I don't mean to bring everybody down
But I can't hold it in any longer.

Last night I dreamt I was dying.
I was getting weaker and my motor skills were failing.
I was on the phone to my mum trying to tell her I was sorry for dying on her, but my speech was failing, and I was trying to get someone else to read out a list of things I needed to tell her.
It sucked.

But when I woke up all freaked out I realised I had one of the bf's t-shirts on and I felt better, like someone was there. Tigger was no help.

Freaky dream thread!
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 11:57, 188 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I dream of the day when the whole of offtopic just mans up.

(PsychoChomp, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 11:58, Reply)

I'm totally manned up
I stared death in the face last night
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:00, Reply)

Did death stare back???

(PsychoChomp, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:12, Reply)

yeah an i sed oo u lukin at cunt?
an e sed u an i sed fuck off
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:16, Reply)

gosh that took me a long time to decipher

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:17, Reply)

I am currently reading teenagers' chat logs
And it's all shit like that.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:18, Reply)

so grooming then?

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:20, Reply)

Well, it's an alleged grooming case

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:27, Reply)

ahh alleged
my most used word
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:31, Reply)

Same here
I am very careful with my language in reports and in court.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:34, Reply)

My worst nightmare ever
For some bizarre reason, I was being forced to kick my dog (who was alive back then). In the dream I was crying and apologising, and Bozwell was looking up at me with sad eyes as if saying "Why are you hurting me? I love you!".
I cannot remember why I was being forced to do it, I can only remember how horrific it was.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:02, Reply)

I hate that look
You know when an animal's sick or something and they think you can make it better or that you're causing but you can't fix it and they're sad at you.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:03, Reply)

Bozwell had that look a lot towards the end of his days, it killed me.
But whenever I was ill, he'd be right by me, whining a little, like he knew something was wrong and felt helpless because he's just a dog and can't make me lemsip.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:07, Reply)

Tigger's sometimes lovely when i'm upset
He puts his paw on my arm like "If you need to talk..."
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:08, Reply)

I wish Rupert would to that to me.
If he puts his paw on my arm, it's usually cos he's about to start purring maniacally and ripping it to shreds for fun.
(Poppet some assembly required., Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:12, Reply)

That's Tigger's normal behaviour
My legs are covered in bites
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:13, Reply)

Tigger DJTrialprice
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:15, Reply)

legs arsecheeks
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:18, Reply)

I must shake DJTP by the hand next time I see him

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:19, Reply)

I wouldn't,
you know where it's been
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:21, Reply)

I'd never wash it again

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:24, Reply)

just like her then!

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:45, Reply)

OI!
Haha, my mate Mark sometimes rings me and says "Have you washed it???" and I say yes.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:52, Reply)

Keep it to yourself, ey love?

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:54, Reply)

no it's dead funny
honest
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:55, Reply)

I just think that this isn't the place for such personal information.

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:56, Reply)

*bring bring*
"Hello?"
"Av yer washed ittt?"
"Yeah."
"Sure?"
"Yeah!"
"Ok. Trah."
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:58, Reply)

*awkwardly stares at his feet*
*checks watch, and looks around*
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 13:00, Reply)

He also stole my phone and sent a message to a lad I used to go out with
saying "ooh Sarah, me minge is killin me".
He din't send it to Sarah though.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 13:03, Reply)

a girl I know said the guy she's seeing
(who won't admit it to anyone else) said he refused to sleep with her because she smells. She said "he's kidding, it's funny". Her friend and I were like o_O
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:58, Reply)

Does she smell?

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:59, Reply)

Yes, you do.

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 13:00, Reply)

what type of cat is he?
Rupert is a pound cat turned hunter for fun.
(Poppet some assembly required., Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:16, Reply)

Tigger was rescued from under a fence just after he was born
he's a moggy
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:17, Reply)

bites jizz
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:16, Reply)

fuck man
I had a similar dream to that. Something had happened to my old dog and we were in the middle of nowhere so I basically had to strangle her to put her out of her misery, and was getting that same look.

