Did you ever wake up screaming?

Weird question, I know, but it popped into my mind after it happened to me a few days ago.

I had a sneaky nightmare (damn dreams, I hate them! Let me sleep in peace you busters!) in which I caused a car accident involving a bus full of people and caused the death of dozens. The meaning is simple: I'm (not so secretly) afraid of unwillingly harming others, the weird fact was that I woke up screaming so loud that I scared the bricks out of the neighborhood.

Did anything like that ever happen to you, to wake up screaming (or maybe crying, or the like?).

I've never woken up screaming but I once had a dream that freaked me out so bad I hid under the sheets at the ripe old age of 19. Seriously I was so freaking scared it wasn't funny.

Never actually screaming but I have woken up freaked out lots of times.

I've also woke up by my body twitching, which is pretty weird.

Not as I remember, but I have woken up several times scared s***less... It's been happening a lot more, recently...

I also think I had a near-death experience once... It was like, there was this light at the end of a tunnel, something like that. It's hard to describe. And it was blue...

I was having a nightmare one morning and my mom was shaking me to wake me up. I woke up in terror I started sceaming when I woke up and pushed myself into the corner of my bed. My eyes were open and everything but I was still screaming in terror.

I also woke myself up by crying in my sleep to this day I still dont knwo what I was dreaming about but I had tears running down my face.

My mom said I was yelling in my sleep the other morning. She said it was freaking her out.

i did last night :oops:

was the same old creepy shadow guy as usual, whenever s/he/it turns up in my dreams it never ends well. doesnt happen very often though, only ever happened about 4-5 times this year and it's never happened before that

has happened to me a couple times when I was younger. I even had a weird case of sleep paralysis (sp?) once where I woke up screaming but nothing was coming out of my mouth, probably the freakiest thing i've ever experiencedandyboiii

Everybody knows sleep paralysis only happens when you get kidnapped by aliens. :roll:

No, I can't say I have. I have done the good old "Wake up fast when you think your falling", but not actually screaming.Caddy06_88

Yeah, same here...

About 8 years ago when I was a little innocent boy of the age of 7 I had a dream that relatives came over to the house and I wanted to stay in the room and play there but my mum told me to go bed...So I go upstairs to the toilet and I pull up the toilet seat so I can pee and then all I see hanging right over the water a huge thick hairy brown tarantula, I screamed as loud as I could in the dream then I just sat right up awake, sweating an gasping in my bed. Ever since then I've had a fear of spiders and I can't bear to be in the same room as a spider... Hell I couldn't even kill a spider in a game cause I've gotten so afraid of them at the time but now I just shout and scream at them in a game... IRL, I run as fast as I can :(

P.S I'm not sure if it even was a dream... it looked so real I thought its real, I still am to this day not sure, since I've never asked

Well thats mine 8)

No, I can't say I have. I have done the good old "Wake up fast when you think your falling", but not actually screaming.Caddy06_88

Same here, I get that often.

But a few nights ago I woke up talking, like I was mid-word when I woke up. Though I don't remember what I was saying...

has happened to me a couple times when I was younger. I even had a weird case of sleep paralysis (sp?) once where I woke up screaming but nothing was coming out of my mouth, probably the freakiest thing i've ever experiencedandyboiii

I've had dreams like that, but now that I've made a research why it goes like that, I'm no longer afraid =]

Dreams can be metaphorical. Your dream doesn't necessarily mean you're afraid of unwillingly harming others. It may be much more complicated than that. I have many nightmares maybe 1-3 a week. I never wake up screaming. I wake up startled, a quick jerk into waking, then I lay down again, but that's about it. Anyways as much as I don't like my nightmares apart of me does. It let's me experience the full spectrum of emotion. If I just had good dreams they wouldn't be as good without the bad ones.

What I don't like is fear. People are too swayed by it, and too easily controlled by it. It's one thing to be afraid. It's another to allow it to controll your behavior.

Dreams can be metaphorical. Your dream doesn't necessarily mean you're afraid of unwillingly harming others. It may be much more complicated than that. I have many nightmares maybe 1-3 a week. I never wake up screaming. I wake up startled, a quick jerk into waking, then I lay down again, but that's about it. Anyways as much as I don't like my nightmares apart of me does. It let's me experience the full spectrum of emotion. If I just had good dreams they wouldn't be as good without the bad ones.

What I don't like is fear. People are too swayed by it, and too easily controlled by it. It's one thing to be afraid. It's another to allow it to controll your behavior.

EMOEVOLUTION

Yup, you're right, dreams are metaphorical and they always hide deeper things behind apparently simple ones (come to think of it, my friends ask me to explain their dreams all the time). Unfortunately I don't remember anything else about my dream, so I have to go for the easy explanantion.