No climax in dreams?

Question

It seems that whenever I have a dream about a big event, I always wake up before the climax. For instance, the other night I had a dream about being in a race and right before the race started I woke up. The same goes for sexual dreams; I have never had a wet dream. Does this signify anything or does anyone else experience the same thing? Any answers would be great.

Answer 1

Waking up before the climax of a dream is common. Sometimes your unconscious doesn't want to face the outcome of a situation. Most people, however, wake up before the climax of their dreams because it is toward the morning when they are about to wake up anyway.

Answer 2

We tend to have, by several descriptions and definitions, two minds. The "right-brain/left-brain" kind of thing is part of it. Freud's levels (id, ego, and super-ego) or the substitute from competing branchs of the psychoanalytical tree is another part of it. Finally, there are cycles our sleep goes through. You may have merely come to the end of the cycle and your internal workings moved on to the next. The abruptness of the move, plus the strong interest in the event, borrowed from one or more of the previously mention mechanisms. The clash or collision of competing mental issues awakened you with the same kind of mental jarring that an external stimulus like a door slam or alarm clock would have done.

While I can't share the 'never had a wet dream' claim, there is a mechanism in my own head that may touch on what is going on in yours. I first noticed this when taking tests way back in grade school. I could picture the page where the answer to the question lay, sometimes even tell you the page number or describe illustrations, but if I try to read that page to get the answer, that spot gets blurred. Sometimes I managed to read elsewhere on the page, and the spot I want came back into focus--but only for a time or two. It is like I knew I was cheating, and my mind wouldn't let me cheat. Your mind may have some acceptibility criteria, a moral sense perhaps, that causes an internal warning or caution flag to fly. At that your dream breaks. It is the same thing as if you hypnotized a person, gave the person an obviously toy gun, then said shoot me (or another person or thing). The hypnotized person might very well do so. But give the hypnotized person an obvious or more apparent real gun and give the same command, the person might balk and possibly refuse. The internal moral sense overrides the command. You may have an internal block that keeps you from going to where some moral sense says no. Frankly, it has long been recognized that we use alcohol or drugs to short-circuit such blocks. For that reason we invalidate contracts (including marriage or more casual 'consent') when the participant is drunk or likewise incapacitated. The old male adage to dating girls tries to similarly short-out mental blocks, "Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker." You get the drift. When we dream, we often go and do where we would not normally, but even there we have our own personal limits, though we might not, perhaps in your case, realize it.

Answer 3

I'm not an expert or anything, but I am familiar with this whole "anti-climax" thing.

For example, I will be setting up a dream date with some amazing girl, and then I'll wake up before I really get to the best bits.

I'm sure lots of other people have this, happens to be all the time. It shouldn't mean anything wierd though...

Not much help sorry, but meh, that's my two pennies.

Answer 4

it means you're afraid, i never had your exact problems, but, when i'm cornered in a dream, by big huge monsters(my stories are of amazing adventures) and there is no place for me to run and seemingly no way out, I wake up right before it happens, and I wake up kicking myself because I want to finish it, and it keeps happening too. But when I'm in the dream it feels so authentic that the only way I know it's different is by the differences to reality, and in the dream i soon forget that it's a dream because it's so real. and the sensations of the dream, fear, heroism, etc, are real, and I get wrapped up in them, but no matter how much I want to finish it after, I can't do that when I'm in it, and to tell you the truth, I think I'm scared when I am up against it, so I wake up. And these are pretty neat dreams too, ande the enemies are crazy-looking, like in video games or out of a comic book, but as for your problem, I think you're just scared you can't complete it, or win the race, or fail in whatever climatic situation you're in, you are probably just afraid of failure, no offense to you.

Answer 5

I think that it's pretty normal. I mean you always wake up right before the killer gets you, or you hit the ground or whatever.

Answer 6

Maybe u decide the climax.