Disturbing dream

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Yesterday morning I woke from a disturbing dream that still has me a little unsettled, even though I know it's only a dream.

In reality, I have one brother and he really is a jerk that I don't care to see anymore.

In the dream though, I had two brothers and a sister. They were all jerks. In the dream, I was asleep and they had taken out all my diapers, unfolded all of them and strewn them all over my bedroom. They slid a washcloth and a bar of Irish Spring soap under the covers. Sister, in a "baby-talk" voice says, "Come on Stinky, it's time for your bath". And they were all laughing and making fun of me.

I know it was just a dream, but when I dream, they're pretty vivid and believable. I also dream in color, which I've read only 5% of people do.

I try to just shrug stuff like this off, but this dream is a little tougher to forget.

I do, fairly often, dream about being "found out", in public, even though it's only happened once, that I know of and that was on the job. The two jerks I worked with handled it pretty inappropriately.

 

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Of course, most dreams are manifestations of our own prior experiences (including feelings), although mixed up in such a way that it does not make sense in the sequence that we know.
It is possible that your fear of 'being found out' is being manifested in your dreams. I would strongly suggest that you need not worry about being found out; we just have to live with the 'handicap' (if you want to call it) that we have. Just relax and go with the flow (pun not intended, lol)

 

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Incontinence really permeates our lives 24/7
I would say use a onesie type undershirt to avoid plumbers gap and say to any jerks. Hey man, it happened after a bad snowmobile accident I'm lucky to be alive. Hope it never happens to you!

That last bit puts them thinking on geez it could happen to ME

 

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@spicewerx Sorry to hear about such a horribly jolting nightmare. Sounds like a terrible experience. I have ultra vivid, color dreams/nightmares, too. I also go back into the same worlds repeatedly. I can get up and pee or feed my cat then conscientiously go back into the same dream, a phenomenon known as lucid dreaming. Most people have to work hard to be able to do it but it’s just what happens with me and it’s what’s happened my entire life. My dreams also have audio which my brain neurologist told me is unusual. I was surprised to learn that’s unusual! He was able to see those same results when I took a sleep test by monitoring which parts of my brain were active while I was sleeping. He says when we have a dream or a nightmare we can remember, it’s a sign we’re only experiencing shallow, rather than deep, sleep. Scientists hardly know anything about sleep, though, so who knows!

Sometimes my dreams and nightmares are so intense that if they involve a friend of mine, or a family member, then the next time I see that friend or family member, my brain almost believes that what happened in the dream or nightmare, actually happened in the company of that person. I have to remind myself, “No, that was just a dream, that didn’t really happen.” When I’ve had a really bad nightmare that was all too convincing, I find it helps to get up ASAP and do things in real life ASAP, including going outside to get some fresh air and sunshine, or taking a shower. The more you can get grounded in the present, real-life moment, the more you can let go of those nasty nightmare images and sensations.

Not every dream is a dream about something we actually experienced; dreams are often about our greatest anxieties. For instance, I’ve never been around live dinosaurs, but I’ve been having a recurring nightmare that live dinosaurs are trying to eat me in the bathroom where I grew up and I’m cowering behind the toilet next to the cupboard in the smallest space I can find so the T-Rex’s head can’t fit to eat me. In the nightmare, I cover my ears and scream as loud as I can but the dinosaur isn’t affected. One of the most vivid parts of those nightmares is the pattern on the linoleum that we used to have in the late 1970s, red and orange circles. I was four years old when I first told my parents about that nightmare, longggggggg before I ever saw a dinosaur movie. I’ve certainly never experienced that in real life. To this day, I absolutely despise dinosaurs. I can’t even stand looking at their bones in museums. Weirdly though, I do love the “Jurassic Park” movies.

I, too, have one brother and I’ve had to remove him from my life permanently. I wish that wasn’t the case because my family is so very tiny, but he’s an extremely toxic and physically dangerous person for me to be around. Fortunately, I don’t have very many nightmares about him. Seven years after splitting up, though, I still have nightmares about my ex-husband and a couple of ex-boyfriends. Those nightmares are almost identical in theme to one another. Pretty weird! As far as I can remember, I’ve never had a dream or nightmare where I had an additional sibling. As long as it was a dream, that sounds kind of nice. I’ve always wanted a sister. Maybe I’ll try to wrassle up such a dream tonight.

