One of my least favorite things in this world are nightmares. I would say bad dreams are a different level than nightmares, but I don't like bad dreams either. Both of these things are not enjoyable and I highly doubt they are enjoyable for anyone.
I'm not sure how I classify dreams. What is the difference between a nightmare or a bad dream? I'm going to try to define the two terms. After taking time to think about it and read a few opinions on the Google, I have decided what I think the difference is.
A nightmare is a dream that actually causes fear in you. The worst(and sometimes best) case scenario is that you wake up from it and you can not go back to sleep because all you can think about is that dream you just had.
A bad dream is more along the lines of dropping your ice cream on the ground and feeling bad about it but you don't lose sleep over it later. Does that make sense? I don't really think a bad dream would be something you could't go bad to sleep after, if it got to the point of you waking up.
I personally tend to have more negative dreams if I push the snooze for too long. I some how fall back into a more lucid dream state between my 5 to 10 minute snooze cycles on my alarm. I'm much more aware in these kind of dreams, which makes them a bit more harder to get over.
I'm taking all this time to talk about nightmares and dreams because I had one after my first night back to work this week. I usually am pretty exhausted after the first day back to work and want to sleep for a more extended period of time. This tends to cause my snooze button to get abused.
However, today I had what I would consider to be a nightmare because it woke me up from my sleep. Normally it's my dog that tries to wake me up early but not this time.
This particular dream was a nightmare for me because it took place in my own home. Most dreams that deal with me and my own home are negative. Well, not all dreams but ones where it is focused on my living alone status tend to be nightmares. I have had plenty of dreams that involve my boyfriend that take place in my house and those are definitely not nightmares. (I also tend to have better dreams with him around in general.)
There tends to be a sense of anxiety and paranoia when I dream about being alone in my house, and the dream took place at night so that didn't help. I was walking around my house and realized my curtain in the living room wasn't shut all the way so I snuck up to it to make sure no one outside could see me. You know, because someone is obviously spying on me...
My dream then just seemed to turn into me being worrisome, but then once I started relaxing even the slightest I walked out of my bedroom and saw my back door open. It had not been open before. I then saw a man poorly attempting to hide on the other side of my refrigerator. Once he saw that he had been seen by me he charged up to me and grabbed me by the wrists roughly. I just kept saying "I'll give you all my money. What very little I have." Some how despite being gripped by a stranger in my house I was able to make poor jokes.
While in this struggle with the man, his words a big blur to me now, I woke up heart racing and I felt very uncomfortable. I of course had to sit up and check if my back door was shut and soon enough had to force myself to check if it was locked too. I always lock my doors when I'm home, but things like that make you double check.
The dream also woke me up a few hours early so I tried to sleep some more. This only resulted in my brain trying to finish the story line with unrealistic endings of me kicking the guy in the sack and I escaped with my purse to the neighbor's house. After my brain had exhausted itself with options of things that could have happened I was finally able to get a few more winks in, and yes I did use the snooze button but no bad dreams.
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