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I dream of electric sheep

Le_Fromage_Grande wrote: Fri Feb 09, 2024 6:48 pm I dream of electric sheep

Hi Andrew.

Yorick wrote: Fri Feb 09, 2024 1:34 pm Vivid scary dreams was one of the side effects of my blood pressure tablets.

I started having much more vivid dreams after my episode 7 years ago. One of the medicines they put me on was Amlodipine for blood pressure. Is that what you were taking? My vivid dreams are mostly enjoyable though, not scary.

I asked the doctor one time if the medication could be a factor in the extra vivid dreams but he said no. Experts eh, what do they know?

Saga Lout wrote: Sun Feb 11, 2024 5:34 am

Yorick wrote: Fri Feb 09, 2024 1:34 pm Vivid scary dreams was one of the side effects of my blood pressure tablets.

I started having much more vivid dreams after my episode 7 years ago. One of the medicines they put me on was Amlodipine for blood pressure. Is that what you were taking? My vivid dreams are mostly enjoyable though, not scary.

I asked the doctor one time if the medication could be a factor in the extra vivid dreams but he said no. Experts eh, what do they know?

Try taking Ambien for a couple of days & then stop.... Two fucking weeks of nightmares.

Saga Lout wrote: Sun Feb 11, 2024 5:34 am

Yorick wrote: Fri Feb 09, 2024 1:34 pm Vivid scary dreams was one of the side effects of my blood pressure tablets.

I started having much more vivid dreams after my episode 7 years ago. One of the medicines they put me on was Amlodipine for blood pressure. Is that what you were taking? My vivid dreams are mostly enjoyable though, not scary.

I asked the doctor one time if the medication could be a factor in the extra vivid dreams but he said no. Experts eh, what do they know?

Ramipril definitely causes this too - I witness it regularly

I’m on ramipril and amlopidine, plus some others, I have bad dreams all the time, so don’t get enough sleep. Discussed with the medics but not a lot of alternatives so I was told to live with it! Which I do.

Have you ever had something happen which becomes part of your dreams? When I was a kid, my dad had tiled the bathroom, DIY was not his forte and in the middle of the night loads of tiles fell off into the bath. I was dreaming I was on a bridge that collapsed just as the tiles fell off, and the noise fitted the dream of the collapsing bridge. Scared me to death!!
Sleep well
Mick

I used to have pretty good flying dreams, started out just kind of floating down the stairs, then as I grew older it was walking into the wind and taking off, I could clear the drystone wall between our back field and the next farm.
Last of those dreams I was about 300 feet above the Pirelli factory on the way to Dalston.

None of that flapping about shite though, more or less adopting a freefall parachuting pose and soaring.

Err, locations could have been more ambitious but hell, I was flying Mo Fos

demographic wrote: Sun Feb 11, 2024 2:45 pm I used to have pretty good flying dreams, started out just kind of floating down the stairs, then as I grew older it was walking into the wind and taking off, I could clear the drystone wall between our back field and the next farm.
Last of those dreams I was about 300 feet above the Pirelli factory on the way to Dalston.

None of that flapping about shite though, more or less adopting a freefall parachuting pose and soaring.

Err, locations could have been more ambitious but hell, I was flying Mo Fos

I have dream envy!

Dreams man, they're weird, never used to remember them but some new meds that come with the warning 'night terrors and vivid dreams' are doing the 2 step all over my grey matter whilst I'm in the land of nod.

The skinny blonde girl in boy pants that need to be rolled up a couple of time on her hips to make them stay up won't go away.
A work colleague after an unfortunate bodged boob job scared the crap out of me.
Russian ekranoplans with massive hangers capable of holding 100 aircraft were invading my shores last night.

Melatonin makes you have very weird dreams

I find really heavy stress makes me dream weird shit. About 15 years, every night I'd dream of being chased down by a big dog and it would tear my throat out, the troubling part was it didn't stop when it caught me I'd dream right through the bit where it was mauling me. It was horrible and went on for months.
Heaven knows what a psychiatrist would make of it.

Same. Yesterday was a bit stressful for me - nothing major but there are a few things going on at the moment and yesterday just sort of pushed things over a little.

So last might I had a vivid dream that I was working in a really banal office, no idea what the business was. There was me and two other colleagues who were both younger than me. Also, for some reason, the departmental head was Christian Horner. He gave me the job of ordering new brake discs for his gen 1 MT09 which for some reason became very complicated, so I made fun of his nasty blue anodised Chinese stubby brake and clutch levers.

This made my two colleagues really angry at me to the point of screaming "What do you even do around here anyway?".

Re the original question - I sometimes have a realisation in dreams that 'Oh, ok, it's a dream. Might as well wake up' but that's the closest the thing to the proverbial pinch.

ChrisW wrote: Fri Mar 21, 2025 7:07 pm
Re the original question - I sometimes have a realisation in dreams that 'Oh, ok, it's a dream. Might as well wake up' but that's the closest the thing to the proverbial pinch.

Occasionally, and more often then I'd like, I'll have a very vivid dream and get into some sort of situation where I physically need to do something: defend myself, punch someone, jump out of the way or whatever, and I can't. My arms won't move, or my legs won't react and I get more and more panicked, sometimes I even realise I'm dreaming, but I still can't wake myself up, and still can't move. Eventually I actually wake up, inevitably finally getting my limbs to move and I'll throw myself about in the bed.

Scary as hell and I really do not like it when it happens.

I've had dreams where I've told myself 'this must be a dream' convinced myself it isn't and, only when it gets even more unlikely (sometimes, like RB says, becoming immobilised) sort of deciding 'Nah, this is all too crazy/unpleasant' and waking up.

So there's like an intermediate stage where I'm dreaming but have convinced myself I'm not.

I had a dream I'd eaten my giant marshmallow.

When I woke up I realised what I'd actually done was hid in a wardrobe until I could contain myself no longer, then leapt out and wanked onto someone's back.

MyLittleStudPony wrote: Fri Mar 21, 2025 8:30 pm I had a dream I'd eaten my giant marshmallow.

When I woke up I realised what I'd actually done was hid in a wardrobe until I could contain myself no longer, then leapt out and wanked onto someone's back.

Dry cleaning bill on the way

And last nights dream featuring Maplins, The Comedy Club, Sandy Toksvig, Fleshlights & their licensing and Rachel Riley was bleedin' epic

I woke up the other week to realise that I'd had a dream in French (as in no one was speaking english, including me) !!

I so rarely remember my dreams that this might have been happening for yonks and I just haven't remembered! TBF, I didn't realise I was dreaming in french till I woke up and realised I must have been as the people I was talking to don't speak english

Not particularly interesting except that so many people have told me that you really have integrated ( ?? understood, learnt or something ?? ) the language when you dream in that language, so I spent a few days being really chuffed about that !!

A couple of nights ago I dreamt I was really tired so I sat down and went to sleep then woke up in the dream and the dream carried on. I've never dreamt going to sleep before,

No, I didn't dream in my dream sleep.

Yes I've deliberately woken myself up when I don't like a dream

but equally

I've also accepted a dream as being 100% real, no matter how absurd.