Nightmares

I rarely if ever have nightmares (pretty much all my dreams are either random thoughts that I can recall thinking about throughout the previous day, just kind of carelessly put together, or really really weird dreams that I could only half-remember and can't even put into words), but of the nightmares I do have, they either involve cockroaches crawling on me (I really hate cockroaches and only cockroaches. I don't mind other bugs/spiders/whatever) or finding out that I completely flunked some test/exam that I did recently. In fact don't recall ever (not even as a kid) having any nightmares that are really scary/supernatural rather than mundane-scary (like the cockroaches) and/or disappointing.

I think there may be something wrong with me. Or maybe I just avoid horror movies.
 
My nightmares are usually about being completely lost in space and time.
I used to have recurring ones about waking up in college or even high school, full of jumbled memories and trying to find out if my husband was ever a real person. (:_(

These days it's just driving around because I can't figure out if I'm late for class or work, or where I live. It's more of a nervous dream than a nightmare.
 
I had a really strange nightmare where a distant family member murdered me. What's strange is that the whole scenario on how it happened seemed really plausible. I've probably been watching too many crime documentaries. :lol:
 
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I usually have nightmares about industrial/technical horrors and have had them since youth. I dreamt about killer robots, sentient gas, or mysterious sounds and broadcasts that had the ability to main or kill. This year was no exception. Here's a good one I had in June:

I'm tossing and turning in bed, having trouble sleeping. I discover ants in the sheet. Like everywhere. So many fucking ants. So I get up off the bed, pull off the sheets. I discover that ants are POURING out of the rivets in and edges of the mattress, like sand. I went and told my mom, but she didn't believe me because the mattress was brand new.

Eventually, I discover larger bugs in the room. It turns out, the ants are turning into these larger insects. Mostly ladybugs and stuff. Then they start turning into small items that start appearing around my bedroom. I found a blue book that looked like a passport, picked it up off the nightstand, and bugs POURED out of it. At this point, I realise the ants are actually some form of self-replicating machine that has started fabricating objects at nanoscale and leaving them around my bedroom. Worse, they've started crawling around the house, and rapidly built larger and larger objects. When I stepped out onto the front porch, there was an orange "bucket" on wheels with a steel arm, picking objects up around it as it moved and dropping it in the middle. When it dropped an item into the middle, it used it as material to refabricate other objects at nanoscale, just like your body turns food into hair, skin, nails, etc.

Not long after, the bucket machine has built itself into a fucking frontend loader. I'm standing in the living room watching it put itself together, and then finally, it crashes through the bay window, attempting to destroy the house. I try to push it back out of the house, for some reason, thinking I could do battle with a 5-ton machine.

By the end of the dream, these ants have fabricated a FUCKING CRANE in the front yard, about the height of a typical office building, way past the height of the house. There's machinery on top that it is using to strike houses in the neighbourhood, destroying them. To stop this madness, I grab a can of gas and some matches and leap up on the ladder that was on the back of the crane. All the while, ants, ladybugs, and small machinery is falling from the crane around me trying to build it. I reach the top of the crane and inside the cabin was some sort of indescribably horrible humanoid at the controls. I mean, it was not human by any description I could give. I squirt the gas at it, light a match, and throw it in the cabin. Finally, I jump off the crane as it begins to blow up and collapse around me.
 
As a general rule, my dreams tend to either be really, really, REALLY weird, or incredibly horrific nightmares. Lately I've had a recurring nightmare where I'm on campus for some reason (which is unusual because my classes are online and I live a couple of blocks away from my campus) and there's an active shooter thing going down.

Another recurring dream that I've had over the years is really only scary to me because of something weird that happened when I was a kid. When I was like...5? 6? I opened a box of cheez-its and there were just grease ants everywhere. I lost my shit, because that's terrifying for an adult, let alone a kid. Then a couple of years ago, I lived in an apartment where, every summer, it got a terrible ant infestation. I would wake up with the feeling of the ants walking across my face/chest/arms/etc. SO onto the dream. In my dream, I would wake up, and try to get dressed, put my glasses on, etc., only to find that literally every corner in my room--every drawer, every nook, every shelf, just everything, had ants pouring out of it. :cryblood: I'm getting itchy just thinking of it. (:_(
 
I...had a nightmares last night that I can only describe as totally fucking out there. It was entirely surreal and makes perhaps no sense at all now that I'm awake, but I remember core concepts to it.

It was me as a viewer to the whole thing, sometimes seeing things from the eyes of the three kids that acted as players in a game. One was a blonde anorexic girl, another was some extremely tired-looking girl with black hair, another was this tall guy with red hair. The "game" itself involved going to this alternate world where the players face their worst nightmares in some creepy paradise-type shit. They could leave at any time by eating some gross purple fruit that allows them to start over.

The ginger dude's paradise was some ancient Egypt-styled place, filled with water and with him as pharaoh. It reflected his pride and desire for respect, and he refused to leave the nightmare when a plague hit and the world came crashing down. His challenge was probably to abandon his pride and get him and his people to flee, but he didn't and failed.

The anorexic girl's paradise was a blur, but I remember she was in some huge garden with an endless feast before her. She ate and ate until the creature that had served her food said that it was time for dessert--and of course it was her. She ate the purple fruit and reset to the beginning of the game before she could be killed, ending up in some damp cellar with the ginger boy. He reset too.

The tired girl was nowhere in sight, and didn't reset yet. My view switched to where she was, an envy-fueled world where she was in a colossal gallery of her own artworks, over time seeing everything replaces with better artists, ones she envied. She morphed into some hideous creature covered in eyes and mouths, crawling along walls and ripping paintings to shreds.

The ginger and blondie made it their mission to find her and force her to eat the purple fruit to reset so they could all start over from the beginning. I woke up before they could get anywhere.
 
