Dreams

[moonwise]

I've been having the kind of dreams I hate the most recently - not the nightmare kind (which seem to center on zombie attacks, figure that out) but the ones that leave me feeling annoyed or upset when I wake up.

One is the "I'm Thirsty" dream, where I wander around constantly drinking water and never feel refreshed. Very similar to the "Nose is Stuffy" dream.

The other is a dream where I'm screaming at someone, I mean really really letting them have it with both barrels, only the person in question is someone I know in real life who I have absolutely no bone to pick with whatsoever. The person in my dream gets very upset, and then I wake up upset that I hurt someone who didn't deserve it, only it didn't happen in real life. Had that one last night, and I am still feeling a need to apologize to the person I yelled at for being such an irrational and colossal bitch.

Anyone got an explanation for this?

Comments

[dialogue.livejournal.com]

I think I've had dreams like that too, and also dreams where the person is enraged at me. I don't know what causes them, but they're not very restful. That sort of intense anger isn't something someone should feel when they're sleeping.

I guess it might have something to do that I'm a person who shies away from confrontation a great deal, and I try to shuffle my anger aside, but it doesn't actually go away. Even if it's at person who hasn't done anything worth getting upset about, it might be a way for the subconsious to let off some built-up frustration and anger?

[wpl510.livejournal.com]

I've noticed that my dreams are quite closely coupled to my life otherwise at the time- for example, when I'm stressed, I'll dream I tossed and turned all night and knocked the covers off... then wake up toasty in my blankets with two cats sleeping soundly on top of me.

So, yeah, tiny external stimuli in life seem to heavily impact the course of dreams. When I was younger, I used to be much better at a trick of consciously directing what I wanted to dream about before I went to bed, but now I get the dull unexciting stuff filtering in unawares.