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Does anyone else have the same nightmarish dreams in the weeks leading up to a skiing trip? Some of mine make me wake up in terror.
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Getting there to find I've forgotten all my stuff or once I had just packed a towel.
Getting there and there is no snow, not even a flake, just brown mud (that happened last week when I 'took' my parents dream skiing).
And probably the worst one and it is recurring and not necessarily restricted to ski holidays - getting to the last day to realise I've actually either forgotten to ski the entire week, or I sleep the entire week and wake up on the last day to realise I've not done anything.
Maybe I need help or maybe it's more common than I think?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I dream about skiing a lot, but all positive.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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The one I sometimes have is breaking my leg the day before I go.
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| AllyK wrote: |
| or I sleep the entire week and wake up on the last day to realise I've not done anything. |
Not a scouser are you?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Masque, that made me laugh so much I nearly spat my lunch out. No, but my Gran was so maybe it's in the genes 
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sheepmadang, you do realise that that's what I'LL now dream about tonight (me not wearing any trousers, not you  )
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Ordhan, that's not a nightmare, that's a night terror
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Does anyone have the "lost passport" nightmare?
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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AllyK - I sympathise. I always dream about a green slope/brown mud situation before I go skiing. Last dream was a bit weirder in that I had booked to take all my secondary school class (and I finished school in 1998) out to Austria and when we arrived I realised I had booked for August instead of February so it was summer hence no snow. In my dream I had to hide in a shed because everyone was really angry with me. If you need help, I definitely do too!!
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Elizabeth B, for me that's not usually a nightmare it's a reality (twice)
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You know it makes sense.
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Last night I dreamt about CEM never met him and dont know what he looks like but he had never seen feet or legs as bad as mine was disgusted with my current boots and I got a parking ticket whilst there :0 and I couldnt pay it so the fee kept going up ????????
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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had a dream last night that I had 5 minutes to pack as I had forgotten about my holiday, and was told that I could only take what I could fit in a wash bag to France with me on the eurostar.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Goodness, you lot are filled with anxieties. I only dream of executing perfect carved turns, winning races and of death-defying conquests of steep couloirs. It's real life that doesn't come up to scratch!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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In all the dreams, I have so many complications and things going wrong, that I never make it onto the slopes.
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Yep, had that one. Also, I am in somewhere I am supposed to know quite well, but can't work out how to get to the slopes, or can't work out how to use the lifts. Sometimes I end up with no boots - about to step into the skis, and I'm in trainers.
Never done perfect carved turns, won races, or conquered couloirs. Not at any time of the day. 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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AllyK, & pam w, Absolutely! It is awful I actually feel slightly nauseous. I don't have the "forgotten to pack" ones but I have loads of no snow or complications preventing me getting on it just as you describe.
I never ever have good skiing dreams but I reckon I would prefer things as they are - nightmarish dreams - reality beyond my wildest ( I mean the experience - not my uninspiring skiing standard)!
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I've had the "no snow" dreams
I've also had the "forgotten important ski gear" dreams too.
I had one last week where I was at the bottom of a drag lift sans skis. Somehow I got up the lift anyhow, sliding on my boots (It seemed like a perfectly reasonable idea). When I got to the top I also discovered I had no poles either. Not a good start to a skiing dream!
Come to think of it I can't ever recall having a positive ski dream where everything is perfect. It's usually a combination of lack of snow and skiing gear that always stops me from actually skiing in my dreams 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Somehow I got up the lift anyhow, sliding on my boots (It seemed like a perfectly reasonable idea).
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I've had some dreams where I can ski quite nicely down a grassy hill, in trainers, and with no skis. Just get those edges in. Sorry, uktrailmonster, being up a hill without poles doesn't cut it; you can pay good money for lessons when you have to do that. Without skis is more tricky, I admit.
I also have dreams where I've taken the family to Barbados (somewhere we once lived for over 3 years, so I know it quite well) and I'm so disorganised that I never actually manage to get everybody onto the beach. Same sort of anxiety/control fears, I suppose.
AllyK, have you read the stuff on lucid dreaming? There are a couple of good websites. I tried that - it works now and then and is very empowering, though I've only managed it a few times, and never yet in a ski dream. When I become lucid in one of those disorganised hopeless ski dreams, it's all going to slot into place and I'm going to be doing those fantastic powder turns.
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pam w, you can actually lucid dream? how?! I am intrigued! Does it involve drinking the juice of a rare mexican cactus or something?
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sallywt, no pharmacology involved. It's fascinating but I've only dipped my toe in. I have not really done it the way you're supposed to, just messed around with the ideas a bit, but I did have a sort of "beginner's luck" lucid dream, early on, which made me realise it was possible.
Have a look at http://www.dreamviews.com/
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Do fantasies about sexy instructors & guides count? The nightmare bit is waking up to discover OH snoring beside me instead of some mountain god purring sweet eveythings... 
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wow. I had a look at what it was in wikipedia. apparently part of the process is getting to the 'sleep paralysis' stage which my bloke does involuntarily most nights (sounds terrifying) will get him to read up on it and see if he can utilise it by getting to lucid dreaming rather than getting freaked out and waking himself up! (it's the hallucinations you get with it - he sees a black vaguely human form standing on his right, and even though it happens so often and he knows it's not real it's still pretty nasty! I think that most people who think they've see ghosts when they wake up are actuall experiencing some form of this)
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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you know I'm going to dream something ultra weird tonight after reading this. Espeically as I'm about to go for a cheese based meal at a friends house.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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On coming back from Vallandry, where my skiing really started to go well for the first time, I dreamed I was struggling down a very easy slope with no control at all having completely lost ALL trace of the newly emerging skills! I need to go back and consolidate them, obviously!
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Last year I was so excited about my first holiday of the season that a couple of weeks before I remember a vivid dream about catching the tube near my home and getting off just 20 mins later at a fantastic ski resort!
It was the happiest dream I ever had. I was soooo disappointed when I woke up 
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You know it makes sense.
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sallywt, I think that's just one approach - have a look at the dreamviews site, which is probably more reliable.
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I'm about to go for a cheese based meal at a friends house
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remember what they say down in the Alps - never drink anything with a cheese meal except white wine. Especially no water. It does actually seem to work, in terms of the state of one's digestive system the next morning.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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sallywt, I used to get ASP (awareness during sleep paralysis) a lot when I was in my 20s. Freakiest one was where I felt like someone was comforting me by stroking my side and was completely aware of it and thought it was my flatmate and I'd had a bad drea. When I eventually came to there was no one there but I could feel my arm still tingling. I even checked the storeroom  Mine weren't too bad though, one guy at work used to see vampirey gremlin things at his window.
flowa, sometimes I get those, once remember walking to Greece, it was only round the corner. I felt robbed when I woke up!
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