Dreams/Nightmares

[ikalugin]

Most of the time I both realise that i am dreaming and have a degree of control over the dream. This leads to me... adventuring in the dreams.

One of my most rememberable "adventures" was:
- I fall asleep.
- I go and say something on the lines of, now lets go on adventure!
- I get issued full plate armour, sword and i get the mission to save a princess from an evill regant.
- I prompty sneak into the castle and offer the princess my rescue services.
- She refuses to be rescued before the regant being defeated.
- I go to defeat the regant, get my sword flaming (monsters regenerate so slashes were not enough), fly around and open the path.
- Some monsters ambush me, drag me into the water pool, flame goes out.
- Princess runs forward instead of stopping to save me.
- I die.
- I come back as a shadow to a ball, regant finds me out and I ask him to set the princess free. He then explains to me that the previous king+queen were horrible tyrants and he actually keeps the princess safe from the masses.
- I wake up in dissapointment.

[Eichhörnchen]

@ STEED: that was a pretty cruel kind of dream... I don't want another one like that (I woke up with a yell).

@ Aktung: Tango's not responded to PM's or emails since his last, final, disappearance. A shame that... I miss him. He went from being here, there and everywhere to complete silence. I hope he's OK.

[GoldenRivet]

You know i never really knew until i recently researched it. but i have a condition called "Exploding head syndrome" while it sounds pretty epic and frightening its not.

EHS only occurs for me when i am under periods of great stress such as numerous looming deadlines for a number of clients, or adjusting to sleeping in a new place. Once it occurs, it is initially startling, but within 2 seconds i realize what happened.

It manifests itself when i am just drifting off to sleep... when suddenly i will experience and auditory and visual hallucination lasting only a brief second or two

the auditory component is similar to a balloon bursting, or a single second of very loud TV static and is similar in volume to what both events would actually be. More commonly the full volume TV static sound would be encountered.

the visual component is a simple white flash of light - though my eyes are closed, and i am just entering sleep. It is best compared to being in a dark, featureless room and suddenly there is a strike of lightening

the event lasts approximately one or maybe two seconds and is over

the first time i experienced this i was a young man in my late teens or early twenties... i dont remember exactly, but i do remember waking up, and walking around my room and bathroom looking for the source of this bright noisy flash, thinking that something "electrical" had taken place like a light bulb becoming over powered and busting (you know the sound i mean?) and woke me up. i found nothing and went back to bed.

after experiencing this several other times i determined that it was some sort of physiological response that my body was having as a reaction to natural sleep. I had heard of people twitching or kicking a leg upon falling asleep as the brains way of "making sure it was still alive" so very soon - perhaps after the third episode, i dismissed it as being just how my brain sometimes responds to shutting down for the night.

It was not until after experiencing this several times that i grew to realize that it seemed to occur during periods of stress or fatigue.

i would estimate that i experience perhaps as few as 3 to maybe as many as 5 bouts of "EHS" per year - though i never really counted them.

[Eichhörnchen]

My friend woke up with his hands around his wife's throat (she woke up pretty quick too, needless to say) so he had to sleep downstairs for a while after that...

[Aktungbby]

I never have these issues Will I dream?

[Oberon]

I'm sure Freud would have a field day with this one, either that or I need to cut back on the WWII based games.

Well, it starts off with my arriving at or near a new house, whether it's a place that I'll be living at, perhaps something in the psyche about the current situation I'm in, I don't know, but shortly after arrival I hear the of a Nebelwerfer.



I walk down the street a short way and encounter some WWII re-enactors, there's what looks like a Hetzer moving into a field nearby, and I find myself in a position of wanting to join in.
So, like any ordinary person does, I call in a Panther tank, much to the amazement of the re-enactors. For some reason Task Force is driving, probably harking back to our days of playing Red Orchestra where we'd take it in turns being the commander/gunner and driver of the various tanks (and making a pretty good team if I may say so).



Anyway, at this point it seemingly changes from a re-enactment to the real thing. The Panther advances forward into a field with infantry behind it, after encountering no resistance, I order the infantry to fan out and advance. Almost immediately we're fired upon from behind, a small copse of trees is hiding some form of machine gun, we turn the Panther to 'Links' and open fire with the co-ax MG, and then send a shell in. The sneaky MG stops firing, I want to send another shell to be sure but my loader cautions that we only have a limited number of shells to use.
For some reason I get the impression that this took place somewhere in Poland, one can only presume it was later war during the great retreat from the Soviet Union since a) ammo shortages and b) the Panther didn't exist in 1939.

