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Yes, I have very vivid dreams! Especially when on holiday! I just came back from Venice and had some completely insane ones there! I seem to take the atmosphere of the place into my dream world with me. They can be really disturbing sometimes but I wouldn't call them nightmares. I have to shake my head sometimes when I wake up to bring myself back to reality. I am the visually creative type and the visual aspect of my dreams is always especially vivid. I remember dreams from my early childhood and ever since, pretty clearly. Some are 'classics' and I have even given them names! (eg the Ceramic Slide, a dream I had in January 2002....)

I can almost never remember my dreams. The one's I remember are when I wake up in the middle of the night, which is actually very frequently but I forget within seconds anyway. The dreams I do remember are very vivid though.

The last dream I remember was from several weeks ago. It was pretty horrifying, although I guess I can't call it a "nightmare" because I don't recall being scared during the dream. What I remember is pretty brief and just before I woke up. I "awoke" maybe a few dozen yards from my house. There was this weird awful haze in the air. Our house had been blown completely off it's foundation and all of the houses down our block had been destroyed. I looked down at my skin and it was all red and well...not very nice looking. I thought that perhaps the local nuclear power plant had some terrible disaster. Then I looked towards the sky and there were mushroom clouds in the distance. I thought it must be some awful worldwide nuclear war. Then I woke up. It sounds strange but I was kind of annoyed because I wanted to know what would happen next in the dream.

In alot of dreams at some point I think to myself: "This is absurd. This can't be real. This must be a dream" or something like that (I am not too sure of exactly what I think) and not long after I wake up. I don't necessarily want to thought because sometimes there is an interesting "story" going on.

Sometimes when I wake up and it was a story I liked or I want to know what happens next, I try to go back to sleep and get back into it. Sometimes this is successful but other times the dream degenerates into repetition or is not as believable, if that makes any sense. I think it's possible at times to stay asleep and keep dreaming even if you know it's a dream, but the quality is reduced

Mine got so bad that I was scared of going to sleep. It's just occurred to me that if both of our nightmares are low blood-sugar related this might explain the relapse back into nightmare after initially waking up. It might be a good thing. If the subconscious mind is trying to shock us awake in order to get help / treatment, then it's no good if we wake up, think "Oh good, it was only a dream!" and go back to sleep again. That's no use at all. It has to be so scary that we're physically up and running around.

In my case the immediate medical drama was coupled with feelings of severe self-loathing, doubts about religion (not helped by a Christian girlfriend who told me that no matter how good a person I was, if I didn't believe in God I'd go to hell), being depressed and trapped in a relationship that was dying despite everything I tried, debts, a sh-t job, wall to wall stress, books with good vs. evil or existential themes (Robert Rankin, Douglas Adams et al) and a general fascination with natural cycles, luck, karma, irony and fate.

It still bothers me a little, but I'm just doing the best that I can. I hope I don't deserve such a punishment, and view the dreams as symptomatic of a burnt out mind rather than any sort of prediction of my future. But I guess I am a bit superstitious and they really did scare me very badly.

if i have dreams about woods, mountains or space aliens they are usually very vivd. all the other dreams i have, i cant remember.

I have extremely vivid nightmares.. sometimes Im not sure in the morning if Im asleep or awake. The only thing keeping it straight for me really is that my nightmares are usually extremely disturbing.

But I also tend to be unsure when remembering things "Did that really happen or was it a dream?".

This sounds very possible. And I didn’t have that particular nightmare while on the anxiety meds, and did think it was a blood sugar thing.


Don’t worry too much, probably the reason that your nightmares are about hell is because you are superstitious. Myself I’ve been thinking I was going to hell since I was about 3 and 3 year olds are innocent, anyway what I’m trying to say is if you fear that sort of thing it’s no wonder you would dream about it and just because you dream of something that you fear doesn’t mean it will come to pass. But ya anyone would be scared if they had that sort of dream.

I heard that everyone dreams, and it's just that some people do not remember what they were dreaming about.

I tend to have either very vivid dreams or dreams that I can't remember. Most dreams that I have are unusual and unrealistic, and I think they become more vivid if the stress level is high. I don't really have nightmares, but I have had dreams that people would consider nightmares. To me, it's just sort of nocturnal excitement.

- Ray M -