The worst dreams? Losing your teeth. I've had dreams where I can wiggle my tooth with my tongue; eventually it falls out and I move onto the next tooth until my gums are empty. I've had dreams where my teeth crumble in their sockets and I swear I can taste the enamel which is now powder. Waking up from that is a complete mind fuck. I have three recurring dreams. One is being stuck in math class working on the same problem which I can't figure out. The other is school themed as well, where I can't remember my locker combination. God, that one drives me fucking batty. The third is that my father is still alive. When I ask him where he's been all these years his reply is usually that he never went anywhere. Rest of the time he says he was gone, but he's back now. What a douche. Personally, those falling dreams are hella fun.
It said the effects of high tryptophan intake are not well-studied, not that it's a myth. What address should I send this to?
What the hell, here I was hoping it was an article around some weird group of people worshipping turkeys. All I know is that after a sufficient helping of dark meat, I feel right as rain. EDIT: phrasing.
If I may, I'd like to steer this conversation away from sleep inducing turkeys and back to half naked beefy Asian chicks. I don't know what this says about me(well, maybe I do), but it's definitely better than turkey nightmares. (Sorry Tod, I don't mean to belittle your plight.)
Tryptophan is fairly strongly indicated as a precursor to the production of seratonin and possibly as a seratonin re uptake inhibitor in some not great studies. But the role of seratonin in cognitive function and behavioural adjustment is being disputed heavily in mental health care and turkey while relatively high in tryptophan compared to other naturally occurring sources, has fuck all in a clinical context. The available evidence suggests that Turkey nightmares/sleepiness are the result of eating too much leading to gastric distress and nothing else. While not well studied is a fair statement about Turkey and tryptophan, it's also a fair statement about the role of the tooth fairy in production of oxytocin.... It's in large part not well studied because looking at the available evidence doesn't suggest any merit in further studies. You can get supplementary tryptophan from good health shops, usually in the form of 5htp, it alleviates the severity of the after effects of certain recreational amphetamines, and can help with insomnia and excessive appetite in some instances. Clinical evidence suggests that it's remedial benefit for insomnia and appetite management is pretty weak and only present at all with very specific patient pathology. Anecdotally though, it's fucking great for managing come downs after pills. And I spent five minutes trying to find video of rin nakai eating a dick, no such luck. With her protein load requirements, I bet she makes hotdog eating contests look like downtown abbey.
I never had the teeth dreams and never heard of it as common until a few years ago. I have the school dream and public bathroom privacy dreams.
I've never had a dream about my teeth, either. It's supposed to be one of, if not the, most common dreams. I have had a lot of dreams about falling or missing a step and getting that whooshing feeling in my stomach. It always wakes me up.
Ive had the teeth falling out dream. Doesn't make any sense. I don't actually fly in my dreams either instead of flying I just jump super high and float down Mario caped style. It's frustrating. My murder/escape nightmares are freaky because I feel the real dread that Ive fucked my life up, Im going to jail or getting killed. Fucking anxiety ridden when I have them. Most of my dreams revolve around not being able to fuck the girl that Im trying to fuck in my dream. We'll hit it off in one room or location then the dream will shift right as Im about to close the deal and she'll just be out of reach, in the next room, or in another location Im not at. Story of my life really. Freud was really on to something about dreams being a reflection of subconscious wishes/issues.
I've never had tooth dreams, but sex dreams about dentists are totally normal, right? I mean, the dentist told me it was a dream.
I've had the tooth dream a shit-ton. It's like my teeth are falling out or loose or both. I attribute it to having TMJ issues and grinding my teeth in my sleep like nobody's business. Like seriously I wear a night guard and sometimes I can't open my mouth very much because I grinded them so hard in my sleep. In other news....I get drunk in order to tolerate spending time with my future in-laws and my mother can't stand them. I don't know exactly what this means, but I do wish that it wasn't this wayz
God damn. Now all us non tooth-nightmare people are on edge. If I eat my teeth in my dreams tonight I'll pull a UN and write a strongly worded disapproval letter to all of you dicks. I've had some fucked up dreams, but my teeth eroding/disappearing? Shit. Though my favorite "nightmare" is probably from my second year of college. Once we finally hooked up our xbox to online play, we binge played for about a week straight. For me that included Turok, Call of Duty, and Need for Speed. I had a dream terrorists and dinosaurs were after me. Think Jurassic Park meets Saving Private Ryan. I'm running from a group of guys with guns, but luckily the raptor pack picked them off. Thankfully the T-rex's couldn't drive. Still can't explain why my grades were in the shitter that quarter.
I don't get nightmares, not since I was really young. Although same as Tuesday mentioned if I've been watching a lot of a TV series, playing a lot of a particular game or reading a book I find my in my dreams that I'm inside whatever world the game/book/show is.
Yea, thats kinda like a person who is going through a dry spell hearing their friends talking about their amazing dates. Pretty sure my nightmares are tied into my depression, there is a direct correlation there. Thankfully, because I live in a green state, I'm going to stop by the store and pick up some bud because really it can't get much worse. And if there ever was a person who wasn't going through cancer (or any other serious applicable illness) that could claim medicinal use its me. I have migraines, anxiety, OCD and adhd. My mind really could use some help slowing down.
Sleep disorders ftw - I almost never dream, almost never remember them on the rare occasion when I do dream, and they don't usually last long enough to be scary or anything else when they do happen. Fucking sleep.
I had a dream not too long ago where I was convinced I had died. It was so lucid, it was so intense and vibrant, and not only that I couldn't end it. I remember thinking because I couldn't end the dream I had died, then I started freaking out, then my heart starting pounding and I remember thinking while in the dream if my heart is pounding I'm not dead. Fuck sleeping. Its a surprise I don't do meth or something
The worst dreams are the inception/death combos, when you're dreaming that you die, but you wake up. Then some shit goes down, and you die again, but you think it's real this time because you had just woke up. But then Leo turns up and you wake up for real and there is piss and shit and tears everywhere
I kind of stumbled into lucid dreaming, to an extent, when I was younger. I had the innate ability to wake myself up from "bad" dreams by forcefully trying to open my eyes. Its odd, but I was able to figure it out when I would have the same bad dreams over and over. That gets confusing at times cause like guernica mentioned, sometimes you get in that weird loop where you have dreams about waking up. When I get stressed about waking up at a certain time or an event the next day, I have way too many dreams of missing my alarm or waking up, or the like. Its obnoxious
I used to be able to do that when i was a teenager. I could always remember my dreams, i could wake up from my bad dreams. But now... I don't have a sleep disorder, well maybe i do, I rarely sleep good, and I haven't remember a dream for as long as i can remember.
I can remember my dreams and to an extent control the ones I'm having in that period before fully waking up. My biggest issue is staying awake. My sleep apnea isn't as bad as it was after having my tonsils out but I still don't sleep as well as I could.