How Do You React Waking Up From A Nightmare?

[Truthful_Whispers]

i usually just wake up and maybe if i'm lucky go back to sleep. is it weird not to yell or making...

No, not at all. I rarely make loud sounds. Just wake up panicked and my heart racing. Sometimes, there is a little blood in my mouth, and on my pillow or sheets, where I guess I clinched my teeth together so tightly.

 

[Friday]

It very much depends on the kind of nightmare, or if I'm in a nightmare cycle.

New ones, I tend to wake up silent. Don't move, keep breathing, keep lids closed, "look" asleep. Other times I wake up already moving.,. Halfway across the room with a lamp I've ripped out of the wall in my hands. Other times I wake up soaked in sweat. f*ck. Fine. Drag the sheet off the bed, go stand in the shower. Go back to bed. Other times I wake up needing the whole life affirming, f*ck me now, thing in full swing. Other times, especially if it's been a fairly long nightmare cycle, it's roll my eyes, turn over and go back to sleep determined to finish the sucker. Other times I'm swearing, or bolt upright, or, or, or.

Very much depends.

LOL...ETA... I was staying at my parents a bit ago, and apparently I was writhing and moaning and looked to be in so much pain my mom popped a couple morphine pills in my mouth. It was just a bad dream, but I feel pain in my dreams, so... Shrug. I do have chronic pain, am used to waking up hurting. That morning I woke up pain free! Such a lovely day out! LOL. Pity that's not a solution I can use regularly!

 

[Sammyiam]

I wake up soaked in sweat so much so that the bed is soaked as well and have to put towels down under me. My fists are so tight they have gone numb and my arms ache. My jaw is numb and I have even worn the fronts of my teeth so thin from holding my jaw so tight that the bottoms are see through and they have told me I should wear a mouth guard. I have had them since very very young.

 

[Coffeegirl83]

i usually just wake up and maybe if i'm lucky go back to sleep. is it weird not to yell or making...

I am also wondering... because I don't scream..

 

[.Bubbles.]

I tend you wake up crying for some reason. I get the odd time when I scream, but not as often. Usually it's crying and feeling afraid and alone.

 

[jaccat]

I don't react. Sometimes my heart's thumping, once or twice I've sat up, but mostly nothing. I suspect it's to do with years of suppressing my emotions combined with how many years I've been having nightmares.