Really horrible.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:06, Reply)

Fuck that's harsh
I can't watch that scene in I Am Legend with the dog, as it came out just after we had Boz put down.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:08, Reply)

mate of mine really can't watch any films that have bits with dying animals
it's kind of amusing.

it was a fucking horrible dream. one of the worst I can remember having.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:10, Reply)

With regard to the films thing..
The Jean Luc Godard film Week End has an early extended tracking shot of a traffic jam in which everyone is dead. It just keeps going and the length of the shot and sheer number of dead bodies caused a number of people to start laughing. Later in the film you see a pig being slaughtered and many people walked out at that point. Now obviously the people were acting and the pig wasn't, but I don't think that that was the only reason why people left. I think we are more sensitive to the suffering of animals.

Though, of course it's also possible that they'd reached the point of thinking "Right, I've had enough of this pretentious shit."
(Cave Duck, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:58, Reply)

Oh my!
That's so sad. I really hope it was only a nightmare, and not a repressed memory.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:31, Reply)

Ignore douchechomp
My dream had lesbianism in it!

I think it's because I read an article yesterday about women who suddenly change sexuality in their 30s. I dreamt that one of my oldest friends and I decided to ditch our boyfriends and become lesbians together. However, after attempting to go on a date, it failed miserably so we decided we weren't lesbians after all. I woke up laughing because at the end my friend said "thank god we didn't do anything sexual or this would be really awkward now".
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:03, Reply)

Sounds like a cool dream
Up until the last bit.

The last sex-dream I had was...odd. The sex was purely mechanical, no sense of pleasure at all, just humping. I felt cheated.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:05, Reply)

My last saucy dream was BOSS,
but I woke up before the best bit
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:07, Reply)

I don't believe I've ever had a proper saucy dream
If I have, I don't remember it, and that sucks.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:10, Reply)

I always wake up before the best bit
And my pants are all sticky and there's a funny smell in the room.
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:12, Reply)

And your mum's there pouring tea on your nuts

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:13, Reply)

I keep telling her to get her prescription adjusted...

(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:14, Reply)

last naughty dream I had
was rubbish and a bit alarming
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:08, Reply)

Sorry, it's never happened like that before!
I'll make it up to you?
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:10, Reply)

get out of my head Leo

( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:15, Reply)

As if you'd kick Leo out of your head

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:15, Reply)

probably not to be fair

( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:18, Reply)

I wouldn't
If only to then blackmail a couple of million out of him.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:19, Reply)

that's what you claim

( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:21, Reply)

it wasn't a sex dream
as I explained in the last sentence! It was all deep and shit. Well, not really.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:12, Reply)

n't
shit sweaty, hard and heavy, and I'm sure at one point we were connected by two double-enders, just writhing and spasming, before finishing up with an epic squid-bumping sesh.
Well, not really
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:14, Reply)

mmmm squid
I'm hungry.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:16, Reply)

Haha i remember discussing people me and my friend had both snogged
and I said, totally innocently, "Blimey, in a roundabout way, we've bloody got off with each other!"
and she looked terrified and said "You're not on the turn again are you???"
I said "NO, homey don't play dat no mo, and I resent that look on yo face"
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:06, Reply)

Woo, someone who remembers In Livin' Color.
I reckon Monsieur Foxtrot would like Men On Film. As it were.
(BrianHequator was stretching owls, on, or around, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:12, Reply)

Then you rolled over and she was asleep naked next to you, save for a glistening strap on,

( Undulating Tentacles of Love getting fun down to acceptable levels, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:06, Reply)

tut
always lowering the tone.

Did you see that picture of a baby octopus that I put in the other thread? It's well cute.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:15, Reply)

Mmmm... interesting
so women change sexuality in their 30s? I should give it a try just in case.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:32, Reply)

it's a bit creepy you had that dream
because I had an identical one two nights ago. I woke up screaming, absolutely convinced I was going to die and just fade into blackness
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:06, Reply)

that was exactly it Amb
I was thinking "Oh shit, I'm just disappearing, I'm not existing any more, I can't see any tunnel or anything, alive and happy me is not going to be here soon!"
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:10, Reply)

exactly
it was awful. An utter conviction there was nothing after death and that when my consciousness ceased, that was the end
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:14, Reply)

I hope it's not like that
It was like the start of Rita at Alton Towers
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:17, Reply)

I love that ride!

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:17, Reply)

I nearly died on it
It should be illegal. Your head sticks out of the bogseat and then shakes around and your neck nearly snaps.
And your body is convinced you're dying, so you could pee or poo or confess to murder while you're on the fucking thing
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:20, Reply)

I nearly had a fricking heart attack on that damn ride.
It surprised the hell out of me when we were standing at the gates, next in line to go and the people in front had just been strapped in, then the light goes green and it just fucked off. Proper blink and you miss it stuff. I was pretty complacent til I saw that, then I was a bit O_O
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:23, Reply)

It says to keep your head back against the rest
And my body's clearly tougher than yours, although it does make my willy feel weird.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:23, Reply)

wtf

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:24, Reply)

Like, my general genitalia area
Some rides, like Rita, makes that area feel odd!
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:28, Reply)

wtf

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:30, Reply)

Don't make this awkward

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:32, Reply)

Oh like when you go over a humpy bridge in a car and your stomach flips and the sensation kind of sinks to your bits?

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:30, Reply)

Yes, just like that
That lurching feeling.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:31, Reply)

Eeeeh, maybe people who like rides
are perves getting all aroused by them
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:33, Reply)

It's not arousing at all
In fact, were I to have a chub-on before the ride, I dare say that it would diminish, not be further engorged by it.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:35, Reply)

Ok shush now lad

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:35, Reply)

I thought we were being all open about things
Sharing personal details, because we're so comfortable with each other?
Wow, now I feel awkward.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:39, Reply)

Oh look, a seagull

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:47, Reply)

*dies a little inside*

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:51, Reply)

Was that your phone or mine?
I'll just check in case it's a text
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:57, Reply)

*watches you look at your phone*
*clearly sees the screen's blank*
*waits for you to say "I've got to take this, sorry" and walk away*
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:59, Reply)

I've got to take this, sorry
*legs it*
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 13:00, Reply)

*sighs*
*ponders if he can remember how to tie a slipknot*
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 13:02, Reply)

That's what'll happen
But don't worry, you won't notice it.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:17, Reply)

I'll bloody notice it
while it's happening. For the last two days it's like I've been living in Final Destination
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:17, Reply)

I remember, many years ago having a very vivid dream about my Dad dying and then in that confused period immediately after waking, not knowing whether it was true or not and being too scared to get up and find out.
(Cave Duck, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:11, Reply)

I often dream my dad's dead and I'm ironing his suit
then I ring him and tell him and he says "Cheers for that..."
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:11, Reply)

Pure Freud, that one
Clearly you have a massive Oedipal complex whereby you want to beat your father to death with an iron and cop off with your mam.
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:17, Reply)

This is true

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:19, Reply)

I don't sleep well
so I always remember my dreams, and they are always weird as fuck. Usually quite bizarre and frightening.
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:17, Reply)

Mine are insane
and I'm knackered when I wake up, because so much has happened
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:19, Reply)

restless sleeper then?
Apparantly I sleepwalked for the first time in a couple of months night before last
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:20, Reply)

I don't sleepwalk
I talk though
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:22, Reply)

that's why I hate sharing rooms
who knows what I say when I'm asleep?
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:23, Reply)

You say
"NATAS NATAS NATAS, retsam ho, uoy ot wob eW"
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:26, Reply)

I did wake up
feeling extremely hot. I may have been translated to another dimension
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:27, Reply)

Translated?
Transferred? Teleported? Transplaced? Transmogrified?
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:29, Reply)

I think you can use translated
in that sense. But I may have read too much science fiction
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:37, Reply)

I don't think anyone can read too much sci fi
Apart from Scientologists.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:38, Reply)

apparently I talk
Wiggy likes to listen and then repeat it back to me in front of company.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:30, Reply)

Em occasionally talks in her sleep
But she's also hit me in the face while dreaming.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:36, Reply)

She claims that she was dreaming...

