Quote: zooo @ August 8 2013, 1:14 PM BSTI dreamed I had to shoot George Costanza in the face, as he was really Christopher Walken in disguise (who was trying to murder us).
I cunningly asked him if he was right handed or left handed so I could tell if I was shooting the right one. The real George Costanza was okay. Phew.
George Cantstandya
Heh. I've been singing his answerphone message all day.
#Believe it or not, George isn't at home! 
I had a dream that Jennifer Lopez turned up at my door and then George Clooney wanted to have a fight with me. Then the Rock and Stone Cold Steve Austin came to rescue me.
Quote: David Smith @ August 18 2013, 11:31 AM BSTI had a dream that Jennifer Lopez turned up at my door and then George Clooney wanted to have a fight with me. Then the Rock and Stone Cold Steve Austin came to rescue me.
No, that's called the television David........
Quote: Will Cam @ August 18 2013, 11:36 AM BSTNo, that's called the television David........
It wasn't Big Brother Will Cam.
I had the most horrible dream last night. A girl had been shot by a friend of her boyfriend's. She was one of my friends and I was present at the time - we were all shot, but she was the only one killed.
To help me refresh my memory for my witness statement, the police allowed me to go "into the CCTV" -i.e. turn back time and relive the final moments before she was killed.
We were having a garden party at her house and everything was fun and lovely. I found it really hard to pretend to be nice and upbeat, so kept disappearing into the neighbouring house, where the police and her parents were waiting.
Her parents kept crying and demanding to be let out to go and see her, the police kept stopping it. I woke up just as a policeman had said "it's time" - i.e. the time for the murderer to arrive and shoot them all.
What does that say about the state of my subconscious? 
Any resemblance to a case you might have been dealing with? Or a worry that you'd have to deal with something like it?
Quote: zooo @ January 25 2009, 10:37 PM GMTYou're right to an extent, like I said.
But everyone (with some exceptions, evidently) has the dream that they are falling, and then they wake up with a jolt.
That's a physical thing, it's called a hypnic jerk or a myoclonic jerk. Some people (me included) get them before they go to sleep or when they're awake but very tired. What happens is that a group of muscles tenses very quickly shooting out an arm or leg or, if it's in your lower back, throwing your body into an arch. The feeling that your falling could be the tree thing they talk about on QI but the feeling that you have just 'landed' on your bed as you awake may be very real. Your body has just flung itself around slightly and you wake as it lands back into its original place.
Some people have different things instead of falling. I often have music. There'll be classical music playing and then all of a sudden there's a massive cymbal crash and I wake up with the same feeling of having fallen. Or sometimes I hear a big thud at the other end of the room and wake up in a bit of a panic. But I believe it's all the jerking thing.
Anyway! For repetitive dreams. I keep having a dream that I have a baby and forget I've had it then I keep finding it places like in the bath. I think, oh shit yeah I had a baby! I can't believe I forgot about it and left it in the bath. That's really bad, I'll definitely remember about it from now on and take care of it. Then in the next scene I've forgotten about the baby again and I find it on the ground or something and the same thoughts go through my head....and on and on 
Really odd, but not exactly a nightmare usually!
Quote: Aaron @ January 25 2009, 10:40 PM GMTSurely you've seen films where someone is just unable to escape something, no matter how hard they try or what they do? Same principle, surely?
Gavin, not you.
Makes more sense if it's because the body is paralysed during sleep. Often you try to do something vigorous in dreams and find you can't, or try to scream and find you can't. I'd always assumed it's because your body in real life is in paralysis and the adrenaline that shoots through your body when you're panicked is trying to get it to move.
I'm probably wrong but that was always my assumption, so it makes sense that these are common dreams.
Yet again last night I dreamt my mother had been discharged from the care home (she had Alzheimers) and I didn't know if she had carers looking after her. As usual, in the dream, I was avoiding visiting her in case she was being neglected and living in squalor. I have this dream a lot in various guises and always wake up in a panic.
By the way, she died 6 years ago.
Quote: keewik @ August 18 2013, 10:28 PM BSTYet again last night I dreamt my mother had been discharged from the care home (she had Alzheimers) and I didn't know if she had carers looking after her. As usual, in the dream, I was avoiding visiting her in case she was being neglected and living in squalor. I have this dream a lot in various guises and always wake up in a panic.
By the way, she died 6 years ago.
Aww that's so sad
It's my belief that you WILL see her again one day....
I had another dream about George Costanza.
Quote: zooo @ August 20 2013, 11:54 AM BSTI had another dream about George Costanza.
Sorry Zooo its me, I've been burglarising you and when you wake up I just say something funny that George would have said.
Quote: zooo @ August 20 2013, 11:54 AM BSTI had another dream about George Costanza.
And now I'm singing his answer message.