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zakadamsgt
Dec 14, 2007, 1:43 PM
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Lasat night, I had the worst nightmare. I dreamed that I was climbing a route, and when I got finished, I went through all the motions of cleaning at the top. It was one of the most realistic dreams I've had in awhile. Anyways, there were obviously two bolts that I was anchored direct into while feeding the rope thru the bolts. I changed postitions from leaning on my left leg to leaning on my right leg, and as I shifted, the left bolt ripped out! There it was just hanging there. I felt a tremendous amount of fear in the dream. So I was yelling at my partner, who for some reason, couldn't hear me. So I quickly finished pulling the rope thru the good anchor, re-tied in and began to lower off the one bolt. I left the uppermost draw on the wall so I had two anchors to lower off of (I could have thrown a throw-away biner on there, but I was so scared that I had to get down quickly!). I cleaned the rest of the draws...
What a nightmare! I woke up sweating and couldnt sleep anymore....very realistic. The other night I dreamed I was alpine climbing some huge peak in S America. I had no idea what I was doing. Very freaky.
Any experience with climbing nightmares? I sure am having a lot!
peace in the least
Zach
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coach_kyle
Dec 14, 2007, 2:39 PM
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I got into climbing partially to get over an extreme irrational fear of heights. After my first day of trad climbing at Shiprock, NC, I couldn't sleep. Every time I started to doze off, I saw myself pitching face first over a cliff. I've gotten over most of it, but I still have some pretty viscious lead head sometimes. It usually leads to some sloppy climbing.
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angry
Dec 14, 2007, 3:37 PM
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I recently had a dream that I was forced to climb a very tall aluminum sided structure with my ice tools at gunpoint. But it was aluminum so I got good sticks but I got in a fight with the gunmen up top cause my tools got broken in the process. I was going to kill them but my tools were broken.
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guccipiggy
Dec 14, 2007, 3:42 PM
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angry wrote: I recently had a dream that I was forced to climb a very tall aluminum sided structure with my ice tools at gunpoint. But it was aluminum so I got good sticks but I got in a fight with the gunmen up top cause my tools got broken in the process. I was going to kill them but my tools were broken.
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cchas
Dec 14, 2007, 4:06 PM
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and some of us STILL wonder why Vertical Limit and Cliffhanger never made jury selection at the Banff Film Festival...
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guccipiggy
Dec 14, 2007, 4:10 PM
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angry wrote: guccipiggy wrote: Did you happen to watch Cliffhanger before going to sleep that night? If you've got something bad to say about Cliffhanger go ahead and say it!!
Vertical Limit though is quite unrealistic. Jumping over gaps and dyno powercam placements....PFFFTT!
No worries about Chris O'Donnell coming after me.
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drfelatio
Dec 14, 2007, 4:10 PM
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This one time I dreamed that I was eating a large marshmallow and when I woke up my pillow was gone which is really strange because I don't even like marshmallows.
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h4lf_rope
Dec 14, 2007, 4:57 PM
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Having climbed Asphodel at the Gunks, my partner and I were getting ready to rappel. She had passed the rope through her ATC (but not the locker) when she took herself off anchor and began stepping off the ledge. I asked her to "F***ing put [herself] back on anchor," which she did, seeming a bit surprised. She finished setting up rappel and and we descended.
That night I had a nightmare about the rope popping out of her ATC and watching her take a 200' fall.
Before anyone asks: She's highly competent, I'm not trying to say otherwise. Anyone can screw up and get killed.
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patmay81
Dec 14, 2007, 5:25 PM
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I had a dream I was drinking the worlds largest margaritta, and when I woke up the toilet bowl was lined with salt... pretty weird
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Johnny_Fang
Dec 14, 2007, 5:31 PM
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i had this dream last night where everyone on rc.com started treating each other with respect. n00b's questions were answered directly and kindly, and they were welcomed to the sport with friendliness and appreciation. people learned the differences between the words "they're", "there", and "their", and "lose" and "loose". everyone learned to search for a topic before posting a question. high count posters learned to get back to work and stop wasting so much time on an internet forum. egomaniacs learned that what works for them doesn't always work for other people. there were no more posts asking which shoe/rope/harness to get.
what a nightmare!
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EPiCJAMES
Dec 14, 2007, 5:51 PM
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drfelatio wrote: This one time I dreamed that I was eating a large marshmallow and when I woke up my pillow was gone which is really strange because I don't even like marshmallows.
HAHAHAHAHAHA, that's some good shit.
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wonderwoman
Dec 14, 2007, 6:29 PM
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guccipiggy wrote: angry wrote: I recently had a dream that I was forced to climb a very tall aluminum sided structure with my ice tools at gunpoint. But it was aluminum so I got good sticks but I got in a fight with the gunmen up top cause my tools got broken in the process. I was going to kill them but my tools were broken. Did you happen to watch Cliffhanger before going to sleep that night?
