What are your nightmares like? - Are you actually afraid anymore?

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Looking back to when I was a kid, I remember waking terrified at times.

Now, all my dreams are somewhat horrifying at least at some point when I sleep. But it does not even bother me that much anymore. Sometimes, I'll wake up to pee and keep the theme alive in my head, because at least I am sleeping and I don't want to fuck that up.

It goes from fucking up things, to having maggots in your toes, crashing planes, sinking boats, nuclear attacks, famine or whatever fucked up universe I land on. Yet, I wake up unphased. I'll gladly fall back asleep to it. It's my peace.

 

[dick brain]

I have lifelong recurring dreams of beating the fuck out of and/or killing people for what seem in the moment to be perfectly justified and righteous reasons and then finding out after the fact that I was in the wrong.

Have fun analyzing that one.

 

[Daddy's Angry Juice]

Ive talked about this at least twice on this forum, I no longer have normal nightmares, I now have fat people nightmares.
I'll go into a restaurant and the next thing I know there are constant disruptions between me and getting my food, and I never get my food and I wake up pissed.

For example last night I had a dream where I went to an In-N-Out Burger and the manager told me they were training a new cashier, Im like alright cant be too bad, then this little girl shows up and starts asking me a ton of irrelevant questions, this went on forever and whenever I tried to talk to the manager they told me to order from the cashier. I finally hear my alarm go off and I wake up hungry and pissed off, fuck that kid.

 

[rel=alternate]

Ive talked about this at least twice on this forum, I no longer have normal nightmares, I now have fat people nightmares.
I'll go into a restaurant and the next thing I know there are constant disruptions between me and getting my food, and I never get my food and I wake up pissed.

For example last night I had a dream where I went to an In-N-Out Burger and the manager told me they were training a new cashier, Im like alright cant be too bad, then this little girl shows up and starts asking me a ton of irrelevant questions, this went on forever and whenever I tried to talk to the manager they told me to order from the cashier. I finally hear my alarm go off and I wake up hungry and pissed off, fuck that kid.

Lol, that's the kind of dreams I have when I need to pee.

Last time, it took me forever to find the toilets, and this fucker next to me wouldn't stop engaging the conversation, which blocked me.

I woke up thankful for my brain making up this excuse to stop me from pissing myself.

 

[Sparkletor 2.0]

Last night I had a nightmare that I was eating a giant marshmallow. And when I woke up my pillow was missing.

 

[Daddy's Angry Juice]

Lol, that's the kind of dreams I have when I need to pee.

Last time, it took me forever to find the toilets, and this fucker next to me wouldn't stop engaging the conversation, which blocked me.

I woke up thankful for my brain making up this excuse to stop me from pissing myself.

The best ones are the ones that mix the thrill of a nightmare with the need for the food. I was ordering a hero sub when the building got taken over by terrorists, I was scared for my life hiding from these guys in full gear, trying to escape, but I also needed to see I could get my sub before I did. I gotta say there were a lot of things I expected about getting fat, this was not one of them.

 

[dick brain]

Ive talked about this at least twice on this forum, I no longer have normal nightmares, I now have fat people nightmares.
I'll go into a restaurant and the next thing I know there are constant disruptions between me and getting my food, and I never get my food and I wake up pissed.

For example last night I had a dream where I went to an In-N-Out Burger and the manager told me they were training a new cashier, Im like alright cant be too bad, then this little girl shows up and starts asking me a ton of irrelevant questions, this went on forever and whenever I tried to talk to the manager they told me to order from the cashier. I finally hear my alarm go off and I wake up hungry and pissed off, fuck that kid.

I had a nightmare that I had to go to Planet Fitness instead of a real gym. All I remember is that there was a leg press machine but no plates so some guy was just stacking boxes of stuff on it and pressing that.

Oh I also have dreams where I absent mindedly break my sobriety. Those are a bummer.

 

[Cat tit bingo]

Nightmare are fine, it's the sleep paralysis that scares me. Most recent one as a fell asleep I snapped awake instantly frozen in place ears ringing fully believing I was dying.
Another time I was in my bed thinking I was getting up but the second I was sitting up I snapped back down frozen, almost like my soul was getting up while my body was stuck. this basically repeated like 30 times as I was desperate to get up and of course when I saw the corner of my room there was a thin shadow creature.
Sleep paralysis fucking sucks.

 

[Overwritten Tapes]

My nightmares are people I was close to who died, or family who has died, visiting me in my dreams. I always wake up feeling strange the whole day until I am falling back asleep.

Also, @Cat tit bingo, I had sleep paralysis for like 20 years. I now live with a few cats. Most of the time I sleep great, the cats are like spiritual protectors....

When they are not Kung fu fighting at 3AM, or howling for more food.

Get you a cat or 2.

 

[lIllllIiiiiLLLLiiiiIIIIll]

Good thread idea.

I have a lot of different styles of nightmares, and frankly I enjoy them ever better than nice dreams sometimes because they're so interesting. Often it plays out like a weird abstract movie. No dialogue, but plenty of disturbing images and just a deep atmosphere of dread.

