Recurring Nightmares

Anyone else have them? Mine is really starting to upset me... I'll try and describe it and hope someone can relate..
I'm lying in bed when I'm when I'm trying to sleep, and then I get this sense of falling and everything starts to blur (I feel like i'm still awake, there's no line between dreams and reality, and the entire dream takes place in my bed, so it's basically VERY REAL) and then I'm completely paralysed and a shadow figure is sitting at the end of my bed and slowly move towards me, still paralysed. I then manage to move enough to try and flick the light switch next to my bed, but it won't come on, and when I try and scream nothing comes out. The person then does things, they change every time, from strangling me to raping me... and it's all SO real because it takes place in my bed. I can't see the person, just their outline in the dark. I then wake up terrified and soaked in sweat and struggle to sleep for the rest of the night. I hate it. I want it to stop. Anyone had anything similar or know how to stop these? Thanks in advance.

Reply 1

AverageGuyOnTheStreet

Not exactly recurring but I very regularly dream the same sort of thing. I once heard somewhere that you dream about what you think about before you go to sleep (which happens to be true in my case, so I know I need to sort out my thought patterns). Maybe read a nice book or something like that before you go to bed.

Reply 2

Viridis

I went through this period were i had the same nightmare every night for about a week. Just try not think about it too much or let it get to you and hopefully it'll go away soon :smile:

Reply 3

Giga Flare

Hi,

What you're experiencing is known as "Old Hag" Syndrome, or Sleep Paralysis (further info here).

Reply 4

mally06

Yulquen

Hi,

What you're experiencing is known as "Old Hag" Syndrome, or Sleep Paralysis (further info here).

its 2am, was thinking of sleeping soon until i went on that link. sounds so scary. now i have to read harry potter to get my mind off it :P

btw, if you sleep straight on your back then you are more likely to have nightmares. this is because your heart needs to make more of an effort to pump blood up to your brain when you are in that position, so when your heart is pumping harder you naturally start feeling uneasy etc.. like when your really scared and your heart starts pumping really loudly. my mum told me this and i stopped sleeping straight, worked like a charm. now sometimes when i feel like a scary dream for the thrill of it i sleep straight... this used to work a lot when i was younger but now it only works probably 70% of the time.

Reply 5

Anonymous #2

woooah i used to have a recurring dream exactly like this - id be in my bed and couldnt move and thered be like a shadowed figure at the side of my bed holding me down and choking me or something. and i would sit up and try to turn the light on too but it wouldnt come on..
i had the same dream a few times... it was SO terrifying because it felt so much like reality, like i woke up in the night or something because i was still in my bed. i used to sit up for as long as i could after i actually did wake up because i was too scared to go back to sleep

one time i actually woke up, went to turn my lamp on and the fuse blew so it actually wouldnt turn on.. i was SO scared :s-smilie:

havent had that dream for a while but i bet i will have it tonight now :frown:

Reply 6

Giga Flare

mally06

its 2am, was thinking of sleeping soon until i went on that link.

Heh, sorry. :redface:

Reply 7

Saq2k7

I have the same type of dreams again and again

its scarey :frown:

mine is im falling and i feel so scared im trying to scream but i cant

and all the bad things in my life which have happened run through my head

i wake up in cold sweat, and have the utter need to cry and talk to someone but unfortunatly my bed is just empty with just me atm :frown: