Does anybody else not appear in their dreams?

[Jedamethis]

Well that's wonderful! But I'm still going to stay in this corner being slightly horrified.

Lol. Okay.

Last night's one was pretty awesome, actually. Kind of like a thriller movie. At one point my mum came to see me in a prison type complex. She pulled out her chair and sat down, but her arm bent backwards (the elbow moved forward). I had to sit there and pretend it was my mum for the rest of the meeting, knowing full well it was "something" either inside my mum or pretending to be her.

That's...uh...nice?

 

[withoutnumbers]

This has definitely happened to me a lot, but if you literally *never* have dreams which emulate reality and in which you are actively taking a part in, then I would say you are a very unique person. I dreamt an entire Quentin Tarantino movie that's never been made once. Keep track of your dreams, because there's probably some really cool ideas you could draw off of.

 

[SckizoBoy]

I mostly dream in first person and when I do remember them, I'm always in it. Who else is in it is purely up to the machinations of luck. However, towards the end of my sleep, sometimes I'll 'wake' to a separate level of consciousness and that's when I'll have lucid dreams.

Some dreams are rather banal, amusing conversations or just everyday activities.

Sometimes, there's a supernatural element and I go around blowing crap up.

And the rest of the time, I'll wake with a wet pillow and spend the rest of the day remembering and trying not to cry...

 

[Ignuus66]

my dreams usually revolves around me or some other entity (once I dreamed I was an omnipotent entity, however most of my dreams are like tall tales.. they start out with everything normal, and end in everything becoming unnatural or odd. Occasionally I have really creepy dreams, I even remember 1 of them I dreamed when I was 5.. the c reepy thing was that it was an actual even that happened whiel I was an embryo.. odd stuff these dreams.. Occasionally I relive the worst/best moments in my life... sometimes I just dream from another person's viewpoint, but 80% of the dreams have me in it.. the remaining 20% are the odd dreams.

 

[Thundero13]

That's odd... i've had several dreams that were like that but I am usually in my dreams... Maybe you need to see the things that usually happen in these 'cinema shows' to know that you're dreaming, and then you can control them... or something

 

[Rainforce]

My meds cause me to have "vivid and disturbing nightmares" ever night as a side-effect. I'm in every one of them and every one of them seems real at the time and real terrifying, lol.

hey that's nice, same problem here
actually...I took them for a decade, begining in 1st grade of school, and although I'm already 21 and stopped taking them quite some years ago THE NIGHTMARES JUST DONT STOP O_O'
On the other hand, I take it with pretty good humor that I die horribly every night.
So my advice: Get the hell away from those things while you still can >_>
whatever kind of cure they promise, if the disease itself isn't lethal, the side effects of these meds kinda ARE.

 

[Super Six One]

My meds cause me to have "vivid and disturbing nightmares" ever night as a side-effect. I'm in every one of them and every one of them seems real at the time and real terrifying, lol.

I am not on any meds and i have really vivid and disturbing dreams. They usually end with me either being eaten alaive or violenly stabbed, usually in the gut. (Once it actually felt like a was stabbed by a pitchfork, it was orrible feeling). I put it donw to the fact that i'm a big fan of horror and war movies tho, i watch alot of them.

 

[Akytalusia]

My meds cause me to have "vivid and disturbing nightmares" ever night as a side-effect. I'm in every one of them and every one of them seems real at the time and real terrifying, lol.

yeah, i dropped my meds when that started happening. they weren't doing anything else, so it wasn't worth it.

 

[ThisIsSnake]

My dreams always seem be from a first person perspective, so I guess I do. Wish I could remember dreams for more than half an hour after waking though.

 

[Korak the Mad]

My meds cause me to have "vivid and disturbing nightmares" ever night as a side-effect. I'm in every one of them and every one of them seems real at the time and real terrifying, lol.

That is the same way for me, my dreams are quite disturbing, but I actually like them. They suit my personality. Many of my dreams have creatures that I can only describe as Lovecraftian in nature, but only in one dream did they try to eat me.

