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| How did you escape from the monster in your dreams ?
Posted: 8/3/2009 6:51:45 PM | | I had a dream of monsters when I was a kid, then they took off their costumes and they were my parents! I usually get bit or stung by animals in my dreams and wake up with a muscle spasm in that place. A couple weeks ago I was stabbed in the back by a sex offender - I only know he was that because my friends warned me "watch out for the sex offender" I woke up with a pain in my back from sleeping on my stomach. Usually in these situations I just try my hardest to wake up as fast as I can - and it eventually works. | |
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| How did you escape from the monster in your dreams ?
Posted: 8/3/2009 7:32:49 PM | I was 7 too. There was something on the radio about a UFO. Apparently some kid burnt his hand on a car radio antenna, and the Aliens were coming because of that! (hey... it's what I remember. lol) I started having dreams of UFOs landing and the aliens were climbing through my window and into my room. Because I was a kid too I guess.  Anyway, they spotted me in my bed and were coming for me. Just before they got me I woke up. They kinda looked like birds without feathers with dark grey skin. They had a flap of skin under their arms to the elbow. The face was remarkably like a Velociraptor minus the teeth and bumpy lizard skin. I had the same dream the next night, and I realized they were after me the night before, so this time I hid under my bed. Got me again, but I woke before their claws got hold of me. Next night? Same thing, only this time, I ran for my life, only it was like I was running in thick cold cooking molasses. The harder I ran, the more the resistance. Caught me easily every time. Eventually, after many attempts (they knew me by name by then), I realized that the less effort I put into running while I was running the faster I went. Woo Hoo! I also realized that I could fly. (very very cool. but I was afraid of the heights so would fly following the road because I didn't like flying over houses. too high. lol. ) I toyed with them zooming around like the Flash (great comic). They quit showing up realizing they'd never catch me.
I don't worry about being abducted by aliens anymore. Hell, did you see the size of them? I'd just pick one or two up and run away with them.  | |
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| How did you escape from the monster in your dreams ?
Posted: 8/3/2009 7:36:56 PM | When i start having a nightmare I change the narrative so that it is no longer a nightmare, merely a solved problem with the truth I always knew.
It is the non-nightmares that my inner narrative doesn't seem to find the need to stand up to and re-author that I find myself lost in.
But since they're not nightmares, I'm happy to blissfully drift with them... | |
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| How did you escape from the monster in your dreams ?
Posted: 8/3/2009 7:42:36 PM | | The bugger shoved me off a second story balcony and I died...so I jumped to another body. There goes the idea that "if you die in your dream you are really dead!" It just isn't so. | |
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| How did you escape from the monster in your dreams ?
Posted: 8/3/2009 9:08:40 PM | As a youth, my monster usually always involved an entity, often taking the shape of my father. Yes abuse is a terrible thing to hide. I always had the soundless scream as well.
As I got older, the entity became faceless and would crawl after me onto the bed seeking an abduction. I started to fight back as I got older and learned that if I used my hands and grabbed at them, they would leave and I'd wake up. Over the years, my voice has also started to return allowing me to gutterally tell them to leave. That still didn't work, however the dream idea of grabbing and fighting back brings me out of the dream.
Since I've been divorced, the nightmares have gone away. Go figure? | |
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| How did you escape from the monster in your dreams ?
Posted: 8/3/2009 9:23:02 PM | I can't remember having any monster dreams. Just one running and hiding from people trying to kidnap me.
Have never had a flying dream unfortunately. I've only had one dream where I was looking at myself sleeping. | |
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| How did you escape from the monster in your dreams ?
Posted: 8/3/2009 9:43:49 PM | As a child I had horrible dreams. They were also based on real life. I grew up in an prphanage and trust me it was no musical. Terrible things were done to children there. I t stands to reason it would chase me in my dreams. But there, man I could fly ! I always had to run then jump three times. Always three.On the third jump I rose swiftly into the air. None of the BAD people could catch me !
Once when I was flying I saw a kid smaller than I was and swooped down and grabbed their hand ! They flew with me. I t was so real to me that when there was a really bad day I used to try and run and jump three times to see if I really could.
I still on ocassion have the flying dream, but some times I am in a car. I hit a bump on the road and then go fly ! BUT when I am in the car it always crashes ! Yet I never get hurt. I always wind up some where far away . When I walk around to see where I am, it seems like every one there knows me and truely cares about me .Yet I have no clue who they are . At that time.
