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Extremely stressful dreams Anonymous 2015-09-06 01:42:58 No.1376

Has anyone had experienced them?

I'll explain myself. Almost every time I get sick (usually anything involving a fever), sleeping becomes a horrible experience. It's not that I keep having nightmares, it's more of a dream-like state characterized by intense repetition of some random stimulus. Something like a short GIF repeating inside of my head for at least 3 hours non-stop with no option to interrupt it. Sometimes it evolves into a short dream where I repeat a menial task for at least 1 hour with lots of pressure I can't really explain. Last night I had to endlessly climb stairs while still being half-awake and hearing the whirring of the computer fans. After that came the "dream" where I opened doors following nonsensical instructions uttered from the dark for a long, long while. I knew I was dreaming and had a horrible time but at the same time I didn't have the strength to interrupt the dream.

When I "wake up" from this weird state, there's a short period where I can't control my own thoughts and this weird dream is still lingering while I recover conscious control of my mind again. I always have to get up and listen to music or watch anime to get rid of those thoughts. After that I can finally sleep in peace, but I've already lost a good 4 hours of my night and wake up feeling like crap.

I'm not exaggerating the time spans here, I always give my watch a glance right after waking up.

Please tell me I'm not the only one.

Anonymous 2015-09-06 04:44:51 No.1377

I know exactly how this feels. I do not have a solution.

Anonymous 2015-09-06 05:55:21 No.1379

>>1376
At least you don't have sleep apnea.

Anonymous 2015-09-06 06:02:57 No.1381

>>1376
I have boughts of dreams where I'm trying to escape something that will kill me at times.

I remember I was trying to crawl up a small hill because I was too heavy to walk. I wasn't going to escape in time and had to dig a hole and bury myself alive to escape.

Most of my stressful dreams involve tall buildings I live in and needing to continually go back to my room near the top. The most recent building had a loading bay in it that I had to climb somehow. It was dangerous.
Of course, I was on a tight schedule I was already failing. Then I dreamt that I slept too much and was going to be late for something else later in the day.

I remember I used to have dreams about failing uncontrollably and I could only change the direction of gravity. I didn't get hurt no matter how I landed though.

Anonymous 2015-09-06 19:26:14 No.1384

Ultimately if you're seriously sick or have food poisoning you're going to experience this kind of soykaf.

But you can learn to control it to some extent and in any case it's always a nice road to explore (assuming you haven't already).

Start by googling "exercises to control hypnagogia".

Good luck

Anonymous 2015-09-06 20:29:05 No.1385

You are not the only one having this sort of things. I even had a dream when I heard a million voices going louder and louder into infinity. That was real soykaf.

The solution is to fight fever. Most common way is to drink a huge amounts of liquid, like water or weak tea. There are special injections to reduce it, but that would be too invasive for health.

My grandma's recipee was too mix aspirin in tea, add teaspoon of vodka and a bit of raspberry jam. It gives a good hours of sleep and reduces fever. Not sure if you want to try it though.

Anonymous 2015-09-10 20:24:54 No.1409

I know exactly what you're talking about OP. It hasn't happened to me in several years now, but your description is spot on. I always had a hard time explaining what this was. I remember as a kid freaking my parents out a bit when it struck, had to do a CT scan or something too I think. It came up with nothing though.

As a kid it often got triggered by some kind of exhaustion. If I'd been playing computer games all day it would sometimes happen. Last time it happened I was really sick though, having fever dreams or something.

Anonymous 2015-09-13 03:52:40 No.1421

You're not alone OP. I get this if I do something repetitive all day (like play a very concentration oriented game), if I take melatonin (which makes no sense to me as it's a hormone my body makes), or if I'm sick/really stressed.

It is the most awful sleep known to man. You are aware of your surroundings and it goes by like normal time instead of dream time. And on top of that you are stuck doing the same stupid thing and you can't break out. Then of course you feel like you got no sleep the next day. A full day of work after one of those stints is terrible.

Anonymous 2015-09-13 04:07:44 No.1422

>>1421
Oh god, it's exactly like that. I'm glad I'm not the only one.

Anonymous 2015-09-23 05:13:21 No.1466

>>1379
Pretty sure I just discovered I have obstructive sleep apnea. Literally the worst fuarrrk ing thing ever. I wake up every 2 hours or so out of breath, and my dreams always get really weird and intense right before I wake up. Leaves me in a weird mental state for a while, soykaf is like kicking dead whales down the beach . CPAP machines aren't cheap either.

Anonymous 2015-09-25 03:35:10 No.1477

>>1466
Yea, that soykaf can ruin your life.

Anonymous 2015-09-25 03:56:04 No.1482

A man is in an office building. There is a woman sitting on the floor behind a wooden desk pointing a gun at him, and he is standing, looking back at her. He says aloud, "I will kill you with the question," pulls out a piece of cardboard paper that looks like a revolver and points it at her. Before she reacts, an arm comes from behind the desk holding a gun and shoots her at point blank range in the head. The man begins to feel relieved, but the woman sits right back up, her head bloodied. She says, "You may have blown my brain in half, but I'm not dead yet. I will kill you..." Her body begins sprouting holes that look like shotgun wounds while she speaks.

