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Hello, I'm a newbie, and I have a problem I have been dealing with the past few weeks, I need some reassurance that there is nothing wrong with me or if anyone else has had this problem. I have been having very vivid dreams of all sorts every night the past few weeks. I have always been a person who dreams every night, but now they have grown very vivid and when I awake from these dreams I am very warm and sweating. I am only 32 years old and have been on birth controls pills for nearly six years now. What could be causing this, I have removed a extra blanket from my bed thinking maybe I'm growing too warm at night. I hope this helps, I can't be getting ready to go through perimenopause already. Thanks for reading... I needed to get this off my chest.
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Welcome!
Can you tell me what is disturbing you about the vivid dreams? Are they nightmarish, intense, does the content disturb you? Some people enjoy vivid dreams, but it sounds like these ones are distressing.
Have you recently changed medications or added any new medication?
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Some are nightmarish, I had one recently where someone was shot right in front of me with a shot gun, I've been having tornado dreams where I can hear the siren going off, one where a man was following me and I kept warning him to back off and leave me alone, I finally started stabbing him in the eyes with a knife. Crazy dreams like that. Not all are that violent, but those are the one's that really stick with me. I've always enjoyed dreaming, but I just wish I could tone these dreams down a bit. I'm tired of waking up in a sweat.
I haven't changed any meds or started new ones. I have a bit of clairvoyance about me, and I seem to see it strengthening as I have gotten older. The other nite I woke up around 3:00 am and felt someone tag/grab my chin.
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I'm a pretty prolific dreamer as well and like you, have always enjoyed my dreams. But I have had times like you're describing. They are very disturbing times because I would start wondering if they would ever stop.
For me, these dreams usually happen when there is some stressor occurring that I'm either ignoring or repressing or sometimes not even aware of - like times when I'm not even aware that a situation is bothering me.
Tornado dreams can sometimes signal either emotional or mental distress. They are one of the few recurrent dreams that I have and I find them truly disturbing. For me, they signal radical change or the fear of radical change, especially change that I cannot control. They also, for me, represent feelings of destruction or a fear of destruction. Usually my dreams of this nature are representative of fear feelings, usually when I'm striking out on some unknown path.
Have you read any Jungian psychology? Are you familiar with the animus archetype?
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I was looking for a camping forum and ended up here.
I felt compelled to share with you some of my experiences.
My first dream was when I was 8. I woke up screaming. My parents rushed to my side to comfort me as I told them my dream. I dreamed my 5 year old cousin was being kidnapped. All the details were perfectly clear. As I was being tucked back in, the phone rang. It was my aunt calling my dad over. A man broke in and tried to kidnap my cousin. On his way out he forgot the step down into the living room and fell, dropping her. She screamed. In my dream I woke up screaming when he dropped her.
I was able to identify the inside of the house they moved to. I had not been there yet. I was also able to identify the man. He was caught.
That was the beginning. Honestly, other than those in my immediate family, I never tell anyone. I know people think I'm a freak. Some things are best yet kept to myself.
Ever since then I know to take heed of my dreams. When I choose to ignore my dreams, I pay for it.
I dont think this is what is happening to you when you are being violent though. If you are real easy going, always going out of your way to help others to the point that you often feel run over...then I understand the dream completely.
If not, I am not sure right off hand.
Anyway, I don't know how I got here but I am glad I did.
Sometimes I want to ask if these things ever happen to others. Also, are there others who know what is about to happen before it does? Not like a dream, but when awake. The thought pops into your head from no where and then presto, it happens. As much as I have always wanted to know, If there is no one else, I don't want to know. It would make me feel like more of a freak.
I'm babbling. Its 1 am and I am trying to stay awake to prevent the same dream 4 nights in a row. I already know after 2 nights that it is going to happen, but I'm in denial. LOL
I hope your dreams are improving.
