Can't stop Dreaming at night

I do lucid dreaming once in awhile. I haven’t explored how to learn about interacting with them and I don’t really want to. The only thing that disturbs me is that I don’t get a good nights rest when I have them.
 
Bella said:
And I would prefer to be dreamless. That would be bliss.
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I’d prefer to be dreamless too. I hate having bad dreams but then I’d miss the dreams I’d have about my deceased pets . Sometimes they come to visit me and I have these very out of body lucid type of dreams where I’m totally aware that I’m dreaming and can manipulate my dreams with ease. Those dreams I do remember and they are priceless.
 
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ScottyBoy said:
There is a good book by Matthew Walker called "Why We Sleep". It briefly discusses lucid dreaming. Apparently, only a small percentage of people are frequent lucid dreamers. I'm not one of them.
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Yeah! Lucid dreaming isn’t an easy thing to learn to do and very few people know how to do it.You certainly can’t just learn to do it in a night or so. Most people who can do lucid dreaming have a very active 6th sense. ( something else most of us don’t use any more)
 
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PeppermintPatty said:
where I’m totally aware that I’m dreaming and can manipulate my dreams with ease. Those dreams I do remember and they are priceless.
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I remember it when I dream just before I wake up. I have had dreams that were so stupid, that in the dream I thought: This makes no sense or don't worry. I'm just dreaming. I had to pay loads or something. Ah don't worry. You'll wake up and they don't bother you anymore. As if you go back with the time machine. I made a huge debt and have to pay you back? Too bad so sad. Bye bye. Off I go.

Oh and if I didn't sleep enough a few years ago I had that I put my head down for the next night and just finished the dream. Had that quite some times.
 
ScottyBoy said:
There is a good book by Matthew Walker called "Why We Sleep". It briefly discusses lucid dreaming. Apparently, only a small percentage of people are frequent lucid dreamers. I'm not one of them.
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I've seen articles that claim people can teach themselves to lucid dream. I've never tried the methods or dug any deeper into it. I believe I've had at least a couple of lucid dreams over the years. @Ted01
 
PeppermintPatty said:
Yeah! Lucid dreaming isn’t an easy thing to learn to do and very few people know how to do it.You certainly can’t just learn to do it in a night or do. Most people who can do lucid dreaming have a very active 6th sense. ( something else most of us don’t used any more)
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I never learned about lucid dreaming, but started to have them naturally. Many times they were wonderful colorful dreams, flying over beautiful scenery.....and I knew I was dreaming and took advantage. The bad dreams where someone bad was chasing me and I locked myself in a room and a hand started coming to grab me, I realized it was only a dream and I would be okay. Not enough good dreams of my past furbabies unfortunately.
 
I dream virtually every night and generally remember at least part of it the next day. Most of my dreams are enjoyable and, on several occasions, I have been able to return to the dream the next evening. I somehow don't permit certain people to appear in my dreams. People who have mistreated me or seriously irritated me get ejected. My brothers appear fairly often, but my mother and sister never do. It is common for me to dream about being back in the Navy. Favorite people from this forum have put in appearances.

It is extremely rare for me to have a nightmare, but when one starts, I change the script even if it means grabbing my Western Lever action rifle or jumping into my car.
 
Pecos said:
I dream virtually every night and generally remember at least part of it the next day. Most of my dreams are enjoyable and, on several occasions, I have been able to return to the dream the next evening. I somehow don't permit certain people to appear in my dreams. People who have mistreated me or seriously irritated me get ejected. My brothers appear fairly often, but my mother and sister never do. It is common for me to dream about being back in the Navy. Favorite people from this forum have put in appearances.

It is extremely rare for me to have a nightmare, but when one starts, I change the script even if it means grabbing my Western Lever action rifle or jumping into my car.
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So good to see you posting MDB. 🤗 Seems like you lucid dream! I'm glad a majority of your dreams are enjoyable ones.
 
I was on Paxil for a while for anxiety and it caused me to have dreams so vivid that I'd wake up soaked in sweat! Many of those dreams were reoccurring.

There was one related to college where I was failing all my classes or I didn't have an assignment ready, so I'd drop the class rather than have a failing grade show up on my transcript. I always got good grades in college and always turned in my assignments on time, yet I guess I have an irrational fear that I forgot to do something or forgot to study for an exam. I had that dream at least a half-dozen times.

I've had a lot of nightmares about jobs I've had.

I'm on a low dosage of Zoloft now and no longer have those vivid dreams. I need it to help manage my irrational fears that were keeping me up at night.
 
I sometimes see pictures of places before I go to sleep as I close my eyes. It can be traveling above a city and then zooming into it. Sometimes it is just scenery and on other times it is people doing activities. They seem like a movie as I close my eyes.

I dream a lot and some are of working at different jobs and trying to do the work. Some are of people in the past along with relatives.
 
I'm a retired letter carrier. I still have bad dreams about being on a strange route for the first day. Sequencing the mail on a strange route could be a real hassle. I dream of working into the night.
It gives me the utmost respect and sympathy for veterans with PTSD. I cannot imagine the nightmares with which they must deal.
I'm a vet but never in combat. Salute to those not as lucky as myself.
 
What's interesting is that I have dreams where I'm at past jobs and aspects of all of them are part of the scenarios.

The good thing is I never took a job with stress. So they're never stressful experiences. Just more like a walk though the park.

In all the dreams about work, the environments are huge and easy to get lost in. Any place that had multiple floors is like a 3d labyrinth to find my way through. I don't usually get where I'm going in the dream.

I often dream that my late wife and I have an apartment or a house that is endlessly huge. I know in the dream of rooms I never get to.
 
Since this thread has been resurrected, I had one of my typical dreams last night. I was returning from a sales meeting with my counterparts on some type of boat. I had no luggage. Not even a toothbrush. I borrowed someone else's toothbrush!:sick:

Anywho, the boat was dropping various people at various airports (go figure) and I was confused as to where to go. Hubs and I had split up and sold our house in Dallas, so I had no "home" to go to.:( I knew Tampa, although I hadn't lived there in years, so I was debating whether to be dropped off there. In my dream, I was seeing someone in Orlando but didn't think he would appreciate it if I just showed up there. There were several other East Coast cities that I was considering. Right before I woke up I had been dropped off in Tampa and was walking from the airport to our old house which is no longer there!
 
OldFeller said:
What's interesting is that I have dreams where I'm at past jobs and aspects of all of them are part of the scenarios.

The good thing is I never took a job with stress. So they're never stressful experiences. Just more like a walk though the park.

In all the dreams about work, the environments are huge and easy to get lost in. Any place that had multiple floors is like a 3d labyrinth to find my way through. I don't usually get where I'm going in the dream.

I often dream that my late wife and I have an apartment or a house that is endlessly huge. I know in the dream of rooms I never get to.
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Ditto for me. I'm often at conferences in big convention centers where I can't find my way around. Sometimes I've lost my hotel room. Sometimes I'm assigned a room that is already occupied and just stay there. Like you, I rarely get to where I'm going. Are we lost?:ROFLMAO:
 
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