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[Jackrabbit]

Urgh, I hate zombies. I probably shouldn't have gotten the zombie survival guide off of Josh but hey, its a fun read and I was sooo bored, staying home for the whole week thanks to swine flu. So thanks again Josh, you saved my brain.

As for the dreams, that sounds really worrying. Are you sure you don't have any family members to confide in? It would really help. Otherwise, if this is causing you grief then you would be well advised to seek psychiatric help, no matter how expensive it may seem. You can't let this go unchecked.

Lucid dreaming? I have never had one, I feel like I'm missing out. I think I need to make a topic about this. Would it go into Life Advice, do you think?

[JoshuaFH]

I've only heard of lucid dreaming once before, but I never bothered looking into it. I might check into it.

[ein]

Lucid dreaming is actually pretty easy if you make yourself aware of the signs of dreaming.
Off the top of my head, you can't read stuff usually and hitting light switches does nothing unless totally context appropriate, like entering a dark room. Also, try not to wake up to alarm clocks. Waking up nice and slow is a good way to be awake, but still dreaming.

[i2amroy]

The best way to cure this is probably to solve your social problems. However, I have found that one of the best ways to avoid nightmares is to avoid all dreams. I know that it is physically impossible to not dream, but I have found a way that causes me to not remember them, even immediately after I wake up. I also had no restless nights while using this method, and I was forced to learn it when I had had a one week long string of terrible nightmares. What I did was that as I was lying in bed I tried to clear my mind completely, as I have found that what you are thinking about when you fall asleep often has an influence on your dreams. This is much more difficult than you would think, though, as even at night there are huge amounts of distractions, from sounds to worries from earlier. If you keep trying, though, I have found that you will get better at clearing your mind and your dreams will start to fade away. After enough time, I found myself starting to do it automatically before sleeping. Even now I only dream about half of the nights I sleep, and it has been four years since I actively did this. It may take I while to get started, for me, it took me two weeks before I had a night without a dream, and another two before I started to do it automatically, but I have found that it is a wonderful cure for consistent nightmares, at least until you can solve the source. Best of luck with your problem.

[Armok]

*Armok gives chaoticjosh a big, fuzzy hug to comfort him*

[Tormy]

Sounds to me like your dreams are your mind's way of telling you that you're unhappy with that fact. Best suggestion I can give is to start finding ways to improve yourself.

Isolate an aspect of yourself that you feel other people don't like, and work on improving it.

Indeed, this is what I wanted to say also. 

[SolarShado]

*Armok gives chaoticjosh a big, fuzzy hug to comfort him*

I'm not sure this'd have the desired effect... but I guess it's the thought that counts,

[Armok]

If I get 20 other people to join it might have the desired effect:
Mega Group Hug Rally! ^_^

[SHAD0Wdump]

*Armok gives chaoticjosh a big, fuzzy hug to comfort him*

I'm not sure this'd have the desired effect... but I guess it's the thought that counts,

And the crunching noises.

[Neonivek]

I should say that Lucid Dreaming isn't a solution to your problem as it has a higher chance of making the dream worse.

From what I can tell a good way is to decide a solution to your dream and remember it before you go to sleep.

The Solution to myself is simply to ignore it... Though that is because I had horrible nightmares as a child. Though not everyone has that luxury.

I guess another solution is to attempt to wake up early but that would trouble your sleep.

The reason you remember the Nightmare is because it is personal to you and thus you linger onto it.

[Hawkfrost]

I would say think it through, or talk to someone with psychiatry training.

Seems to me(From what I have learned from my psychiatrist and therapist) that you feel isolated and alone, and you want attention and friendship.
You are wearing dirty clothing because you feel you are different from everyone else, and the invisible-ish companions are caused by you feeling that you have no friends or important loved ones in your life.

Keep in mind, this is amateur hour here.

[The Scout]

I don't dream I just become unconcious then I'm awake. I feel like I'm missing something.

[Neonivek]

Keep in mind Hawkfrost that dreams are a personal thing and that true interpretation needs to be done by the individual.

There are two academic schools of thought when it comes to dreams (actually three... but the third is unimportant)
1) Dreams are your unconscious thoughts running lose or communicating with you
2) Dreams are electrical pulses coursing through your brain almost randomly and thus recent conscious and unconscous thoughts are added to it.
-I go by this school.

(Remember that your unconscious is not a seperate part of you. It is essentially the you that you are unaware of)

You could be getting these dreams simply because your afraid of having these dreams. You could be remembering a terrible time in your life. You could be afraid that it very well could happen. Anything really.

I don't dream I just become unconcious then I'm awake. I feel like I'm missing something

You dream at LEAST and hour everynight (not dreaming is usually indicative of other problems) you just don't remember them. There are many reasons for this

1) Your state of mind: Generally speaking Artists are more capable of remembering dreams then scientists. Only things you believe are important or capable of believing are possible are likely to be remembered. Though even Artists don't remember their whole dreams.

Uhh I don't have more reasons then that. If you want to remember your dreams you need to concentrate on remembering your dreams and make sure you spend a bit of your waking time remembering them. I usually don't remember my dreams unless I decide to.

[SolarShado]

I rarely remember my dreams anymore... sometimes I wake up with the impression "Damn that was a wierd dream!" but that's about it...

I used to be better at remembering them... I duno what happened... or when, really...

[Neonivek]

I rarely remember my dreams anymore... sometimes I wake up with the impression "Damn that was a wierd dream!" but that's about it...

I used to be better at remembering them... I duno what happened... or when, really...

Well either your mindset changed, you don't attempt to remember them as much as before, or the amount of time your in REM sleep is lower.

Babies spend more time in REM (dream) sleep in a single day then some adults do in a month.