I seem to have more nightmares then dreams.In fact they make most of the horror movies i see make me laugh.I get nightmares so bad i wake up in a cold sweet gasping for breath with my heart racing a hundred miles an hour.I am sure you have had at least one of these in your life time.The thing is they are so intense that i can only remember parts of them sometimes.

I keep having reoccurring ones as well.I have a nightmare where i am running threw a dark damp house where you can not find the exit.There is some one chasing me with a odd shaped hook.I can hear people laughing and talking about me as if I am a lab mouse in a cage.Every time I get to the end of the down stairs hall there is a locked door with a mirror on it.I try to pull the handle but I break it off in my hand.Then I look in the mirror to realize I have no face.The man who is chasing me and I see his face.Its mine!It scares me enough to wake me up every time.

On the other hand I all so have good dreams sometimes to.I often have one of being a cartoon boy running up stairs made of hard candy.There are life saver lolly pops as a railing with a river of chocolate to my left.Just on the other side of the river is a toy tank shooting banana peels in front of me on the stairs.

I am not sure what this means.Some people say there is meaning in all of our dreams.If that is true my head must be in a lot of strange places.Will we ever know what our dreams mean.For me I think in the long run I would rather not know.There could be a chance that they come from a suppressed memory we can not remember.

There is so much to say about nightmares and dreams.It is to me an escape from reality.It is better than watching movies because you are the main character in every story.If would could find a way to have virtual dreams the movie company's would be out of a job.

I do often wonder why we can not remember what our dreams are.For that matter i wonder how many we have a night.There may be one to a hundred we have no way of finding out for sure.If they could record my dreams that would make me more happy than I could even imagine.

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