At this point it changes again, and it's a different scene, on the far outskirts of a city where the Luftwaffe are firestorming it, there's a strong wind, the smell of water in the air, burst mains pipes perhaps or people desperately trying to put out the fires. I see nothing of the destruction of the city, but I'm aware that it's happening, I do see someone...a woman I think, walking down a dirt road, blackened and disheveled.

And then it changes again (my dreams do this a lot, it's almost like fast-forwarding through a program, a lot of the time there's a vague connection, but things like click one after the other. Perhaps it's my short attention span ). This time it's a train full of people, dirty clothing, all different sexes and ages, probably civilian refugees. There's a cry of 'Juden!' from the front, and a stereotypically evil looking officer strides through the carriage, looking for the source of the cry, I don't make out any firm details of this officer other than his demeanour which is like something out of a typical SS officer in a war film.
A nurse is at the far end of the train, there's some babies and a young kid who is pleading, begging with the nurse to hide them or save them, she hushes the kid and then shuts herself and the boy on the other side of the doors which lead between carriages, it's the end of the train, what is she going to do? The officer comes through into the carriage, he stalks to the doors and fling them open, there's no-one there. One can only presume she was either able to hide outside of the doors somehow, or jump off the train. I didn't get the impression that the train was moving, so perhaps the latter was the case. The officer makes some snide comment about the fact that he will find them, and then a young boy stands up and challenges the officer, the mood in the carriage goes from high (but muted, of course, the occupants are happy that the nurse and that escaped but opt not to show it) to horrified, you just know that this poor kid has made a colossal mistake.

And then I woke up.

Curious dreams indeed, I wouldn't call them nightmares since there was no horror involved, if anything the horror was surgically removed, and when the horror would have commenced with the poor kid copping it from the SS officer, the dream promptly kicked me out. So there's that to be grateful for, I guess. Perhaps the non-horror stems from the lack of such things in the average war based game which is probably where a lot of this came from. I don't have war based dreams a lot, thankfully, which is perhaps why I remembered this one quite vividly.

Strange things.

[Cybermat47]

I have those falling dreams a bit. You know, the ones where you dream that you're falling, then you wake up and you still feel like you're falling?

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by Cybermat47

I have those falling dreams a bit. You know, the ones where you dream that you're falling, then you wake up and you still feel like you're falling?

S'what happens when you're upside down, mate.

[Cybermat47]

Originally Posted by Oberon

S'what happens when you're upside down, mate.

Yeah, I know you guys go through it a lot, but I can't figure out someone right-way-up like me is experiencing it

[STEED]

Lets get to the point here you know what I am talking about, those dreams you have and you spot oh no I'm not wearing trousers!

You are and no one notice but you and you are so big time you are freaking out!

What the heck is that all about? You are in a public place and no one gives a dam but you as you freak out.

[Eichhörnchen]

I'm usually sitting on the toilet during one of those (in the dream, I mean...)

[STEED]

Originally Posted by Eichhörnchen

I'm usually sitting on the toilet during one of those (in the dream, I mean...)

Or as jim would post..

[mapuc]

A picture of a rusty sub on our Facebook page, made me remember a dream I had not so long after I got my driving license.

In this dream my friend came and said he and his friend had something for me as a present.

Next part in my dream I was sitting on the back seat, while my friend was sitting in front and his friend was driving. They were talking and I heard most of it

Do you think he know what we have for him?
No he don't
Have you finished the polishing
Oh year have spent the last 3 day doing just that.

Next part of my dream we are standing in front of a barn-My friend said go inside and see what we have for you.

I open the door and see lots of old rusty cars. I turn back looking at my friend saying.
So what is that you have for me ?

He said-this and pointed to wards a car.

?? that rusty wreckage ??

You are so ungrateful he said to me, do you know how much work we have put into this, my friend over there have spent days and hours polishing and my sister have washed the seats and the interior.

Try to imagine a car without any paint whatsoever and the seats without any cushioning-all you see is the springs

At this time the part of my brain I use, when I'm awake, kicked in and said what is this and then I woke up.

Markus

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Cybermat47

I have those falling dreams a bit. You know, the ones where you dream that you're falling, then you wake up and you still feel like you're falling?

Actually, at my age U wake up; 'leap to the colors' ....and U R really falling! Broke two little toes on my left foot a month ago. I sometimes still think my 18 wheeler is moving and I CANT GET OUT OF THE SLEEPER AS THE CURTAIN ZIPPER IS JAMMED to reach the brake air button (big knob at right-pushes in) just out of reach on the console...practically have a cardiac infarction as I sit up perspiring heavily at 2 AM. @ Neal: times have passed me by: what R all those newfangled doohickeys!

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by STEED

Or as jim would post..

I was thinking that quite a few posts ago