A lucid dream is a dream in which the person is aware that he or she is dreaming while the dream is in progress.
Yes, occasionally I have nightmares. Not so much anymore. I kind of miss the dreams. Several books and websites I have read have called me not sane. Apparently adults are no longer supposed to have nightmares, its a sign that there is something wrong with me. But I ahve always had nightmares, they started a long time ago with bees and insects. I'd hear buzzing and dream that they had crawled into my ear and I couldn't wake up. I've dreamed that I killed my parents for some reason and I have pretty good parents. I've dreamed that I ran away when I was 6 or 7 and joined the military. Thats the nightmare I have the most often, I'm in the military and in basic and I just know things. Well its seems real, and I read a website and it turns out that I'm lucid dreaming. I wake up in the dream.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucid_dreaming
It turns out that I do this every night. I don't go to sleep till the little girl in the dream goes to sleep. I talk myself to sleep. Does anybody else have problems with sleep?
I was on sleeping pills for a while.
Are adults supposed to dream? One book I read said that adults do not dream because they are no longer scared enough of anything enough to dream. I believe that I should not be so frightened of life, but life is complicated.
I had one really awsome dream that I was combing the hair of a gaint sqid in the water. For some reason I can always breathe underwater in my dreams.
OF course other books say lucid dreaming is bad and determentail to your health. i know that lucid dreaming did not make the bad dreams go away or change them, I did become less scared by them. Just because I was deceiding what happened a little bit.
The last nightmare that I had was just before christmas. I was riding in an army truck and it flipped and I hit my head. I woke up with a headache. Before that it was zombies outside my window. I woke up with an incredible urge to sleep in the attic.
Since then I've decided to try and tire myself out. I walk at 7 in the morning at the local track. And boy its creepy there by myself till other people come. The belchers creak and moan. Some marine i'd make, to scaried to go outside by myself.
:)
~Maybe Sinclair~
If dreaming as an adult is bad, Then apparently Im headed for an asylum. I still dream plenty. And adults are still afraid, but their fears are different from children's. My last dream, for example, was that I had missed all my classes for the day. That is a fear I actually have in real life. I dont think I have had a nightmare in years, though.