bad_dreams whirligirl be gone! i accept what you have to say, okay? go 'way... 000704 ... grendel the premonition and the will to power 000716 ... shiva I'm not the best with them, but i want to put this feeling into words. When everything goes wrong, and sleep comes to wrap up the pain. During the night, your mind fools you into thinking you have woken up and everything is perfect again. But then your roomate makes a noise, and you wake up to reality, without quite realizing what it is. Half awake you stumble to her, and find nothing. And then you realize that everything is gone. Emptiness unfolds. 010404 ... ClairE I almost never have them, and my dreams are so fucking Freudian. Man, I hate those fuckers. Annie once said that bad_dreams are the best, because you wake up and are so happy that everyone is there. 011202 ... whoknows the ones about that_fucker 011203 ... whoknows annie is cool 011203 ... Annie111 They grip you, and then you wake up and for a split second, you are completely and utterly satisfied with your life, and nothing could make it better, not one minute thing, just as long as that grip never holds you again. 011203 ... Syrope you'd be paranoid too i wouldn't be afraid to let someone into my head but i'd never let them sleep there 041204 ... thieums Waking up and feeling a loss. Bad dreams are the good ones... 050726 ... BnB feel terrible when you are asleep, good when you wake up. 100112 ... n o m i still have nightmares almost every night, and a lot of bad dreams 100112 ... hsg make your days harder and your nightmares will subside. trust_me_on_this 100112 ... In_Bloom I try to make my waking hours a celebration and challenge to what may come 100113 ... In_Bloom I tell myself they aren't true, that if awake then they wouldn't happen but they have and the mental exercises I go through aren't erasing my fears. I weigh whether or not to just accept the insomnia or keep knocking out in order to reach the next day and suddenly find the feeling I know and want to have again. Years go by, years running out, time wasting and me along with it. 100510 ... jane mostly mid- or post- apocalyptic one time holocaust most of the time i'm myself usually running from somebody, being chased, followed usually by military forces or captured last night it was a tunnel too small for human form couldn't see the end of it maybe a foot wide and 8" tall didn't know where i was going but someone was behind me no time to flip_out and a guy following me even though i yelled to stop 100510 ... hsg i've_read the most effective way to deal with this is to turn to said_follower chaser, etc, and ask him, what_do_you_want? I prefer laughing_away_demons but usually I don't have the presence_of_mind to do so. my_dreams have taught me so much. Most of them were nightmares but not_exactly I've died countless times in dreams just to awake(i)n _ t o another. tunnels_in_every_direction i_am grateful for the lessons I'm learning... they scared the shit out of me yet taught that I'm neither as fragile as I thought nor free of responsibility for the choices I make. I think we can learn as we go. Even not knowing which way is up, there is a tendency to grow_awake. Thus there's_hope 100510 ... jane it would be nice if i was lucid_dream ing to turn and ask questions, but my experiences with that have been quite frightening themselves. any time i have become lucid, i don't have the control that i expected from that lucidity - instead, it's more like, oh, i'm dreaming, let's see what happens. and often times things don't go very well and i'll try to wake up, but i'll have false_awakenings and then believe that i am trapped in dreams and i am dead and will never be able to wake up. it's a double-edged fear sword. 100511 ... hsg Been there many_times, my blather_friend. you_are_okay though, right_now dream or not. 100511 ... minnesota_chris the other day, I saw before me, a woman typing on a touchscreen pad, and for a stylus, she was using my severed penis. get out of my head, freud. 100513 ... jio jio 101125 what's it to you? who go blather from