Now this wasn't a lucid dream but strange nevertheless. I had this dream where I was flying around a parking lot and when I landed people surrounded me and, each holding one arm out, fist clenched, began walking in towards me until their fists were pressing in a total circle around my rib cage. It kind of hurt and I was being crushed and constricted around my ribs.

Well, I woke up just then and in a circle around my ribs, I still felt the ache and was having trouble breathing as though someone were actuay hugging me too tight. No pajamas or covers to constrict me... so it must have been all mental. Strange. Anyone ever have something like this happen?

Yeah, look through the old messages and there was one about pain in dreams, its quite possible to feel real pain from dreams, and it often continues on a little while after you've woken up.

:):):)

yea i used to have a weird nightmare like once every month when i was alot younger. the nightmare was that a weird purple monster blob thing with long tentacles was fighting me. it was sorta based like a video game: when he came close i had to decide whether to attack or run. and i always choose attack by accident and he would grab my leg and squeeze a pressure point. and i would feel the pain and wake up from it still feeling the pain...hope that help

---> steff

Re: Gamecat

Yeah, for some reason, when I was in elementary school, kids would get really hostile whenever I flew above them.

These days, they are just in awe. I hope your dream characters get better attitudes!

Well, it wasn't a lucid dream obviously or I would have shown them a thing or two.

Despite the actions of those members of my dreamscape and the pain (actually the fact that the pain carried through into the waking worl kind of excited me as there was some sort of bridging of inner and outer worlds going on), it wasn't a nightmare. I haven't had any nightmares since I was five years old (I had a dream that someone was throwing daggers into all of the muppets on the muppet show. They kept dying in front of my eyes. It was like a mystery... but my father caught a dagger in the back and when he died in front of me his face sort of melted and sagged. I woke up... made it halfway to my parents room and then just stood in the dark alone for a few minutes and went back to bed. Not one since then.)

In fact I usually feel pretty comfortable in dreams even when Im not lucid. ... unless there is deep dark water. That makes me extremely uncomfortable in life and dreams alike.