Night terrors

By Anonymous - 10/12/2022 00:00 - United States - Cecil

Today, I woke up from another nightmare, this time drowning in a rogue wave. I could feel the water and rain. I could feel myself gasping for air as I don't know how to swim, and can barely float. I'm scared if I die in my sleep, I die for real. FML
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Chazzster 28

By the way, I have dreamed of being “undead” - Dead but still moving. I am still alive unless this is a really involved illusion I am in. I really don’t think you need to worry about dying in your sleep… But I do think you need swimming lessons. Call it a fear, call it a premonition, your unconscious mind seems to be expressing a fear of drowning. The best way to deal with that is to learn to swim. Nothing says you have to become an expert - just learn to get from one end of a swimming pool to another by swimming. I think that most of the time dreams mean absolutely nothing. But just occasionally your unconscious brain throws in some usually visual messages. If there is a repeated theme or a dream that seriously bothers you, I think it’s usually your unconscious expressing a fear you have. It might literally be about the fear of drowning in water or it might be a feeling of a loss of control… But the one thing I am sure of is that unless you have an usually weak heart or you are in your own twilight zone episode, you aren’t going to die in your sleep from a dream. And when I die, I would personally prefer to die in my sleep…

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Plumleywalker 3

Go and see your doctor. I used to have this happen a lot too, dreams of drowning and suffocating and being trapped underwater. It turned out that I have severe sleep apnoea, a fairly common condition where your throat relaxes too much when you go into REM sleep, or your brain just stops telling your body to breath. You basically are choking and your brain is creating stories to explain to itself why.

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RichardPencil 30

Learn to swim, asshole. It's not that hard.

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tiptoppc 19

Right. Your justification is that dead bodies float? I guess that qualifies as swimming, right? Not like you you don’t have to breath to float. OP: simple life saver, if you learn two moves, one is how to float on your back, the other is the backstroke. Bodies will naturally boyancy if you are arched on you back with the water up to your ears. Theres also the dead mans float, but that, plus the backstroke (which keeps your face above water level) should raise any chance of survival significantly if in a large pool of water. Back floating doesn’t take any strength or stamina or moving. It’s why lifeguards flip you to your back to tow you in safely. It leaves you able to breath 100% of the time. Try it in a shallow pool after looking on youtube fir instructions

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Chazzster 28

By the way, I have dreamed of being “undead” - Dead but still moving. I am still alive unless this is a really involved illusion I am in. I really don’t think you need to worry about dying in your sleep… But I do think you need swimming lessons. Call it a fear, call it a premonition, your unconscious mind seems to be expressing a fear of drowning. The best way to deal with that is to learn to swim. Nothing says you have to become an expert - just learn to get from one end of a swimming pool to another by swimming. I think that most of the time dreams mean absolutely nothing. But just occasionally your unconscious brain throws in some usually visual messages. If there is a repeated theme or a dream that seriously bothers you, I think it’s usually your unconscious expressing a fear you have. It might literally be about the fear of drowning in water or it might be a feeling of a loss of control… But the one thing I am sure of is that unless you have an usually weak heart or you are in your own twilight zone episode, you aren’t going to die in your sleep from a dream. And when I die, I would personally prefer to die in my sleep…

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IHaveThePower 16

You will not die in real life if you die in dreams, but it might be a good idea to try some therapy for the nightmares.

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Plumleywalker 3

Go and see your doctor. I used to have this happen a lot too, dreams of drowning and suffocating and being trapped underwater. It turned out that I have severe sleep apnoea, a fairly common condition where your throat relaxes too much when you go into REM sleep, or your brain just stops telling your body to breath. You basically are choking and your brain is creating stories to explain to itself why.

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