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Nightmares that have plagued me since childhood

Very interesting subject to me. In college I did a lot of work in a psych lab as part of my major studies and knew some people focusing on dream analysis and dream-state physiology. Short version is that very little is known about what provokes dreams or what creates dream scenario circumstances repetitively in the human mind.

Repeating dream/nightmares are not unusual for people and, as noted, often start in childhood and are often related to things seen or heard. Those connections are not hard to make for children but how does one explain the dream where the totality of the scenario is completely foreign or previously unknown to the dreamer ? For example - a person dreams of having to repair a water pumping windmill in Holland around the 1930's and it's raining heavilly and he's forgotten his tools but someone walks by and loans him a crescent wrench. This dreamer is male, lives in Sarasota, Fla., has never travelled outside the USA, knows nothing of Holland, windmills or tools and has seen no movies or shows relative to these things. . . ie; where's the connection ?

Anyway, it's interesting research and our depth of understanding of the human mind is rudimentary, at best.
 
Toastmaker said:
Very interesting subject to me. In college I did a lot of work in a psych lab as part of my major studies and knew some people focusing on dream analysis and dream-state physiology. Short version is that very little is known about what provokes dreams or what creates dream scenario circumstances repetitively in the human mind.

Repeating dream/nightmares are not unusual for people and, as noted, often start in childhood and are often related to things seen or heard. Those connections are not hard to make for children but how does one explain the dream where the totality of the scenario is completely foreign or previously unknown to the dreamer ? For example - a person dreams of having to repair a water pumping windmill in Holland around the 1930's and it's raining heavilly and he's forgotten his tools but someone walks by and loans him a crescent wrench. This dreamer is male, lives in Sarasota, Fla., has never travelled outside the USA, knows nothing of Holland, windmills or tools and has seen no movies or shows relative to these things. . . ie; where's the connection ?

Anyway, it's interesting research and our depth of understanding of the human mind is rudimentary, at best.
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It is interesting stuff; I have had wierd scenarios like that where I must accomplish some oddball task or some unspecified consequence will occur. Of course, the odds are against me, and everything is conspiring to thwart me. I never find out how it works out. It does have a lot in common with waking real life working on our old house, though.

I'd like to probe the mind of your avatar: How can anyone be that happy???
 
Very well written, Obi0, enjoyed reading it. I don't put much stock in dream interpretation, I think they're reflections of our psyche and our experiences. I do acknowledge, however, that dreams, especially nightmares and night terrors, and be extremely powerful and even traumatic.

I'm not entirely convinced in the existence of Bigfoot/Sasquatch/Yeti, but I do admit some of the evidence is interesting, but something much more tangible than anecdotal evidence is required to clinch it. I find the research being done into what's called the midtarsal break found in some casts of Sasquatch footprints intriguing.

I was disappointed in the TV show "Bigfoot Hunters" that was on the Discovery Channel awhile back. Having "true believers" along who take every twig snap for a Bigfoot campout doesn't help science. Only careful, methodical adherence to the scientific method and skepticism will establish the truth of things. That doesn't mean that it's a subject unworthy of scientific research IMO, though.

N.
 
There used to be a program on in the evenings around Detroit (local TV) in the 60s called "One Step Beyond," that had John Newland as the host. In those days (early 60s) there was a general interest in UFOs, paranormal experiences, and so on, and OSB played brilliantly into that interest. It's draw was that many of the stories shown in the series were fact-based. That would REALLY scare you, because the basis of the story was actually documented to have happened. In some cases the locations of the events were given as well. The shows were food for a lot of thought.
 
Naismith said:
I had 2 recurring nightmares as a child. One was generated by the show "The Outer Limits" a couple of episodes got mixed up, one where there was an alien who transmitted himself to earth on a radio beam - he looked manshaped but shone and his skin looked like tapioca. The other episode involved robotic spiders. I for years checked under the bed at night before going to sleep for fear of those damned spiders.
The other was generated by a delirium brought on by a fall down stairs at elementary school, I had unbeknown to anyone broken an ankle. I walked home on it at end of schoolday and promptly collapsed on my bed. The nightmare (don't laugh) consisted of me being pursued by a maniacal Lucille Ball. She was chasing me through the streets of New York City, I was running for all my worth, and the stupid bit was she was leaning over the bows of a ship which was tearing up the tarmac of the streets in its pursuit of me. She was hollering and waving her arms with a rolling pin in one hand threatening to `whoop me`
That recurred at couple of times even after the ankle got fixed up.
Analyse that one.
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Naismith, looked up the Lucille Ball dream in my "Every Dream and What They Mean" book. It analyzed the dream in two words....NOT GOOD. :icon_lol:
 
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