In your dreams!

[WT Sharpe]

I rarely have nightmares, but if things get too stressful in a dream, I'll alter the parameters of the dream to something safer; such as when I was being chased by a mob and instead of succumbing to panic, I simply stopped them from chasing me by an act of will. Or like the time I was falling down the center of a multi-story stairwell and simply decided to stop falling and float. I'm told it's called lucid dreaming and it's not something that everyone can do. It's nice to be able to do it, but on the other hand it's not something that impresses potential employers on a résumé.

[cromag]

I rarely have nightmares, but when I feel one developing I recognize it as a dream and wake myself up.

[crich70]

Originally Posted by cromag

I rarely have nightmares, but when I feel one developing I recognize it as a dream and wake myself up.

I've done that a few times. One time though it took me several tries to do it. I 'woke' from one dream only to find myself in another and then yet another before I actually really woke up.

[WT Sharpe]

Too bad the kids on Elm Street never learned that skill set.

[crich70]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

Too bad the kids on Elm Street never learned that skill set.

If they had it'd been a very short movie franchise.

[badgoodDeb]

Originally Posted by crich70

I've done that a few times. One time though it took me several tries to do it. I 'woke' from one dream only to find myself in another and then yet another before I actually really woke up.

Oh, I've had *that* kind of dream. There's always this clock that won't shut up. I can pull the batteries out of it; drown it; eviserate it; smash it to bits. After thinking I've fixed it, it STILL keeps making that irritating noise. They I'll wake up a level, realize it's my alarm clock, and (snooze) shut it off. Then it goes off AGAIN and I have to wake up still another layer to finally make the bloody thing STOP.

[crich70]

Originally Posted by badgoodDeb

Oh, I've had *that* kind of dream. There's always this clock that won't shut up. I can pull the batteries out of it; drown it; eviserate it; smash it to bits. After thinking I've fixed it, it STILL keeps making that irritating noise. They I'll wake up a level, realize it's my alarm clock, and (snooze) shut it off. Then it goes off AGAIN and I have to wake up still another layer to finally make the bloody thing STOP.

Yes, but in my case it was 3 different dreams. All nightmares. I 'woke' from the 1st thinking I was awake only to then go into the 2nd and then after 'waking'again into the 3rd and final one. Thankfully that hasn't happened again as yet.

[kindlekitten]

That there is straight out of a mess with your head movie

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by crich70

I've done that a few times. One time though it took me several tries to do it. I 'woke' from one dream only to find myself in another and then yet another before I actually really woke up.

Dream within a dream? Yes, I've had that one, too. Not sure if I've ever done the dream-within-a-dream-within-a-dream though.

Originally Posted by badgoodDeb

Oh, I've had *that* kind of dream. There's always this clock that won't shut up. I can pull the batteries out of it; drown it; eviserate it; smash it to bits. After thinking I've fixed it, it STILL keeps making that irritating noise. They I'll wake up a level, realize it's my alarm clock, and (snooze) shut it off. Then it goes off AGAIN and I have to wake up still another layer to finally make the bloody thing STOP.

I've had many a dream where the real-life alarm clock goes off and rather than get up, I've incorporated the sound into my dream. Occasionally I've gotten up to turn off the alarm, then wondered why it was still going off. Of course, I'd never turned it off at all; just dreamed I did.

[kindlekitten]

when I was in the Army I had to put my clock across the room or preferably in the hall

[crich70]

Originally Posted by kindlekitten

when I was in the Army I had to put my clock across the room or preferably in the hall

From what I've heard of how early the Army gets up I wonder that an alarm clock was even necessary.

[kindlekitten]

Originally Posted by crich70

From what I've heard of how early the Army gets up I wonder that an alarm clock was even necessary.

Once you're out of training you're treated like big girls and boys and expected to be able to handle the basics on your own. Well at least the units I was in you were. But then again I was always was in small specialized units. The big mega units like infantry and artillery would have 2, maybe 3 formations a day, we'd have maybe 5 a year. We also had more than half of the company on some form of shift work or detached duty at any given time. In one unit we ended up with a very explosive situation when they put 8 of of us girls in one room and half were straight days and half shift. One odarkthirty morning one of the girls took one of those heavy duty one litre beer mugs, slid her hand through the handle, whacked the mug on a dresser so she had a large shard of broken glass as a weapon connected to her hand, she was a straight day and was going after a shift worker.... we were all so sleep deprived it was pathetic. She got a couple of cuts in on the girl before the MPs got there. It took 3 of them per girl to get them under control, and they weren't big girls! We had new barracks rooms the next day!

[kindlekitten]

So what I was intending to post;
DAMN YOU TOM! !!!!!! I just woke up from a nightmare where I was bitten by not one, but two! Rattlesnakes! I haven't had a bonafide nightmare for years! My heart was pounding so hard and I was breathing like I'd just done 2 miles!
Argh! Almost 5 in the morning and straight up I'm having a brandy!

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by kindlekitten

So what I was intending to post;
DAMN YOU TOM! !!!!!! I just woke up from a nightmare where I was bitten by not one, but two! Rattlesnakes! I haven't had a bonafide nightmare for years! My heart was pounding so hard and I was breathing like I'd just done 2 miles!
Argh! Almost 5 in the morning and straight up I'm having a brandy!

Hey! At least my mention of nightmares gave you a reason to have a brandy. You should be grateful.

I sometimes have dreams of snakes, but only because I have kept them as pets in the past. Even so, a fraction of those dreams have contained guest appearances from serpents that were either poisonous our had an unpleasing disposition. But enough of that, since I know you don't like discussing the critters.

[WT Sharpe]

Last night I dreamed I was leaving work on my motorcycle. On the way out the gate, I spotted a friend and whipped around to offer him a ride. It was then that I saw the biggest black bear probably in the history of the planet lying in the street beside some other people. This bear was easily larger than a either grizzly or a polar bear. When I rode near him he was stirred to rise up on his feet. I slowed enough to stroke the fur on his head. At first he seemed to evidence a disposition to follow me, but I gently discouraged him. Then I got off the bike, helped my friend load his packages, and suggested that he go back into the shipyard so he could get his hard hat since I wasn't carrying a spare helmet, but he seemed to think with all the other stuff tied on the bike the police wouldn't notice.

What a weird dream. I've been retired now for 8 months and still my old job intrudes upon my dream world. Not to mention that it's been 20 years since I had the Sportster.