Mostly it's simply memories. I mean, with time it's gotten better. It's been a long time since I've woken up in a panic not knowing where I am, reaching for a gun. Had to move that from under the pillow to about 8 feet away when my wife first moved in. There were misunderstandings.
I'll only give one example, during the Katrina clean-up we had a meeting site. We were all pretty desensitized by that point. So much so that the smell of two rotting corpses simply under a piece of plywood on the street corner of our meeting site went unnoticed for weeks, if not months. A new guy who got hired smelled it, moved the board, and there's two bodies, holding onto each other tightly, bloated and discolored.
They must have been very scared and loved each other. Resources were thin at the time, so it got ruled a drowning, so many murders did then. But they weren't there when we initially chose the site, at some point that couple was killed less than 10 yards from where we worked, merely covered with a board, and nobody noticed.
That job and a few others give me nightmares.
As a little kid (between 7-10) I used to feel a presence at the foot of my bed and could feel it breathing. I could see it's lungs in my head.
It came back a few times as an adult.
Other than that I have very vivid daydreams.
It's when I'm walking across the living room and the kids have a silly show on that I'm not interested in but it grabs my attention and I stop and watch it... oblivious to all else... until I snap out of it.
My daydreams are the same sometimes. I don't hallucinate but this thought, movie will play in my head and I'll stop and watch it... standing in the open doorway of Walgreens or any other store... watching a movie of thought in my head until I snap out of it.
It happens when I drive, but I'm aware enough to stay in between the lines and away from other traffic.
It happened once in Church when I was a kid and I almost interacted with the movie (in my head)... out loud. I stopped myself just before I yelled to the preacher to look out, there was a giant spider behind him...
It's odd. I don't know if this falls into any category that you mean. It's not caused any accidents or dangerous situations at all but it is all odd.
Actually, around the end of last year, I would get disturbing impulses not when I was trying to fall asleep, but during the middle of the day. It was like a demon was whispering in my ear, "Look, there are the knives. Just take one out of the drawer and stab her. Stab, stab, stab! It'll be easy and fun".
Maybe I'm not as mentally stable as I thought I was, or maybe I'm a yet to be diagnosed psychopath. It got to the stage where I thought the best solution for everyone would be for me to commit suicide in order to prevent something truly tragic from occurring, but thankfully that turned out not to be necessary, and here I am, on GAG! :D
My crazy mind thinks omg I forgot to lock the door and turn on the security 🚨. If I wake because of it I’m pretty much fucked I’ll grab my gun walking down the stairs getting all worked up about it. Only to realize the door was locked and my Security 🚨 was set. I so worked up can’t fall back asleep and I’ll be a bitch all day 😂. The stupid part is I have two professionally trained attack and guard dogs who was sleeping on the floor next to me bed. They didn’t bark and I know they would had if anyone had tried to enter. My crazy head geeerrr
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I wouldn't worry about your corpse rotting in a 100 years, the worms will have eaten it long before that.
Yes I do. Sometimes they can be incredibly overwhelming. I’m pleased to say I’ve had them under control as of late.
Yes a lot of stuff like that or very close.
also wake up at night with it, double enclosed nightmare syndrome
Yes I’m there with you.. I can’t get over some of these night terrors I have. 🥲
Definitely. It's called depression. Just tells me I need sleep. Very badly. Very Very badly. And once I get some good sleep those thoughts completely disappear.
Those kind? No. Either punching, kissing, or shoving into traffic a random person I pass on the street or throwing myself from moving car or just you know, screaming? Yes, but I'm not crazy, though.
Do you not know how to control your own mind, and stop that thought process, or even those kinds of dreams?
It is actually quite easy, and makes for a much more peaceful life, and Dreamtime.
Yes, but I deal with ptsd on a recurring basis and have strategies to work through them.
Not anymore. There is kind of a ceiling for horror: once you're dead it's over. It doesn't matter what thoughts of hate or terror you had before death, you won't have them after. Most of the "daymares" I still get are more about horror happening to other people that I can do nothing about. Like child abuse or racists.
All the time.
The most disturbing thought I have is probably getting decapitated and my head being aware of it. I saw a lot of stuff on the French Revolution, and this thing always deeply disturbed me.
Sometimes. I find it's important to keep my mind in a good place during the day.
We should be aware of the media and food we consume.
We should be aware of our emotions during the day and in closing. If you're thinking about disturbing things or generally feel uneasy before you drift off to sleep, it is natural that one should take this into our dreams.
Over the past 9 months, yes. When I got covid I began to hallucinate that I was being hunted by my wife's father.
Since I've recovered - physically about 80% - I'm stuck with the memories of the dreams I had while in the coma. They come as I'm falling asleep.
I don't scare easily. I've had a gun put in my face, been attacked by a guy with a baseball bat and defended myself against 3 guys who jumped me from behind. I've never lost a fight. But this dream is different. I can't defend myself. "Disturbing" isn't a strong enough word!
You should learn how to lucid dream. That way you'll be able to control your dream and change it.
Oof yes. I've had some really fucked up dreams because of it.
Yeah. Ptsd
Oh yeah, I get really disturbing intrusive thoughts. They used to bother be so much I would have anxiety attacks that lasted days, because I thought I was secretly this horrible person. Thankfully my therapist gave me some really helpful info, which I'll share here.
Intrusive thoughts are really common, especially in people with PTSD, depression, anxiety, or OCD (though having intrusive thoughts doesn't necessarily mean you have one or more of those mental health problems)
The important thing to remember is that they are not a reflection of what you really think or want, and they become less frequent when you just ignore them
I think this is very common to happen before you fall asleep. There's something about the dark that makes me feel someone else's presence sometimes.
I think about really bad things that have already happened to me. Mostly people that have screwed me over or ex girlfriends that broke my heart.
Less as of lately. Had some pretty wicked nightmares when I was working as a volunteer sheriffs deputy. One of the first calls I went on was a suicide. It was a middle aged rich woman living in a mansion. I was sitting in the living room doing some paperwork and I could literally see her body just dangling from above back n forth in my peripheral. Kept having nightmares of that pretty consistently. Really difficult image to break.
I like those thoughts. I even try to give myself nightmares. It's fun to me..
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