to ask if you have nightmares about obesity?

[Mitchy1nge]

is it a common one like being late for a flight or doing an exam then realising you forgot to put a skirt on?

[Mitchy1nge]

at last I am not alone!

[RiffyWammal]

I have nightmares where I suddenly realise I have put on A LOT of weight. It's such a relief to wake up and find that I'm just plain fat rather than morbidly obese.

I have hair nightmares a lot too. Last night I dreamed I washed my hair for the first time after doing my keratin straightening, and immediately I had tight, Harpo Marx-style curls that came to just above my ears. So I re-washed and blow dried it and looked in the mirror and to my horror I had Hyacinth Bouquet hair! (I watched Keeping Up Appearances yesterday).

Come to think of it, I've never dreamed I had a perfect body and gorgeous long hair. Probably for the best as that would be a killer to wake up from!

[Mitchy1nge]

ah

am trying to think of something gruesome I could do with mine but it's already a bit icky

[BerstieSpotts]

Haha, no! :) It's a hallowe'en name change. I'm usually BertieBotts.

[Mitchy1nge]

unrelated but your name makes me feel incredibly queasy! are you (can't even type it) one of those p_s porners?

[BerstieSpotts]

I've never taken psychotropic drugs, so I don't know that it's related. I've always had it since I was a small child.

[Mitchy1nge]

god reading about that reminds me of last week my wilder days, seems not uncommon in those who indulge in certain psychoactives and it's a sort of migrainey thing so maybe it all joins up somehow while I'm asleep?

in real life I have quite good awareness of how long/wide/tall I am though, except when I misjudged the available space for a handstand the other day and caught my foot on something and catapulted myself headfirst into a wall

[BerstieSpotts]

Oh YY I definitely get Alice in Wonderland Syndrome thing. It feels like I have a giant head and I'm trying to eat things but my teeth won't close because my mouth is too big. Or I want to pick something up but my hands are so huge that it's really difficult. It's a horrible feeling.

I don't know why I didn't make that connection before, but yep, your description makes sense.

[JacqueslePeacock]

Oh, that sounds more like it then - do check it out.

[Mitchy1nge]

oh, that sounds interesting - I was going to say it is more sort of cartoonishly huge, not like being normally overweight - will have a look

[JacqueslePeacock]

You don't mean Alice-in-Wonderland-syndrome do you? AFAIK that's mores to do with imagining/dreaming you're becoming huge in size rather than focusing on the actual fat, but it might be worth checking out...

[Mitchy1nge]

ah yes, if only I had some Actual Stuff to worry about

[PartyFops]

Well, I suppose I am classed as obese (dress size 18) and honestly OP it's not as bad as you may think, certainly nothing to have nightmares about! Maybe you need something else on your life to worry about instead.

[Lazysuzanne]

I like dreams within dreams, lots of my dreams are weird and confusing but I find them all very interesting, bits from the future are often woven in, patterns & themes develop over time

[BellEndTent]

I've never heard of that one. You are quite obviously a weirdo.

I'm always running away from someone / thing in my dreams. I think those are anxiety - related.

[Mitchy1nge]

the dream about the rats sounds lovely, and the dream within dreams thing makes me shudder - had a spate of those a few years ago. I hardly ever have nice dreams, poor me :(

I had an especially fucking horrible one the other night where I was eating a burnt ends sandwich that turned out to be made of my dog

[Lazysuzanne]

I quite often wake up, write down my dream and then go back to sleep only to dream that I'm telling someone about the dream I just wrote down.

I've also dreamed that I wake up in bed, think 'I must write down my dream' and then wake up for real

dreaming about dreaming about dreaming

[BebeBelge]

The teeth falling out dream is all about sexual frustration. Allegedly

[thecatneuterer]

No. I've occasionally dreamt that I've binged on crap and woken up feeling upset about it. The nearest thing, appearance related, is I dream sometimes I have an awful haircut or my hair starts falling out.

My anxiety dream is seeing some terrible fate being about to befall an animal and being unable to do anything about it.

And since we're on the subject of dreams (as we know there's nothing more boring than people recounting their dreams), so I wasn't going to mention it. But now I will:

Two nights ago I had the most lucid of dreams that I was with a lot of very lovely, friendly, loving and fragrant smelling rats. They were so intelligent though that they demanded that I explain alegbra to them, specifically, BODMAS. (I couldn't :( ) When I woke up I realised that perhaps I should cut down on the MNing - particularly before going to sleep

[Mitchy1nge]

divinity it could be worse, it could be my mum chasing me with a sandwich I suppose

[Mitchy1nge]

It's usually something to do with balance, I'll be riding my horse and start losing balance then notice (how did I not spot it before? why did he let me get on him? he could have run away!) that my belly is so huge it is pushing into the horse's neck - or feel as though I'm falling over when dancing and it's the sloshing of slightly liquid fat under my skin that is unbalancing me because it can't turn as fast as the rest of me.

[BerstieSpotts]

I have nightmares about having to move house but not having packed everything, or staying in the house longer than we're allowed and having to sneak out in the dead of night.

When DS was a baby I used to dream that I'd accidentally left him home alone and not realised, and when I realised I was out really far away from home and I had to get back to him as quickly as I could. I don't get those now, probably because he's 5 and although I wouldn't leave him on his own, he would probably come to no harm if I did!

Also have a nightmare that lovely, supportive DP does something which makes me realise that underneath the nice he's actually an arsehole. Been spending too long on relationships methinks!

Then the last one I get is where I sleep with someone or kiss someone and then suddenly realise with horror that I'm not actually single and I've just cheated on DP and I feel awful.

The worst waking-up feeling (for me) is when you dream you have more children than you do (usually a little baby) and you wake up and realise that baby wasn't real, I always feel a bit bereft

[Divinity]

No. My nightmares are usually something happened to my children or my mother chasing me round with a bloodied knife psycho style. (Yes she has ishoos and since it's a recurring theme I obviously have ishoos too.)

I am obese yet in all my dreams I'm slim. May explain why I keep trying to squeeze through gaps that are too small for me in RL.

[Latara]

In RL I'm scared of becoming obese again but not in my dreams.

Most commonly I have nightmares where i'm falling asleep or drugged in my dream - a really weird feeling.

[LoonvanBoon]

No, never! I also have the teeth falling out one, the one where I'm about to sit an exam for which I've done absolutely no revision & (when I was still a teacher) the terrible out-of-control class one.