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techgirl74 · 10-10-2008, 08:10 PM

I probably should have said this...I dont act anything out. Never have. Let me give an actual example. My bf and I have been talking a lot about moving. Which I want to do. I cannot stand where I am right now. That is 100% honesty right there. The cold weather does not bode well with one of my ailments. Anyway, I am lying in bed thinking about how GREAT it would be to be someplace nice...daydreaming if you will about a nice home, where its warm, decent jobs maybe someplace close to a beach or something around Florida. Then out of nowhere this "nightmare thought" sneaks in about me coming home and finding a huge snake in the house and it having eaten my two cats and it having just done it..and I can actually still see them writhing about inside the beast...and I am screaming at the bf to kill it and get them out..... then BAM I snap out of this thought and shake it off....but it was there so now I cant sleep.

Now I DO have a huge fear of snakes (and they do haunt my dreams occasionally and have ever since I was about 4 or 5)...and quiet honestly large snakes and crocs is a fear of moving to Fla for me when it comes to my animals but I was not even thinking about that at the time. At least not conciously.

However, thoughts like this "sneak" into my head whenever I idle...or daydream. No matter what the happy thoughts may be. And like I said...MORE so when I am stressed and lately our world has been SO stressed with family illness, everything in the house breaking and so on and so forth. But I did want to clearthat up - I do not now, nor have I ever acted things out...they are just fleeting "nightmareish" thoughts that come into my mind....like an unconcious thought brought forward duirng a daydream or something...and I find it odd....I didn't know if that would be classified as a daydream "nightmare" or what?

10-10-2008, 08:10 PM	#14 (permalink)
techgirl74 Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 2	Let me clarify... I probably should have said this...I dont act anything out. Never have. Let me give an actual example. My bf and I have been talking a lot about moving. Which I want to do. I cannot stand where I am right now. That is 100% honesty right there. The cold weather does not bode well with one of my ailments. Anyway, I am lying in bed thinking about how GREAT it would be to be someplace nice...daydreaming if you will about a nice home, where its warm, decent jobs maybe someplace close to a beach or something around Florida. Then out of nowhere this "nightmare thought" sneaks in about me coming home and finding a huge snake in the house and it having eaten my two cats and it having just done it..and I can actually still see them writhing about inside the beast...and I am screaming at the bf to kill it and get them out..... then BAM I snap out of this thought and shake it off....but it was there so now I cant sleep. Now I DO have a huge fear of snakes (and they do haunt my dreams occasionally and have ever since I was about 4 or 5)...and quiet honestly large snakes and crocs is a fear of moving to Fla for me when it comes to my animals but I was not even thinking about that at the time. At least not conciously. However, thoughts like this "sneak" into my head whenever I idle...or daydream. No matter what the happy thoughts may be. And like I said...MORE so when I am stressed and lately our world has been SO stressed with family illness, everything in the house breaking and so on and so forth. But I did want to clearthat up - I do not now, nor have I ever acted things out...they are just fleeting "nightmareish" thoughts that come into my mind....like an unconcious thought brought forward duirng a daydream or something...and I find it odd....I didn't know if that would be classified as a daydream "nightmare" or what?