Nightmares

[soothsayer]

Rarely do I have any dreams that frighten me. There are very few things that can invoke fear in me during sleep. But, at the top of that short list is anything that brings harm to my daughter. The other night I had a dream where I had a family/friends gathering at my place. I was standing outside talking with people, that as it turned out upon waking, were not anyone I knew in life. As I stood on the porch chatting I was sticken with the an urdge to run inside.

I had this overwhelming feeling that I needed to be with my daughter and as I opened the front door I heard her crying out. Her voice was coming from the bathroom, so I ran in there only to find her in the bath tub, completly under the water with her hands over her face. I was so freaked out by this that I grabed her by her sides and pulled her out. I stated looking for a towel for her and then I woke up. These kind of images scare the life out of me. I wish I didn't have dreams like this, really I do.

[Brenda Starrr]

The is no worse dream than one of your child being hurt or killed. I've had a few, and it wrecks me. Just completely wrecks me....

[soothsayer]

I tell you, I had trouble going back to sleep. I use to have dreams when she was little that stranger(s) would take her from me. I would hear her calling out to me and then I would just wake up. I'm thankful that those had stopped. Now I have this one haunting my sleep and I'm hopingthat it isn't to be continued.

[sinnaminn]

oh that is a really scary dream!I hope it leaves you in peace.I lived in the same house as my niece when she was a little girl and I used to have this reaccuring nightmare that she was playing in the street by the curb ,a car would be backing up over her head right as I reached the door to call out for her.So all I could do is see it happen not stop it and it really really terrified me every time!I always felt that I was just having that dream because I worried about her a lot while I was awake .So it makes sense that it follwed me to sleep!

[torn asunder]

wtf!? :fear sorry... :erm

[Vater Araignee]

I keep having this dream that our apartment is on fire with no direct rout of escape and I'm not there to kick through a wall to get them out. then I come home to find all three burnt to death or Sinnaminn and Tyti dead from a fall and Lex floating face don in the lake.

I feel for you I know the pain well.

[Sybil]

i have nightmares about people kidnapping my sister and i am trying to go after them to avenge her ...

my dad sat my sis and i down recently and told us he has been having dreams that the devil is chasing her and i... he tries to get in between him and us but he isnt strong enough and she and i are oblivious to the chase.

my dad has always had dreams that he tries to get to us and doesnt make it in time...

<sigh>

dreams like that make me cry when i wake up. the THOUGHT of people harming my sis drives me batty....

[Troy Spiral (13)]

I've always had a mild fear of not being able to "save" people i care about from something bad happening to them....

Given this context , Years ago I had a dream about my girlfriend dying and i saw it coming but had no power to stop it from happening.

I was just yelling and screaming and crying the whole dream "NO PLEASE STOP GOD STOP!!!" over and over again , just thinking about it now gives puts some fear into me it was such an unnatural , scary fear-of-all-fears type feeling. It was like i was a trapped observer. She just walked right into an on coming bus and i somehow "knew" what was going to happen but i couldn't move and she couldn't hear me. Just as she was dying I woke up near hysterical, breathing like i just ran a marathon and was about to have a stroke or something. It seemed so realistic like it was that actually happened, even after i woke up.

I've had scary dreams before but not one that i thought was real even after awaking. I called her half crying and half freaking out at 5 am in the morning to see if she was ok. Scared the hell out of me. Hope i never ever EVER EVER EVER have another dream like that. :erm

[Sybil]

Troy, along the lines of what you said, i have a friend Marcus who has called me in the middle of the night after having horrible dreams about me.. i will spare everyone details of the physical attacks on me in the dreams.. but he couldnt get to me and he was forced to watch what the people were doing to me...

he cried a few times because of how real and emotional they were..

when dreams are that visual about loved ones in danger.. waking is such a relief.

but it doesnt take the pictures away.. and it makes me wonder what they mean.. like a warning.. a caution sign..

[Rivers the Cleric]

i can kind of relate to bad dreams....

for about the past 6 years of my life, there have been quite few nights where a nightmare didnt wake me up. not really anything to do with anyone i know personally, or even myself. i've just heard quite a number real-life horror stories, that really tend to stick with a person... and dishearten them, when it comes to views on the quality of humanity.

so i tend normally to sleep somewhere around 3 hours a night, if i'm lucky.

that coupled with insomnia, and we run into some times 6 day streteches with as little as 3 hours of sleep, total.

[ManicQueen]

Those are some pretty freaky dreams. I have been having a really horrible one that involves my daughter and boyfriend.. and they get stuck in a garage with the car running.. the outcome isn't pretty. I've been having that one for about a year... when I got pregnant.