nightmares

chadwick

Ms. Haiku wrote:

Sounds like a little astrotravelling? Whatever you can't say during the day, or if you're around someone who's "taking your voice" don't be around that person. Time to move out of that situation.

i dunno if it's arstrotraveling so much as old hag syndrome.
however, you are on to something.
i been studying/reading up on astrotraveling.
and um, they are saying where you are out fuckin around
outside your body, when youre travelin around, some spirits might attack ya.
who flippin knows man, deep shit this stuff.

Jeremy1012

chadwick wrote:

may i pm you a lil Succubus poem i wrote up?
you to prism, pm you something to read?

Yeah go for it

prism

Ms. Haiku wrote:

Sounds like a little astrotravelling? Whatever you can't say during the day, or if you're around someone who's "taking your voice" don't be around that person. Time to move out of that situation.

though i don't feel as though anyone around me is "taking my voice." I mean sure sometimes there's things that i can't say (that i would like to) to some people during the day but doesn't everyone feel that way from time to time?

chadwick

prism wrote:

though i don't feel as though anyone around me is "taking my voice." I mean sure sometimes there's things that i can't say (that i would like to) to some people during the day but doesn't everyone feel that way from time to time?

i think ms. haiku was meaning possession of some kinda,
gettin inside your being.
maybe im wrong, haiku....explain please

Ms. Haiku

chadwick wrote:

i think ms. haiku was meaning possession of some kinda,
gettin inside your being.
maybe im wrong, haiku....explain please

I don't mean possession during your waking hours I mean someone who makes you feel so uncomfortable that you aren't willing to say what you feel, or even say the little things that make you you.

A lot of times dreams are a reflection of what we can't express during our waking hours. Sometimes it's as simple as you were watching an action movie right before you went to bed, and in your dreams there was a lot of action. Basically, a processing of the movie, residual effect.

Sometimes it's more involved. Instead of the action within a dream being what you saw, it is a reflection of what you felt. If you were in a situation where you were not able to speak what you need to say then a dream would be the time when you could finally speak, but at the same time it is a warning. If you don't speak it will be like a physical vice on your spirit expressing itself.

The first question to ask is, are you in a different situation over the past 6 months where you find over time that you don't feel you have much to add compared to how you viewed your thoughts previously?

prism

Ms. Haiku wrote:

I don't mean possession during your waking hours I mean someone who makes you feel so uncomfortable that you aren't willing to say what you feel, or even say the little things that make you you.

A lot of times dreams are a reflection of what we can't express during our waking hours. Sometimes it's as simple as you were watching an action movie right before you went to bed, and in your dreams there was a lot of action. Basically, a processing of the movie, residual effect.

Sometimes it's more involved. Instead of the action within a dream being what you saw, it is a reflection of what you felt. If you were in a situation where you were not able to speak what you need to say then a dream would be the time when you could finally speak, but at the same time it is a warning. If you don't speak it will be like a physical vice on your spirit expressing itself.

The first question to ask is, are you in a different situation over the past 6 months where you find over time that you don't feel you have much to add compared to how you viewed your thoughts previously?

well when you put it that way....holy shit, in the last six months my thoughts and feelings have evolved ALOT in comparison to the way I allowed myself to think and feel previously. though it's all pretty deeply personal and with no one to share it with that wants to hear it, I have no choice other than to stuff it

justam

prism wrote:

a little bit ago I had this nightmare that someone (I don't even know who or what it was) had their hands around my neck and I was being choked. it seemed so real that it was terrifying. like so real that when I woke up and sat up in bed and I was shaking and crying and gasping for air. so i jumped up out of bed and ran down the hall to one of the spare rooms and grabbed one of my son's old baseball bats. I ran down the steps with the bat in my hand and i did glance around a little, saw that the doors were still locked and there really wasn't anyone else here. then I started laughing (even though i was still crying) as it occured to me that there probably wasn't anyone in the house that had been choking me and that it was all a nasty nightmare. I mean really was i gonna wack myself upside the head with the bat to get at whatever was choking me?

so now of course I can't go back to sleep, and i'm still shaking. I can't call any of my friends cause it's after 3:30 am as they would assume that it was an emergency and i needed a ride to the hospital or something. so if i called them to say that I had a horrible nightmare they'd choke me to death (for reals)

I try to look at things (even the unpleasant things) as something to learn from. though I'm really not finding what i supposed to learn from this. i already knew that one of the meds that I've been on for the last six months causes vivid, intense dreams (and nightmares) but that doesn't make me feel any less like a scared little kid right now.

so what do ya'll do when you have a bad nightmare?

I wake up my husband and ask for a hug. I usually feel so relieved it was a nightmare I sigh and cry a little.

chadwick

Ms. Haiku wrote:

I don't mean possession during your waking hours I mean someone who makes you feel so uncomfortable that you aren't willing to say what you feel, or even say the little things that make you you.

A lot of times dreams are a reflection of what we can't express during our waking hours. Sometimes it's as simple as you were watching an action movie right before you went to bed, and in your dreams there was a lot of action. Basically, a processing of the movie, residual effect.

Sometimes it's more involved. Instead of the action within a dream being what you saw, it is a reflection of what you felt. If you were in a situation where you were not able to speak what you need to say then a dream would be the time when you could finally speak, but at the same time it is a warning. If you don't speak it will be like a physical vice on your spirit expressing itself.

The first question to ask is, are you in a different situation over the past 6 months where you find over time that you don't feel you have much to add compared to how you viewed your thoughts previously?

uh, what?
i follow ya a bit but then you loose me.

btw, how is this astrotraveling?

prism

chadwick wrote:

uh, what?
i follow ya a bit but then you loose me.

btw, how is this astrotraveling?

what she was saying i don't feel applies to me (i don't ever watch action movies...ha) except that the last question, I felt applied to me in the opposite sense in that in the last six months I feel like I have very much to add compared to how I viewed my thoughts previously.

I still don't get what astrotraveling is?
is that when the Jetson's dog Astro goes outside their condo and takes George for a run on that nifty space treadmill?

prism

not that this has anything to do with nightmares but I've been trying to remind myself of this all day as not to think so much about that yucky nightmare last night.

do any of ya'll ever wake yourself up because you've been laughing in your sleep? I freaking looooove when that happens. i can actually hear myself laughing and feel my face breaking into a grin.
wouldn't it be wonderful to experience sleep laughing alot more often?

chadwick

prism wrote:

not that this has anything to do with nightmares but I've been trying to remind myself of this all day as not to think so much about that yucky nightmare last night.

do any of ya'll ever wake yourself up because you've been laughing in your sleep? I freaking looooove when that happens. i can actually hear myself laughing and feel my face breaking into a grin.
wouldn't it be wonderful to experience sleep laughing alot more often?

i have done this too.
it is a nice lil experience.
make up due to laughing your own ass off.
that's gotta be good times.

prism

chadwick wrote:

i have done this too.
it is a nice lil experience.
make up due to laughing your own ass off.
that's gotta be good times.

I want to discover a way to make it happen on more nights.