I seem to have a unique problem in my dreams. I've seen many specialists (psychiatrist, sleep specialists, etc.), but no one seems to be able to offer me any explaination as to what I'm going through. My problem is this: Every once in a while, when I sleep, I'll have extremely vivid dreams. I'm always aware of the fact that they're dreams when I'm asleep, however, not matter how I may try, I have no control over them. In my dreams, I have all my normal 5 senses, I can taste the air, smell smoke, feel pain, hear people talking, even taste smoke in the air. But more then that, my senses transfer out of the dreams. If I feel fire on my skin, like a burn, I can smell and taste the smoke for the rest of the day, and moreover, my skin will burn all day long until I fall asleep that night. If I'm cut in my dream, I can feel blood oozing out and down, and the pain of the cut with me all day, but there's no actual burn or cut, although there is reddened skin. A further thing that I don't understand, is that my dreams come as a story. It started 5 years ago, with the first dream. The dream repeated itself every night for 2 weeks, then suddenly stopped. The next dream picked up where the first left off 2 months later, repeated it self for 1 week, then abruptly ended. For years, the pattern continued. One dream would end after 1-2 weeks of constant dreaming, and the next would pick up 2-3 months later where it left off, until that one ended 1-2 weeks, and then I'd have a new dream to face after another 2-3 month hiatus. The thing is, my nightmares (all of them save for a few have been nightmares) are about nothing I've ever seen before, and have absolutely no relation to my life in any way. I don't understand what's happening to me, and so far as I know, I'm the only person who has this happening. If anyone knows anything about what's going on, or has a similar problem, I would love to know. If I'm not clear on what I'm saying, then please feel free to ask me to elaborate, I'd be more than happy to as best as I can.
The first question to ask is did you ever do drugs?, like LSD? It is known that LSD causes flashbacks so who is to say that they don't occur in dreams? The next thing to consider is your emotional well being. Do you have a lot of stress in your life? Do you get enough exercise, drink a quart of water a day, etc. Thirdly would be diet. Do you consume foods with MSG? Are you allergic to certain foods or additives? Does your local tap water cause you to go through mental state changes? Are you on the patch? (Gave up cigarettes?)
No, no drugs, not now, not ever. Not even cigarettes or alcohol. Also, there are no obvious triggers. Emotional state has nothing to do with when the dreams come and go. They come in all points of emotional state. Happy, sad, stressed, mad, anything. Also, these dreams aren't flash backs of any nature. I take good care of my body, exercise regularly, good food/drink intake, etc. Since it's a 5 year running story now, it would take me quite a while to type it all out. It started on my 18th birthday, and I turned 23 about a month and a half ago. As I said though, they have no relation to any part of my life, they in no way relfect things I fear, they don't relate to any repressed memories. It's the vividity that concerns me most. How if I get my arm torn off, my whole arm feels numb and hurts as though it were really torn off.
it sounds like your sub-concious is trying to bring your dreams to life, using your senses to the full extent of your un-tapped mental powers. even though im just a guest, unlike white feather who is a senior member, alot of my friends come to me with dreams to figure out what they mean. you see i have a problem as well, i can figure out dreams of other people if given enough information on them, yet i cant seem to grasp what my own mean. im no expert but maybe if you figured out the whole story of your dream chapters and post the key points i or someone else might be able to help you. dream is key in this one.
Hi Nasvarin, i wanted to throw in some more thoughts as well. To understand who we are and what we are doing here sometimes one needs to drop any pre-made concept and go deeper into the energy of the event - not seeking for explanations, but for the mystery of who you are and of the connections you made ... when you followed an invitation which came from the deepest heart, and you found yourself jumping in with nothing but full trust. It seems that you have opened doors to another reality yet forgotten how to close them again. And yet it is all about you and the quest to find out what life is, and death, and reality. And eventually we come to see maybe it is not what we are teached in this world's schools or consulting rooms. So you may want to start and look on it just differently, beyond all needs for explanation and all wow-effect. Go deeper inside your own self and find the places of self healing. The dreams are about transformation, and carrying it over to the side we call waking life. They are about healing, change and the desire to tap into the wonder of our own being. There lays your own power and the potential that is truly yours. Imagine in waking life you walk asleep but in dream you remember how to wake as the world is not how it appears to the mind, and the veils between the worlds are only thin. It is all real. But then it is all as real as you make it. And you are the one in charge of it all. Be your own power, and love them no matter what they do to you and make them a mirror of your mystery of being ... and don't forget to give them a good chance to make you laugh as well ... don't forget it is about the wonder of waking and dreaming life, yet both telling you it is all but a dream where realities interconnect and intertwine and weave together. We are not separate. And so you find the brothers and sisters of the heart, and maybe all you wanted to know is nothing can really scare you away. It's also about the joy of living and the wonder of being our own greatest riddle, as well as our own creation. Who are you ? And who will explain ? Just thoughts ... thank you for sharing your experience.
i would offer two suggestions, neither of which i make any claims to guarantee. one is to put fresh mint under your pillow. the other is when you're awaike, rather then thinking of them as nightmares, which is a prejudicial term anyway, think of them as adventures. i too, have from time to time lived parallel lives in sequential dreams like that. only rarely do i get that feeling of helplessness. and everytime i do, every time i wake up from having that in one, there is invariably a negative audible noise source going on somewhere impinging on my awairness. i happen to have extremely sensitive hearing so it doesn't take much. and what is going on in that noise source and what was going on in the dream are almost always totally unrelated. but because it was something going on physically in this world, was the reason and only reason i wasn't able to manipulate or otherwise deal with it in my dreams. this may not HAVE to be related to the problem at hand, but it does seem a HIGHLY probable source of it. invariably in my own experience it has been. sometimes also though, you know your subconscous, one of the things dreams do, is run simulations, and quite possibly this ongoing world line, there are things, like putting togather a jigsaw puzzle, to figgure out IN it. and sometimes i think, this sort of thing does interact in some mysterious, but definately NONlinear or directly appearent way, with what goes on in this one. like two applications shairing a common database file or something. and OF COURSE these parallel worlds our dreams take place in bear no resemblence to our lives in this world. it's like if the client software for two different mmo's looked at the same data stream, but each interpreted it in totally different ways. and i'm not saying or suggesting all of the data base is shaired between both worlds either. i've taken college courses and held jobs in this parallel dream worlds. just like life going on in sequence in this one. and some of those have been on VERY alien kinds of worlds. and people there, untill i got to know them, were pretty scarry looking, but students are students and once we got to know each other and accept each other things were pretty cool all arround. i think a lot of people probably have problems with prejudices enculturated into them they don't even begin to realize they have. a lot of that comes from dominant beliefs or other cultural factors. =^^= .../\...
