@riotdemon, thank you for asking Irk this question! I too only have dreams that are nightmares. Knowing you deal with the same affliction makes me feel a little less weird. [I’d feel even less weirder if you didn’t refer to yourself as @riotdemon but hey, it’s wrong to judge, right?] Hopefully the dreams that completed before we wake and thus we won’t remember are a little more upbeat!
Nightmares are normal for me, but I usually have to think on a dream after I wake up to figure out if/when there were nightmare elements.
A dream might end on a TV documentary about a governor of two states who also invented the plastic easter egg. But minutes earlier a murder-ghost was blowing people up while leaving their blood vessels hovering in the air. Or I might wake up to what looks like the start of a great music video. But earlier in the dream someone dumped piles of organs on a group of helpless clowns walking from one studio backlot to the next.
I’ll have to remember to write down the music video part of the dream because it was actually pretty cool.
Try lucid dreaming. Then you’ll only dream about what you want, forever. Such as tiny kittens with angel wings that fly around, or grapefruits that talk. Or whatever.
@Starblind Lucid dreaming doesn’t necessarily imply control (though it does sometimes occur). It only means that one is aware that they are dreaming.
I often have what I term semi-lucid dreams. I am aware that I am dreaming, but my logic is very flawed. For example, I might confront a person in my dream with the query “This a dream, why are you taking this so seriously?” or I might catch a person in a lie and rationalize that they do know it is a dream and are pretending otherwise.
@DrWorm I once had a dream that I realized I was dreaming and woke up from the dream, only to realize that I was dreaming and woke up from the dream. And then I woke up.
@Knightp I used to have those. I’d know I was asleep but I’d be unable to wake up. All the other people in my dream would assure me I was awake and tell me to stop trying to wake up. One time I went into my mom’s room and asked her if I was awake. She told me of course I was. Then I asked her “If I’m awake why is there a giant diamond on your bed?” I would run around and throw myself into things to try to wake up. I had these dreams into my 20s. They were pretty terrifying.
Honestly, my nightmares have been kinda boring lately. I still wake up with terrible feelings of dread or sadness… But no cool nightmares of being stuck on alien ships or teddy bear ninjas.
My doctor once put me on Singulair, an allergy medicine. The side effects include: mental/mood changes (such as agitation, aggression, anxiety, trouble sleeping, abnormal dreams, sleep-walking, memory/attention problems, depression, hallucinations, thoughts of harming yourself/suicide), numbness/tingling/shooting pain in the arms or legs, sinus pain/swelling, muscle weakness.
I was only on it for 2 weeks, but in that time, I started to have nightmares every night. Needless to say, I stopped taking it. Now my dreams just have me waking up to WTF was that? But at least they’re not gruesome murderfests.
How exactly is he saying your name @riotdemon? However he is saying it, it sounds right.
According to the CC, it is Rashomon.
@conandlibrarian When I first posted in the Ask Irk thread, I thought about how Irk could butcher my name. This was way beyond any expectations.
@riotdemon, thank you for asking Irk this question! I too only have dreams that are nightmares. Knowing you deal with the same affliction makes me feel a little less weird. [I’d feel even less weirder if you didn’t refer to yourself as @riotdemon but hey, it’s wrong to judge, right?] Hopefully the dreams that completed before we wake and thus we won’t remember are a little more upbeat!
Nightmares are normal for me, but I usually have to think on a dream after I wake up to figure out if/when there were nightmare elements.
A dream might end on a TV documentary about a governor of two states who also invented the plastic easter egg. But minutes earlier a murder-ghost was blowing people up while leaving their blood vessels hovering in the air. Or I might wake up to what looks like the start of a great music video. But earlier in the dream someone dumped piles of organs on a group of helpless clowns walking from one studio backlot to the next.
I’ll have to remember to write down the music video part of the dream because it was actually pretty cool.
@paulg1982 that blood vessel thing would be awesome in a horror movie, if they could figure out the CGI so it didn’t look ridiculous.
Poor clowns, lol
Try lucid dreaming. Then you’ll only dream about what you want, forever. Such as tiny kittens with angel wings that fly around, or grapefruits that talk. Or whatever.
@Starblind Lucid dreaming doesn’t necessarily imply control (though it does sometimes occur). It only means that one is aware that they are dreaming.
I often have what I term semi-lucid dreams. I am aware that I am dreaming, but my logic is very flawed. For example, I might confront a person in my dream with the query “This a dream, why are you taking this so seriously?” or I might catch a person in a lie and rationalize that they do know it is a dream and are pretending otherwise.
@Starblind grapefruits that talk? Yet I’m the crazy one!
@DrWorm I once had a dream that I realized I was dreaming and woke up from the dream, only to realize that I was dreaming and woke up from the dream. And then I woke up.
<INCEPTION HORN>
@Knightp I used to have those. I’d know I was asleep but I’d be unable to wake up. All the other people in my dream would assure me I was awake and tell me to stop trying to wake up. One time I went into my mom’s room and asked her if I was awake. She told me of course I was. Then I asked her “If I’m awake why is there a giant diamond on your bed?” I would run around and throw myself into things to try to wake up. I had these dreams into my 20s. They were pretty terrifying.
@matthew needs more BWAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMMMM
Weed did the trick to make all my dreams go away.
@j37hr0 Maybe it’ll work in DC: http://www.wusa9.com/news/local/free-marijuana-on-inauguration-day/381730160
@j37hr0 I don’t want them to go away. I like dreaming.
My life is complete. I’ve had a puppet call me a psychopath.
@RiotDemon Puppet? Wait, you mean…? No, he’s not. You’re obviously a psychopath.
@RiotDemon Irk is NOT a puppet, right, @PlacidPenguin?
Honestly, my nightmares have been kinda boring lately. I still wake up with terrible feelings of dread or sadness… But no cool nightmares of being stuck on alien ships or teddy bear ninjas.
@RiotDemon How about cats?
http://shirt.woot.com/offers/youre-dreaming
I think it’s pronounced Rio-tDe-mon. Like a magic trick.
As a side note. When I was a child, Cinderella was the book I had my mom read to me every night. So thanks, Irk, for quoting Cinderella.
My doctor once put me on Singulair, an allergy medicine. The side effects include: mental/mood changes (such as agitation, aggression, anxiety, trouble sleeping, abnormal dreams, sleep-walking, memory/attention problems, depression, hallucinations, thoughts of harming yourself/suicide), numbness/tingling/shooting pain in the arms or legs, sinus pain/swelling, muscle weakness.
I was only on it for 2 weeks, but in that time, I started to have nightmares every night. Needless to say, I stopped taking it. Now my dreams just have me waking up to WTF was that? But at least they’re not gruesome murderfests.
@Knightp Singulair: Your second head will urge you to kill yourself but at least neither of your noses will be stuffed up.
I just woke from a dream in which every time I got up I fell asleep in a heap on the ground.
sounds like a real tubthumper of a nightmare