I haven’t had a lucid dream for a long time, probably a year or so, and even when I used to have them they were rare. Normally when I become lucid in a dream I get very excited and wake up after a few minutes.
This morning I had a very strange dream - i woke up feeling very scared and didn’t want to get up for about half an hour becasue I was very unsettled. The wierd thing is nothing even happened in my dream! All I remember is seeing wierd shapes and colours and thinking that I knew I was dreaming, and although nothing bad was happening I knew I was supposd to be having a bad dream. I thought “wow, this dream is supposed to be scary? I’m waking up before anything horrible happens” and woke up feeling really bad. Infact I haven’t felt that scared since I used to have bad dreams as a kid!
Has this ever happened to anyone or am I going insane?
Night Terrors Symptoms: Sudden awakening from sleep, persistent fear or terror that occurs at night, screaming, sweating, confusion, rapid heart rate, inability to explain what happened, usually no recall of “bad dreams” or nightmares, may have a vague sense of frightening images. Many people see spiders, snakes, animals or people in the room, are unable to fully awake, difficult to comfort, with no memory of the event on awakening the next day.
Sounds like night terrors to me. I’ve had them myself… I actually enjoy them though… (which explains my addiction to Haunted Attractions every Halloween )
I dunno - it wasn’t that I didn’t remember the thing that was so bad - there really wasn’t anything bad happening. I just had a feeling that it was supposed to be a bad dream. Really wierd though.
I went back to sleep after I posted on here (it was like 6am) and had more wierd dreams but not scary ones. Nearly got lucid again but panicked and woke up. I think I was worried the same thing was goin to happen again or something…
when i was young i had a lot of nightmares, and most of them had no scary theme but i always woke up totally scared!
the dreams were about cartoons, just colour shapes and stuff like that… i believe that the fear is deep inside and not conected with the scenery, it is like thinking about two things in a same time you now, like driving a bike and singing in the same time… driving bike is fun but the song you sing in your head is sad so it makes you sad… i just mean that the fear was like in your subconcious dream that you didnt experience and those shapes were in your concious dream…
I’ve had shitty lucid dreams that I’ve just wanted to end before…even ones where I had a relatively large amount of control…there’s just a mood about some of them, and I’ve ended them voluntarily rather than even trying to just make them better. Dunno why it happens, it just does from time to time.
i babysit a little girl who has night terrors. i’ve never been there for them, as her parents get home usually b4 she goes to bed, but her family has been on vacations with us (our fam is really close with theirs, we’re best friends) and she has had them. she wakes up, SCREAMS SCREAMS SCREAMS!, wont tell us why, crys crys crys asking for her parents (if they arn’t there) and wont tell us why, and she has constant breathing and looks almost like she is having a seizure (i’d know this as my sister has epilepsy).
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