YOu can tell it's my day off today can't you? After doing four nights, work phoned me at 8.30am to ask me to come in today. I didn't sleep well all night because I had my third ever nightmare. I have had two before in my life. First one I could feel a presence trying to take my duvet and lift me out of bed when I was 13. The second, (6 years ago) was the most traumatic - a gunman broke into the house and shot my (then 6yr old) son. I felt him die in my arms - literally felt him die. And then last night I was very afraid and could feel something coming for me as I was led in bed. I was trying to scream to wake hubby up, trying to pull his hair and wake him but no sound would come and my fingers were numb. I couldn't move at all. I knew I had left the dog outside for the night that she wasn't under the bed to help me. When I woke up finally - in the same position I had been sleeping, I went to let the dog in at 2am. Perhaps she projected the nightmare in her spite of me leaving her out.
I get things like that when i work nights too.... I think it is all down to sleep deprivation, desturbed sleep patterns etc...
I quite often wake up and it feels like i am being pinned down to the bed and can't move, I try and scream but can't... I've learnt to stop it by saying to myself "its a dream wake up" and I do.....
Night shifts mess your mind... its why we love them!!
OOOH not nice at all. I used to dream I'd seen a ghost up at the window of this really old mansion, I tried to speak but the words were strangled out of me. I have to have a light on at night even at the age of 34!!
I'm scared of the dark... I run from one room to the next turning lights on and off as I go!! Its awful in the winter when I have to see to the horses in the dark... drag grumpy OH with me most evenings to stand guard in the van! Chicken!!
I had a nightmare on thursday. I had to wake early for dressage and I was going to learn the tests before I left in the morning. Noooooooooooooo! So glad when I woke up and remembered I was only going for a lesson. (Sorry, Sez, yours are much scarier - once had a children-related one but it was so frightening that I dont care to remember it in any detail)
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Posted - 02 Jun 2008 : 1:00:40 PM
. I didn't sleep well all night because I had my third ever nightmare. I have had two before in my life. First one I could feel a presence trying to take my duvet and lift me out of bed when I was 13. The second, (6 years ago) was the most traumatic - a gunman broke into the house and shot my (then 6yr old) son. I felt him die in my arms - literally felt him die. And then last night I was very afraid and could feel something coming for me as I was led in bed. I was trying to scream to wake hubby up, trying to pull his hair and wake him but no sound would come and my fingers were numb. I couldn't move at all. I knew I had left the dog outside for the night that she wasn't under the bed to help me. When I woke up finally - in the same position I had been sleeping, I went to let the dog in at 2am. Perhaps she projected the nightmare in her spite of me leaving her out
I'm scared of the dark... I run from one room to the next turning lights on and off as I go!! Its awful in the winter when I have to see to the horses in the dark... drag grumpy OH with me most evenings to stand guard in the van! Chicken!! 
