Everytime I have some sort of "bad'' dream, where someone or something is chasing me, I always feel like I'm being pulled back --held on strings or almost paralyzed. At most I can only walk very quickly. Has anyone else ever experienced this? What's the deal?
2007-08-22 09:03:12 · 6 answers · asked by chrisamethyst 4 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
The deal is that when you are sleeping, you have numerous defensive devices in your body(chemical reactions, etc.) that kick in and prevent you from getting up and running. This was on the Discovery Channel if you want to look it up under google or something. So it's a good thing. Otherwise you might jump through a window and kill yourself. I'm serious.
2007-08-22 09:11:04 · answer #1 · answered by Irish 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Have you ever had one of those dreams where you're running down a hallway, and the more you run the longer the hall gets?
(Think of that scene from the first "Poltergeist" movie . . . )
I doin't really have a problem with running dreams (because, after all, quite often I'm a dragon with wings in my dreams) but the thing that gets me is all those dreams where I'm back in high school again even though I'm almost 34 years old---and I'm there not to "relive the innocence" (yeah, right!) but I'm there to RELEARN all that which would have made me better able to have a college degree (which I still do not have, in real life.)
Just . . . so totally creepy! In the dreams the lighting is invariably muted and gloomy, and the classmates either ignore me completely, laugh at me, or act as though I am not there . . . and this is made all the more unnerving because I'm one of the relatively rare number of people who generally dreams in full color, and with full sound. If I can afford to, every now and then I'll sacrifice a good night's deep-sleep so I can lucidly dream. (And then pay for it with extreme grogginess and fatigue for the next several days!)
I wake up feeling inadequate, unfulfilled, and melancholy. Even though for the most part except for the new car and the new house, I have everything in life EXCEPT for that elusive college diploma!
2007-08-23 06:10:59 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have the same problem, but I feel like I'm underwater trying to run, my legs won't go fast enough. I'm never being chased, either.
It's probably a stress related thing. Everything is related to stress.
2007-08-22 16:09:43 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Do you have a fear you don't think you can control while you are awake? Not everyone is paralyzed in their dreams - some turn around and fight their fears in the dream.
2007-08-22 16:10:54 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is probably because you feel stuck or lack confidence in an area of your life. You don't trust yourself to get away in a bad situation.
2007-08-22 16:10:49 · answer #5 · answered by jml167 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
do you feel stuck in your life or that you are not going anywhere?
2007-08-22 16:15:56 · answer #6 · answered by Precious Taboo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