I hate it when I have those dreams where someone cuts you hair all off.

I was having a fight with my mom the other night and that night when I fell asleep, I dreamed that she cut my hair into a pixie hair cut.  I was so scared I woke up and ran my fingers through my hair to make sure it was all there.  I know my mom would never do that to me, no matter how angry she was with me though.

Has anyone ever had dreams like that too?

You must be another one of my lost cousins. I get hair nightmares at least twice a week. in order of frequency, this is how they'd be classified:

   (1) male-pattern baldness or bald patches from accidents with fans, lawnmowers, or otherwise careless humans.
   (2) coarse and ugly Dorothy Hamill/Ami Mizuno 'dos where I'd "wake up" in the dream and discover their nasty presence. 
   (3) short unwanted cuts from family members or other non-hair-friendly relatives
   (4) unwanted perms with terrible results, making me look like my grandmother

I think it's an overall hair anxiety that causes them all. Weird, but sometimes I like hair nightmares.. because then I appreciate my long hair in the morning.

Anyhoo, Welcome to Longlocks! You'll see me around here pretty often.

Anais Satin

I have a lot of weird dreams about unwanted things happening to my appearance...Vain, maybe? I have had a dream about bleaching my hair and it all falling out in clumps or getting a brush tangled in my hair so badly that I have to cut it out. I also have similar dreams about my teeth...Where they for no reason start falling out of my gums or I get hit in the mouth with something and my teeth break. The hair dreams have only started in the last 6 months maybe, however I have been having the teeth dreams since I was about 10. Ick!

I could relate to you some truly horrifying nightmares. These are the type that when you wake up, you stay up the rest of the night. Your heart rate is somewhere around 140, you're sweating, and you are dizzy.

I have dreams about hair, too. I have dreamed I cut my SO's hair short several times, some with her consent, some without. I have dreams about entire hair massacres!

But the real bad ones are the dreams of death of myself and of my son. I have been shot, mugged, tortured, hung, and had all sort of mean nasty things happen to me. Many times I staggered into my son's room to see if he's still there. And yes, I've looked over at my lady to see if her hair is still there, too.

Furthermore, my son's gf will start cosmotology school next month. She also loves short hair (I guess most cosmotogy students do?). My son and his gf live with us. She is aready hinting about my wife becoming her guinea pig because her hair hasn't been done in a beauty shop since 1984, except the one updo done for a wedding in 1999.. When she starts school, look out.

Dreams about teeth often are about the dreamer being overly concerned how others view them.  Too much worry over what other people think about you is connected to teeth dreams, too.  I imagine hair dreams have to do with something similar or perhaps even how you view yourself.  We tend to identify ourselves w/our hair, no?

Rodent, if you're open to the idea you might investigate past lives theory.  With all those death dreams, you and your son may have journeyd together before.  I hope you have a peaceful violence free lifetime this time around.

Greeting, Sakina:

"Rodent, if you're open to the idea you might investigate past lives theory.  With all those death dreams, you and your son may have journeyd together before.  I hope you have a peaceful violence free lifetime this time around."

Yes, I have been open to that theory for some time. The latest one, I was escaping captors by jumping from a plane, stealing an airport truck, and crashing through the fence at Boston Logan Airport. I've never been to Boston so why was I there in my dream?

Unfortunatly, this one is not too peaceful and violence in  my teen years was prominent. If the theory has merit, I have been a woman, a rich man who lost a fortune, a small rodent, and a criminal on the run. I get that, "Ive been here before and this or that happened to me." feeling at least a couple times a year.

I've heard that being naked around others was a cause for low self esteem. Your teeth theory was new to me.

I could write volumes on dreaming. In fact, I base a lot of my writing on dreams.

I'm very sorry to hear that you're not dreaming, BB.  I have had prophetic dreams throughout my life, although as an adult they only seem to concern people I know and love.  Unfortunately for that I've freaked out some friends and we are no longer in contact.
If I may suggest trying meditation or simple relaxation (I'm talking 20 minutes a day) to reconnect your waking conscious w/your sub or super conscious you may begin to dream again.  That is, if you want to.  Much problem solving is done in our dreams.  I feel concern for your wellbeing, knowing that you aren't dreaming.  May I suggest 2 CD's that I use myself for meditation & relaxation: "Sadhana: The Daily Practice of Meditation" by Sudhakar Ken McRae (888-242-9642 or yogis@ic.org) and "Letting Go Of Stress" by Emmett Miller, M.D. and Steven Halpern (www.innerpeacemusic.com & www.DrMiller.com) ; I have also used these CD's in the meditation class I teach and have gotten positive feedback from my students on their use.

Rodent, I have also an awareness of multiple lives/genders.  I did a lot of writing when I was a teen-all influenced by dreaming.  This lifetime for me as well has been marred by ugliness (verbal in my case) and in someways I think it fueled my creativity.  It also fortified my loner tendencies, but then I have time to think.  I hope your openmindedness has been a tool for you to expand away from the limiting events your your teen years.  J'ai Bagwan, Rodent! (Gujarati for Victory to Rodent! or YAY, Rodent!)

Sweet dreams to you both!!  (heehee)

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That's awful, BB!    I hope they find something to help you.  What is your condition called, if you don't mind me asking? 

I also have quite a few health conditions, and because of the anxiety of the recent one, I developed insomnia.  I let it go for about 6 months and was getting kind of nuts, so I finally asked my doc about it.  He prescribed Ambien so I can get some sleep, during the time that I'm on a treatment to fix the other problems.  It's really helped a lot!  That's another route you might try, but I know some people want do go the natural route if possible.  I did - this was a last-resort thing.

As far as dreaming, no hair dreams for me.  But I do have the dreaming-that-you're-waking-up-dream (forgot what they're called.)  And dreams I think might be prophetic but only between family members,  especially my mom.  There has also been a re-occuring dream about a house - don't know who's it is/was, but I think it has something to do with the past.  Ohyeah, and I always dream in color.  I've heard some people don't.

Cynde