Weird scuba diving dreams

[hillbillydiver]

Anybody else have strange scuba diving dreams?I had one last night,I was diving a wreck and went from having 3000psi to 300 in like 15 seconds! So now I'm rushing to the anchor to begin my ascent so I WALKED to the line and all the sudden it was like I was out of the water and had to pull myself up with my arms.I sure was glad when I woke up,but it made me want to go diving awful bad.

 

[fairybasslet]

That dream made you WANT to go diving? Are you crazy???
That sounds like a scuba nightmare to me.

My best scuba dreams are usually right after I get back from vacation. I'm floating on a reef in warm water, there's beautiful fish and coral all around. I am at one with the universe. Zen.

 

[hillbillydiver]

Uh,just about anything make me want to go diving....Well maybe not an ear infection.I also have the good scuba diving dreams,but sometimes they get a little strange.Perhaps it is just me.

 

[fairybasslet]

Uh,just about anything make me want to go diving....Well maybe not an ear infection.I also have the good scuba diving dreams,but sometimes they get a little strange.Perhaps it is just me.

Maybe you just like action.

 

[Dive Junky]

Had a dream once that my old lady liked when I went diving. When I woke up I realized it was what I've always dreamed of even when I'm awake.

 

[Rynomar]

Now you must understand that I am a bit of a wild sleeper before hearing about my weird dreams.

During the first dive trip that my wife and I took to the keys we were VERY aware of the many barracuda that we saw on the dives. One night I grabbed my wifes arm and woke her up to inform her that a huge barracuda was swimming above us. My wife told me not to worry about it because we could look at it in the morning since the door to our room was shut.

In Bonaire I kept having dreams that the mosquito net was the surface of the water and the smoke alarm light was light from the sun. I would dream that my wife was falling asleep diving and sinking down onto the coral, or that she was about to crash onto an eel. I would sort of wake up and see the weird lighting on the mosquito net and think that we were in the water. Then I would look at my wife and discover that she was enveloped in the coral.

My weird dreams are associated with stress and since I have become more comfortable diving, the weird dreams have become less frequent.

I do really like the dreams when I can breathe underwater the best though.

 

[marshallkarp]

For years, I had this weird reccurring dream. I was underwater holding my breath, no scuba gear, swimming up, but the surface was nowhere in sight. The thought would cross my mind, "I'm not going to make it." Then I would wake up gasping, coming to, and telling myself, it was only a dream, it was only a dream. Mornings with my wife included, "I had that dream again last night."

Turns out I have mild sleep apnea. The weird reccuring dream was when I stopped breathing throughout the night. Since my sleep study and CPAP, I have not had the dream.

 

[Rick Inman]

I once dreamed that I ate a giant marshmallow, and when I woke up my pillow was gone.

Yeah. Seriously, I have lots of diving dreams, but I never get in the water. I'm always trying to find the dive site or gearing up or talking to buddies on shore or in the boat, but I can never manage to make it into the water.

I have these pre-dive dreams 3 to 5 times every week.

 

[NancyLynn]

Turns out I have mild sleep apnea. The weird reccuring dream was when I stopped breathing throughout the night. Since my sleep study and CPAP, I have not had the dream.

I was going to guess that - apparently your mind can invent what seem like hours long dreams in the usually very short time between the beginning of a physical trigger and waking up. I haven't had apnea induced dreams, but I have had similar dreams (involving my alarm clock ringing, among other things).

 

[Garrobo]

I've only had one dive dream in the two years that I have been diving and it was a couple weeks ago. I dreamed that I was heading down the buoy line on to the Speigle Grove and the DM told me to slow down and wait for the other divers. Dream lasted only a few moments. And that's exactly what happened about a year ago. Other than that I can't remember any dive dreams. When I was going to culinary school (I thought I wanted to be a chef) I worked in some kitchens to pay the way and I still occasionally have dreams about not being able to keep up with the rush hour food orders. And that's been almost 45 years ago. Now and then I'll have a dream about doing electrical work. I was an electrician for many years.