One type that's recurring for me is where I'm trapped and definitely going to die, and I just feel that absolute "face your death" realization. Common variants include "you are trapped on the 40th story of a skyscraper and watching as godzilla or some jihadists are making a beeline for the windows in front of you" and "you are cornered in the back of a building during a mass shooting, and the shooter's footsteps are heading directly for you."

Also I have died in a dream. People say it's impossible or that you'll die IRL but that's bullshit. You almost always wake up from the shock of "dying", but I once dreamed I was walking through a haunted theme park and a ghost dropped a blade on me from above and it severed my neck completely and I kept dreaming as I bled out and then I continued the dream as a ghost.

 

[Sheikh]

I remember only one vividly. An eyeless realistic Pac-Man headed thing. Some nightmares take place in a trench in Ukraine but it’s not as horrifying as the demonic ones. I have no other recollection of nightmares.

 

[lIllllIiiiiLLLLiiiiIIIIll]

Some nightmares take place in a trench in Ukraine but it’s not as horrifying as the demonic ones.

Which side are you on?

Also if we're doing topical ones inspired by stuff we saw on the news, I just remembered I had a really weird one during COVID where Dr. Fauci was my personal physician and told me I had bad cancer and there was no saving my testicles and I would probably still die anyway. I spent the rest of the nightmare just drinking at a bar and feeling realistically like my life was over.

Edit: I'm also adding to the people's stories who say they have like substance/food fixations in some dreams. I always dream about accidentally/thoughtlessly consuming drugs when I'm sober, and it feels so good but then I feel so guilty. And then it's a relief when I'm awake and didn't really fuck up my life again. It's enlightening to see how many themes are also in other people's dreams.

 

[Sheikh]

Which side are you on?

Also if we're doing topical ones inspired by stuff we saw on the news, I just remembered I had a really weird one during COVID where Dr. Fauci was my personal physician and told me I had bad cancer and there was no saving my testicles and I would probably still die anyway. I spent the rest of the nightmare just drinking at a bar and feeling realistically like my life was over.

Pro-Russia, but I won’t elaborate here, could cause unwanted posts.

 

[lIllllIiiiiLLLLiiiiIIIIll]

Pro-Russia, but I won’t elaborate here, could cause unwanted posts.

Good thinking. And yeah, asked and answered, thanks.

 

[Power Ranger Monster]

Trying to go home but it keeps getting farther away or I keep on going the wrong way.

 

[dick brain]

Another time I was in my bed thinking I was getting up but the second I was sitting up I snapped back down frozen, almost like my soul was getting up while my body was stuck. this basically repeated like 30 times as I was desperate to get up and of course when I saw the corner of my room there was a thin shadow creature.

Similar experience, a long time ago I was hanging up some of my records and I hung one up called Black Mass Lucifer, of which the album cover is a matte black sigil on a gloss black background. That night I had a dream that I saw Lucifer, not demonic but in angelic from essentially, all dressed in white. I surreptitiously followed him into some sort of medical facility after hours but lost sight of him, then for some reason got extremely tired. I laid down on a bench to rest but I was determined not to fall asleep because I wasn't supposed to be there and, you know, because Lucifer was in there somewhere. I remember laying on this bench thinking "don't go to sleep, don't go to sleep, don't go to sleep," and then suddenly I was awake in real life on my couch staring down the hallway at my staircase, and Baphomet was standing in the landing of my staircase staring at me, accompanied by an impossibly loud noise. After a few seconds I managed to force myself to blink and he was gone.

I'm not a particularly religious person so I think it was just a combination of the concept being on my mind and my brain trying to will myself awake while I was asleep, but still an experience that will probably stick with me forever.

My nightmares are people I was close to who died, or family who has died, visiting me in my dreams. I always wake up feeling strange the whole day until I am falling back asleep.

Also, @Cat tit bingo, I had sleep paralysis for like 20 years. I now live with a few cats. Most of the time I sleep great, the cats are like spiritual protectors....

When they are not Kung fu fighting at 3AM, or howling for more food.

Get you a cat or 2.

I love cats but I can't sleep with critters, I'm always afraid I'll flop around and crush them.

I miss my rumblers.

 

[Drain Todger]

Almost every nightmare I’ve ever had was a variation on one of these three themes:

1. I’m being pursued or about to be arrested, and I lash out violently at the nebulous authority figure right before waking up.
2. I’m in some extremely spooky and completely abandoned Silent Hill-ish area and then the floor turns into scarabs from The Mummy and I have to stand on top of the husk of a rusty car to not get eaten down to the bones.
3. I’m a passenger in a car on a very tall elevated highway with no guardrails, where one wrong move means plunging into the abyss. The driver and another passenger are having an argument, the driver gets distracted, and then we predictably fall off.

 

[Lou Bega]

I had a dream that all men are created equal. It was fucking horrifying.

 

[I Hate Sheeps]

I had multiple dreams in where I lost half of my teeth. Like they just fall out. Fucking weird.

 

[Town Drunk]

I used to have nightmares about my family doing bad things as a child. Then I got older and it was the usual chased by monsters. I carry a gun every day, and now I have night mares about being chased by a person, but I shoot them and it doesn't do anything. Odd how your sleeping brain reacts to your waking brain to keep terrifying you.