Recurring Dreams
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Greedy sod!!
Moon bunny
Judging your grammar
- Location
- Basking in my own brilliance.
One of the "benefits" of PTSD is that the medicine causes wonderfully lucid vivid dreams, the sort you can control. For instance just a few nights ago I dreamt that I could use my cat, Sammy, as a sort of cannon, when I squeezed him he wailed and a ball shot out of his mouth. I wandered round town with him, shooting people I dislike for minor reasons.
A requirement to remembering a dream is to wake up during it. Obviously the same applies to nightmares, although I think it goes without saying your more likely to wake up!!
Beebo
Firm and Fruity
- Location
- Hexleybeef
I think the punchline to that joke is "my pillow was gone"
Electric_Andy
Heavy Metal Fan
- Location
- Plymouth
I have that one as well, but often it's not only coursework that I've missed, but have in fact messed the entire year up. I'm then presented with a ridiculously hard module (ohh matron) that would cause Stephen Hawking to wheel away in fear. When I wake up it's such a relief that I passed it all many years ago
craigwend
Grimpeur des terrains plats
Sigmund not Arnie?....
When Arnie met Freud and Wittgenstein
You know Hollywood is in a bad way when people start calling Schwarzenegger a philosophical giant
The week's three Hollywood movies are unnecessary sequels. The best of them is Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, in which Arnold Schwarzenegger returns from the future once more, this time as the good cyborg he was in the first sequel. His task is again to rescue John Connor, the designated leader of the freedom fighters who'll save mankind.
Arnie's Terminator comes naked into this world, marching into a raunchy hen night at a Los Angeles bar (the experts on Antiques Roadshow would no doubt identify him as a Chippendale cyborg) and takes the clothes off the back of a male stripper. Meanwhile, a bad female cyborg, T-X (Kristanna Loken), turns up, programmed to kill Connor, and she steals the car and natty leather coat of a startled middle-class woman.
There then ensues a rapid succession of violent fights and spectacularly destructive chases that tear up Southern California like an earthquake, with the occasional time out for exposition. As usual, Arnie gets to deliver some wisdom and deadpan jokes in the vein of his fellow straight-faced alien Mr Spock, eg: 'Levity is good - it reduces tension and the fear of death.'
The first two movies have yielded up allegories of a philosophical and religious nature, and in The Philosopher at the End of the Universe, his book exploring philosophical ideas through SF movies, Mark Rowlands puts Arnie, 'the philosophical giant of Hollywood', in the same class as his fellow Austrians Wittgenstein, Freud and Karl Popper.
http://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2003/aug/03/features.review37
So this dream about your mother, a gun & a large tin of proofhide ...
nickyboy
Norven Mankey
- Location
- You want hills? We got hills
I'm usually ok at your acronyms but I'm struggling. I guess it's not desperately polite in reply to a previous post
nickyboy
Norven Mankey
- Location
- You want hills? We got hills
Another Subtle Joke Trampled
Damn right
I have one where I'm reversing a car and no matter how hard I apply he brake, and I can feel the brakes biting, but the car is still accelerating and the engine is revving really high, just before I'm about to crash I wake startled, I have had this for more years than I care to remember.
The spooky thing is my dad has the exact same dream...
The spooky thing is my dad has the exact same dream...
Lullabelle
Banana
- Location
- Midlands UK
I wake up in bed and I cannot move, I can feel pressure on my shoulders as though I am being held down, there is no one in the room but me, I can just about roll my head and shout 'help' but no words leave my mouth, then I wake up shaking.
Lullabelle
Banana
- Location
- Midlands UK
The spooky thing is, the morning after the first time I had the nightmare, my left ankle itched really badly and when I looked there was a small red dot surrounded by a ring of red dots on my ankle. Didn't think too much of it until the next time I had the nightmare, same thing, every time. I haven't had it for a while thankfully.
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
My meccanno arm is acting me up, keeping me from sleeping so the doc has put me on amitriptyline. By Cameron, they don't half give you some vivid dreams.
jefmcg
Guru
That's an Incubus having his evil way with you.
Or maybe sleep paralysis. Hard to be sure.
Andy_R
Hard of hearing..I said Herd of Herring..oh FFS..
- Location
- County Durham
Mine is sort of similar...I had a really bad time as a kid - army brat, new languages, new bullies, every week seemingly (didn't help that dad was a redcap so I was the son of the "enemy") and would have very graphic nightmares. One night though, I took control of my dream, don't know how, but I stopped running away from the thing that was chasing me (never saw it, just knew it was chasing me) and turned around and told it in no uncertain terms to do something biologically impossible, involving genitalia and sphincters. 40+ years later, never had a nightmare since. And I can still control my dreams, to an extent.
