I was running back and forth through traffic, the bitches chasing me from either side, and oh no, this bus is headed the wrong way and it’s past midnight, and there I am a cowardly third-grader looking at them taking him away, no, please, not again!.Then I hear a voice from behind “Please get this into the stupid head of yours, I’ll be back, and they mean absolutely nothing to me …..blah blah blah…..” And i screamed, thrashed and wanted to wake up.
Ugh!! The most frightening nightmare! I tried to run away from it and closed all my doors, but it seemed getting in from windows. So, I locked my windows and rendered myself in my room, but with every second it slashed at my ear drums through the tick tick tick of wall clock…...
Some of us suffer from nightmares crippling and persistent enough to demand treatment. I am sure, we all know how bad a nightmare feels, how it surrounds you and surges up to drown you and makes your teeth fall out in chunks and gives you leukemia. Usually the nightmares are easily reactivated by the recent trauma, and just as readily twisted into the basis of a repetitive nightmare. I wish there could be some alternatives to these haunting bitches, swinging blades and frozen fear, for the nightmares to abate and the man to regain his footing.
Undoubtedly bad dreams are a universal human experience. Sometimes they are scary enough to jolt the slumbered awake, in which case they meet the formal definition of nightmares — bad dreams that wake you up. At other times, they are even worse. The sleeper thinks it is over, only to step into the nested nightmare, the chapter 2. Whatever the particulars of the plot, researchers say, nightmares and dreadful dreams offer potentially telling clues into the larger mystery of why we dream in the first place, how our dreaming and waking lives may intersect and cross-infect each other, and, most baffling of all, how we manage to construct a virtual reality in our skull, a seemingly life-size, multidimensional, sensorily rich nocturnal roundhouse staffed with characters so persuasive you want to ... strangle them, before they can strangle you. Whether research subjects keep dream journals at home or sleep in research labs and are periodically awoken out of rapid eye movement-- the stage most often associated with dreaming — the results are the same: about three-quarters of the emotions described are negative.
We are ridiculously industrious dreamers, spending 60 to 70 percent of somnolence dreaming or in a dreamlike state, which works out to three hours nightly spent in a state of anxiety or frustration as we show up late for tests or walk barefoot over broken glass because our shoes have melted. Even bona fide nightmares are more common than most of us realize. Ask people to recall spontaneously how many nightmares they had in the last year, and they might say one or two, ask them to keep a dream diary, and they will report nightmares once or twice a month. Some say nightmares may be related to women’s comparatively higher rates of anxiety and mood disorders. But whatever might be the reason behind, nightmares take the breath outta you……
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