Last night, the room filled with intensely bright light and there was a loud booming noise. I sprang off the 4 foot bed landing on my knee, covering my head, rolling around in the fetal position. I literally thought nuclear armaggedon had just started and I was covered in flames. I can't describe how terrified I was. It was actually a fucking police siren...

Similar thing happened when I was living on Gorman street. I would hear a gunshot (or what sounded like one) and jump onto the ground as if bullets were coming through the window. About 15 seconds later, I start wondering what the hell I'm doing.

11/21/2009 8:34:38 PM

um

have you ever been to war?

11/21/2009 8:35:29 PM

no, but doesn't everyone have nightmares about zombies and nuclear bombs?

11/21/2009 8:36:53 PM

no.

11/21/2009 8:40:13 PM

might be a side effect of a medication you are taking?

11/21/2009 8:40:17 PM

when i lived with my ex probably atleast once a week he would wake up screaming about being chased by some kind of monster

11/21/2009 8:41:08 PM

I woke up one time when I was in that half-sleep state before you start REM cycles or whatever with Aeon Flux on the tv. There were gunshots and shit going off on the movie and somehow I started seeing Nazis goose-stepping like on The Wall and some other crazy shit. I think it took me at least 10-15 seconds to realize I was actually in my bed in my dorm room. That was some freaky shit.

11/21/2009 9:03:15 PM

i often kick right before i fall asleep, im usually dreaming that i trip over something. Idk, i have heard that this is a way of releasing energy before falling asleep, not sure i buy that.


i too have had dream of nuclear war, it was totally weird considering i wan in an Iranian shopping center

11/21/2009 9:59:39 PM

^ me too



the kick part, not the Iranian shopping center.

11/21/2009 10:01:10 PM

the kick is usually stepping into a hole for me

11/21/2009 10:03:06 PM

I've always heard that the last minute flinch as you fall asleep is a sort of premonition of death... Not that you are going to die any time soon, but your body mistakes the onset of unconsciousness for dying and is trying to flinch away from it....

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11/21/2009 10:08:57 PM

thanks asshole

wont be sleeping now

11/21/2009 10:10:34 PM

that sounds dumb

11/21/2009 10:13:14 PM

i usually trip on the stairs or curb, but i have definitely been "sleep jogging" and run into a hole

11/21/2009 10:13:17 PM

lol

yea i do the flinching thing

i used to have pretty bad nightmares but it would be stuff like me getting caught robbing a bank or something like that. i learned to wake myself up by biting my arm in my dream until i woke up.

didn't sleep good for a long time bc of it

[Edited on November 21, 2009 at 10:14 PM. Reason : 29,000 BITCHES!]

11/21/2009 10:14:34 PM

last night I dreamed that I was playing for the Atlanta Falcons, that was pretty cool

11/21/2009 10:18:57 PM

you know what, i think ive had that dream, no lie

i was like "why the falcons?"

must clarify that i did not think it was pretty cool, however

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11/21/2009 10:25:52 PM

had a dream when I was half awake half asleep this morning that I was being attacked by a snake so I started to bite it's head, woke up biting my comforter. If that counts

11/21/2009 10:27:51 PM

^^ shit, if I played for any NFL team I would be happy

11/21/2009 10:29:04 PM

all of my nightmares involve being chased/hiding from various things, usually either in some sort of apocalyptic scenario or it begins as a nice dream with friends in a house or dwelling of some type that ends with us being hunted down

11/21/2009 10:49:01 PM

^exactly. the two things chasing me are always zombies or expanding nuclear blasts/fallout. I know that last one doesn't make much sense, but just go with it.

11/21/2009 11:26:09 PM

I, too, have war flashbacks from previous lives

11/21/2009 11:52:25 PM

I had a very lifelike dream the other morning... I thought I felt something in my right arm, such as a needle injecting something, while about to undergo surgery in a dream. I should quit drinking.

11/22/2009 12:10:25 AM

abduction

11/22/2009 12:16:27 AM

i had a dream i got a chick pregnant, i woke up scared as shit. blew my mind, luckily it was just a dream....whew.