Years ago, I did have a lucid nightmare. I was totally aware of the fact that I was dreaming, yet I could not control it. It felt as though I was in there for a few years. I actually remember yelling at my dreaming self to wake up, it was a horrifying experience.

 

[AnkaraTheFallen]

That happens to me, but it seems like you need to find yourself in the dream, a character in it might represent yourself, you just need to realize it. Or everyone there represents you and it gets tricky >.<

Bit hard when I'm looking from the outside in and I have no idea what's going on. But I could try and pay attention when I go to bed today.

My meds cause me to have "vivid and disturbing nightmares" ever night as a side-effect. I'm in every one of them and every one of them seems real at the time and real terrifying, lol.

E gads. I dearly hope I never need any medication like that. D:

Most modern antidepressants have a chance to cause it. Just depends on your brain chemistry. I'm one of the lucky ones who gets extremely messed up nightmares every night. Yay

They usually revolve around me or someone I know and love being tortured or held prisoner and raped. There's sometimes a lot of gore, but mostly it's just mind-fuckery like people not being who they seem, limbs bending the wrong way, lots of screaming, crying and freaking out.

Sucks, lol. But totally worth it.

Umm.... wow, I take anti depressants as well and I suffer from night terrors according to my girlfriend, I've apparently woken up screaming before but I never remember them. I guess I'm kinda glad I don't if yours is any indication of what they are like.
Also sorry to hear about yours *Hugs*

 

[sinterklaas]

I had a weird experiance in a dream.I was dreaming i was getting ready for school and my clock said it was 6:40 20minutes then school would startall of a sudden I wake up again and get ready and my clock read 6:30 20minutes then school would startand then all of a sudden I wake again and my clock says 6:20 and then i said screw it and ended up missing school. turns out I was three dreams deep.

Hahaha I've had that a few times too.

When I still had nightmares, I had the ability to wake up at any moment I wanted to, I haven't had any nightmares in 10 years though, pretty awesome I also have this weird internal alarm, I can just think 'I want to wake up at 6 tomorrow', then go to sleep and I'll wake up at 6. It's so weird.

I mainly dream about people around me and I actually have a very large dreamworld which is a distorted version of the place where I live plus being interconnected with some other places. It's very weird, I never dream something that is outside that world.

 

[Goofguy]

My dreams are ALWAYS in first person. Every time I go to sleep, I'm the only one living out my crazy adventures. It would seem weird for me to not to be the main protagonist in my dreams.

 

[gigastrike]

What do you mean you're not in your own dreams? Are you some kind of ghost that just watches everything and can't be seen by anyone?

 

[EHKOS]

My meds cause me to have "vivid and disturbing nightmares" ever night as a side-effect. I'm in every one of them and every one of them seems real at the time and real terrifying, lol.

Me too, and most times I go back to school, can't find my locker, can't remember class schedule or locker com, and I have no way of getting home.

 

[StBishop]

My meds cause me to have "vivid and disturbing nightmares" ever night as a side-effect. I'm in every one of them and every one of them seems real at the time and real terrifying, lol.

Yeah my meds do that too.
*hugs*

So does excessive drinking.

OT: Yeah I know what you mean. It's not the norm for me, but I experience it from time to time.
I also regularly have dreams where I don't recognise anyone but i know who they are. Maybe that is what's happening to you, they represent people you know, you just need to figure out who. On the other hand, maybe not.

 

[Jedamethis]

What do you mean you're not in your own dreams? Are you some kind of ghost that just watches everything and can't be seen by anyone?

No, I'm more like the camera. I see same kind of shots that you'd see in a film, over the shoulder, close-ups, long shots, all at the appropriate times.

 

[Dogstile]

My dreams all feature me unfortunately, or people from my past, but I will always be involved.

Kind of hate it actually, I die a lot in my dreams or pine for love and all that romantic bollocks that I shouldn't want but do :L

 

[Ignatz_Zwakh]

Nah, whenever I dream, I'm most definitely in them. I'm always right there, within the dream, trying to survive/wake-up/interact within it's context.

 

[Marsell]

I'm always in my dreams.
As far as I know, ALL Derse dreamers appear in they're dreams.