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[jay-ell]

So many of my dreams revolve around the idea that I skipped a class in high school or in college and I have to go back, in my late twenties, to finish them up that... it isn't even funny.

I have had that one all the way back to grade school.  Except apparently everybody else who was in my class has to repeat it too, so we are all late-twentysomethings in the first grade, and they don't even bring in bigger desks. 

Not to one-up your dream, or anything, but...weird. 

[Arachno-capitalist]

Capitalism is so awesome, man it so great. Limited government is the best government, down with socialist programs.

[littlefallsmets]

I have the dreams where everyone's back, too, but not as far back as elementary school.

Early high school, though.

[jay-ell]

I just found a quote from the director of Women's Bureau/Department of Labor in 1954 stating that "I don't happen to be one of those who believe that women want equality.  Equity seems to me, as a worker for legislation which protects and frees women, a much more important point of view."

WTF? 

[linnea]

Today I'm gonna go to bed early. I went to a bachelorette party last night and it afforded me no sleep. Today I had so much to do that I didn't have time to sit down, let alone lie down for a nap. As soon as I got home, I had to get a shower to start feeling halfway human again, then I started laundry and cleaning. I changed the sheets, flipped the mattress, washed all the blankets plus the sheets, washed about six loads of laundry, vacuumed the entire house with all the attachments to get rid of dog and cat hair, scoured my bathroom, picked up my room and office, scoured the entire kitchen and wiped down every inch of cabinetry with wood furniture polish. I broiled some grelicious halibut for dinner, too. Now I am frikkin' exhausted. However, my SGC is coming over tonight. He will probably be very bored.

Also, i hate having weird dreams. Mine are sometimes happy and blissful, but quite often they are crazed anxiety dreams. I hate having nightmares, because sometimes I scream so loudly in my sleep that I wake myself up. Of course, screaming in a dream means that it usually comes out in a loud terrified bellowing-type noise that comes from my chest, not a full-on scream from the throat. It sucks a lot. I'm usually in a location that is so surreal I can't even describe it. Quite often I'm trapped in someone else's body and I can't get anything to work right, even basic stuff such as trying to figure out how to talk or move my legs in order to run away.

[littlefallsmets]

I think that's more semantic than anything, Jayelle...

"Women's equality" still had a stigma on it, the vision of lesbians and other sorts of women that didn't want to always cook the meals and clean the clothes and stuff like that ALONG with the jobs they wanted to be able to do and so on.

So to not look like an extremist you'd SAY equity, instead of the tainted word equality.

Like how some cowardly left-wingers call themselves "progressives" instead of nutting up and calling themselves liberals.

Reads like the statement of a government bureaucrat trying to sound like a moderate despite having goals that were radical for the day.

At least to my eyes, anyway.

[jay-ell]

I can't scream in my dreams.  I've tried. 

When I'm having a nightmare, and I know it's a nightmare, and I want Adrian to nudge me or something to wake me up...I can't do it.  Not even a grunt.  I have woken up to find my face and pillow soaked with tears, so I can apparently cry in my sleep, but I can't talk or scream. 

Pedro talks in his sleep all the time.  Sometimes it's creepy, but usually it's pretty amusing.  One time he asked me to beam him up.  (That was back when we were watching a lot of TNG marathons on Spike TV.) 

Back in June I dreamed that my Mom called me on the phone to tell me she wouldn't be coming back from Ohio at the end of the summer because my Dad died, and she decided to just go ahead and go with him.  That was really upsetting, partially because it was so incredibly vivid that I didn't really get over it until much later in the day when I could actually talk to my Mom and make sure everything was OK. 

LFM: Yes, I know you're right -- I've been researching this woman for several months now, and I know that she was basically trying to get her name in the paper -- but I can't imagine a high-level bureaucrat today getting away with that.  The quote was run in the Washington Post without further comment.  I can't really see a modern reporter letting that go.  Nobody would say that on-record now because it would cause too much bad press and, chances are, the second part of the quote would be dropped to make it sound worse. 

Okay, maybe some people *would* say stuff like that today...but it wouldn't be good for their careers.  Which is my point.  This woman was constantly saying, in public, that women with kids under 14 should stay home instead of seeking full-time employment -- this coming from the Department of LABOR!  Meanwhile, her predecessor had been saying since '44 that more day-care programs should be opened up so that working moms can provide for their kids.  The reversal just...astonishes me. 

[linnea]

I can't scream in my dreams.  I've tried. 

When I'm having a nightmare, and I know it's a nightmare, and I want Adrian to nudge me or something to wake me up...I can't do it.  Not even a grunt.  I have woken up to find my face and pillow soaked with tears, so I can apparently cry in my sleep, but I can't talk or scream. 

Pedro talks in his sleep all the time.  Sometimes it's creepy, but usually it's pretty amusing.  One time he asked me to beam him up.  (That was back when we were watching a lot of TNG marathons on Spike TV.) 

Back in June I dreamed that my Mom called me on the phone to tell me she wouldn't be coming back from Ohio at the end of the summer because my Dad died, and she decided to just go ahead and go with him.  That was really upsetting, partially because it was so incredibly vivid that I didn't really get over it until much later in the day when I could actually talk to my Mom and make sure everything was OK. 

LFM: Yes, I know you're right -- I've been researching this woman for several months now, and I know that she was basically trying to get her name in the paper -- but I can't imagine a high-level bureaucrat today getting away with that.  The quote was run in the Washington Post without further comment.  I can't really see a modern reporter letting that go.  Nobody would say that on-record now because it would cause too much bad press and, chances are, the second part of the quote would be dropped to make it sound worse. 