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Hi Trina, Welcome, both as an editor and to the Dreams forum. I don't personally have a lot of experience with prophetic dreams. Or rather, let me say that the experience that I do have with prophetic dreams has been far more symbolic than literal, like the form you described. Mine have always been dreams that I understood in hindsight to be prophetic, usually not when they actually happened. For example, a friend of mine was running for office and the night before the election I dreamed that my friend was the character Victor Newman on the Young and the Restless. He looked like my friend in the dream but was definitely the character from the show. I was totally mystified by this until the election was over and my friend won. Then I understood - he was the "victor" the "new man" about to take over. My prophetic dreams apparently aren't really much use to anyone. However, waking life is a completely different matter. That thing about thinking about something and then having it happens seems to happen to me more and more. And I'm not the only one - so you are definitely not on your own. I don't really know what to make of it though. Do the things happen because we think of them or were they things that were already going to happen that we somehow picked up on intuitively? I've never been able to sort that one out and sometimes I think it's a combination of both. The only part that I'm pretty much convinced of is that the more one focuses one's attention toward those kinds of events, the more they happen. I also have this thing I call "The Feeling." The Feeling is something I experience as complete certainty about something. The Feeling can indicate something good or something that one would probably want to avoid. It's very different from the random thoughts that go on in my head or the five thousand neuroses from which I suffer.  The Feeling is not worry or hope or excitement or really any emotion. It's this complete calm feeling that I feel in my heart area that I should or should not do something or that something is or is not about to happen. Sadly, I don't get The Feeling as much as I'd like (probably those five thousand neuroses drown it out...) but when I do, I trust it completely. Like you, I learned the hard way what happens when I don't. As a matter of fact, my entire life was pretty much ripped out from under me a few years ago via a series of events which, had I heeded The Feeling, would never have happened. The problem was that I spend entirely too much time thinking, "But what can that possibly have to do with anything?" Well, I found out. Now, anytime I get The Feeling and it makes no sense, and someone says to me, "What can possibly happen if you do ______?" my response is, "Don't know, not finding out." Personally, I think the various forms in which these things occur (prophetic dreams, though manifestation, feelings) are actually meant to be evidence that one is connected to something bigger than the limited space of the body one inhabits. I think it's a connection to the divine. I think it's meant to be a gift. But sadly, I think our culture is so firmly rooted in the material world that it not only can't imagine something 'other' it actually is downright hostile to the 'other' and to anyone who experiences it. I also think that the other side of that coin is that sometimes the connection is presented in a grandiose fashion, especially by Hollywood. I mean unless you're seeing full on technicolor visions or dead people everywhere you go, your experience isn't valid. I'm sure there are people who have these experiences, but they aren't the only form the connection takes place. I think the connection is as individual as individuals themselves are. And that means that you are are far, far, far from alone! And the more people that take the step to talk about their experiences, the more people there will be who will free up their own connections. Brave step on your part! Glad to have you here!
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Thank you, Aisling. Your right, more of us should speak out. I'm glad to know there are others who have the same or similar experiences.
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Sometimes I want to ask if these things ever happen to others. Also, are there others who know what is about to happen before it does? Not like a dream, but when awake. The thought pops into your head from no where and then presto, it happens.
Something like this happens to me every once in a while. I have two examples I can remember... We used to have a therapist come to my home & counsel me when where were going through some issues with my (now ex) husband's daughter. When I first met her, I could see her working in a garden with a big floppy hat. On the last day of counseling, I asked her if her gardened & she said she did. Then I said something like you seem like you would wear a big floppy hat when you are in the garden. She said that she did wear a big floppy hat.  Another time I was working a craft fair. My ex-husband had our daughter for the weekend. In the early afternoon, I suddenly "knew" he had taken her to the ocean for the day. The trip was about 1 1/2 hours one way. When he brought her back he told me that they had gone to the beach & I simply told him "I know". These things don't happen immediately for me, but I do sort of "know" stuff every now & then.
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That's exactly right. That's exactly what happens to me. Then my husband and kids ask how I know also. I can not explain it so I just say, "I just know."
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Hi Trina, Aisling has so many good points and she's right, you're not alone although, she's also right in that people who don't have these experiences a lot or focus on them can give off the impression they're uncomfortable around the topic or you're the family oddity. I find most of what I get is in the waking period. I'll sense something or have a flash of information whether it's in the form of a thought, image or sound (like someone crying) and within a week or less a lot of them tend to pass. I use myself as a human guinea pig, lol ,so I don't try to filter out my experiences. When I was younger I did for self-preservation,really. I'd say it's been about 28 years of having these things happen. Most of the reasons I'd feel badly when they happened was due to feeling unnatural and no where to apply the information. Virtually everyhting that did come through were things that adults wouldn't want to talk about or were hidden for some other reason or were global and hadn't happened yet. People ask me now, why is it that only bad things are picked up by psychics/clairvoyants, etc. I use to wonder that myself, actually, but I think the reason for that is when things are good/happy, etc. unless someone is going to ask me a specific question on something, the good stuff isn't that noticable because it is a comfortable sensation. The bad stuff is like a loud clap that jolts your attention. I do pick up good things, like a job opening up or a new home or new baby, trip, etc. It feels more like a breeze on my face followed by quick snap shots or images. You're absolutely right, it's a wonderful thing being able to talk about it openly. In all honesty, now, these things are as natural as breathing for me and couldn't imagine a life without them  _______________________________ Elleise Clairvoyance Editor Elleise's Home Page
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