Apparently that means you have something to say but just cant get it out Rawky....so spill

........... Alright, ok I admit....it was me. 

He loves me but he just can't say it.

Mild panic attack?  

Sometimes I fear I'm going to swallow my tongue and can't get over. Rare though.

I knew it!

Not good under interrogation then Rawky

Ooooh looky:

Choking

Choking dreams are often a fearful experience and it is not uncommon for dreamers to awaken from them. To dream that you are choking on an object, suggests that you may find some advice/remarks/situation hard to swallow or difficult to accept. Alternatively, you may feel that you are unable to completely express yourself in a situation. In particular, if you are choking on food, then it may be an expression of self-guilt and unnurtured feelings. If you are choking on smoke, then it indicates something you are unwilling to confront.

 

I have had exactly the same thing for twenty years ....................I agree it's incredibly disturbing because it's so real when it's happening. I think maybe it happens more when I'm stressed although I think the cause maybe physiological - something like a dry throat making it hard to swallow.

Whatever it is - you really do have my sympathy - I know how horrible it is!

Just to add - I do have an irrational fear of choking anyway and always have. When my kids were little (and my grand kids now) they were really careful not to even give out the slightest cough whilst eating because I was always off my chair in a flash whacking them on the back!

At my grand sons birthday party this week I bought a pack of joke false teeth (rotten ones) the kids thought it was wonderful but I spent a couple of hours panicking that they were gonna swallow them!

Rawkey, I hope this isn't overstepping the mark, but you lost your mum this year. Have you had a chat with somebody or have you just dealt with it within your family? Christmas and New Year are coming up which are emotional times, so maybe your subconscience is working on you.

I sometimes dream that I've swallowed a tooth and can proper feel it stuck in my throat

I've had the same night terror for as long as I can remember. ...   but its weird, cos it doesn't sound scary...  but it is...     I am about 4 years old... in an orange dress with a duck on the front (hahaha... sorry...  it really does have a duck on the front, but until now I hadn't made the connection with a certain forum member)...   and I am in a room, holding a flower (typical long stem, no leaves, daisy flower)  and there is all this equipement and cameras and stuff in the room.  All these big telly type cameras start to get bigger... and closer.. and it gets all claustrophoic... and then I wake up.... but when I open my eyes everthing in the room is getting bigger & closer, if I hold my hand in front of my face its getting bigger.

When I was a little kid, my dad used to have to walk me round the garden in the middle of winter to snap me out of it... cos I can't wake up from it (though I am awake)...   as an adult I only really have it now if I have a high temperature...  but it has me frantically trying to get out of the house... trying to get out into open space.

So...    any interpretations of that appreciated...

@ cologne (sorry still can't quote)

Yeah I did think that. The fact I've lost my Mum, Gran and Grandad in the space of 4 months is probably, subconsciously taken its toll.

I've not spoken to anyone as I've never felt I needed to, although the last few weeks my emotions have been all over the place.

Rawkey, you're very young and you think you can sort things out in your head, I remember that, I lost my mother and father before I was 24 and just threw myself into life. I didn't have anybody to talk to, but I know you have, so do.

That would say to me that it's time for you to talk to someone.

As for night terrors, yes I get them quite often.  Sometimes it's a reoccurring dream where something terrible happens and I just cannot dial 999 for help.  Other times I don't even wake up, but I scream and shout out in my sleep, apparently I usually shout 'NO' repeatedly, and sometimes I wake myself up screaming and sobbing. 

Rawky 

Night terrors are very common -  I usually get the one where I'm only half awake so I'm trying to move but I'm paralysed - I have to try and shout to wake myself up.

Interestingly my brother gets exactly the same one.

OMG .......................I'm a total nut job - I get the choking - I get the teeth thing and I get the half awake ;paralysed thing!!!!!

The choking is by far the worst one though - it's a regular occrence in my life.

I've had that in the past and have read a little about it apparently it's where you are in a half wake / half sleep state, when you are in REM sleep there is some chemical released from your brain that stops you moving and acting out your dreams ( a self protection mechanism).