Hi, I thought id post something to see if i can get any advice.

I have really really really bad dreams but per usual i cant remember all of it or even understand it.

Each dream i have always start in a long wide corridor, and the width, depth and length of it always freaks me out, it goes on forever. I always feel like i need to be clinging on to something or i just dont feel like myself. I know i am sleeping through it all and everything, so im sort of calm as well. But when i walk down the corridor things change, i remember there being a lot of bubbles and i feel really happy but then something happens that i cant understand and i feel really sad, angry and scared, and wat i see is a sort of screwed up picture, but everything fragmented like it shouldnt be. Then i dream of something else its never the same dream at this point, but im sometimes happy or scared but its always through my eyes like memories but they have never happened. The problem i have with these dreams is that i wake up and freak out, i feel like im someone else. It happens every morning, i eventually calm down like nothing has happened and i rarely have memory of the freaking out but i know it has happened cos i feel i dunno, sort of misplaced. Everytime i dream i wake up feeling like i just dropped into my bed, from a distance, its really weird. Sometimes i wake up in the morning and sometimes in the middle of the night.

Your diet can have an effect on your dreams. If you are eating the exact same thing every night before you retire, try changing that.
If you are taking vitamins, try taking them much earlier.
Medications can effect dreams also, i will not give you any advice on this because that would be best done by a doctor.
Do you have any serious concerns or fears. They can give you such dreams sometimes.
If you sleep in a cool room, you could try and raise the heat a little.

This is something that you can best pin down, because there are so many things that can effect dreams.
Try what I suggested and anything else you can think of and let us know.

I suffer from nightmares....Its not nice....I hope you can find away that helps with your sleeping and changes your bad dreams into good ones...

Blah, everyone has weird crazy dreams. My bf wakes up every 2-4 hours after crazy dreams; even though I have crazy dreams, too, I let them go upon waking. He, however, lets them fester, and it affects his decisions and attitude during the day. I have looked up dream meanings online, most of it is just general bs, but some of it makes sense. That part is something I could've figured out on my own, but still. I have had reacurring dreams, as well as similair themed dreams. Often I wake up soaked with sweat. 90% of the dreams I remember are filled with a feeling of impending doom; but I almost always feel better when I wake up to reality. I reccommend a strict sleeping pattern, a healthy lifestyle including vitamins and excercise. I strongly advise against drinking before bed, or taking sleeping pills (Excedrine PMs, etc. unless rx'd). Even herbs like Melatonin cause my bf to have abnormal nightmares.

hmmm a little off topic,
but i dream alot! About everything (often of aliens and other planets and such...*i wonder why*).
But, tonight i actually dreamt that we, a whole gang from this forum, were going to meet someplace in sweden... We were going to meet at feaden's place (somehow, don't ask me why) and he was livinig in this really weird caravan, somewere in the woods. Then we heard the news that our 'Weird Gal' was pregnant, so we went off to the hospital to pay her a visit instead ...
lol... I know.. ...don't ask. :shrug:

Sorry, Shadow Hunter, i just had to tell this. As for your dream...
Bad dreams can be... yeah, bad. I had alot of nightmares when i was younger.
What always helped me was to just surrender to the dream. Accept anything that happens in a dream and realize you're not going to die or something anyway.
I had this reoccuring nightmare when i was 7 or something, about me floating down the stairs without being able to stop myself. (the worst thing was, i tried to turn on the lights, but they wouldn't work) At the bottom of the stairs were this horrible monsters that were going to eat me when i came down. Every time i got really frightnent and tried to stop myself from floating down. I dreamed this many times, and was allmost afraid to go to sleep. Then, one night i desided that i just would let the monsters eat me. So it happened, everything went dark when they did so. I woke up and never had that dream again!
I was just a little kid, so maybe this example is a bit childish, but the point is that i think it helps to surrender to the dream, accept it for what it is and don't resist.. Go with the flow.
Good luck, and sleep well!

That is interesting, Craft.
I was also 7 at this time.
Although when I dreamed of floating in my parents house at night...I actually was able to turn on the lights!!!
I was not sleep walking either.

I got printed twice sorry.

I follow with this line of advise. In regards to diet, if you are, stop eating a minimum of three hours before bed. Also avoid alcohol, cholocate, caffeine, nicotine(if you smoke), sugar, msg, and yes even salt. Drink lots of water.

Try this as well. Rather then watch t.v. right before bed, read before bed, say an hour before. Also may I suggest you take a hot bath before bed, and I know this sounds crazy but drink some hot milk or herbal tea like valerian root.

Get into a relaxed state. See if that makes a difference. If it does, then your answer is diet and lifestyle.

Also if you are between the age of 13 and 20 or so, if your frontal lobe is still developing, this kind of anxiety type dream would be common and usual and could be simply hormones and chromosones and chemical changes going on.

All that said, as a general rule, if you find your sleep disrupted for an unusual period of time and it is running you down or significantly negatively harming your day to day life, then see a doctor and get a check up. Sometimes, and please don't be frightened, it may simply be a symptom of an undiagosed illness or even a vitamin defficiency. This kind of thing can happen for example if you are anemic or have fluctuating sugar levels or are quite simply run down or dehydrated. That is why it would be dangerous to make a definitive conclusion about anything.

What I can say in a very general way, is to understand your dreams, you must take them in context of your on-gong life events and the things in your life that may be causing you to feel a lack of control or anxiety or fear or are unresolved issues you are faced with.

Anxiety dreams are the most common type of feeling dreams as I call them, i.e., where we remember the feeling more then they actual vision and wake up with a very strong feeling more then anything else.

Sometimes anxiety dreams are particular to people who have breathing problems, i.e., heavy smokers, over-weight people, people with asthma or respiratory problems, because they are not getting enough oxygen when they sleep or it could simply be lack of oxygen because you ate too late before bed and oxygen is being re-routed to digest your food and therefore
being deprived from the brain or it could just be your body being dehydrated from not drinking enough water.

So it could be some very boring explanation of physiological origin or perhaps an emotional one that you are going through changes either with your life or physical body.

Corridor dreams or visions of passageways or moving throw alley ways or paths, etc., are a common way we symbolize transition, or moving from one idea or thought or issue to another. However that is simply a generalization. The visions you have are like finger-prints and they are particular to your mind and could have a special meaning of your own and a skilled dream or psycho-analyst would take quite a lot of time to try decipher what your symbols are from looking at many other dreams and your entire life, and even then it would be estimations.

Bubbles could also be simply a way your brain symbolizes changes going on around you, quite literally coming out of nowhere or popping up all over the place and seemingly just not coming from anything in particular but just being there. It is sometimes a symbol of an environment that is fluctuating and changing all around you.

So relax. May I also suggest if you dont exercise begin to exercise. A minimum of 30-45 minutes of cardio-vascular exercise 3-5 times a week is a sure cure for sleep anxiety as it will improve your lung capacity, coversion of oxygen in your muscles, increase dopamine levels to help you calm down, and work of stress induced chemicals that otherwise remain in your blood stream and can effect sleep.

If you are by chance on any medication for anxiety, depression, blood pressure, diabetes, anemia, or on diaretics, analgesics, pain-killers, any kind of medication-talk to your doctor because this could simply be a sign of
intolerance to medication.

I also highly suggest things like Tai Chi, Yoga, swimming, pilates, dance, moutain climbing, long walks, biking, etc. No coca cola before bed!!!!

Cheers.

I have sleep problems to and find this helps -

100 SIT UPS
30 PUSH UPS
30 SQUATS

Do 5 sets and you will soon be off to sleep!