Have you ever been shaken by a terrible, awful dream?

[bicentennial_baby]

I had one before I woke up today, and I'm still spooked. It involved someone I love very very much dying violently and the aftermath. Not a good way to wake up, and I'm still feeling not so good about it. Add to that that I emailed said person, asking them to tell me they're ok, and they didn't get back to me. Ugh.

x(

[ThomCat]

1. I have had some meds that caused my dreams to be

very vivid, emotional, and surreal. Worse, other meds basically knock me out so I couldn't wake up. So I was inside very personal horror movies and couldn't escape.

Not fun at all. I had to stop taking one med cold turkey at one point to make it stop because it was happening every single night.

I hope you get a response and the person is okay.

[Chicken Girl]

12. I had dreams after my grandmother died...

Of paramedics wheeling her back into our house on a stretcher (she lived with us) and saying, "we fixed her! it's okay, she's alive again now!"

Creeped the hell out of me. I had just gone on anti-depressants for the first time and that certainly didn't help.

[DarkTirade]

2. I'm one of those people who doesn't remember dreams unless I wake up halfway through usually...

so if a dream is horrific enough to wake me up, I'll remember it. D'oh.

[DarkTirade]

11. Although there were a few that were just surprising that woke me up...

like the one with jetpacks and secret agents and giant green peppers.

... yeah, that one was a little weird.

[KatyaR]

3. Yes, twice.

I have had two dreams in my entire life that I remember to this day, and they both scared the hell out of me. Looking back, I can see that they were the result of horribly stressful times when my head was totally screwed up. I'm constantly amazed at what the mind can come up with.

I hope you get some resolution on this soon. :hug:

[skygazer]

4. I hope you hear from this person soon

:hug:

And yes, I have. One of them came true - or mostly true - which was really strange. I dreamed that I came upon a house in the woods and a guy I knew from school was inside dead - he'd been shot in the head.

I woke up in a cold sweat and noticed the time - about 3 am - and the following day learned that the guy I'd dreamed of had indeed been shot in the head at about 3 am. :wow:

I have absolutely no explanation for it - he was not a close friend, just an acquaintance. But he did survive it with no problems so that part was wrong.

I've had others that just freaked me out but were in no way connected with anything real. And I'm sure that's the usual way they work. :hug:

[NNadir]

5. Oh yes. The worst of them involved losing one of my sons.

[applegrove]

6. I had some vivid dreams in the year after I was harrassed. Not any now. Except

I was on champix for stopping smoking a few months ago and I had the best dreams ever while i was on it.

I'm sure I dream. I just don't remember them.

[Shiver]

7. The summer after my freshman year of college

I was living in the dorms over the summer when I had this.

The dream starts off with my in my house back home, apparently up at five in the morning, sitting in the living room watching the joggers as they passed by the house. One in particular, an androgynous eight-foot tall person, set me on edge, so I locked the front door.

I then went to lock the back. After that, I decided to check the front door, only to find that it was unow unlocked. SO I locked it, then went to check the back.

The back door was unlocked and open, so I went outside to see what might have caused it. I go down the hill that consists of our backyard, but see nothing. As I'm coming back up, I see the androgynous jogger coming out of my house.

I run inside and lock the door, then run to the front and lock that one again. Back door is unlocked, I lock it.

I come back, and the front door is unlocked and open, and the jogger is on the other side. I still ca't tell their gender - I think it was a transvestite though. There's no time to shut the door.

I back away as they come in and try to get away, but I fall to the floor. The jogger is coming at me slowly and deliberately, and I start screaming.


That's when I woke up, screaming. It also woke up my roommate, who for months afterward continued to make fun of me for having a scary dream about a scary eight-foot tall transvestite...

Not as bad as some other in this thread, but it scared the shit out of me.

[pitohui]

8. yes, in fact, that same dream

and i was not able to get in touch w. the person either, he was on the road in a place where no cell phones worked in those days

later he found my message and let me know he was okay but had a "near miss" w a big truck at the time of my dream -- he was guilty of driving while half asleep

but all's well that ends well and he's fine to this day years later

[Tikki]

9. OMG...the worst ever....

about a quarter of the way through the day I could finally analyze the dream and realize what
made me dream the specific details of that dream...and even then I was still shaken for many months.

A traumatizing dream, for sure.

Tikki

[Bucky]

10. My current nightmare is one I can't wake up from

But yes, sometimes they get scary. Calling your friends (the next morning, of course!) is a great cure.