Do you have vivid dreams, or oddball ones? Please share

SeaBreeze said:
If I take the supplement Melatonin for sleep, my dreams become more intense, sometimes that's good, sometimes not so much. I don't use it that often because of that, my husband takes 1mg sublingual nightly for sleep with good results.
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I've had that same experience with melatonin. My doc suggested I try Ambien, and those dreams were horrific. I took it twice, and will never take it again.
 

Having said that I had to change my medication because of disturbing dreams, the Beta blocker I was taking has been discontinued and I've been prescribed a new one. So far I've had no problems. Plenty of dreams, not actually work related, but often based on situations, people and places I've known over the years.
 

The last few weeks I've been sifting through and disposing of possessions with an eye towards moving to a smaller apartment in the next year or two.

That process has caused me to remember many people, places and events in my life.

It seems like some of those memories are now being carried over into my dreams.
 
I used to have really good dreams. And some bad ones. But now, as soon as I wake up, my dreams get erased from my memory. Zap!! They're gone. I know I was dreaming, and I believe they were good dreams-just can't recall any of them. Darn!
I've heard the complaints about the super vivid, disturbingly realistic dreams caused by meds. My pals didn't like them at all.
 
I have weird dreams that sometimes cause me to wake up laughing. I have two recurring theme dreams: From my musician days: I'm late for a gig, forgot my equipment, set up in the wrong hall. From my school days: I'm failing a class for the second/third time, the professor is a guy I really liked, in real life, but he's failing me in classes he never taught and that I never took! (In reality, I never failed a single class.)
 
Butterfly said:
I've had that same experience with melatonin. My doc suggested I try Ambien, and those dreams were horrific. I took it twice, and will never take it again.
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I have heard a lot of horror stories about Ambien. Most of my really vivid dreams come with taking melatonin. My doctor suggested taking a lower dosage (ie 3mg instead of 5mg.) It seemed to help. I still, occasionally, have vivid dreams, but none are scary, or frightening. Just odd. So, I deal with them .
 
I don’t sleep much and I don’t sleep deep enough to dream very often. I’m so jealous of everyone’s ability to dream.
 
Dreams freak me out....

I often cry out in my sleep making inaudible sounds that in turn, freak my husband out..

Most times when I'm trying to speak I know I'm dreaming and am asking (screaming) for someone to wake me up.

He's constantly trying to figure out what it is that makes me have bad dreams..

Not to say that I don't have good dreams but the majority are not fun....

It's normally someone in the room that shouldn't be...

I used to sleep with a black cloth over my eyes until one night two people came into my room and took it (in my dream).

I never found that cloth after that night..it disappeared...

I still blame it on my husband, but he declares he did not take it.
 
I have lucid dreams. Many are similar to those others here have had .. wandering around, lost. Looking for a public washroom that always turns out filthy. Having a cellphone, but not being able to turn it on, or the number I need is not entered into the phone. Riding on public transportation, but not knowing where to get off - not knowing the address of where I'm going. Sometimes, someone is after me, and I'm trying to get away .. always, in the dark. I had a bus dream the other night, where the driver wouldn't give me a transfer and I had to argue with him the whole time. I've had dreams of aliens landing. You name it, I've dreamed it.
 
I used to have recurring theme dreams for the longest time about a certain man that was in my life and his brother. I now just have oddball dreams about this and that.
 
Had a weird one last night. I was in one of our local stores and they started to close up for the night.

Every time I tried to exit a door, it slammed shut in front of me. Joined a queue of women - they all got out, but the door slammed shut in front of me again.

Eventually, most of the lights went out and I was still locked inside. I took blankets, pillows and such off the shelves and made myself a bed.

That's when I woke up.
 
Aunt Bea said:
I've had some very vivid dreams since I quit smoking with Chantix.

One thing that I cannot understand about my dreams are the people that I've never met yet they seem so real in my dreams. I must have seen them on television or in real life and just filed the images away without realizing it.
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What is odd to me is that my mother was an immigrant and always spoke to me in her language and I appreciate it now because I know two languages.

In my dreams however, my mother always speaks perfect English which is strange because she always tried to learn and could never master it. It's really pleasant in a dream.
 
