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Really disturbing dream affected me badly

I know this is going to sound really odd, but I had this dream last night and it felt really real, and I feel quite traumatised by it.

Basically I was lying in my bed snoozing, when a man - one of my flatmates - came into my room and walked over to my desk and started looking through my things. I tried to turn over to ask him what he was doing but my muscles just - weren't working. It was like they were all locked or something and I just couldn't move. Then the man came and sat on my bed and leant over me and was watching me - I tried to say something but all that came out were helpless gasps, and all I could think of was that I had been drugged and he was going to rape me. In my dream he didn't do anything to me but I felt completely helpless and scared.

I don't know why this dream has affected me so much, I'm even crying now as I type this out because it was so terrifying, and it felt so real, more real than any dream I have ever had.

Reply 1

doublex

Vivid, lucid dream + sleep paralysis?

Reply 2

FrisbeeFan

10

Have you got any reason to feel suspicious about this flatmate in real life?

Reply 3

Anonymous #2

I once woke up thinking I had killed my dog. While I was eating breakfast I was thinking "why did I kill my dog?" then the dog came careering in the room and I was freaked out.

Reply 4

Captain Haddock

18

A bad dream is just that. A dream.

Reply 5

Anonymous #1

OP

No, he seems like a nice bloke, I don't know why I had this dream about him. I've never been sexually assaulted or anything either so I just don't understand why I've had this dream and why it's affected me so badly.

Reply 6

PharmGU

hmmm dreams are usually a way the brain tries make sense out of say things that happen during the day i.e. like mayb a fight between a friend or smthn where the brain simulates a scenario with them etc ....could u see this guys face at all? just wandering cus my dad kinda had a similar dream earlier this year, he was at a funeral however he couldnt see who was lying in the coffin, but it wasnt him cus he was part of the proscession which made him think it was someboady related to him........ :frown:

i thought tht was quite spooky
we're u drinking previously before having this dream, cus alcohol is thought to have hallucinating effects...no offense

Reply 7

Anonymous #1

OP

None taken, yes I had a drunken night out last night - I think thats what made me think maybe my drink had been spiked and thats why I couldn't move cos of the drugs.

Reply 8

PharmGU

yeah thts kinda what i thought
but if it was as vivid as u said.....and it definitly was ure flat m8t in ure dream, then their must be smthn u perhapse dnt trust or like about him etc .... mayb just ask him a few q's about last night or smthn, like ask him what he got up to etc.....
dunno mayb he was just looking after u , hence y he was at ure bed side

though my advice wuld be to be on ure guard just incase, but dnt act parenoid and go overboard
and dnt have too many drunken nights :smile:

Reply 9

bobbington

bliming hell, its a dreammmm, dreams dont usually come true.

Zomg AIDS

Srry but I also had a sick dream - in it my parents kept bringing in dead bodies and telling me to bury them in the backyard and i just remeber saying there's not enough space...

Reply 12

Anonymous #4

LOOK!!!
i dram ALOT of bad dreams... im the KING of bad dreams
ITS A DREAM
sometimes whether guys admitt it or not guys dream sexually about people they dont want to dream about (family..GET IT I WONT EXPAND)
but be intelligent enought to know that... ITS A DREAM... i can ALWAYS laugh at WHATEVER THE dream is WHATEVER
its not intelligent or cool NOT to dream these things because then ur just not human
its intelligant, strong charachter when u laugh at it 1 min after u wake... that is strengh
not having none of those dreams at all

Reply 13

Starling

2

I've had a dream where a woman was sitting beside me with a knife while I was on my side in bed, unable to move or make a sound, so I know how horrible it is when you wake up and remember it. I'm someone who believes that dreams have meaning a lot of the time, so if a dream feels important to you, it is ridiculous to just ignore it. Try and think about what it meant to you and work from there. :smile:

Reply 14

MichailZ

Is it possible it was real? I mean if you were both drunk and in a drowsy state it would be difficult to distinguish these things.

I know a woman who was really freaked out because she woke up in the middle of the night and could swear someone was holding her foot, and tried to move it and could swear someone was there and yet was too terrified to open her eyes, and she was there until the morning when her flatmate started telling her to wake up for work....

Michail

Reply 15

wiggles

2

Anonymous

LOOK!!!
i dram ALOT of bad dreams... im the KING of bad dreams
ITS A DREAM
sometimes whether guys admitt it or not guys dream sexually about people they dont want to dream about (family..GET IT I WONT EXPAND)
but be intelligent enought to know that... ITS A DREAM... i can ALWAYS laugh at WHATEVER THE dream is WHATEVER
its not intelligent or cool NOT to dream these things because then ur just not human
its intelligant, strong charachter when u laugh at it 1 min after u wake... that is strengh
not having none of those dreams at all

ahaha, nice.

Anyway, I've had these kind of dreams before. I can never remember exactly what they're about, other than that I know something really horrible is about to happen to me, so I try to wake up. Eventually my eyes open but feel very heavy, like I'm having to use all my effort just to keep them open, but the dream is still going on around me in my bedroom. I try to shout out or move, but I can't. My bed is right next to a wall, so I just try to tap on the wall to wake someone up to come help me, as it's really that terrifying sometimes, but I can't move a muscle. I don't know what you can do to prevent, but just know that it's not that rare, and seems to happen to a lot of people. It's hella scary though, so I know what you're going through.

Reply 16

asianangel86

13

are you sure it was a dream?
you seem pretty unsure...?
has he been acting differently at all?

Reply 17

mc_watson87

18

asianangel86

are you sure it was a dream?
you seem pretty unsure...?
has he been acting differently at all?

Haha i was about to seythat!

Reply 18

Anonymous #5

Ive had really 'real' dreams before, where I've killed people, killed my dad and myself before, sex dreams + whatever

Sounds pretty bad written up like that but not depressed or anything like that, is weird thats all but i enjoy my cheese before bed. Worse thing is confussing memories from a dream with real memories (ie did that happen)

Reply 19

The_Bear

13

The way I get to sleep is to dream of the most crazy way of killing someone.

I think I fall asleep before I get to the gruesome details.

HIPPO FOR THE MINT

Really disturbing dream affected me badly

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