Weird nightmare.

[ThomCat]

I've posted already about having very vivid dreams now that I'm sleeping for 24 hours at a time. The last couple of times it has been nightmares for some reason.

Yesterday was my shift to sleep for 24 again. :(

This time, the memorable dream was the first time I remember ever dying in a dream, and the second time I ever remember being disabled in my dream.

I was in a nursing home, and someone was taking me home with them for Christmas. How nice. But then when we got to their home, the snow was piled high on the side of the driveway and we couldn't get the passenger door open, and I couldn't get out of the car. So they left me in the car, and went in to have a wonderful party.

Most of the dream was me slowly freezing to death out in a car, complete with back spasms and blinding pain because my meds were in the trunk, seeing glimpses of a Christmas party while people came and went and totally ignored me.

That is a dream I really never want to have again. :(

[mikeytherat]

1. Sorry that you had that dream. Sounds like you could use some of this:

:hug:

mikey_the_rat

[ThomCat]

6. Definitely.

:)

My cats stay with whenever I have these long sleeps. My boy cat regularly tries to wake me up when I've been asleep too long. My girl cat just sits there, very serious and alert and keeps watch over me.

[XemaSab]

2. That sucks!

:(

:pals:

[ThomCat]

9. It does.

:(

I know I had a migraine yesterday. I woke up long enough to swallow some pills and go right back to sleep. I just noticed that I'm missing a migraine pill, and I'm feeling the after-effects of a bad migraine.

I'm wondering if the migraine influenced the dream.

[crim son]

3. Those dreams tend to stick with you through the day.

Sorry, Thom! (((hugs))) If it's any comfort, I've had a recurring dream for years that I have lost the use of my legs. I'm in a mall, and sink down to the ground. I can't stand up, but people just pass me by as if I'm not there. I also regularly dream I've died, so it has no real-life significance (knock on wood). :hi: :hug: :loveya:

[ThomCat]

10. That's scary, to have something like that

as a recurring dream. :(

:hug:

I hope this one doesn't come back.

[mikeytherat]

4. Thom: After reading your post in the "what did you do on st. paddy's day" thread

I think you incorporated that into your dream (i.e. all of your friends going out, but you're left behind, you can see them having fun, you're by yourself etc.).

mikey_the_rat

[ThomCat]

11. That's possible.

But if so, then I was guessing, because I went to sleep before they picked the place and before we got the confirmed list of who could come. I woke up and found the messages about finding the place and who was going to be able to make it.

It's weird, I don't even celebrate Christmas. I don't know why that would show up in my dream.

:shrug:

[malta blue]

5. oh heavens Thom

:hug::hug:

what a terrible dream.

[ThomCat]

12. It definitely wasn't a good way to wake up.

:(

And then I realized that it was Wednesday morning, not Tuesday, so I missed seeing my friends for St Patrick's day. x(

:hug:

I hope you had a much better day yesterday than I did. :)

[lightningandsnow]

7. Oh, ThomCat...

that sucks. Bad dreams generally suck.

:hug: :hug: :hug:

[ThomCat]

13. Yes.

I really don't like this new thing, being disabled in my dreams. I LIKED it that I could still walk and run and dance and do all that stuff in my dreams. x(

It really sucks if I'm becoming so used to being disabled, if it's becoming so much a part of who I am, that I'm actually dreaming about it. :(

:hug:

I hope your dreams are much, much better, nicer, and hopefully sexier than mine. :P

[raccoon]

8. What an unpleasant dream.

sometimes we have them. :hug: :hi:


edited for clarity

[ThomCat]

14. HI Racoon.

Hopefully we don't have them often. :)

:hug:

And hopefully I won't have my wheelchair and pain in my dreams very often. I LIKE not being disabled in my dreams. :)

[enigmatic]

15. Oh man

I've had dreams often like that, mainly in time of high stress for me. I don't wish them on anybody.

Healing vibes, bro. :hug:

[ThomCat]

16. Thank you, enigmatic.

:hug:

I didn't think I was under an unusual amount of stress right now. But I've learned that I'm often wrong. :shrug:

It was probably pain that I had while I was asleep. When you're in pain you tend to dream about pain. :(

[av8rdave]

17. Wow...what a nasty dream

Sorry you had to go through that!

[JenaLaw]

18. Oh Thom...

I hate that you are having bad dreams now too!

I was really worrying about you too. We kept calling you for a few hours to meet. If I had a key I would have come down to check up on you. St Pats was a fun night out...esp since I got to dance for the first time in 20 yrs (!!! - picture a hippo on a trampoline...get the mental image?) but nights out are always so much better when you are out with us.

so...now you owe us, your friends, a night out. Pick the night and we will get a group together. ((hugs))

as for you dream...

you may have heard our messages in your sleep, and that would be incorporated into your dream. Plus...I dragged you home with me last yr for xmas...and will probably force you to come with me again next year if I go somewhere. BUT I will never leave you alone in a freezing car, I promise!!!!!!

I hope tonight's sleep will give you a happy dream.

[Midlodemocrat]

19. I hope you never have that dream again. Nightmares suck.

I had one a few weeks ago that BoyM needed a heart transplant. It was the most terrifying dream I've ever had.

As I get older, I notice I sleep less restfully, more fitfully and am having more vivid dreams. My friends are mentioning the same thing. I'm hoping it's a factor of age and that I'll get used to it.

:hug: to you, my friend.