Ok , will someone PLEASE tell me why my subconscious seems to be suddenly obsessed with Queen Elizabeth? I have had no fewer than 3 dreams with her in them in the past 3 weeks. And I live in the U.S..
Weird thing is, she is not at the palace or somewhere normal (for her). It could be we are at the grocery store together, or riding in a car or in a restaurant. And no one but me seems to know she is the queen. What the heck.




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This is going to sound so oddballishly strange and I suppose you people are used to it by now but I used to get the most vivid unusual dreams ever.

In fact, I’d often get series of lucid dreams where I would actually know I was dreaming while dreaming. So consciously aware it forever spooked me. 😳

Anyway years ago after I lost my brother, I would dream about him continuously but these dreams were most disturbing and were causing havoc in my waking life.

One morning I woke up and made a definite decision that I had had enough of having horrible vivid dreams so that very morning I made an agreement with my subconscious to no longer bring these dreams to my conscious awareness and it doesn’t. From that moment on I never remember my dreams.

What does happen is that my subconscious is so disturbed by some dreams that the mood will colour my day dark but I usually don’t understand this until later on in the day since I can’t shake the bad mood.

The human mind is extraordinary. ❤️
I miss remembering loving, colourful, enchanted dreams though 🥰
 
where do I start with mine ------- most are worrying
a few good ones --- I have flown in the air like a bird ' run from being chased '
cried to sobbed ….heart being broken -and once I was chatting to a very young girl she never
spoke -I remember saying I do know u dont I ''' she just smiled and looked like me '
driving to work it come to me --must have been I child I lost in a miscarriage ..
 
Marie5656 said:
Ok , will someone PLEASE tell me why my subconscious seems to be suddenly obsessed with Queen Elizabeth? I have had no fewer than 3 dreams with her in them in the past 3 weeks. And I live in the U.S..
Weird thing is, she is not at the palace or somewhere normal (for her). It could be we are at the grocery store together, or riding in a car or in a restaurant. And no one but me seems to know she is the queen. What the heck.




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Perhaps while out shopping you unconsciously observed her photo in magazines or a clip of her on television in the last few weeks.

Your mind latched onto it and is now recycling it in your dreams as you sleep but seriously, It’s the human mind. I think there’s more about it that we don’t know, than what we do. ( the unconscious and subconscious portions specifically speaking )

Dreams can be mysterious; like our minds running wild 😜
 
I have vivid dreams almost every night.

Most of the time I am lost and can't find my way home.

And for some reason I am wandering through scrap yards with huge piles of metal.

And then I enter some old building with old workshops that are deserted and I try to find my way out.

I have read somewhere that if you have a repeating dream and write it out when you are awake and give it a happy ending that it will end that type of dream.

I haven't tried it out but I will, but I won't type it. I will hand write it. I think that will have more effect on the mind.
 
When I finally fall asleep almost every night I have crazy dreams that don't make any sense to me at all. In the last few days I have dreamt more that one time that I am babysitting 2 children and someone is chasing us and trying to kill the 2 children. Luckily I wake up before anything happens. I don't recognize either of the children and even in the dream I don't knew who they are and I keep asking them their names but they never answer. I hate this dream.
 
My sleep isn't interrupted with any dreams IF I don't take meds before bedtime. When I take a Tylenol PM or any nighttime sleep aid, I will have dreams ... sometimes good, sometimes bad .... but always something it seems.
 
Bonnie said:
My sleep isn't interrupted with any dreams IF I don't take meds before bedtime. When I take a Tylenol PM or any nighttime sleep aid, I will have dreams ... sometimes good, sometimes bad .... but always something it seems.
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Bonnie, I am the same. It is been discussed earlier in this thread about sleep aids and the dreams. For me, it is Melatonin. But, I still take them, as it does help me get some sleep. I can deal with the non=threatening dreams, like the ones about the Queen I have been having. The bad ones are pretty disturbing, aren't they??
 
@Sassycakes Odd dreams. I wonder what they are trying to tell you. I am especially interested in the fact that you do not know the kids. I am sure they represent something, but what?
 
I do dream, but as soon as I wake up, I can't remember a damn thing. Everybody has these little adventures at night, but as soon as I open my eyes, mine vanish.
BTW When I was living "at the home", one of the common complaints were those vivid dreams brought on by beta blockers. Most didn't enjoy them at all.
 

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