11/22/2009 12:39:27 AM

hahaha, i would feel like a freak if i woke up gnarling on my comforter

11/22/2009 12:47:41 AM

*gnawing

11/22/2009 12:48:42 AM

sometimes I'll wake up on the floor or across the room after having a dream about spiders descending from the ceiling onto my face while I'm sleeping.

11/22/2009 12:50:54 AM

I frequently wake up with arm asleep. I freak out and immediately try to get it back awake again. It feels like it'll fall and it drives me nuts.

11/22/2009 12:51:34 AM

The other night, I had this exact dream:




Afterwards, I woke up and punched the homosexual inmate sleeping next to me. Weird...

11/22/2009 12:56:18 AM

Yes, I've popped out of my bed and can remember the dream that caused it for only a few minutes, usually something in my dream popping out and scaring the shit out of me causes me to jump and wake myself up. By the time I wake up the next morning I forget it.

The wierdest dream I've had recently was my childhood dog had a tennis ball stuck in his teeth and his butt was glued to the ground while some bells were ringing.

11/22/2009 12:57:52 AM

i woke up at 11:30 am this morning and dropped a large plastic bottle on the floor...my roommate, who came in at 4 am was fast asleep and freaked out when he heard the noise...he sat up in bed instantly and was like WHAT THE FUCK, loud as hell, I was like dude chill out...go to sleep homie.....then his retarded girl friend called him and he started to act like pee wee Herman, and i got pissed off and went to the library.

11/22/2009 1:00:48 AM

At my girlfriend's old place I was awakened by a "thud" I could feel, an extremely loud bang, and what sounded like broken glass. I sprang awake, yelled something incoherent, and was in a state of blind confusion for a good many seconds. I don't know why, but in my mind, I was convinced that the TV in the living room had fallen off its stand and exploded, and that it was smoldering on the floor in several pieces. Not nuclear armageddon, but scary as hell just the same.

As it turns out, a picture had fallen off the wall and landed on a dresser covered with jewelry and other small items, explaining the bang and the "glass" sound, which was actually the small items jumping from the impact. The glass in the frame didn't even break... We never did explain the thud, but considering something had to have caused the picture to fall, we figure the neighbor on the other side of the wall either hit the wall or bumped it really hard, for reasons unknown.

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11/22/2009 1:09:16 AM

crazy man

11/22/2009 1:13:20 AM

Pretty much every night.


jk. But I haven't in a few years actually.

11/22/2009 1:21:44 AM

the only freaking out i ever do is if i wake up with a charley horse in my leg. motherfuckers hurt.

11/22/2009 2:52:49 AM

woke up twice tonight trying to do an an integration problem

11/22/2009 8:22:21 AM

holy shit i thought i was the only one who does like a whole body flinch right when i slip into unconsciousness. it doesn't happen every time, but probably about once a week for me. it scares deemarie when it happens.

11/22/2009 10:53:51 AM

yea ive had it happen. its usually when shitty experiences ive had or imagined take place in a different form.

11/22/2009 10:55:47 AM

I used to have the whole body flinch in class while somebody was talking after I nodded off some 5-10 minutes before.

After that I always sat very still and didn't look at anybody for fear that I might find somebody who recognized that I nap like a spaz, lol.

11/22/2009 11:00:25 AM

haha that happened to me in chem 101 with petrovich. i had a soccer dream i think and kicked my sandle down the aisle to the front of the auditorium.

11/22/2009 11:06:05 AM

sometimes right before i fall asleep I have this violent jerk/jolt motion that wakes me up

i have no clue why

11/22/2009 11:07:42 AM

tension?

11/22/2009 11:15:54 AM

I get that too, and particularly when i would fall asleep in class in HS. It feels like an electric shock usually, but sometimes I feel like I'm in a freefall and jolt awake.

Also, if I put my head down on a desk to take a nap, I end up waking up with the most voluminous belches. I can feel air getting trapped somehow, like when you trap air on purpose to burp, but due to my (head/neck?) position.

My nightmares in my later life have all just been about really stressful life situations. At some point the dream turns and I find myself in a situation where for some reason have pain in my mouth, something up like my teeth are rotting out, or i'm chewing on rocks, and I slowly realize that I'm grinding the hell out of my teeth. Doesn't happen often, but when it does I have to convince myself awake before I can consciously stop clenching my jaw.

11/22/2009 1:12:20 PM