I rarely have dreams (much less nightmares), but any I do have tend to be short and not very vivid, though this one oddly stuck with me through the years.

I was apparently on my way to take out a target, or retrieve information with stealth or something (I'm not sure of the context). The building I was infiltrating was exactly like the house I lived in - same blue paint, same neighborhood - except it was built upwards like a tower, at least 10 stories tall. I don't have any memory of what exactly happened when I got in there, but at some point I made it to (presumably) the top floor. I spotted a guard rounding the corner I was hiding behind, so I decided I had to take him out. I initiated the attack, but what was supposed to be my stabbing instrument was suddenly a nonlethal object - I think a pencil - and accomplished nothing. The mission now a bust, I made my escape. As I fled down the street, I turned my head back to the tower as I was about to round the corner and time became molasses as I saw a bowman's arrow just an inch from my face.

I woke up in a cold sweat right as I "died".
 
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I usually have nightmares about industrial/technical horrors and have had them since youth. I dreamt about killer robots, sentient gas, or mysterious sounds and broadcasts that had the ability to main or kill. This year was no exception. Here's a good one I had in June:
You should write about it, it sounds interesting. I usually dream about family and the husband, but on a regular basis, I will have dreams about either aliens or extradimensional beings invading our planet or reality. I also dream about desolate hospitals, other dimensions, black holes, and clowns. I also have a recurring nightmare of my father coming out as transgender, but I think that's more related to his aging and visiting the farms.
 
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I never have nightmares for some weird reason. I don't know if it's becasue I can't tell the difference between a dream and a nightmare or I just can't have them. But holy fuck my dreasm get weird.
 
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For some reason in my nightmares I'm rarely the one "in danger", I'm just sort of watching it all unfold and knowing that I can't stop what's about to happen (and believe me, I try to warn them, oh yes I do). Then I wake up and wonder what the fuck is wrong with me that my brain could create something so truly horrible. Sometimes I'm the main character in this, usually I'm not. But in any case the result is images that are truly, and I mean this, truly fucking alarming. Somebody always ends up getting mutilated at the end or some other graphic and terrifying shit happens. You ever get thrown out of a plane into a lake full of rotting corpses and industrial waste, then drown slowly because you accidentally got tangled up in a dead guy's entrails? I have

I rarely remember my dreams. I always remember my nightmares.
 
Just had a nightmare that started out funny but progressively got worse. It did not help let that the dream went back and forth from being awake and being asleep in dream so when I woke up I couldn't tell if I was still dreaming and if I was yelling in my dream or when I woke up. Didn't help that because of the fact it went back and forth from being awake and being asleep it triggered sleep paralysis, so I felt my self in bed and I wanted to run but I couldn't and that why I can't tell if I was screaming in my dream or when I was truly awake. Not to mention
sleep paralysis makes it feel like it's hard to breath.
Nightmares suck man.
 
my most remembered nightmare was after i watched gremlins, i was seeing a dream where i and Santa Clause were digging a huge square shaped hole and suddenly a guy would show up and Santa would start to peel and then eat his skin, other than that most of my other nightmares where mostly related to dark open areas where someone was clearly chasing me from a far.
 
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I read one on Reddit before where a guy said that as a kid he dreamed his dad was crab-walking around on the ceiling like a spider and licking his face with a really long tongue.

I've suffered sleep paralysis, exploding head syndrome, all kinds of night terrors and vivid disturbing dreams, but for some reason that one sounds the most disturbing out of anything I've ever experienced or read.
 
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Recently i dream't that i was standing in a desert and for some reason my heart was pounding, i didn't knew what caused it, but i would also see random faces just coming out of the ground and then exploding for some reason, at the end i would see a gigantic yellow lizard with huge fucking dead eyes and teeth, coming at me and having this creepy smile, by the time he came he stopped and just looked at me, i woke up with my heart pounding with pain and also cold sweat dripping.
 
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My nightmares as of late revolve around people attempting to break into our house. More often than not, through my room's window (no doubt because it faces the woods). I've had one about something crawling in with white claws and trying to drag me out while I'm sleeping, one with two random Smash Mouth-looking rednecks who try to smash the window with a baseball bat and a road sign respectively, one in which bunches of people (apparently refugees of some kind?) were all banging on the windows of our house and you could only see their eyes and the silhouettes of their hands like some shit out of a horror movie.

The most vivid home invasion one I had involved an American History X-esque stereotype white supremacist (shirtless, shaved head, combat boots, Nazi tattoos, etc.) and a pair of female groupies (think like...Manson or Columbiner girl wannabes) who came in and wanted...I honestly don't know. I think it was money. But whatever it was, they weren't getting it to their satisfaction, so they dragged my mother off to shoot her (I didn't see it, but I heard the gunshot), then dragged me out from under a bed where I was trying to hide and into the bathroom where the supremacist came out of the shower with an assault rifle that he aimed at me. The reason this one was so vivid was because once he started shooting, I could actually feel, in the dream, bullets bouncing off my teeth and going out through the back of my head before I guess I 'died' and thus woke up.

It was also the first nightmare I woke up crying and shaking from because of how real it felt. Fuck Neo-Nazis, man.
 
I never really dream. I have like 10 memorable dreams a year. I know most of your dreams are forgotten but its weird when people keep talking about all the dreams they had last month.

So I never really have nightmares either, the most recent one however actually made me cry in my sleep like a faggot before I woke up going "Wtf?"
 
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One nightmare I had yearrssss ago as a 6ish year old was jumping off a very high building or something, and then exploding into a fireball

It was all because I saw a burning meteor on TV.
 
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One nightmare I had involved me not having a face (only my eyes were visible; everything else was sillouetted as I wore a hoodie) as a kid and having to spend all my time indoors.
 
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