Fighting in My Sleep

[jwmorrice]

A couple nights ago, I was dreaming that I was having a fight with Hoss Cartwright - he of the tv show Bonanza. In my dream I tried to kick him in the face and ended up kicking a wall beside my bed. Ouch!

It's not the first time that I've struck out in my sleep. A few years ago, I was drunk and went to sleep on the floor. I was fighting someone in a dream and kicked my computer twice. For a while I was concerned that I had broken both the machine and a toe. Both turned out to be okay.

On yet another occasion, I was snoozing on a couch and kicked the phone off an end table.

Just wondering how many out there have done similar things. In my case, I think these actions might be related to alcohol use before going to sleep.

jwm

 

[danmand]

Think about sex instead of fighting before you go to sleep.

 

[Herodotus]

Join a martial arts gym and get your kicks elsewhere!

 

[Bill the Pirate]

HOSS , why would you fight Hoss? Little Joe or Adam maybe ,but Hoss. he was the nicest of the bunch.

that's nearly as bad a going after Hop Sing

 

[a 1 player]

Any way you can hog-tie yourself before you go to sleep?

 

[jbar]

I've done a few things close to that.

One time I dreamt that I was at an art store buying a painting. In my dream I took it off the wall, and was holding it, then I suddenly woke up, finding myself holding up the painting that was on the wall next to my bed. I've done same thing with lamps a few times.

 

[blaze69]

I use to dream that I was a cop and was after some shooter somewhere. With my gun drawn I get a clean shot and my gun doesn't or is difficult to shoot. It frustrates the hells out of me and I either wake up just as someone is lining me up to kill me, or I'm still stuck trying to shoot the bastard...unsuccessfully.

 

[Timbit]

I use to dream that I was a cop and was after some shooter somewhere. With my gun drawn I get a clean shot and my gun doesn't or is difficult to shoot. It frustrates the hells out of me and I either wake up just as someone is lining me up to kill me, or I'm still stuck trying to shoot the bastard...unsuccessfully.

I'm hoping you don't keep a gun in your bedside table...

Timbit

 

[Swerve69]

Yup, woken up punching the wall, kicking out , woke up once as I punched the SO on the ear (was she ever pissed !), she did understand though.
In every case dreamt I was fighting someone.

 

[antaeus]

of course we all know, in this instance, when you say fight you actually mean fuck!

 

[Edifice]

Jimmy legs???

 

[W3bster]

I read a great article a couple of weeks ago basically theorizing that our brains are constantly working through and wiring itself for defensive/life-threatening/nightmare scenarios so that we are much more successful when they actually happen in real life.

 

[jwmorrice]

I read a great article a couple of weeks ago basically theorizing that our brains are constantly working through and wiring itself for defensive/life-threatening/nightmare scenarios so that we are much more successful when they actually happen in real life.

You might find this site interesting: http://www.controlmastery.org/sleep/index.htm

jwm

 

[jerbear]

I once had a dream I was dfk a beautifull woman ,when I woke up I realized it was the dog licking me.

 

[boffo]

It's an odd coincidence that I'm reading this thread now about a fighting dream because when I woke up this morning to my radio alarm I was in the middle of a very strange dream where I was kind of fighting my car.

I dreamed there was a terrible ice storm outside and when I stepped outside on the driveway to get my car ready the driveway was covered in a sheet of ice and my car was covered in a thick sheet of ice as well . I managed to open the door to get the scraper out of my car and turn the motor on for what I figured would be 10 minutes of defrosting and scraping to take care of all the ice.

But my act of getting in the car seemed to upset 'the momentum of the universe' or something because my car started acting like that car in the movie "Christine". It just started sliding back on it's own down the slope of the driveway toward the street and there was nothing I could do to stop it. I was kind of blind because the windows were covered in thick ice but I could feel the car sliding all the way back and there was nothing I could do to stop it and when it rolled off the back of the driveway onto the street wouldn't you know it a guy just happened to be driving by at that moment and whacked my rear bumper hard. When I got out of the car to look my bumper and screws and bolts and everything were in a scrambled heap 15 yards down the street.

I was kind of fuming at the guy who hit my car because in my mind it was obviously all his fault for being in the universe at that moment just when my car decided to start acting like an idiot; but then it suddenly dawned on me that no it wasn't his fault, it was my fault and he had his wife with him in passenger seat and she steped out of the car and was calling the cops on her cell phone to report an accident.

When my alarm went off I was standing at the end of my driveway wondering if the cops would believe me that the car just wandered off on it's own down the icy driveway.
The couple who hit my car were polite and friendly and also for some odd reason looked just like Barack Obama and his wife. I have no idea why.

 

[great bear]

I have yet to lose a fight when dreaming. Hit one gf in the jaw, kicked three others in the leg, and beat the crap out of my pillow numerous times. Damn I'm one tough bear.