump, land, and use the impact of my landing to bounce myself further into the sky until im doing classic superman leaps over tall buildings and across wide fields."Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
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2012-11-03, 10:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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I actually have a very similar experience. I love nightmares. Haven't had one in almost 20 years. The moment I realized that I loved it (after waking up in a cold-sweat terror) was the last actual nightmare I've had. I still remember it clearly, though to be fair, I remember a lot of old dreams pretty clearly.
Now, that said, I've had upsetting dreams, or frustrating dreams, but that's not the same. The feeling of pure, irrational fear I haven't had, and I miss it.
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2012-11-03, 11:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-11-04, 01:34 AM (ISO 8601)
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That's dark.
As a rule nightmares are the result of tension or anxiety, or of psychoactive drugs like antidepressants, alcohol, narcotics, and so on. Sleep deprivation can also lead to nightmares, as can sleep disorders or breathing issues. I've been told that hyperoxia can also cause vivid dreams, naturally including nightmares, but at high pressure and very high concentrations needed for that oxygen actually becomes pretty nasty stuff. Simple high concentrations of oxygen (30-40%), normal ambient atmospheric pressure, and exposure times of less than half an hour for a simple high before going to bed might yield similar effects, and shouldn't come with as much danger as heroin or regular use of Xanax.
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2012-11-04, 07:14 AM (ISO 8601)
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My brother says that when he forgets to remove his snus when he goes to bed at night he has dim nightmares of being hunted. Very unpleasant but nothing you can put your finger on... but that would entail you starting to use snus so it's probably not a good idea.
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2012-11-04, 02:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-11-04, 04:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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I've found if you're in a position to let yourself slowly wake up and fall back asleep and wake up and fall back asleep, the dreams tend to get weirder with each cycle. That may only work when you're sleep deprived or something, though.
It also depends on what you consider nightmarish. Are we talking fear-for-your-life terror, or heartwrenching "adult fear" type things, or something that's disturbing in its absurdity, or what? Because the wake up-fall asleep goes into the absurd for me, rather than anything really fearful.
The only terror-nightmare I've had in the last few years was actually caused by the music I had playing while I slept - my brain reinterpreted a high-pitched glitchy sound as the scream of this massive, amorphous shadowy thing.Proudly without a signature for 5 years. Wait... crap.
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2012-11-04, 04:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-11-04, 11:37 PM (ISO 8601)
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Have a child... watch the news. Seeing all the sicko's and pedophiles will cause you to have nightmares.
Barring that... I'm pretty sure everyone dreams but I have a hard time recalling if I ever dream let alone remember what they might be about normally. One thing I do, and I don't know if it's a quirk to me or what, but I turn the heat up a bit to uncomfortably warm, dress warm (which means more than my boxers), and throw blankets over me. The heat causes me to have dreams I remember, even the occasional lucid dream or nightmare. Although it makes me feel like I've been on a week long bender, leaving me cranky and grumpy for the next day or so.
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2012-11-05, 07:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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I'm going to recommend Amnesia: the Dark Descent. It might not work for giving you nightmares, but it's certainly scary.
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2012-11-05, 08:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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I find that afternoon naps on the couch give me weird dreams and sometimes nightmares. I always feel cranky and not rested too so it may be related to that. I've stopped sleeping on the couch if I can help it.
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2012-11-06, 09:24 AM (ISO 8601)
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Ive heard that eating a banana just before bed induces them
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2012-11-06, 01:37 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-11-06, 06:57 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-11-06, 07:14 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-11-06, 07:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-11-06, 07:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-11-06, 09:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-11-06, 09:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-11-06, 09:49 PM (ISO 8601)
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Damn, I'm not going to die in seven days now, am I?
I don't know what insecurities they represent, but I'm always dreaming about zombies. They're always after me, whether I'm me or I'm some other new person. Best case scenario, I'm getting bitten and becoming a zombie. Worst case scenario, I'm getting eaten, or I'm failing to protect other people from getting eaten.
I have trouble these days convincing myself to fall asleep, because I'm always worried the dead will break into my house and I'll wake up with half my face missing and some zombie up to his elbows in my guts. Because of my dreams, I worry about falling sleep. Because of my fear of falling asleep, I have dreams about zombies. It's a vicious cycle.Last edited by Giggling Ghast; 2012-11-06 at 10:01 PM.
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2012-11-06, 10:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-11-06, 11:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-11-07, 12:18 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-11-07, 06:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-11-07, 06:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-11-07, 06:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: How Do I Give Myself Nightmares?
it was all over the place...not related at all, and like most dreams of mine, its fuzzy in many spots....but here goes:
the first part of it was the really strange part. i dont remember any concrete details, but i can tell you that for whatever reason it involved the Titan Cronus/Kronos/whatever from greek mythology...attacking walmart of all places!
then, it kinda switched to some sort of cross-country roadtrip with family "friends."
then, the last little scene i remember, seems to be a flashback/fantasy of my 8th and 10th grade years...quite strange IMO...i just wish i could remember the ends of the dreams!