does anyone enjoy nightmares?

[xenochimera]

i've been getting them straight every night, some other ................ed up things as well ever since im on nicoderm CQ patches...kinda fun.

[4bronxbombers]

Absolutely not. When I lived at home and my home life was not great (it was awful actually) I had them quite often. I think I was scared, unsure about things and usually in turmoil due to my family life. I would have nightmares constantly where I thought I was dying and couldn't breathe. Once I got married and was in a stable environment and felt safe they went away. I have a few a year but hardly any.

Who would enjoy nightmares?

[RYMASTER or Ryan_Yankees]

I think enjoying them kind of makes them non-nightmares.

[Sam18]

Depends on the type of nightmare. I had a nightmare last week where I saw the chupacabra and started to sleep scream. It was pretty fun.

[JDPNYY]

Depends on the type of nightmare. I had a nightmare last week where I saw the chupacabra and started to sleep scream. It was pretty fun.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chupacabras_(album)

[Sam18]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chupacabras_(album)

Yea...

[Casey37]

Is there such thing as an enjoyable nightmare?

[Soriambi]

The nightmares, no, but it is a rather relaxing feeling when you wake up and realize that it wasn't real.

[Sam18]

The nightmares, no, but it is a rather relaxing feeling when you wake up and realize that it wasn't real.

You're thinking of a different kind of dream Kevin.

[nyyfanatic85]

I just hate the dreams where you've won something or got a huge promotion at work...then you wake up to find reality hits.

[NYYRules#1]

I just hate the dreams where you've won something or got a huge promotion at work...then you wake up to find reality hits.

The worst had to be in late October 2007, when I had a dream that it was Game 4 of the World Series at Coors Field and the Yankees were winning in the late innings, about to sweep the Rockies. It seemed so damn real... then I woke up, wondered what had happened, and then realized that not only was that not reality, but that the Yanks had already been eliminated.

That sucked massively.

[NYYDragoon]

Wouldn't enjoying a nightmare be an oxymoron?

[xenadanielle]

Absolutely not. When I lived at home and my home life was not great (it was awful actually) I had them quite often. I think I was scared, unsure about things and usually in turmoil due to my family life. I would have nightmares constantly where I thought I was dying and couldn't breathe. Once I got married and was in a stable environment and felt safe they went away. I have a few a year but hardly any.

Who would enjoy nightmares?

Aw, Vicki.

I can still remember nightmares I had as a kid, and feeling so freaking terrified.

[Trish]

Aw, Vicki.

I can still remember nightmares I had as a kid, and feeling so freaking terrified.

My husband and I were talking about this just a couple of weeks ago. I still remember a nightmare that I had when I was 4 years old. I had seen the old movie, Phantom of the Opera (the Claude Rains version), and I dreamt that The Phantom was inside my head hammering out my right eye. Freaky, huh?

I still remember it vividly more than 40 years later.

[JeterRodriguezSheff]

Depends on the type of nightmare. I had a nightmare last week where I saw the chupacabra and started to sleep scream. It was pretty fun.

This. Those stupid nightmares you get that do not mean anything, I personally find hilarious. However the kind you get that are a reflection of an event in your life you would wish to forget, really screw with me.

[JL25and3]

My husband and I were talking about this just a couple of weeks ago. I still remember a nightmare that I had when I was 4 years old. I had seen the old movie, Phantom of the Opera (the Claude Rains version), and I dreamt that The Phantom was inside my head hammering out my right eye. Freaky, huh?

I still remember it vividly more than 40 years later.

Very interesting. Tell me more.

[pjfan]

I agree with the releif of waking up after having a dream about something real life happening to you. Either getting in big trouble at work, or an OUI. I've had a few of those dreams.

My wife has end of the world type dreams, where she's running and meteors are crashing down. She wakes up all delirious and beside herself. She has those at least 1-2 times a week. She doesn't like them.

[THEBOSS84]

Once in a while I'll get this type of dream where I think I'm awake but I'm really not and I try so hard to wake up and I eventually do wake up and think "what the hell just happened". My body feels all weird after that.

[Trish]

Very interesting. Tell me more.

I also dream that I'm trying to outrun tornadoes, and that I'm riding giant waves and get crashed onto the shore.

[Sam18]

Once in a while I'll get this type of dream where I think I'm awake but I'm really not and I try so hard to wake up and I eventually do wake up and think "what the hell just happened". My body feels all weird after that.

And then you turn over and there's the Rymaster smiling at you in the darkness of the night.

[b-ball-lunachick]

Absolutely not. When I lived at home and my home life was not great (it was awful actually) I had them quite often. I think I was scared, unsure about things and usually in turmoil due to my family life. I would have nightmares constantly where I thought I was dying and couldn't breathe. Once I got married and was in a stable environment and felt safe they went away. I have a few a year but hardly any.

Who would enjoy nightmares?

Aww Vicki - I'm so sorry to hear that used to happen to you. How terrifying - I'm sorry you had it so rough at home.

For me, I used to get a lot of rape nightmares after it really happened to me..it was always the same one over and over and it was nothing like the real experience (for example - it was at work, someone I didn't know, late at night vs the real thing was someone I did know, not at work, during the day)...I hadn't had one in a few years but had one recently. Just as terrifying as the first one.

