your dreams?

I don't. Very rarely I will remember one. I don't like to remember those because they are always premonitions. I hate that. It is always about something bad and it always happens. Like me knowing my sister was dead a day before they told me.

So I sometime do remember I guess but rarely. I can go for years without remembering one.

I'm just wondering why that I don't.

Do you remember?

time0

[kimmydawn]

time0, I'm the same way! So many survivors I talk with dream alot and have horrible nightmares. I might remember one dream per year, if that.

I know I've dreamt or have had a nightmare, though. Sometimes I wake myself up clawing face, fighting, or with massive feeling/emotion but no actions. This has been a question of mine for a long time.

I never feel rested when I wake up.

I've always found it strange as well. What a good thread. I'd love to know more.

I'm glad I'm not alone in this too

kd

I have a few different kinds of dreams.

Theres those that I call real nightmares and are the ones that I can't remember but waking up I know that whatever it was about most likely happened at some point in my life. these come in cycles and when they start they eventually settle into a pattern for example the one that I am having right now the pattern is nightly but more intense on thursday friday and saturday nights. this type is also accompanied with daily flashbacks. They keep coming until I piece them together and know what happened and then fade away over time. The flashbacks with the same content fade away along with them.

then I have the nonsense nightmares and dreams of things that aren't really happening and have not happened. Most times they mean nothing just my brains way of processing everything it records through my senses like last night I dreamt I was in a garden full of tulips and roses, drinking coffee talking to my mom. The tulips and roses came from visiting the local store for my daily walk and they had just got in a shipment of new plants so I helped a friend organize them into their respective groups, the drinking coffee - While in a memory piece I apparently made coffee on monday and it sure tasted good when I became aware and found the mug in my hand. Normally I can't drink coffee because of my stomach cancer so it was a definate pleasurable experience, and the talking to my mom came from an email she sent me.

Then I have the nightmares and dreams based on illogical emotions like one I frequently have every time my son is moved is standing in a black void screaming his name and nicknames because I fear he's dead or kidnapped. This one goes away once I know where he is. I know that he's not dead or kidnapped and because he's in locked residentail treatment facilities the odds of his being killed or kidnapped is slim to none.

Then I have those sexy dreams and I know they comefrom the wishful want to find mr right kind of dreams I love remembering those, because they let me know that yea I've been through hell but somewhere inside me I know that not all men are like my abusers and its ok for my body to enjoy those things that come with a normal non abusive relationships.

Then I have on rare occasions those dreams I call feel true come true dreams where for example I dreamed my son was in an accident. Two weeks after I told my friends about it my son was in a car accident being transported to a visitation with me a few years ago. glad those are few and far between, don't know what I would do if I was 100% psychic probably go crazy.

Then I have the true dreams where I will dream something that I did do while in a memory piece, like calling a friend and when I talk to her about it I find out that I really did talk to her and the content of our talks was what happened when I was in the memory peices.

[jmo531]

Over the past year I have had more dreams then usual or maybe I am just remembering them better. For the most part they are nightmares. I actually can not remember the last time I had a good dream.

Lately, I have had several dreams about my Uncle who past away nearly 2 years ago now. I have my suspicions on why I am dreaming about him now but never the less, it has been very stressful for me.

Kimmy touched on something above how she says she never feels fully rested. I often feel that way myself. My sleep patterns have been all wacked out for almost a year now. I almost forget what it is like to get a good nights rest.

Thanks for the thread, I fing it interesting as well.


Huggles,

Jen

I have lots of repetitive dreams....
1. that I am late to class or didnt go all year and haven't studied for a test.
2. that someone is chasing me (and my brother sometimes) and we are trying to get away
3. that I'm in an argument with others

hmmm i know there are more than that but i cant remember now lol.

Oh nightmares are terrible!

I don't usually get up rested either. I don't know if it is because I dream though.

It has always puzzled me why I can't remember my dreams.

It's nice of you to share here. I appreciate it!

Thank you!

[cwiktorski]

I've found that since I've started my new medicaion (Wellbutrin) that I've been having a huge increase in the amount of nightmares that I've been having, although I was starting to have more when all of these bad things were happening to me.

I usually don't remember them, but sometimes I will remember them so vividly that I can smell what it was like there.

lately all of my dreams have been about my ex.... and i have never, ever dreamed about him. this started after i was put on wellbutrin.

I really do think that medications contribute to nightmares or awful dreams.

When my doctor up my Wellbutrin, I started having nightmares. But since I'm back on a lower dose the nightmares stopped. I have to also be careful with tylenol3 that I take for physical pain. If I take more then 2 before going to bed I'm on my way towards a nightmare.

Very interesting!

My dreams frustrate me to the point I hope I don't remember them. Otherwise I'm racking my brain out trying to figure out what the dreams meant and whether or not they meant anything I should be concerned with.