RedStarZero said:
I don't know if this counts as dreaming or not, but I'm going to include it, because it happens in the night.
Sometimes, I wake up for no apparent reason, and literally throw myself out of my bed. The impact of hitting the floor (if I'm lucky) or the wall (if I throw myself in the wrong direction) is what wakes me up. But that's not the weird part. When I wake up, I hallucinate. At least, I think I'm hallucinating, if I'm not, I have bigger problems.
The first time this happened, I stood up in the middle of the room, stood up, and looked at the coat rack behind my door. There was a small bat stuck in between a dew of the coats, flapping his wings like mad, but he was emitting this bright purple light from underneath. I was afraid to leave because I had to go near him to open the door, so when I thought he wasn't looking (I can't reason when I'm like this) I ran for the door then through my house screaming for my mom. I only come out of this when I get her back to my room and actually have to explain what happened, and realize how strange it sounds.
The second time was really a 2nd, 3rd, and 4th time. I woke up the same way as I did with the bat, but this time, there was a black spider, about two feet across, coming down with its legs ready to wrap me up, over my bed, where I had just been. I ran across my room, and when I turned around, he was gone. I figured it was another hallucination, so I shook out my sheets and went back to sleep. Exactly an hour later, it happened again, only this time it's legs were kind of beckoning me. I ran away, waited, shook them out again, and went back to sleep. Exactly one hour after that, it happened again. This time I was really scared, so I went and slept on the other bed on the opposite side of the room, after sitting up on lookout for another couple of hours.
Obviously, you're a witch.
In all honesty, it might be worth seeing a Chinese medicine doctor about this. The reason is nightmares and hallucinations are symptoms of imbalances in the body that Chinese medicine recognises and this could be something as simple as a problem in your diet - or perhaps it could be something to do with side-effects if you take any kind of recreational drug (I don't know if you do, I'm just saying). It might be worth checking out - especially if you're worried. I tell you what, I'll ask my doctor quickly about it and see if he has any helpful tips for you.
E said:
I may have already mentioned this here, but currently my 3-year old is having problems with nightmares about a green monster. He says he saw it in the movie Hercules, but I didn't see the whole movie so I'm not sure.
Apparently in his dream the green monster was looking at him and kind of like raising his eyebrows at him, then it tied him up and ate him.
I feel bad laughing, because it's no laughing matter with him. He's afraid to go to bed.
You should tell him this story about Uncle Bass.
I used to be scared of going to sleep, but only at Christmas.
See, every Christmas I'd go to Egypt to spend time with my extended family. I would take a plane with my mum and sister to Cairo, where we'd see my dad's side of the family for about three days. Then, we'd drive to Alexandria (a three hour trip) and spend the next week and a half there. Then, we'd go back to Cairo for another day or two and come home back to England.
Now, in Alexandria we lived in a villa. Three floors - gorgeous, gorgeous house. God I miss it. I've not been to Egypt since I was 14 due to a very big fall out with my family. But I digress. In Cairo, we lived in a very spacious apartment. Very comfortable indeed.
But I was always scared to sleep there.
I had a recurring dream that terrified me every single time I'd sleep in that apartment.
In it, there was a giant gorilla - in this apartment - and it had a train set in a circle surrounding it. And I was on that train set, as a wind up toy, and it would continually parade me across it.
For some reason, this really scared the **** out of me. So much so, I really, really, didn't want to go to bed.
And it happened a minimum of once virtually every year until I was about 10 or so.
So you can tell your child even God-Men, like me, Uncle Bass can be scared.
Or you can tell your child how I stopped being scared.
People would tell me not to worry because it wasn't real - which was balls. Because in my dream, that damn ape WAS real. No getting around it. Instead, I realised that no matter how scared I got, no matter how bad the dream felt - I always woke up the next day. And I realised that the sooner I went to bed, the sooner I'd wake up. I realised, that while I was scared, I wasn't in danger.
Even after this realisation, I still had the dream, and I still was scared a little about going to sleep - but I just had to accept it.
And I did.
Which is why I'm so well-adjusted and a symbol of worship on this site.
Also, does anyone else, when they dream, see the entire dream in the third person perspective? In fact - when I remember things, I always see it from a third person perspective - even though, I've never seen it from that point of view. Anyone else like this?
