Nightmares

[lauriep]

I was curious, since our minds seem to be constantly going in high gear, are nightmares more common among INTPs?

I don't get them all the time (then again I don't sleep all the time either), but I have found that when talking to friends, I seem to have them more often. Or maybe I just remember them more, don't know.

[shaytana]

I dont get them at all, not the way I think other people do. I have had some freaky dreams, I have fallen, been chased, seen dead people but I have never felt pure terror in a dream.

[Last Song]

I used to have dreams/nightmares a lot as a kid. For dreams I almost always had the ability to fly, like superman I guess. As for nightmares ... many of family members or friends being killed or something like that. The last 2-3 times I would have had a dream/nightmare I somehow woke myself up from them ... and haven't had any since. Quite strange.

[Claverhouse]

Yes.




Claverhouse :ph34r:

[EternalCynic]

Yes. More on this later, as I have to go, maybe.

[int]

I had a recurring one for a few years - I would be lying comfortable in bed next to my wife but feel afraid. Then I'd awaken to see my dog giving me puppy eyes and looking very friendly - then a swarm of glittering, star-like dots would drag me out of bed while I screamed my wife's name and nothing but a whisper came out.

I looked it up and it was apparently a result of my inability to finish school and the guilt it was causing. It went away once I pinpointed it.

Not many since that, or at least nothing I'd consider unordinary. :mellow:

[Arcael]

Very Very rare for me, but they come in clusters of 2 or 3 then I dont have one for like half a year up to a year.

My last few had to do with murders on an Island and Nazi Propaganda Films

[Avengardh]

Not really...not that I can remember anyway.

[libertarianjim]

I thought about starting a thread about this topic over the weekend.

I rarely get nightmares about being chased (except by highway patrol), demons, and such. But every once in a while I have dreams about getting failing grades (even when I wasn't taking classes) or my teeth falling out. And since my divorce I've been highly susceptible to nightmares about my ex-wife (basically, her appearing and telling me how much better off she is without me or how she never wanted to marry me in the first place). I have two or three of those dreams a month. Oddly enough, even when I was happily married I was more likely to have nightmares than pleasant dreams about her.

I did once have a nightmare about having my throat cut. Lesson: don't fall asleep wearing a tight turtleneck.

[Dunearhp]

Almost never have them anymore. But then I don't remember my dreams that often either.

[file cabinet]

I worked at a cafe for 2.5 years.. when I was fired I had dreams for about a year that I still worked there.. my psychological attachment to it and my dislike of being fired probably fueled it.. anyway, those were horrible dreams..

[greenintp]

For the most part the dreams I have... others would consider nightmares (except maybe in this group). I view them as entertaiment. Although I did have one that really upset me:
Some unseen force was attacking my dog... it was like a giant, invisable Boa Constrictor. When I woke up I felt like my heart was beating up in my throat & I could hardly breath. I actually went to check on my dog.

Other than that I have battled zombies & other evil forms, shape shifted, could fly (ironic since I'm afraid of heights). I think part of the reason I don't get frieghtened by my dreams is I have learned to control them.

[spirilis]

eh, nah, I rarely have one nightmare a year, if that, and I don't think I've *ever* had a recurring nightmare.

[greenintp]

That reminds me, I did have a reoccuring dream (not really a nightmare). It went on for several years. It was a Crow walking back and forth on a headstone. At some point later I learned that my older sister (died before I was born) never had a headstone. The dreams stopped. Of course, one of my "before I die" goals is to get her a headstone. It also makes sense too me now why I have always felt at peace when I hear or see crows.

[crule81]

I have nightmares almost every night. It seems I worry even more in my sleep than when I am awake. My dreams can be so disturbing that I wake up and simply cannot go back to sleep. Sometimes I don't even remember much about the dream, but the lingering uneasiness stays with me. It's odd because I seem to feel stronger emotions of hate, love, and fear in these dreams than I do when I am awake. Sometimes I am aware that I am dreaming and am able to "push" the dream and control the action to some extent.

I also have the disturbing tendency of killing or attempting to kill people in my dreams. Luckily, they are not people I know and tend to be in a military setting. The other people are trying to kill me too. Many times, as I am about to shoot, my gun jams or I realize I have no ammo.


But every once in a while I have dreams about getting failing grades (even when I wasn't taking classes) or my teeth falling out.

I have the same two dreams frequently, especially the last one. I guess that I'm afraid that all of the ordeal I had with braces would go to waste if my teeth fell out. Another reoccuring dream is that I am Luke Skywalker being chased by Darth Vader. I could go on and on about my dreams.

[MacGuffin]

Another reoccuring dream is that I am Luke Skywalker being chased by Darth Vader. I could go on and on about my dreams.

I found you!


I dream about my teeth falling out, esp. by me extending my lower jaw, biting down and crushing them. Weirds me out, I worry I might actually do that while asleep.

[Claverhouse]

Many times, as I am about to shoot, my gun jams or I realize I have no ammo.

How difficult would that one be for kindly old Dr. Siggy ?

You might want to edit it out...

:ph34r:



Claverhouse :ph34r:

[crule81]

Many times, as I am about to shoot, my gun jams or I realize I have no ammo.

How difficult would that one be for kindly old Dr. Siggy ?

You might want to edit it out...

Well, now that YOU posted it...

Oh well, now it is immortalized!

[crule81]

Another reoccuring dream is that I am Luke Skywalker being chased by Darth Vader. I could go on and on about my dreams.

I found you!

No. No. That's not true! That's impossible!

[MacGuffin]

Another reoccuring dream is that I am Luke Skywalker being chased by Darth Vader. I could go on and on about my dreams.

I found you!

No. No. That's not true! That's impossible!

Search your feelings. You know it to be true.

[Chall T. Dow]

I used to have nightmares alot when I was a kid. Now I hardly remember any dreams and many nights I don't think I dream at all. The last nightmare I remember was of some demonized version of myself trying to destroy everything. It was weird. Most of my nightmares revolve around me hurting alot of people, usually ones I'm close too.

:devil: Chall T. Dow :devil:

[Groty]

Most of my dreaming is done during the day, while performing repetitive tasks... :D

I do have nightmares, but not frequently. Usually early in the morning, 2am or so, they do wake me up. I have a hard time remembering what they were about when I wake up in the morning.

[jimkopelli]

I haven't had a nightmare in a long time... I had one when I was a kid where I was falling... and then I woke up and realized that I was stuck hanging out of my bunkbed with my noggin wedged in between the bar and the mattress... :nerd:

[lauriep]

I get dreams where I don't always remember what happened as much as waking with a terrible feeling of dread. Then I have a really hard time getting back to sleep and feel jumpy. When I do remember them, it often involves someone or something that I can't see in the darkness attacking or suffocating me and I'm trying to scream but no sound coming out. Rarely, I will be able to scream in my dreams and apparently I do it for real because it'll wake my husband. (Always freaks the shit out of him.) Anyway, I'll get these nightmares every night for a couple weeks and then nothing for several months. But I've noticed that stress seems to set off the pattern.

I've also had some recurring ones but those aren't usually nightmares, negative maybe but nothing that really disturbs me.

[Bluehaze]

I haven't had nightmares for at least...I won't try to remember. However, most people are afraid of the unknown, so the more we find in common with that which we are not, the less chance that a dream may be interpreted as a nightmare. On a second note, I don't dream often to begin with.