Multiple Nightmares?

Last night I had what was a pretty typical for me nightmare. (Being chased by a big cat). It was easy to interpret, and not particularly shocking as Im so used to them by now. But one thing was *really* different.

I really can't tell if I had the same dream several times, or if I had the same dream running concurrently. It was like those books with multiple choice endings and flicking between all the options.

I've never had this before, and was wondering if anyone else had experienced this kind of thing- dreaming the same dream from multiple viewpoints at the same time?

I've had them "pick an ending" lucid dreams. I found that if it goes one way, I can try it another way, or another. I figure to it being coming out of deep sleep but deep enough to dream hard but yet have some control over the action. Sometimes I feel like a writer-director in a live action movie.

It rates up there with the having to pee dreams where you dream you have to pee so you are in a bathroom, finish, but still have to pee, repeat.- hope you wake up before you pee yourself awake.

Maybe being such a head case have anything to do it? Idk, but it's a pretty kewl way to waste your time.

I haven't had the "pick an ending" ones very often but at least once a week I will have 3 concurrent dreams happening at the same time, often a second or two apart from each other. So I go through everything in the dream three times. It's very disorienting.

before I was integrated, when ever I had something like this happen to me my treatment providers told me its normal and not part of my having dissociative problems.

in general dreams/nightmares are the brains natural way of processing everything that goes on with a human being, things like emotions, fantasy, positive and negative events..... As human beings that includes having a logical mind that can whether asleep or awake look at things from many different perspectives..

(a common example of this is think of a problem or word, now think about all the different ways of solving that problem...or defining that word. the brain will naturally start brain storming on all the many infinite possibilities. another common example everyone mental disordered or not can related to is the word game Boggle it has many dice with letters on them. you shake it up then look at the letters showing and make as many words as possible that you can think of. the list of words you can make with only a few lettered dice is infinite)

when a person dreams their dreams are made of of memories, emotions, events, everything you can possibly think of, in infinite number of combinations.

some people whether they are normal or mentally challenged or physically challenged dream in black in white , others full on color, others from one perspective and others from many different perspectives...just how the brain works in general. sometimes dreams make sense and other times they are complete fantasy and other times they can be metaphor...

what a dream means and how\why\what a person dreams only the person dreaming can say because its their dream\their nightmare.

my suggestion is contact your treatment providers, they will be able to help you to understand whats what with your dreams.

another suggestion when ever i have have a strange dream or nightmare I use my reality testing tools. if there is something that is out of reality testing then i know that its not dissociative, it could be something to do with my psychosis or meds.

example your sentence above of not knowing whether the dream\nightmare was happening many times or running concurrently would tell my treatment providers to check my meds. why because with dissociative problems reality testing remains intact, i know whats really happening during my dissociative problems but its hard to tell whats really happening when my meds are out of whack and having psychosis problems in me. and sometimes medications can cause me to have some pretty strange dreams.

my point\suggestion...maybe try some reality testing and contact treatment provider for meds assessment problems.

Wow- I would love to have that much control in my dreams! I only managed it once - I read online a trick to think when you're drifting off to sleep, that led to dreams where you were flying. Sure enough, that night I had the most incredible 'Im flying' dream. I couldn't wait to try it again, but didn't bookmark the link and couldn't find it again

This! That sounds exactly like what I experienced. Disorienting is the right word. I've never had this before. Do you know if its a DID thing? Or just a fairly standard weird dream thing?

You know what dreams that me know are DID dreams.....it's the same sex sex dreams! It's like "no no no no!!" Lolol -as seen from a straight male. Ugh