(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:36, Reply)

This is true
I did think it suspicious that she managed to equip some knuckle dusters while sleeping.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:38, Reply)

I once sleep-ate-breakfast
Then woke up feeling really ill, and thought I was really hungry. Turns out I'd actually eaten about half a box of cereal and put an empty milk jug back in the fridge.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:23, Reply)

haha
Years ago my parents were awake late one night. I sleepwalked downstairs, put on an empty kettle, and read the newspaper upside down
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:25, Reply)

Woo, danger sleep walking!

(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:32, Reply)

Hahaha! That's so funny
Mark has a lot of stories of sleep walking, but I'm going home now, so I'll leave them for another day.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Fri 23 Jul 2010, 13:02, Reply)

I sleep-eat too!
but only if it's next to me. I don't get up and walk to it.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:25, Reply)

Lack of commitment right here
Must try harder.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:29, Reply)

hahaha
that made me lol. Sleepfatty.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:29, Reply)

I'm going to blame
The fact that I had been up for 24 hours before that, and not that I'm a massive lol-fatty.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:31, Reply)

If I sleep-ate
I would be such a lolfatty, I already get in about 5 meals a day
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:43, Reply)

Yeah,
but I've got a COOL NEW HAWKWIND RING, so ner.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:19, Reply)

Oh my god

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:21, Reply)

It is rather cool
Don't know whether I'd have forked out £75-odd for it, but it is rather cool.
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:21, Reply)

A fool and his money are soon parted.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:23, Reply)

I have to tell myself this every time I get within 100yds of Denmark Street

(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:26, Reply)

what's on Denmark Street?
Hooker? Or pies?
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:28, Reply)

Lots and lots
of musical instrument shops. It's ace.
(berk, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:31, Reply)

ahh I see
I prefer pie.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:31, Reply)

It's cheaper
that's for sure. The last time I went I spent a full five minutes standing in the window of the saxophone shops and wimpering. I may even have shed a small tear.
(berk, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:33, Reply)

But not from your eyes, eh?
*winks*
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:36, Reply)

I'd love to learn to play something cool like the saxophone
and I've been listening to Emilie Autumn a lot recently so now I want to learn the violin. But then I remember my sister learning the violin at school and how horrific the practicing was.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:42, Reply)

Lampito hates the violin
So that's gotta be a plus, right?
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:47, Reply)

haha yeah that's true
I'll go and serenade her
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:59, Reply)

Where is she?
I was waiting for her to reply to this topic
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 13:01, Reply)

Rent boys.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:31, Reply)

I'm sure I've already told you all the one about the guitar made of mango
But I do remember having a particularly weird one when I was but a very young crowlet: For some reason, the muscles in my eyelids had severly atrophied, to the point at which I had to hold my eyes open with my fingers if I wanted to see anything. This led to a sort of "Day in the Life" montage where I followed my family round the house, into town, etc., desperately trying to hold my eyelids open to see where I was going. And of course, I tried harder and harder to get my eyes to open under their own muscle power, and eventually I got it! I managed to open them. And I opened my eyes wide...and woke up.
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:21, Reply)

I hate paralysis dreams
I get those because I have apnoeia.
Oh my god, poor djtp, every day he finds out something more disturbing about me on here.
I should shut up.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:22, Reply)

apnoeia?

( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:24, Reply)

Where you kind of snore or your throat closes over and you're not getting enough oxygen
and it gives you trippy dreams and then you wake up unable to move and all spaced out and still tired
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:26, Reply)

that's odd
might explain my dreams I guess, plus the feeling of needing an inhaler sometimes if I wake up despite not having an asthma attack. And the paralysis in the mornings- like a few seconds of not being able to move? Quite terrifying?
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:28, Reply)

I bet you have it
There's a physical type and a neurological type (which is more dangerous, because their brains literally forget to breathe while they're asleep)
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:29, Reply)

that sounds terrifying
(the neurological one). Mind you I read somewhere that you know when you're feeling like you're falling, so you scrabble with your hands/feet, then realise you're not exactly moving, that it's your heart skipping or adding a beat
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:35, Reply)

That can't be true
Because it happens to me almost every night, and now you're scaring me a lot
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:42, Reply)

don't be scared
I just read it somewhere, and I have it every night myself :)
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:45, Reply)

Good, ok
Because I quite like them, when you think you're running and step on something, and think you're going to fall, and do that little jump. I wake up and laugh at myself every time.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:47, Reply)

I was wrong anyway
did a quick google, apparantly they're called hypnic jerks, and are just a bunch of synapses firing in an odd way
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:53, Reply)

I thought so
I think I read somewhere that is like residual energy left in your nerves, that make you jump (FFS, I'm crap at explaining these things, I need to learn a lot more of vocabulary)
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Fri 23 Jul 2010, 13:00, Reply)

Sometimes I forget to breathe when I'm concentrating on something
like a very interesting film, and I find myself lacking oxygen and breathing strongly to get it back.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:36, Reply)

you should get one of them reminder tattoos
like BGB has
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:41, Reply)

Hahaha
Maybe I need an alarm, every few seconds, to remind me to do it.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:45, Reply)

It's basically where
you stop breathing in your sleep.
(berk, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:28, Reply)

he'll be ticking another one off his list
"if it gets to 100 I'm outta here"
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:26, Reply)

I'm surprised he hasn't yet

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:27, Reply)

he's probably nearly there
she got 99 problems....
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:31, Reply)

Hahahhaha
HIT MEH!
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:32, Reply)

I get those
But I don't have apnoeia, as far as I know. My father used to say it was because I felt I wasn't doing enough with my life, and I was like in a prision. To be fair with him, now that I'm happy, happy, I've stopped having them.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:34, Reply)

I often have similar dreams
Where my vision gets really bad, and I have to strain to be able to see anything. I then wake up, because I've opened my eyes.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:22, Reply)

I hate that
I always dream that I can't see properly, it drives me mad. I got Wiggy to look it up for me on one of those dream explanation sites to see what it might mean and Wiggy said "it means your eyesight is bad".
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:27, Reply)

Nice one Wiggy!

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:30, Reply)

mango is shit and dull and I hate him

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:23, Reply)

I have these dreams when I can't move
or talk at all. I'm paralyzed. I know I'm on a dream, and despite that, I get very scared. I try to wake myself up. I try very hard. Sometimes I manage to wake up, but in reality, I'm still sleeping, but I think I'm awake. Then, moving gets harder and harder, until I realize again that I'm sleeping. Then, sometimes I tell to myself: "Don't worry, you're sleeping, just relax". But I can't. I get all shaky, trembling, sweating (on my dream). I try to shout but I can't. My throat hurts and all I can manage is a little whimper.

When I finally wake up, I'm scare of going back to sleep and have another bad dream.

It hasn't happened to me since I started to sleep with Mark regularly.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:28, Reply)

Do you snore?

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:29, Reply)

I don't think I do
Nobody has ever told me, not even my sister, who has a very good ear and wakes up with almost no noise.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:37, Reply)

I've had that a few times
it's fucking terrifying. Especially not being sure if you're awake or not, but not being able to move, and feeling like any second you won't be able to breathe, but not being able to scream or move or do anything about it. The last time it happened I was convinced there was somebody in my flat, I swear to god if I hadn't managed to jerk out of it I'd either have pissed myself or had a coronary. Or both.
(berk, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:30, Reply)

I can sometimes bring myself out of it by gasping increasingly louder each time until i kind of shriek

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:32, Reply)

