Is That You In Your Avatar - Sweet Sixteen! — Page 35

I wish I could forget most of my dreams.

My dreams are only about frustration. Why do I still have the dream where it's the last day of a semester and I just realized that I'm signed up for a class that I haven't been attending all semester? Or that I can't get to class on time?

It's been almost eight years since I finished grad school.

I've had really two freaky nightmares. Both involving ghosts. In one, I dreamt that a ghost was trying to choke me. All I could do was moan. That woke Ivan up, and he woke me up.

In the other one, Ivan and I were being chased by ghosts in a convertible. A large ghost pulled him from behind the wheel. I woke up, screaming, with my left arm in the air.

That really freaked him out.

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Ohhh, I dream all the time that it's the last week of high school and I have to take my exams, but I can't remember my schedule and I haven't been going to half the classes. It's just silly. Or I dream that I find out all these years later that I didn't graduate and that I have to go back as an adult.

ETA: Not that I consider myself an adult or anything.

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Updated On: 2/4/08 at 01:46 PM

I dreamed that I would get up on stage for my auditions and forget all the words for one of my songs.



And then it really happened.

I want to go home and take a nap.

I can explain the choking ghost, actually. Were you in your room when it happened? You might have been experiencing sleep paralysis. It's harmless, and a lot of people have it.

Basically, when you're asleep, most of the muscles in your body shut down to keep you from thrashing around too much and hurting yourself. This also includes your breathing muscles. You're still breathing, of course, but not in the manner that you do when you're awake.

Sleep paralysis occurs when your brain starts to wake up before your body does. It feels like you can't breathe because you can't control your breathing like you normally do, and you feel like you can't move because your body is still shut down for sleep. And there are often vivid hallucinations, because you're still dreaming even though you're partially awake.

It's pretty scary but ultimately harmless. It used to happen to me quite often. I found it was much more likely to happen if I got up and did something (like go to an 8:30 class) and then returned to bed for an hour or two more of sleep. And I rarely have the luxury of doing that anymore.

Updated On: 2/4/08 at 01:52 PM

It's interesting that you say that because the same thing happens to me. I usually sleep on my stomach, and on the rare occasion I sleep on my back, I have a nightmare. Almost every single time.

I've also done that.


I just got a letter from Pace offering me a scholarship of $13,000 a year. Too bad I won't get in for my intended major. Urgh.

At least they like you enough to offer you money for SOMETHING! :-P

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Oh how I wish.

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Yeah.


For my grades.


Whoop-de-doo.

Thanks.