Yea, pretty stressful. Try to make something of that, eh?

Anonymous 2015-09-26 17:24:26 No.1487

>>1376
I get something similar when I'm in a lot of physical pain ;-;
Headaches do it too.
If I close my eyes and just relax a bit, I don't even have to fall asleep, and everything I hear around me is just pulsating and faint. If I have a dream when I'm in a lot of pain, it just feels like everything is hopeless in those dreams. Sometimes I'll be walking somewhere but I don't know where, and it would be extremely hard to move forward, sometimes it'll be something almost like from a horror movie and I'll be running from something, but no matter what I did I would wind up falling into the ground somehow and I would jolt awake.
It's spooky soykaf .

Anonymous 2015-09-26 20:38:28 No.1489

The thing with my stressful dreams, once I wake up the only recollections I have are of the terrible sleep I had

Anonymous 2015-09-27 01:07:14 No.1493

I have a LOT of dreams where I'm running from the police or military or aliens or gods for hours, not monotonously, but just being consistently under attack and not being able to do anything but run.

Anonymous 2015-10-07 13:46:32 No.1541

>>1493
I would have anxiety dreams that my drugs were found and I'm fuarrrked for life

Anonymous 2015-10-16 23:28:45 No.1592

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I remember long time ago when I was a kid I had lots of nightmares and used to sleepwalk pretty often, but there was one particular dream I remember very vividly. I think it was my first experience of lucid dreaming.

I was in some kind of cyberpunk building or ship, escaping from some soldiers and robots that wanted to kill for some reason, I knew it was a dream which made it even more lifelike and scary.

The building was a real maze, filled with corridors like pic related. I avoided the soldiers and robots while trying to find the exit. This went on for real long time and then I got so tired that I tried to wake myself up with pinching, shaking my head and other things but nothing really worked. I was trapped in a cyberpunk maze with soldiers and killer robots after me.

After that I remember laying down and hoping something would come to kill me, hoping I'd awaken from this dream, but nothing came.
I sat in the cold, empty corridor for what seemed like an eternity and then finally, falling asleep.

I remember having multiple these kind of dreams, where I'm trapped inside it, but nothing this stressful and scary.

Anonymous 2015-10-29 23:02:00 No.1683

I also experience the same stuff when I'm sick.

I remember having to solve some long algebraic equation and measuring some bench and counting the number of gear's teeth which keeps increasing in size. It was pitch black and the bench, the numbers and other stuff are white. Everything was repeating over and over again and I can't solve it even though I'm counting one by one to a point I don't know what to do after I woke up and I rushed into the sink and washed my face, I was breathing heavily.

It was a fuarrrking nightmare, my last dream when I was sick again is that crucified Jesus kept on falling flat on the floor repeatedly. I'm only spectating and don't know what to do, if I remember some dog or cat woke me up from the nightmare.

Anonymous 2015-11-02 17:48:48 No.1698

I had a really stressful dream today, but I can't remember it too well. they tend to happen when I take naps, like I get the feeling that I shouldn't be asleep

Anonymous 2015-11-13 21:06:33 No.1766

I have "sleepterrors" sometimes. You wake up from a nightmare and while still living in it like a horrormovie, thankfully i don't live alone so i dont run outside or something (you have full control and knowledge, your goal is to just GTFO to escape whatever scared you), which has happened once.

Anonymous 2015-11-22 10:06:25 No.1797

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I often dream of knifes and being stabbed or cut. Two nights ago I had a dream loop where one guy wanted to stab me.

1st round he simply stabbed me in the chest and I died.

2nd round I stabbed him in the back, but he didn't care and killed me nonetheless.

3rd round I tried to defend myself against the knife attack with bare hands, resulting in horribly pain from deep cuts to the bone.

There possibly were more loops I forgot. I woke up teeth crunching and sweating with dream pain still in my hands.

Serene!!DTBoXZzxaU 2015-11-26 03:42:23 No.1813

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I had a really vivid dream when I was around the age of six. It was the second one I ever recall having.

I find myself standing on a sidewalk in a suburban neighborhood, looking at a darkening sky. Clouds gather, and a vortex opens up in the sky, its currents sucking everything down it's funnel like water down a sky drain. The sky turns a velvety purple, then bolts of lightning start crashing down around me, lighting up my vision with pillars
of flame. Everything goes bright, and then I'm astride a motorcycle, being sucked up in the midst of the
storm, like a cow in an upside-down tornado. I try to see into the center of the vortex, to try to understand it, but as soon as I do... I hear a noise like high pitched static and suddenly I feel like my mind's been pried wide open,
and it's full of black and red streaks, shaking around violently fast. It gets more and more
vivid, and this maelstrom of craziness keeps shaking, faster and faster, red veiny tendrils unfold and snake around everything. Suddenly, there's a big crack in it all. I look through it and I feel the presence of something...
beastly and powerful.

I get scared that it's Satan and I wake up sweating, my heart beating very fast, my whole body tingling as the feeling fades away.