Yeah, I've done that too
Concentrate in the only thing that is moving and you can feel, your lungs, and make them move faster and faster until you wake up with the movement.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:39, Reply)

I've had it when awake
usually in the morning. Terrifying, feeling like you're going to die with not even a squeak
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:36, Reply)

I know, it's too scary
I was so afraid to go to bed for some time!
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:37, Reply)

I used to get that all the time, it's worst when the Telly or radio is on and you can still hear it and recount everything that has gone on in it.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:36, Reply)

Yes, and when you think you woke up
You mix up what's going on outside and in your dream. I've woken up from naps on the sofa, asking my mother where her friend was, completely certain I had been having coffee and biscuits with her, and had a good conversation all the time, just feeling very tired though, and wanting to go to sleep all the time; so I thought I had fallen asleep while talking to her and she had gone.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:40, Reply)

I read and fall asleep
then dream what happens next. It's really confusing when I continue reading later
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 13:09, Reply)

I sometimes
get a weird sense of a presence being in the room. It's whilst I'm in the process of falling asleep. It starts with that weird feeling you get when somebody's looking at you, then gets more and more intense. I'll try to convince myself that I'm being stupid, but eventually I'll wake up properly and have to turn on the light. Sure enough, no one there.

One time there was an audio component, too. Just as I was starting to think that I was going to have to wake up again and turn on the light, I "heard" movement in my room. I have never woken up and got out of bed so quickly in all my life. I had to check all the doors and windows followed by a nice sit down before the adrenaline subsided.
( Kroney, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:42, Reply)

I used to get that
Now I blame everything on the cat and it's easier
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:49, Reply)

ooo, I have had this before
including a bit when I think I see a shadowy figure. Actually quite freaked out just at the thought of it happening again now I'm on my own *shudder*
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 13:02, Reply)

Years ago I dreamt that I was snogging Eddie Murphy in a bush.
To this day that dream scares the shit out of me. I've also been pregnant by my first step-dad in a dream and I always dream of trying to find a suitable toilet when I need to pee if I'm asleep.
( girlinthehole, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:47, Reply)

When I was about 13
I dreamt Tom Cruise was molesting me
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:50, Reply)

*shivers*

( girlinthehole, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:51, Reply)

Arg
Poor girl, that explains so many things.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:55, Reply)

Tom Cruise is Tom Cruise crazy
just be glad it's him not you
If you had TOm Cruise's trouble, you might be TOm Cruise crazy, too
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:59, Reply)

ARGH!

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 13:01, Reply)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9J9KRZ0PnAs

not sure about that video
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 13:03, Reply)

Yeah that'll be in my head all day now

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 13:05, Reply)

Why the name change?

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 13:06, Reply)

i've had an upgrade
ROOTATRON, ACTIVATE!
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 13:07, Reply)

Uh-huh, ok

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 13:08, Reply)

A couple of years ago
I started to have these dreams when I can't remember very well what's going on, but it's very funny, so I laugh, so hard that I really laugh. The person sleeping next to me finds it usually very scary, especially as I can't stop laughing even when I'm awake and I know it's not so funny, but still feels so much I can only laugh.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:49, Reply)

While discussing sleep disorders etc
can anyone explain why if we're supposed to be naturally paralysed when we sleep to prevent harming ourselves, people can sleep walk/talk/hypnic jerk etc?
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:57, Reply)

i think all that is when the sleep paralysing thing goes wrong
that jerk thing is something to do with not falling out of trees
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:58, Reply)

No idea
But I think it should be the other way round. Humans are the only animals that completely lose knowledge of what's going on while they're sleeping. All other animals are able to wake up and react within seconds, or they'd be dead before realizing.

If we were like that, it'd be a lot easier to wake up in the mornings.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:59, Reply)

I think it's to do with the different types of sleep we go through.

( girlinthehole, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:59, Reply)

Different phases of sleep,
sleep paralysis isn't constant.
(PsychoChomp, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:59, Reply)

damn
that's one scary dream
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 12:59, Reply)

innit :(

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 13:06, Reply)