Dreams...Don't you hate it when...

[Nathan]

Whoa! Wall of text. I'm gonna need some time reading through that.

 

[CConn]

This only happens to me when I watch old George Clooney episodes of ER right before I go to bed.

 

[Cunning Stunts]

Unrelated, but I just woke up from one of those night terror things...where you feel like youre awake but someone is in the room pressing down on you or youre being abducted by aliens or whatever. I'm telling you...I can TOTALLY see why people mistake that for an alien abduction. It was pretty intense, and actually sort of painful.

Anyway...hey...it's a thread about dreams, Im not TOO far off topic.

I never understood what night terror was until I just looked it up... I used to go through that all the time, and still do if I go to sleep in a place I'm unfamiliar with. When I stayed at my ex's house, she would always make me sleep in a certain room, because if I'd slept in any other room, I'd wake up, start hallucinating, and freak the **** out.

The one incident I can recall most is when I was in Boy Scouts probably eight or nine years ago. I woke up in the middle of the night, and the shield over the tent's door was open, and I began "seeing" my father (who wasn't on the trip with us) walking around our campsite, and come toward my tent. When I tried to get out, he left, and I began screaming like there was a murderous psycho in my tent. Everyone in the campsite heard it (I think even a few people at another campsite told me the next day that they heard it as well), but nobody knew who it was. Still hallucinating and half-asleep, I ran to my scoutmaster's tent, and began calling for him and asking him questions, and the *****e just told me to be quiet and go to sleep. That's what I wound up doing, and the next morning, the person I was sharing a tent with had to explain to me what went on.

Apparently people who suffer from night terror usually can't remember what goes on, but I tend to remember it once somebody tells me it happened and a few details about it. That said, there were numerous times my ex would tell me about me waking up and not knowing what was going on, and I'd have no clue what she was talking about.

I need to get evaluated.