The next time the dream comes I see someone that I recognize and know that they will help me and or love me already and I can trust them.
I know where's the nearest couch ! lol | |
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| How did you escape from the monster in your dreams ?
Posted: 8/5/2009 12:19:43 AM | | See if you can take control of your dreams. Some how I manage to tell myself it's just a dream and I try to shift the direction that it is going in. I think most of us have battled/run from those monsters in our dreams at one time or another. Incidentally, I have had dreams that I'm flying high. One time I stopped flying and started falling. I woke up before I hit the ground. It was kind of weird, 'cause I was slowly waking up in what seemed like stages, as if going thru different windows. And no, I hadn't had anything to drink that night...lol | |
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| How did you escape from the monster in your dreams ?
Posted: 8/5/2009 8:00:13 AM | Dreams with a monster in a nightmare, for me, was the process of dealing with an unresolved issue that was occurring in my life at the time.
I was 9 and was being bullied at school. For weeks I would often have a reoccurring nightmare of a very large wolf chasing me through a forest. I would run from it, and always woke with a feeling of its hot breath on my neck and the sound of howling as I woke up, drenched in sweat and panting for breath feeling scared shi*less.
The night before I had decided to do something about the bullying in a positive manner, I made a conscience decision to face the beast. That night, I had the same reoccurring nightmare, except I stopped running, turned around to face the menace and saw the face of the large wolf was my own face, but greatly distorted into that extremely dangerous looking wolf.
I told the Wolf, no more, and watched it walk away, seemingly satisfied.
Years later, after thinking about that time, I realized it wasn't the situation I was in, it was the way I was dealing with it. Once I had resolved my feelings and thoughts about it and done so in a positive manner, the nightmares stopped. | |
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| How did you escape from the monster in your dreams ?
Posted: 8/5/2009 10:48:01 AM | I had this dream many years ago, about fighting a battle in the street in front of my parents house. There were dragons, and all kinds of characters like you would see in Lord of the Rings. It was pretty cool actually.
Other than that, I dream about a lot of animals rather than monsters. But if you could call man a monster, then there is one that keeps popping up and making an appearance.
@INDYSARGE - there's a legend. That if you fall in your sleep, you may fall in real life. Just like if you die in your dream, it means you may die in real life. I'd try landing on my feet first. | |
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| How did you escape from the monster in your dreams ?
Posted: 8/5/2009 11:24:13 AM | I had a recurring dream as a youngster that was quite frightening. It wasn't a monster that chased me per se though. I was running endlessly on a dirt road that seemed to fall off at the ditches into infinity and hot on my heels was an over sized steamroller. It didn't appear to have a driver and it was always just inches behind me as I ran. I can distinctly remember the feeling of fear and the sphincter effect. Never got me and I never escaped either. Glad I no longer have that particular dream.  | |
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| How did you escape from the monster in your dreams ?
Posted: 8/5/2009 2:36:12 PM | | I had that dream once with monsters chasing after me. I turned around and ripped it to pieces cooked it and ate it. Now The dreams are more about fey and zombies which I kill in large numbers but there is always to many. So I have to keep running and killing more and more as I run | |
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| How did you escape from the monster in your dreams ?
Posted: 8/5/2009 3:18:13 PM | Dream food..I learned long ago, that ice cream or yogurt before bedtime lended that little extra tryptophan kick that both enhanced dreams with color and made them intense and memorable. We were allowed a dose while watching "The Twilight Zone" as kids and made for many interesting nights.
Many demons have been dispatched over the decades since. One however, recurred for many years and was seemingly pervasive and unconquerable. I did the hang gliding scene for a couple of decades and a couple thousand hours of kissing clouds. I saw a few close calls with power lines and aluminum frames. Flying over large power lines felt like they were magnetic and then they came into my dreams for several years. In every dream, I was flying along, having a grand time in either a hang glider, sailplane, small aircraft, or commercial jetliner...all of which I have flown or flown in. In every dream, there would suddenly be power lines and subsequent evasive action that led toward more power lines, and on and on until the sky became like a spider web of power lines, out to get me. Many of the evasive maneuvers often led to free fall or accelerating dives toward the earth. In all cases I either pulled out or jerked myself awake before impact. (Don't recall who recommended "looking at your hands" but that worked for me as well once I learned the trick.)
