Night of a dozen nightmares

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Last night was unlike anything I've ever experienced before. I stayed up very late, until around 3 or 4 AM. At first I was cleaning, and then I decided I'd try investing a small amount of money into the stock market (something I've never done before), figured it would give me something to think about in my free time (Not really important).


So I finally go to sleep, and then things go bad. I only slept for three hours, but in that time I had many nightmares from which I couldn't wake up. If I woke up from one another started, there were even times when I thought I was awake, going around my house, and then something really freaky would happen. I was killed several times by different things. Once I woke up from one nightmare, to have a fan just above my bed (hint, my room doesn't have a fan in it) lower itself until it started chopping into me completely eviscerating my stomache.


I was yelling in my sleep (I can hear when I do that, because the words don't come out right). I could feel biting my tongue and pinching my finger, but even then I couldn't wake up. I don't remember most of the nightmares, only that there were a lot of them. No matter what I did, I couldn't wake up.


I haven't had any nightmares in several weeks, and my nightmares only once or twice have been this bad before, I've never had nearly this many. Even when I knew I was sleeping, I still couldn't wake up. I could feel that I was hurting myself, I could feel the pain of what I was doing to myself to wake up, but even then it didn't change anything.


I'm scared of going to sleep tonight, I've never experienced anything like this before. It was possibly the most frightning experience of my life.

Wow. Did you eat a heavy meal before going to bed? I've had multiple nightmares like that if I ate something heavy or spicy before going to sleep. Although once it was a new medicine that I'd been put on.

No new medicine, I had a small snack around 1... I don't think I did anything unusual for me. I've had nightmares from eating too much before I go to sleep, nothing like this...

Sounds awful.

My worse nightmares are when I am sick or on the verge of getting sick(just beginning a cold).I also have dfficulty waking up if I am really tired.....I have had the "multiple nightmares" but also have dreams where I keep looking for a bathroom..over and over,until I finnally wake myself up to go pee.I think the problem is what stage you re in during the sleep cycle.Google "Sleep Cycle and Dreams"......pretty interesting stuff.During parts of the sleep cycles we are physically paralysized but still have some ability to "sense" our physical sensations...it can feel pretty freaky being "between worlds".

I wouldnt worry about falling asleep as long as you dont let yourself get over tired by staying up past your normal sleep time.Thats when things start getting "strange".

I don't know what to tell you. I don't get nightmares.

Was it previously a conscious choice for you not to invest in the stock market? If not, did you consider buying stock as one of those "things other people do"? I think you somehow broke one of your own (perhaps subconscious) rules. When I do that, I don't get very bad nightmares (that I know of) but I do get a very uncomfortable feeling that lasts for days. A feeling of being unsettled and highly vulnerable. The fact that you went to bed so late probably wasn't helpful here, because your brain was waiting for hours to digest the matters of the day, and then went into hyperspeed during your REM-sleep trying to catch up.