Bad dream counter

[secondlina]

My brain seems to enjoy scaring me lately rather then giving me nice dreams. So i'll draw the dreams I want. Riding a ponycorn on a rainbow? Heck yeah! *hums robotic unicorn song*

I seem to be having bad dreams again. It's weird. A few people joke around that "a clean conscience means good dreams!" but really, even when i'm not stressed out or worrying or feeling guilty I still seem to have nightmares. Maybe it's my brain working too much. I'm always thinking, but I don't really do anything to tire my body out. Tired brain in ready-for-action body gives out messed up dreams? Maybe. I don't know. I wish dream catchers worked. I already have two in the apartment. *laughs*

Dreamcatchers are awesome. I wish I could buy a really big, crazy elaborate one. It would probably make my window look like it's got a giant spiderweb, but hey. To me, it would be cool.

Kinda makes me wonder about that whole "vivid dreaming" thing. My dreams are often logical enough (they sometimes inspired stories!) and I usually remember most of them. I seem to be rather lucid in dreams, and often eventually try to take control of a nightmare when I "realize" it's a nightmare. It never works though. Nightmares just get freakier. Like it's suddenly a battle. Kinda like in "Inception" I guess, but much less constructed and James-Bond-y (seriously, what was up with the James Bond part of the movie?) I also often die, fall and fly in dreams. It's suppose to be the elements people dream the most about. A lot of people try to analyze what it means. Nobody really agrees though.

I know one of the weirdest recurring nightmares I had was that I was in a weird metal/glass labyrinth with purple gas slowly poisoning people. And I have to get a character out. Often that character was an imaginary one and changed depending on my favorite book/comic/movie of the time. I never managed to get out of that darn labyrinth. Always ended up poisoned. :( Oh well.

What about you guys? How goes the dreamworld?

- Isa

Comments

[yukinoomoni.livejournal.com]

Lol. My dreams involve Nimue, being stranded in a rich person's house with no shoes or pants, being lost with Nimue in an amusement park with no shoes or pants, or having to walk home in the middle of winter over a frozen lake with Nim but with no shoes or pants.

what

[yukinoomoni.livejournal.com]

OH YEAH I also forgot the time-traveling treadmill and trying to hide my stories from my father, my cousin, and my sister, in a lake of tar WITH NO SHOES but with pants AND WITH NIMUE.

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

So... No shoes, nor pants, and a dog are the common theme? I think your subconscious is trying to tell you like to show off your dog and butt? Or something? *laughs*

[the-flowergirl.livejournal.com]

My nightmares usually involve a close family member trying to kill me out in the open, like my dad trying to kill me in a grocery store.

[yukinoomoni.livejournal.com]

My underwear, probably. I was wearing underwear.

I think I'm also paranoid about my dog in general. I forgot to mention that my other dog, Dusty, was in one of the dreams, too, despite being dead for over five years.

[auriga]

That would be the best dream ever!

I find dreams usually end up being a mishmash of stuff I've seen or experienced lately, turned very bizarre. Except for the fact that my subconscious seems to love zombies since they show up all the time. This despite the fact I don't watch or read any zombie stories.

[ichiban-victory.livejournal.com]

Aaah! Attack of the circle pony-unicorn-thing! (Oh, how it warms my heart seeing basic character creation.)

Nightmares happen to everyone, trust me on this. I've not had any nightmares recently, but they'll be back... They always seem to happen at random with no explanation at all. (I still don't know what to think of the dream where a man ----- me with a spoon. I'm still disturbed by that.) It's like all of the random stressors accumulate and wait until just the right moment to strike, then I'm traumatized for days/weeks/years as I try to figure out what it all means.

I do take heed from repeating dreams though. I do sometimes check out online dream dictionaries to see what they have to say, and see if it matches with what my impressions were from a given dream/nightmare. Most often they do not, but usually I'm still able to derive some meaning from my dreams anyway.

I don't know, despite the nightmares, I still think dreams are cool. They've certainly given me information there's no way I would have had otherwise. There's something untapped about that, something I'd just love to see science explain.

[angelchan-2004.livejournal.com]

I almost never remember my dreams anymore... I know they can be vivid, because I've woken up crying and whatnot before, but they never seem to stay with me. If I don't write them down right away, I forget even the ones I remember in the morning. D:

Although, I love that picture. It is amazing. Methinks it needs to be an icon.

[earthstar-moon.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I can tell I'm in a dream and then I get frustrated because I'm trying to wake myself up. I often get caught in one of those "Am I awake now?" cycles you'll see used in dream stories.

You'll love this, recently I had a bad dream about being attacked by zombies, I woke up startled and then went back to sleep, but I controlled the dream and threw Mama Oldie in from the Princess and The Frog in to fight them. She kicked those zombies ' butts! XD

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

Maybe the dogs represent stability or love or protection or soemthing...

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

...yikes.

[the-flowergirl.livejournal.com]

The most recent one was my uncle trying to drown me. I'm not really sure what these mean.

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

Zombies often? Weird. I get "gas" often in dreams as a way or death or a background element.

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

Thanks for all the tips. I'm really sorry to hear you suffer from chronic nightmares! I've been told I might have suffered from this too. But since I can kinda control them (or at least make them a bit less scary) I figured it was just my active imagination and not something horribly difficult to fix like that.

:( You poor thing.

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

Simple things are really amusing to draw/see. XD

Dreams are cool. Many of my dreams give me ideas. I just wish my nightmares weren't so vivid.

What now spoon what?

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

It's got serious icon potential, I agree.

Most people I know are like that. THe dreams fade. Apparently remembering them as well as I do is rare.

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

"Well, this went from scary to family fun! Yaaaaay"

[ichiban-victory.livejournal.com]

Trust me, you don't want to know.

[anna-nimmie-tee.livejournal.com]

When I was younger I used to have the flying dreams. They never were nightmares. Learning to drive was very scary for me because before I learned, I used to have nightmares I was in a car that started up by itself for some reason, and neither I or anyone else in the car could control it. Sometimes it went over a cliff. When it did, I would wake up.

In college and once in a great while many years later, the recurring, minor nightmare (not terrorizing like the runaway car one) I used to have was not being able to find an important class or arriving late and not having a clue what was going on, because in the nightmare I hadn't attended most of the semester. Related to that was the one where I found myself on a stage and didn't know my lines or dance steps. (I have an undeclared major in theater.)

[chameleon9999.livejournal.com]

That fat unicorn is awesome XD

I never have lucid dreams, but I do have the kind where you wake up and go, "WTF was that?" Last night I dreamt I was a guest star on Bones. I wish I could remember what kind of case we were solving.

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

Guy eaten by lizards. Obviously XD

[zelgadisfangirl.livejournal.com]

I haven't had any nightmares lately, (despite watching part of The Ring and part of The Grudge, but they didn't scare me) but I do have really weird but vivid dreams, I've even had Alan Rickman as a random charatcer in one of my dreams and ended pointing some kind of souped up hair dryer at me. Sometimes I'm in a dream or some random character is, but often I can't remember any of my dreams, not even the really good ones.

when I was younger, I'm often walking sideways, like the camera was tilted sideways and left there, and I sometimes fall over in the dream, its really weird...

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

alan Rickman dreams can be good though. *laughs*

I think I had one of those "tilted sideways" dreams myself.

[chameleon9999.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't doubt it!

[spankingfemme.livejournal.com]

I never put too much stock in dreams as most of them are just your sub conscious spewing out garbage you could have seen anywhere relating to anything. Of course, I hardly dream anymore these days. I used to dream all the time, but working so many hours all the time I think doesn't leave much time for dreaming... or at least I just don't remember them anymore