What about bad dreams? | ADHD Information

I did scarf a bunch of wheat thins and one cookie dough poptart shortly before bed Duh!
Bad dreams must be medication or from anxiety.    wow that does sound scary!  do you take your meds in the morning or at night? maybe that has something to do with it depending on what you are on.  Before i went on Strattera when I was feeling anxious about something I would sleep walk a lot. when i eat before bed my dreams get really vivid. maybe this is something that is affecting you.Sounds like a good movie.

"I dream for a living." ~ Steven Spielberg

"Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language." ~ Gail Godwin

Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you. ~ Marsha Norman

There is always the dream. It is that you will conquer your fears, and when it matters most you will find power you never had before. ~ Ronaldo

"Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives." ~ Charles W. Dement

Deep into the darkness peering,/long I stood there, wondering,/fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams/no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
OH CRAP!!!
I'll have to think now.
Thats what I get for posting someone elses words.
I'll sleep on it..K?
No harm intended Goober787. Alright Capt. Trips, then if your quotes are right..... I'm at war with myself?I think dreams are things that either we are dealing with or need to dealt with. There are books out there that say if you dream about a certain thing it signifys something in your life. I used to dream about going on trips up this same mountain, I never got to the top for some reason. Then I looked at a book and said climbing mountains means your on a quest to reach something in your life, and that was true!

It's interesting that there are 2 people in both your dreams. Could it be that your dealing with 2 personalities in your own life, Goober, one is fighting the other or one is dead coming to life or trying to kill off the real you, just a thoughtI have always dreamed in color and a lot of times wild dreams. I am a very light sleeper.

Take lastnight for instance, I had a dream that this woman had a personality disorder and she was being attacked by her other personality and sometimes I could see it through her eyes, sitting at a mirror and her twin was pulling her hair. Then I could see it through someone elses eyes and she was pulling her hair. Then she set her hair on fire and was screaming trying to put it out and it was like I was watching a movie, I was screaming and trying not to look.

Then another dream lastnight, was about 2 dead people, one as a ghost trying kill me, then, the other person was decomposing and she was alive and getting out of her coffin and and just crazy scary stuff.
I’m awake now.
Ok I was thinking about this over the weekend.
I personally don’t remember many dreams, I wish I did.
Some people say writing them down right away for 2 weeks can provide insight.
I never tried to actively explore mine.
I’ve had dreams that jump from one thing to another.
Like a movie that skips a scene or the plot changes right in the middle.
I can’t see any logic to it.
I’m sure there’s a synchronicity somewhere in our dreams.
What you said about battling with yourself has some validity I think.

I think dreams can demonstrate emotions and how the sub-conscience works.
On the other hand I think dreams are also a path for creative energy to be released.
People like Stephen Speilberg for example, that guy must get some stuff from dreams.
Or Stephen Hawking, how can someone contemplate quantum physics or the string theory without letting go of conventional thinking and allowing dreams to inspire new outrageous hypothesis.
I worked with a guy who, out of the blue, fixed a technical electronic problem that had been hanging around for months. He claimed he dreamed the solution to the night before.

Sometimes to find out what’s going on with me I write down quick bullet statements.
Not in any particular order, just as they pop into my head. I can get 30-50 pretty quickly.
Then I sort them and make whatever I can out of them.
It has amazed me how clear some things become.
Doing anything about what I discover is another issue in itself.
I probably sound crazy as a loon to most people.
But it works for me and that’s the main thing.

I’m taking a trip and I don’t even have to leave the farm.
Dreams.

Blah Blah Blah…
Glen, all that means is you are sleeping very well. You remember your dreams becasue you wake up during your dream. If you sleep well and through the night you won't remember dreaming. OMG!...I had a nightmare last night!!!

I woke up normal.
OMG!...I had a nightmare last night!!!

I woke up married.

OH, f**k!
OMG!...I had a sweet dream last night!!!

I woke up single!!!

I don't dream where I can remember it at all.  Haven't since becoming an adult.  None - and I do mean none.  Very odd - I have wondered if I'm just wierd or if there's something truly abnormal about me.  People always remember something right? but not me!

As a child I can remember dreaming vividly.  As a young man - it faded fast.

 

Do you ever do a "do over" when your dreaming?  I was having a nightmare one night, didn't like the way it was going and I stopped and said "do over"  in the middle of my dream and it then the dream changed and took a much better direction.   

Hey Goober- I have always had very intense and vivid dreams.  When I was a kid I would dream about King Kong coming to step on my house or about big spiders crawling on me or ghosts. I was not on any meds or anything like that.  I do notice that if I eat before bed it is a lot worse.  I take trazodone now at night and I don't seem to have the scary ones anymore, but I do still have dreams about people that are kind of emotionally intense but not really bad. 

My therapist said to try this for fun, but it is kind of interesting:  Fold a piece of paper in half and on one side write down aspects of the dream that stand out, and the feeling or thought associated with that part of the dream on the other side of the paper, kind of like the gut reaction.  When you read all those feelings or gut reactions, you tend to get a pattern about something you are trying to deal with in your life, at least with the scary or intense dreams. 

Those are all great ideas!

Hey, capt, how much sleep do you need? LOL  something really wierd though, I've been really sick the past few nights and sleeping VERY lightly. I've had so many dreams and all of them are ones i've dreamed in the past but have forgotten about. I know I've dreamed about them multiple times ing the past too.  So strange. I have about 5 of them that are re-occurring through my life that I forgot all about.