are they caused by or centered around your religion?
2007-07-16 18:46:05 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Thanks, Neville's. When I was a Fundy the nightmares were none ending. I wonder if anyone else has had this experience.
2007-07-16 18:52:13 · update #1
Wow! Lots of experiences and thoughts on this. More than I anticipated. I had a bad one that I was in battle with a demon (all I could actually see were his eyes) in a black abyss. He said he had come for my husband. or the giant snake in the tree that bit my shoulder and neck. I could feel it for hours after I woke up. Don't have those anymore since I left the church.
2007-07-16 18:59:42 · update #2
JaraSue, you have lucid dreams. I did when I was a kid. Haven't been able to since. YOu're lucky.
2007-07-18 04:06:05 · update #3
I've been agnostic / Buddhist for many years, but oddly enough had a semidisturbing dream this morning wherein one of the scenes was I felt as tho it was partially me being crucified and the nails being driven into my extremities and the thought of if I were just to relax, death would come sooner and the suffering would cease
(childhood hard-core protestantism which I left decades ago)
this was not exactly a nightmare, as I didn't experience extreme fear, but I've recorded dreams for years and this learning seems to take the fear away
2007-07-16 20:16:26 · answer #1 · answered by atheistforthebirthofjesus 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Some have been. I had a nightmare recently where I was punished by nuns for spitting on religious items. My former Christian beliefs affect my sleep paralysis the most though. I've had all types of "visitors" during the episodes, but more often then not, they are demons. Of course I don't think I'm really being visited by any demons, I just think that is what I see because for so long I was convinced that they exist.
2007-07-17 02:08:26 · answer #2 · answered by KS 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No, not usually. Maybe some people who have very strong religious beliefs and then have some really repressed guilt, may have nightmares about these things. Or if they have been to a church service and the sermon was on the topic of Heaven or Hell, they may have nightmares about dying and the after life. I do have strong religious beliefs and I am a Christian, but most of my nightmares are usually about something disturbing I may have seen on the TV or at the Movies or in the News.
2007-07-17 01:54:45 · answer #3 · answered by gizmo2 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Nightmares, or any dreams for that manner are supposed to be strung together daily events and subconscious events that happen though out your day. But then again, I've had dreams foretell me things and they happened a few days after. So perhaps there is a more mystic meaning to them. Also.. I don't think nightmares are centered or caused by religion.. every person has nightmares at one point in their life. It's a human occurrence. Hopefully this helped.
2007-07-17 01:53:54 · answer #4 · answered by Lovey 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
My nightmares are not always the same, or simply not always centered around my religion.
I think there's various things that influence nightmares or whatever you dream of. Maybe something that has impressed you throughout your life or just something that happened during the day repeats itself in your mind in the same way or probably with a twist to it.
Maybe if you widely consider what is preached to you influences in sometime, example: you listen that great sinners deserve hell; you somehow wonder what it would be like to be in that sinner's shoes....and you create stuff in your mind.
So yeah, I think that sometimes it might happen...I don't think that dreams or nightmares necessarily have to mean something though.
Whenever I start having a nightmare, I make up a story as I go, I'm sort of like the boss. Mostly everything goes as I want...so it's turns out to be fun...and if doesn't, I just wake up out of it.
2007-07-17 02:08:27 · answer #5 · answered by Lightning 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
My nightmares usually center around something happening to one of my children.. In the nightmares I am always running and trying to stop whats happening but never quite able..
Luckily I do not dream or have nightmares very often maybe once or twice a year I have a nightmare when I do I wake up and check on each of my children because checking on them and seeing that they are safe and sound a sleep helps me shed the nightmare feeling and get back to sleep..
2007-07-17 01:58:00 · answer #6 · answered by Diane (PFLAG) 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Squirt, again, you are gettin it! I don't have nightmares either. I also don't call people "fundies" to differentiate them from me either though. Fundie would mean that they have some fundamental beliefs. We all do. I try to be more specific, "Eternal Damnation Worshippers", is what they are even though they don't sometimes realize it. I don't say this to call them names so much as to call attention to what I see as a problem for all of us, something we were taught that is too dysfunctional to ignore, when one contemplates it's consequences in life. Good Question, glad you wrote it!
2007-07-17 09:07:28 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I've never had a religion but I've had a few nightmares.
Usually those 'getting chased' (not chaste) and 'falling' ones.
I had quite a few 'getting shot at' ones after I came back from Vietnam for a few years but I learned to change the endings of the repetitive ones. After a while they ceased happening because ... who knows?
2007-07-17 02:09:33 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't think I have ever had a scary religious dream. I have had bad dreams about my kids. About a month ago I dreamed my three year old fell out of a tree. Ugh. The crappy thing about bad dreams is trying to go back to sleep after.
2007-07-17 01:50:32 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I had a nightmare last night where i was being attacked by a 1000 foot pair of testicles and i was a massive dildo...which happens to be part of my religion monoshaftology
2007-07-17 02:28:09 · answer #10 · answered by ryang5420 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