The gunmen made him take off his shirt, too!
My climbing nightmare is rapping off the end of my anchors. I am NOT going out like that.
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Carnage
Dec 14, 2007, 6:35 PM
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i had a dream once where i was chewing gum. it started to get harder and harder to chew. then it started getting stuck to my teeth. eventually, it got so hard i couldnt chew, and my mouth was full of gum. it became harder and harder to breath because there was limited space for air to get through in the gum. eventually, all the holes started to fill up w/ spit and i started kinda choking. then i finally woke up wehn it got really bad. when i woke up, i discovered that my hand was jammed in my mouth, and i was drooling everywhere
worst nightmare i ever had.
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hiyapokey
Dec 14, 2007, 8:19 PM
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So the recent Hubble Field experiment suggests that our universe if a very very large place. As such there is a finite number of ways that matter can be organized. If the universe is so large that it is by any human standard "infinite" then all possible ways that matter can be organized exist again and again throughout the universe. While plausible situations would occur again and again, the sheer volume of universe would almost dictate that even seemingly improbable situations would occur somewhere. One example of this is that somewhere else in the universe a guy called hiyapokey is typing this exact text on his Dell computer a bazillion light years away in his part of the universe. I think that it is not completely illogical to speculate that some of our strange but realistic dreams could be an actual experience that one of our alter selves in some other part of the universe is going through. What are the odds that an alter self would end this reply by typing "blogidering"? Please lucubrate.
Edited to note that the feeling of deja vu I had while writing this is because I shlepped this theory out in April in this thread.http://www.rockclimbing.com/...ble%20field;#1586638
(This post was edited by hiyapokey on Dec 14, 2007, 8:25 PM)
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el_layclimber
Dec 14, 2007, 9:25 PM
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I tend to have lucid dreams, and when I realize I am dreaming I will do things that I never do awake. In particular, being in a scary situation will make me realize I am dreaming.
When I do realize this, I tend to go and free-solo the nearest tall object in my dream. My list is getting pretty ticked.
After multi-pitch routes, I'll get accidental untying, or taking the whip dreams, but when I realize it's a dream I go ahead and let myself fall. It's kind of fun.
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knieveltech
Dec 14, 2007, 9:48 PM
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angry wrote: el_layclimber wrote: I tend to have lucid dreams, Ever fuck someone so raw in a dream that you have a hard time looking at them the same? Just a hypothetical.
Classic
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cavanaghrock
Dec 14, 2007, 10:03 PM
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I just read an interesting psyc article that hypothesized that dreams serve as a crisis training ground. When we're in dangerous situations, we have to react correctly, usually without time to ponder all the options. The theory was that we have nightmares so that we can experience a crisis simulation and decide how we would act, so that if it ever happens in real life we're prepared. I think the OPs dream fits in pretty well with that theory.
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majid_sabet
Dec 14, 2007, 10:58 PM
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Have you guys ever heard about how brain is creating dreams and nightmares at night to raise the body temp ?
keep yourself warm while sleeping.
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horstschultz
Dec 17, 2007, 7:57 PM
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patmay81 wrote: I had a dream I was drinking the worlds largest margaritta, and when I woke up the toilet bowl was lined with salt... pretty weird
Good thing I didn't eat the worm!
Git 'er dun.
Far too worried about what my boss will do to me when he realizes I've been climbing instead of working to worry about trad leads and gear failure in my nightmares...
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reg
Dec 17, 2007, 8:24 PM
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angry wrote: I recently had a dream that I was forced to climb a very tall aluminum sided structure with my ice tools.....
festvus for the rest of us
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Carnage
Dec 17, 2007, 8:56 PM
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el_layclimber wrote: I tend to have lucid dreams, and when I realize I am dreaming I will do things that I never do awake. In particular, being in a scary situation will make me realize I am dreaming. When I do realize this, I tend to go and free-solo the nearest tall object in my dream. My list is getting pretty ticked. After multi-pitch routes, I'll get accidental untying, or taking the whip dreams, but when I realize it's a dream I go ahead and let myself fall. It's kind of fun.
ive had the dreams where i realize its a dream before. i dont remember for sure, but im pretty sure the dream ended w/ me nailing some hot chick.
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monomyth
Dec 17, 2007, 10:13 PM
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In reply to: I felt a tremendous amount of fear in the dream
That alone can be a reason behind your dream: a fear that you did not notice in yourself, and now you do. It can be any fear and not necessarily a climbing related one.
Additional caution would not hurt in the future climbs (and in general for the next several days), but for some reason I think that this part of my reply is redundant
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