Did you have a recurring nightmare at any time in life?
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Did you have a recurring nightmare at any time in life? Multiple choice. If you want to describe below please feel free.
@Lizette603_23 Yeah, use to as a child. It was a three room setup. Room inside a room inside a room. The largest outside room was a puzzle thing. I had to try and solve puzzles while faceless people outside watched me and were mean (they were faceless because all people in my dreams are. I knew who they were still). Middle room had zombies. Center most room was safe.
I never made it through the zombies.
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@Lizette603_23 Yeah, use to as a child. It was a three room setup. Room inside a room inside a room. The largest outside room was a puzzle thing. I had to try and solve puzzles while faceless people outside watched me and were mean (they were faceless because all people in my dreams are. I knew who they were still). Middle room had zombies. Center most room was safe.
I never made it through the zombies.
@RebekahWSD wow.,..that was so detailed. As I read about the faceless people, I have had that from childhood often and one therapist suggested it is because those are the faces of our abusers whom the world doesn't recognize but we do because they abuse us. Interesting theory anyway. Yeah, we know who they are no matter how they appear....
okay, that dream sounds horrifying. Do you have that dream anymore? -
@RebekahWSD wow.,..that was so detailed. As I read about the faceless people, I have had that from childhood often and one therapist suggested it is because those are the faces of our abusers whom the world doesn't recognize but we do because they abuse us. Interesting theory anyway. Yeah, we know who they are no matter how they appear....
okay, that dream sounds horrifying. Do you have that dream anymore?@Lizette603_23 I haven't had the dream for more than a decade. It was a nightmare, I guess.
Most of the dreams I remember are nightmares. I either have no dreams or a nightmare.
These days all the nightmares are generally about my father.
To be clear, he was not uhm, abusive in most ways (other than cheating on mother). It's just a nightmare because I'll talk to him and then wake up crying.
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@Lizette603_23 I haven't had the dream for more than a decade. It was a nightmare, I guess.
Most of the dreams I remember are nightmares. I either have no dreams or a nightmare.
These days all the nightmares are generally about my father.
To be clear, he was not uhm, abusive in most ways (other than cheating on mother). It's just a nightmare because I'll talk to him and then wake up crying.
@RebekahWSD oh I'm sorry. I ask too many questions. I wasn't suggesting that your dad was an abuser, honest. xo
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@RebekahWSD oh I'm sorry. I ask too many questions. I wasn't suggesting that your dad was an abuser, honest. xo
@Lizette603_23 S'ok. He was a dingus.
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@Lizette603_23 S'ok. He was a dingus.
@RebekahWSD lolol okay
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@Lizette603_23 I haven't had the dream for more than a decade. It was a nightmare, I guess.
Most of the dreams I remember are nightmares. I either have no dreams or a nightmare.
These days all the nightmares are generally about my father.
To be clear, he was not uhm, abusive in most ways (other than cheating on mother). It's just a nightmare because I'll talk to him and then wake up crying.
@RebekahWSD I almost never remember my dreams as an adult. As a kid I had so many dreams.
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Did you have a recurring nightmare at any time in life? Multiple choice. If you want to describe below please feel free.
@Lizette603_23
I had one that occurred maybe three or four times only. And happened over the course of just five years or so. I was about four years old when I had that first dream. The dream was so frightening though and at such a formidable time of my childhood that I'm convinced it shaped a profound aspect of my character. That is that I have a terrible and irrational fear of people leaving me. Yeah, I have a fear of abandonment in relationships.The dream was of my mother and I walking through the woods. We came to a house, sort of little red riding hood style or Goldilocks/three bears-ish. She left me there with an old woman and said she needed to do something and would come back a few days later and she never did.
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@Lizette603_23
I had one that occurred maybe three or four times only. And happened over the course of just five years or so. I was about four years old when I had that first dream. The dream was so frightening though and at such a formidable time of my childhood that I'm convinced it shaped a profound aspect of my character. That is that I have a terrible and irrational fear of people leaving me. Yeah, I have a fear of abandonment in relationships.The dream was of my mother and I walking through the woods. We came to a house, sort of little red riding hood style or Goldilocks/three bears-ish. She left me there with an old woman and said she needed to do something and would come back a few days later and she never did.
@WrenArcher @Lizette603_23 Oh I know that abandonment fear.
That’s a scary dream for a child.
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@Lizette603_23
I had one that occurred maybe three or four times only. And happened over the course of just five years or so. I was about four years old when I had that first dream. The dream was so frightening though and at such a formidable time of my childhood that I'm convinced it shaped a profound aspect of my character. That is that I have a terrible and irrational fear of people leaving me. Yeah, I have a fear of abandonment in relationships.The dream was of my mother and I walking through the woods. We came to a house, sort of little red riding hood style or Goldilocks/three bears-ish. She left me there with an old woman and said she needed to do something and would come back a few days later and she never did.
@WrenArcher oof. That hits home.
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Did you have a recurring nightmare at any time in life? Multiple choice. If you want to describe below please feel free.
Another question I always have for others, do you "see" things in your dreams through your own eyes in the dream or are you observing yourself as well as others? I always see everything from slightly behind my right shoulder and about a head length higher. SO BIZARRE. Many of my memories of waking life from the way back are that way as well
omg maybe I'm totally whacked -
Did you have a recurring nightmare at any time in life? Multiple choice. If you want to describe below please feel free.
@Lizette603_23 After working as a newspaper reporter and digital journalist for 35 plus years, I have deadline dreams. Working on a story, deadline looms, and I cannot come up with a lede, I've got nothing! Weird occupational artifact.
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Did you have a recurring nightmare at any time in life? Multiple choice. If you want to describe below please feel free.
I had a recurring nightmare over decades based on something that I did when I was very young. Even though I remember every detail of the event, the nightmare was more vivid and painful, which haunted me until I finally relented and transitioned. Now it is symbolic and brings me great peace.
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