Does anyone know anything about getting rid of, or at least dealing with dreams? I've never had so many dreams in one night before in my whole life...every night. Usually weird enough, but sometimes scary, like just now, otherwise I don't think I'd be online at 3:30 in the morning. I can't go back to sleep because of it. My dreams are usually something I'm able to live with, but just now I had a dream where I was in a freind's basement (never actually been in their house) and there was a room that was almost entirely white, and there were bodies, maybe 4 or 5, all with either the face, chest and arms (partially) eaten off, or the whole head and half the body gone. Then these guys that "live" there would put them in white plastic bags and throw them out every night. It wouldn't haunt me so much if the images weren't so grotesque and graphical. It seemed so real.

Call me crazy, but the only problem I'd normally have sleeping is the fact that I'm positive that just the dog and I are not the only ones in the room on a regular basis. Something, I know, talks to me while I try to go to sleep...it sounds like a little girl's voice most of the time, one that I don't recognize. I can hear it subconsiously or when I'm just waking up, either saying things to me or about me, sometimes counting numbers, but I don't usually hear it when I'm wide awake. I'll also wake up often to it tapping me on the foot or leg. Either way, it doesn't normally bother me enough to the point where I can't sleep.

I don't know if it has to do with the same thing or not, but when I woke up just now I could still hear it on and off, wide awake, for about 10 minutes. I can never understand really well what it says, except for a couple times, and even then it didn't make any sence.

Anyway, I can't go back to sleep and I guess it's been just recently that I can't sleep at all without dreaming something, which isn't normal for me. I mean, when I was little I used to dream a lot, but not usually anymore...maybe once in a blue moon.

Anyone know what to do about something like this?

Experiencing periods with a lot of nightmares I think happens to many people. I've had one of those periods myself, for a whole week I only dreamt nightmares, and they got worse for each night. It ended with the worst nightmare I've ever had, allthough when describing it it doesn't seem that bad. I found myself disappearing from the world, suddenly finding myself somewhere else. Like waking up from a dream. It was just that it kept happening, over and over again. It was a very scary feeling, not knowing what world was the real one, since they all ended with me waking up into another world! Trying to tell people around me that they didn't exist, this wasn't real... When I actually did wake up for real in the morning I was more or less panicing. It took me the entire day to dare trust the world and that it was real, I walked around just waiting for the time when I would "wake up" again. After that dream I went back to normal dreaming again.
Well, what I wanted to say was: these things can come in periods, and no matter how scary it is you need to trust in that it will be over soon, it won't keep going forever!

I don't think the voice you're hearing while you fall asleep has anything to do with the nightmares. It's actually a quite common phenomena, that is mentioned in most serious books about dreams and/or psychology. I've experienced that too: I was woken up by a man's voice suddenly calling my name, and I heard it just as clear as if it came from a person standing next to me. In a book I read about dreams they mentioned some instances where people have been saved from dangerous situations because a voice has woken them up just like that. I have been wondering if it could be some sort of guardian angels, or some other being that stands by our sides. The time I was woken up by the voice, I found an extrermely weirdlooking thing floating around by the ceiling. (it was brown and had "roots" hanging down from it) Didn't seem especially dangerous, though...

You shouldn't worry about dreaming a lot as long as it's not nightmares, though. Try to learn from them! Have some fun!

/w

Wow, a dream like that would freak me out too! Yeah, what you said about those voices sounds exactly like what it might be. I hope the dreams do go away though...it's getting to the point where I'm afraid to go to sleep and am starting to find "better" things to do, like watch tv and such, just to avoid having to go to bed.