[sprucemoose]

I also dream that I'm trying to outrun tornadoes, and that I'm riding giant waves and get crashed onto the shore.

I've had recurring tornado nightmares for about 15 years.

[4bronxbombers]

Aww Vicki - I'm so sorry to hear that used to happen to you. How terrifying - I'm sorry you had it so rough at home.

For me, I used to get a lot of rape nightmares after it really happened to me..it was always the same one over and over and it was nothing like the real experience (for example - it was at work, someone I didn't know, late at night vs the real thing was someone I did know, not at work, during the day)...I hadn't had one in a few years but had one recently. Just as terrifying as the first one.

I just can't imagine that Jeanne. I don't think I could ever live alone after something like that.

off topic and def not a nightmare but last night I dreamed I was out with Eli Manning. It was so real.

[LDG]

off topic and def not a nightmare but last night I dreamed I was out with Eli Manning. It was so real.

Maybe there are weird sports dreams going around...when I was sick last week, during one of the days I slept most of the day, I woke up and had dreamt that the Yankees had signed both Jon Garland and Jon Lester on that day!

[RhodeyYankee2638]

I had this as a teen, not fun but it went away

http://www.stanford.edu/~dement/paralysis.html

[fredgmuggs]

I often dream that I can float in the air at will. I'm so bummed out when I wake up and realize it was just a dream.

My recurring nightmare dream is (if you want to call it that) is when I wake up because I'm dreaming the telephone is ringing. I hate that one.

[fredgmuggs]

Very interesting. Tell me more.

I would but you'll just look at your watch and tell me the session is over when I'm about to make a breakthrough. I know how you shrinks work.

[Sam18]

I had this as a teen, not fun but it went away

http://www.stanford.edu/~dement/paralysis.html

I had my first one last month. Thankfully I knew what it was.

[RYMASTER or Ryan_Yankees]

I had my first one last month. Thankfully I knew what it was.

I've had that a few times...it's scary at the time, but when you snap out of it, it's cool in retrospect.

[bigwampum]

You'd think a nightmare would be something that, by definition, you don't enjoy.
I haven't had nightmares in a long time, but I had some awful ones when I was young. I would wake up in the middle of the night after a nightmare, go back to sleep and find myself right back in the same nightmare, rinse and repeat. I'd end up awake at bizarre hours of the night, terrified to go back to sleep. That was bad times.

[Sam18]

And then bigwampum discovered heroin.

[bigwampum]

And then bigwampum discovered heroin.

I'm a victim of society. There's gotta be someone I can sue...

[S2]

I don't know if it's considered a nightmare but I used to have this dream where I was at Rocky Point Park and I would get on the roller coaster, which I never did in real life. Everytime it would reach the top, I would be thrown from my seat and land in the water, in slo-motion. And I would keep going back on. That was the weird part. It wasn't scary but I don't know why I kept going on the friggin roller coaster again.

[RhodeyYankee2638]

I don't know if it's considered a nightmare but I used to have this dream where I was at Rocky Point Park and I would get on the roller coaster, which I never did in real life. Everytime it would reach the top, I would be thrown from my seat and land in the water, in slo-motion. And I would keep going back on. That was the weird part. It wasn't scary but I don't know why I kept going on the friggin roller coaster again.

Well that probably happened to a few people

The Free Fall was the most dangerous looking ride in the world

[4bronxbombers]

Maybe there are weird sports dreams going around...when I was sick last week, during one of the days I slept most of the day, I woke up and had dreamt that the Yankees had signed both Jon Garland and Jon Lester on that day!

Garland....

[RYMASTER or Ryan_Yankees]

Garland....

When I saw on ESPN that Garland signed with Arizona, my first thought was, "Well, Vicki will be disappointed."

[4bronxbombers]

When I saw on ESPN that Garland signed with Arizona, my first thought was, "Well, Vicki will be disappointed."

I was bummed.

[brosiusbuddy]

as long as its nothing too realistic or as long as i'm the only victim and its no one that i care about, then they can be enjoyable. but if someone close to me is harmed, it plants a morbid image in my mind

[Luvtino]

Absolutely not. When I lived at home and my home life was not great (it was awful actually) I had them quite often. I think I was scared, unsure about things and usually in turmoil due to my family life. I would have nightmares constantly where I thought I was dying and couldn't breathe. Once I got married and was in a stable environment and felt safe they went away. I have a few a year but hardly any.

Who would enjoy nightmares?

I'm sorry sweetie.

I hate nightmares. I had one last night and it was the kind where you feel trapped and are trying to get out of the nightmare and can't.

[Toaderly]

Women have more nightmares than men, a British researcher says, but men are more likely to dream about sex.

Psychologist Jennie Parker of the University of the West of England asked 100 women and 93 men between the ages of 18 and 25 to fill out dream diaries, priming participants before dreams occurred to record them. The research was part of her doctoral dissertation.

"My most significant finding is that women in general do experience more nightmares than men," she said

Women's nightmares can be broadly divided into three categories: fearful dreams (being chased or life threatened), losing a loved one or confused dreams, Parker said.

Men's dreams contained more references to sexual activity, Parker said, and men reported more actual intercourse, while women reported more kissing and sexual fantasies about other dream characters.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28917999/