Good luck! Try not to let your brain remember that nightmare anymore. If any image or sensation from it returns to your brain, just block it and say out loud, “Nope. Fake.” sometimes that helps.

 

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Often I have pleasant dreams involving walking about my home and the streets nearby. Then I begin to realise that something is wrong and I wake up to the harsh reality that I am paralysed.

 

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I can understand that Barry Simpson in dreams we are versions of ourselves and at least it cannot be a pleasant respite.

 

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@BarrySimpson94 Sometimes good dreams can be bad too.

 

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@BarrySimpson94 I’m sorry to hear about that, Barry; that sounds emotionally excruciating. I can only relate to that when I have dreams where I can still snowboard and ski and I’m having the time of my life during the great powder day, when the reality is I can no longer ski and snowboard until I get knee replacements, and even then, now that I have osteopenia, I have extra risk of breaking a bone, so I’m not sure I’ll ever get back to those sports. They’re great dreams, but the reality is not. I also have these epic dreams where I’m flying through the Los Angeles of my 20s and 30s that I so loved and all my friends are there and I can fly from between people’s houses, epic parties, and all around the city, and there are parts of the city that are even better than they actually were. And then I wake up in Utah, the most boring state in the country, socially with an unsophisticated population.

 

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I have had dreams of flying. Wonderful dreams. Flying through wooded areas, between trees, against mountain cliffs, across the waters of clear blue lakes. Doesn't matterr where I am when I wake up, just depressing to wake and lose the freedom of flight even if fleeting. LOLOL

Not too many dreams any more as I take medicine for that due to PTSD associated nightmares.

 

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Snow I never "saved" any joyous crazy experience or travel for when I got older and now I'm thrilled to have dream or memory of all the hiking biking swimming dancing horseback riding travelling
No regrets and peaceful joyous heart

 

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CHAPS54, SNOW
Or maybe any of us

Have you considered Virtual reality googles like Oculus?
Chaps made me think of it I've never seen one I'm not a tech person.
Apparently they can make it seem like you are flying or perhaps skiing or such that is what made me think of it

 

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I never remember my dreams. That being said there was a time in the past where I awoke it such an extreme paralyzing fear. It took some time for me to shake the feeling and be able to even move. I was shivering and sweating and my bed was soaked from the perspiration. This happened more than once and by the 3rd time it was much easier to just shake off. Been so long since it happened I did not remember it until I read this thread. This was a really powerful thing. I hope you all are able to work through these. If you can't you may consider talking to someone who deals with troubling dreams. I would have had to do so had I not. Best wishes to all.

 

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@chaps54 Sorry to hear about your PTSD nightmares. I hope more dreams of flying may come your way. They’re my favorite kind of dream. I usually just flap my arms a few time to get about 20-50 feet off the ground, then I take my arms down to my sides and I can just go straight whatever I want. It’s so amazing.

 

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@Maymay941 Thank you for the good idea! I hadn’t thought of using them for that. I don’t own any, but I have some friends to do.

 

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May May always has the best suggestions and ideas as do you Snow. I will look into the digital/tech world and see what I can discover.

God bless you both and everyone.

 

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A friend s son who is full paraplegic since birth made a video he was flying soaring through the mountains and trees it's amazing

 

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A friend s son who is full paraplegic since birth made a video he was flying soaring through the mountains and trees it's amazing

I wonder if he was dreaming about the HBO Feature Presentation Intro hahaha

 

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@Honeeecombs Thanks; I’d never seen that before; didn’t have cable growing up. The first part of the flying sequences are aout the height I usually fly in my dreams, just above telephone poles.

 

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I am very familiar with what I call 'worry dreams', where something has gone wrong with some aspect of work, or I have an interview or exam, or it is something to do with incontinence - trying to find a loo - usually indeed, a loo that has not been flooded, I rarely - do I ever? - don't know - find a usable one. Could do without these dreams, as you can imagine ...