I have a bunch of questions related to the dreams I had as a kid. I hope someone can share some insight or stories of similar dreams.
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When I was a kid I was able to remember a lot of my dreams, but about 90% of what I remembered was really scary.
Out of that 90%, probably 5%-10% were nightmares that would stay in my head and leave an impression on me for the rest of the day (meaning I felt pretty lousy and out-of-sorts). I can still remember most of them pretty clearly, as if they happened very recently.
BTW, growing up I didn't have cable or a VCR so it wasn't like I was watching violent movies or anything. And for the most part I didn't read many books, and those that I did read (Julie of the Wolves, Incident on Hawk Hill, Island of the Blue Dolphins [hmm, I see a theme...
]), they certainly weren't scary.
In
all of my scary dreams (which was about 90% of everything I was able to remember), I was always putting my life at risk to save people. Lots of close calls but I was always able to save the people and I usually came out unscathed.
Question: Does that happen with other people? Is it normal? Does it mean anything? Am I just a weirdo?
Also, I would wake up briefly during my dreams and fall back asleep, but still continue with the same dream. This would occasionaly happen several times until the dream 'completed'.
Question: Is this a form of lucid dreaming?
But when I was in my late teens, when I met the guy I would eventually marry, I stopped having scary dreams, and I pretty much lost the ability to remember any of my dreams. It's almost 9 years later and I'm now getting better at remembering my dreams again, but they're not scary like they used to be.
Question: Can major shifts in your lifestyle change your dreaming habits?
The last dream I had during my scary-dream phase, was me fighting a devil. It slashed my stomach open and I can remember something akin to physical pain.
Question: Has anyone ever
felt something during their dream?