Okay, maybe some people *would* say stuff like that today...but it wouldn't be good for their careers.  Which is my point.  This woman was constantly saying, in public, that women with kids under 14 should stay home instead of seeking full-time employment -- this coming from the Department of LABOR!  Meanwhile, her predecessor had been saying since '44 that more day-care programs should be opened up so that working moms can provide for their kids.  The reversal just...astonishes me. 

I would much, much rather be woken up during a night terror. It's jarring and really scary when I wake myself up in such a manner, but it's also good becaues it gets me out of the Scary Mental Place and back into reality. Of course, then I usually have the full-body heebie-jeebies and think that someone is trying to break into the house... but I digress. I knew a girl who had night terrors, and her family was ADAMANT that you cannot wake someone up while they're having a night terror. They said that it's better to just let her work through the dream emotionally and try to reach some sort of resolution. I can see their point, but when the dreams are that frikkin' bad I prefer to be woken up. Also, I cry in my sleep sometimes as well. I do vocalize a lot in my sleep, but most of the time when I talk in my sleep it's gibberish. I have also been told that I open my eyes sometimes during REM sleep and my eyes dart around the room but I'm still sound asleep.

[littlefallsmets]

My girlfriend tells me that I scream in my sleep to the point that it wakes her up two nights a week... and she's a very deep sleeper.

I rarely wake myself up with my screams but a couple of weeks ago I did, screaming "NNNOOOOO!" and she proceeded to hit me with pillows and berate me that the cops will probably come, I screamed so loud.

Like, as if it would wake up the entire apartment building.

I'm pretty sure that was the nightmare where I was on the run from the Borg Collective, trying to assimilate me and I almost got away when it turned out that they'd gotten my dad and he was about to get me.

It's funny...

I have dreams multiple times a week where I am chased down with a shotgun and murdered, I have multiple dreams a month where I go down a closed-off waterslide and drown at the bottom... but I never wake MYSELF up screaming about those.

But science fiction *****s taking my soul, that's what makes me scream so loud I wake myself up.

[jay-ell]

Pedro has night terrors too.  I always wake him up.  It's hard not to, actually, because he thinks he's already awake.  His eyes are open, his speech is clear, he seems lucid.  He often gets up and turns on the lights himself.  His are almost always about some sort of vermin -- spiders, rats, centipedes -- in our bedroom.  Sometimes it's one, sometimes it's hundreds.  He pulled my out of bed by me feet one night because he thought the sheets were crawling with fire ants.  He can still see them after he turns the lights on, and I have to go stand in the place where he sees something and try to touch this invisible threat to prove that it's not there.  It's a full-blown hallucination -- audio, visual, and tactile.  And no, he's never experimented with any kind of recreational drug. 

These are distinct from nightmares, which I have more frequently than he does.  They always occur during the first hour of sleep -- that's non-REM sleep, by the way -- and his parents tell me he's had them since he was about two or three.  Even after getting up, turning on the lights, being convinced that he was only dreaming, etc. -- a process that can take upwards of thirty minutes -- he usually doesn't remember the event in the morning.  Sometimes he'll have the vague impression that something happened, but only after I've mentioned it to him.  I usually don't even tell him any more unless he has more than three in a week.  At that point, I know something is stressing him out that needs to be addressed. 

LFM, don't feel bad.  As a kid (6 - 10), I had a recurrent nightmare about being chased down and eaten alive by very small dinosaurs in our kitchen.  It took me about four years of having the same dream before I figured out: don't hide under the table.  The wooly mammoth will totally pull you out with his trunk. 

[V-Adore]

I have had the "going back to an old school to finish up something" dream more times than I can count, often combined with the "forgetting I had class and skipping it repeatedly over the course of the semester" dream. These are about the only anxiety dreams I have; the exception are "teeth get broken/fall out" dreams, which I have more than I'm comfortable with.

It's weird in some ways to realize how common these sorts of dreams are. Almost makes me believe in a collective unconscious.

[jay-ell]

Does anybody else have dreams about contact lenses that get bigger and bigger the more you try to put them in, until they're the size of pancakes and utterly useless? 

I find this incredibly frustrating, because I can never find my glasses in these dreams and without some kind of corrective lenses I am blind as a bat. 

[Limmo]

I stopped having the "teeth all falling out at once" dreams.

They have been replaced by dreams where I'm on the sand at Manhattan Beach, watching the waves which are averaging seven to eight feet.  I realize that the one I'm watching is growing exponentially taller, until it is the height of an office building.  I realize I'm standing in front of a tsunami.  I realize I'm about to die.  I wonder if it's going to hurt. 

And that's always when I wake up.

[wombat]

It took me about four years of having the same dream before I figured out: don't hide under the table.  The wooly mammoth will totally pull you out with his trunk. 

Education.

Does anybody else have dreams about contact lenses that get bigger and bigger the more you try to put them in, until they're the size of pancakes and utterly useless? 

Yes, and I'm positive we've talked about this before.  The board is getting more and more like that old married couple all the time...

[KeithHernandez]

I don't ever have bad dreams.  Unfortunately, I am broken in my own way.  There is something wrong with me to the point that I never can go to sleep until like 6 in the morning, then I either sleep for like 10 or 4 hours, but never in between.  Even if I don't sleep at all (about once a week), I cannot go to bed until like 4 or 5 am the next day.