I think you are right. Whatever dream we have would possibly represent certain things/aspects of our lives. It is perhaps the way our subconsciousness is telling us to fix whatever problem there is. Once these matters get resolved, we stop having such dreams too. View all comments by Veron

I can totally identify with how you feel after a night of heavy dreams. It sure feels like we had just finished a workout or fought “a war” like you said, rather than a good night’s sleep! Haha… View all comments by Veron

My most terrifying dream was actually a simplistic one. I’d be dreaming something completely normal, and suddenly everything would fade to white. I was then staring at a white wall, just waiting. From the right a large pile of wooden furniture, most of it being a living room set we had when I was little, would slide in into the middle of my view. And then this retro brown/tan/white bouncy ball would appear on the left of the pile, just bouncing. Then it’d disappear and come back on the right side of the pile. It’d switch like that a few times, left to right to left again, before appearing directly above the pile and just before it’d hit the top piece of furniture, I’d wake up in a sweat and scared as hell.

Absolutely no idea why this dream is so terrifying, or why it kept coming back. Glad it’s stopped now though. Maybe whatever it represented I subconciously resolved, or perhaps it was a premonition of an event that finally passed. View all comments by Mandy

You are not alone! I do get very heavy dreams as well, and at times, I wake up more tired than when I went to bed. I will feel like I just went to war!

Worse part is, after a bad dream, you worry that it may come true cos some of your dreams did happen in life some time later. Deja vu. Creepy… :( View all comments by red satin

I perfectly understand the aftermath feeling of having those nasty dreams, especially the one with your fiance in a casket. I have dreams where people close to me died, the most vivid one involving my mom. I still remember that dream ’til this day… every detail of it, of how I woke up in sweat and how freaked out I was. All I could do was pray that it wouldn’t come true!

Sucks isn’t it, when we have such dreams and absolutely no control over them.

There are all sorts of dream interpretation websites and books around, with so-called experts trying to decipher what each and every element of our dreams represents. I don’t really bother with what they say. Dreams are so personal, there wouldn’t be a universal chart that can tell us what they mean.

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Lain, as for the legs moving and waking up in fright thingy, I think I have similar experiences too. Sometimes when I’m dozing off, my leg jerks for no reason and I awake with a start. After that I become wide awake, as though I just had a short nap!

The feeling of déjà vu does seem quite eerie but as the occurrences become more frequent, I get used to it. A few people have mentioned they experience the same thing too, so I’m relieved I’m not the only one!

I like to think that it’s our subconscious mind playing tricks with us. Apparently only 3% of the human brain functions are known. Who knows what the rest of it does?

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I’ve had tons of dreams where even though the setting was out of place, it still felt real and likely. I dreamt the world was ending, the clouds were swirling and while sitting in the car with my family, we watched a nuclear bomb drop, and I felt the rush and burning of it just before I woke up. I dreamt I watched a girl about my age with some kind of mental problems be put to death by injection. I dreamt once that I was kidnapped and my face deformed so horribly that I couldn’t function in society, so they kept me hostage to test on. In that dream, also, my fiance kept appearing infront of me in a casket at random times.

I have absolutely no idea what those dreams meant, but they had me completely fooled into thinking they were real and scared the daylights out of me, and those were the nights I didn’t get much sleep.

But I have tons of good dreams, too. Meeting long lost friends, future-esque dreams. I have dreams that seem normal at first and then days later, I get such a rush of deja vu. And sometimes it’s like you said; I might not have been there before, but somehow I managed to dream about it in advance.

I always thought it was completely normal for dreams to be so random or get so vivid. I reckon, like with everything else, different people handle them differently. View all comments by Mandy

strangly, i always have much impression on those dreams on my really tired nights. no idea why. i don’t really have much recalls on those dreams now, but i always have this weird experience: i’m almost asleep but i felt as though i’m going to fall anytime and when i move my legs a little, i woke up in fright and felt as though i was really falling.

i had never expereienced the sense of deja vu, i think it would be really creepy. Anyway, hopefully you’ll have less of those awful dreams and more and the sweet and nicer ones. :) View all comments by Lain