There was a Dream Interpretation workshop at the local UU church by a published professional "dream interpreter" that I attended at the urging of a friend who knew of my recurring nightmare. After the intro, names were thrown into the hat and I was one of two who had the whole group try to interpret the full meaning of the dream. The universal consent was "a loss of control in my life" that led to that dream. Flying and living are all about control of one's life. My ten year relationship was in hopeless decline and inevitable conclusion, but I had never admitted it to myself, being the stubborn, relentless type who always overcame the odds. As the inevitable graduation exercise happened between the ex and I as we moved on into the next part of our lives, the nightmare ceased and has not repeated since that dream session, and our mutual blessing to move forward.
Still have to dispatch demons, save friends, and fly off cliffs in upside down vans on occasion, but no more electrified spider webs. Phew...
Yogurt and ice cream with blueberries in them tend to have the most technicolor dream attributes. As a sub-thread, what are your favorite dream foods? | |
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| How did you escape from the monster in your dreams ?
Posted: 8/6/2009 9:42:51 PM | I don't ever remember escaping from a single monster in my dreams, they always catch up eventually, perhaps it's the source of my lack of control on sleep schedule. The monsters of my dreams ranges from little fluffy black soot creatures hiding large fangs to disturbed children performing tragedies. I wouldn't mind a more traditional monster like a giant slimy beast at this point, it's a bit disconcerting the normally innocent things my mind can turn into frightening monsters.
Most recent was a little girl around 12 that has crazy psychokinetic abilities, she was nearly catatonic after having witnessed much torture, but trying to reach out to others; every attempt she's made in the couple dreams I remember her appearing in has resulted in tragedy. Only one dream has she affected me, I wasn't aware I was dreaming and was very frightened when I found my body moving but I couldn't so much as speak, all the while I could still feel, smell, see, and hear everything. | |
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| How did you escape from the monster in your dreams ?
Posted: 8/6/2009 10:24:43 PM | I had a dream the other night I was following Mozart in his life. I was told he was a womanizer, slept with a lot of woman, got one pregnant (but he never knew about it) and quite possibly died of VD - found out later through research he died of a fever from an unknown infection. They thought it was strep throat, but couldn't be proven.
Does that count as a monster? | |
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| How did you escape from the monster in your dreams ?
Posted: 8/7/2009 4:29:31 PM | I don't have very many monsters in my dreams, or if I do, I either destroy them or get away by flying. My dreams are a really good place for me to be. I can move objects with my mind, either by throwing them or by bringing them to me. I can use this to bash through walls or the monsters if that is the case.
As for flying, it comes in either of two ways. I can jump above trees and buildings and glide down to where I want, or I can fly anywhere. Depending on what is happening in my life, I can't fly for long... like being weighted down by various degrees. Sometimes, I am too weighted down to fly at all.
I have these dreams quite often. I have a very vivid imagination and can tackle almost any task if I put my mind to it. Interesting forum. | |
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| How did you escape from the monster in your dreams ?
Posted: 8/7/2009 4:56:14 PM | I use to have many dreams of flying when I was younger, and even dreams of monsters, but never flying from them. I had a dream occur twice, where the first time, the monster and I fell off a cliff and I awoke just before I hit the ground. The second time, we went over again, however expecting the outcome I grab the ledge and live on to see the monster pull a Wile E. Coyote. I've had many a bad dream, I experience I suppose a panic attack in my sleep, as I'm forcing myself awake to escape it.
However now, I don't recall my dreams anymore. | |
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| How did you escape from the monster in your dreams ?
Posted: 8/9/2009 12:57:21 AM | | No monsters , only embarassingly good dreams when taking an anti depressant called Avanza ... I used to be so exhausted ! And the blankets and sheets were always allover the floor . So I stopped taking them ..... too much of a good thing . [This is for the poster no.32] | |
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| How did you escape from the monster in your dreams ?
Posted: 8/10/2009 8:26:21 AM | | hi...I have experienced monsters in my dreams and I feel demons present while awake.. I have read that dreams are outlets for stress and interpretations of fears, clown monsters, aliens, Freddies, global warming, wars and all.. in regards to demon spirits I know them to be real.. prayer, faith and assurance make them powerless..... the bible has many examples of The Creator Communicating to us through dreams so I do not take the power of dreams lightly.. many blessings | |
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