Nightmares

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It's weird, I never really have nightmares so much as just uncomfortable or unpleasant dreams that leave me tired.

Unpleasant like "waiting in line for The Room 2" and the like. Nothing horrifying enough to constitute nightmarish.
 
Sometimes I dream that I'm a respectable and kind member of my community.

Fucking hell I've never been so scared in my life.
 
ForgedBlades said:
I dream a lot, but I rarely have what I would call nightmares. The few I do have almost always involve a tornado bearing down on me. Not sure why though.
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I have the EXACT same experience. I'm usually in my room and the tornado hits my house and I'm wondering if I'm still alive as it's going over me. It's easily some of the most vivid dreams that I've ever had.

As an aside, I had a bit of a nightmare last week when I was sick. I was back in my old house when I was a kid, but my house was haunted. I was upstairs with one of my old friends and we started to hear a bell clanging. My friend ran downstairs to see what it was and he came back up panicked saying it was a ghost. We both then ran downstairs and I saw a small bell (think town crier type) being swung in mid air and nothing else. I felt terrified and I ran up and snatched the bell and that is where it ended. I woke up and I thought about the dream for a few minutes still feeling a little panicked before falling asleep again.
 
Kept dreaming about that bird box movie the other night no matter how many times I woke up. Fuck horror films.
 
I had a nightmare where I watched someone get beheaded by a commercial airliner in broad daylight. Seeing their lifeless head, coupled with the sound of a loud blender, startled me awake. I must have been watching a lot of Stephen King stuff at the time.

I usually only get a nightmare once a year. I'll sometimes get bad dreams, but not ones that are stressful enough to wake me up.
 
I'm Just A Human Bean said:
I usually only get a nightmare once a year. I'll sometimes get bad dreams, but not ones that are stressful enough to wake me up.
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I sometimes have horror based dreams but they are rarely little more then uncomfortable as my nightmares almost exclusively feature me dying. I think the last nightmare I had was about a 8 months ago and involved me getting an amazon package on my front door but then a black panther ran into my house and mauled me to death.
 
I used to have really bad waking nightmares back in high school. I vividly remember getting woken up by a crack of thunder one night, and in my still-technically-asleep state I hallucinated inky black tendrils creeping towards me from the dark corners of my room and screaming so loud my mom had to come and check and see if I was okay. I haven’t had one for quite some time, but the last one I remember was when I fell asleep while video chatting my girlfriend one night and she went to sleep after I did with the camera still on, and when I got jolted awake by something I looked over and I saw this weird humanoid thing with a black body, extremely pale white face, and creepy sunken-in eyes lean over into the camera and grin at me with its unnaturally huge mouth. I was aware it was another nightmare so I didn’t scream and it promptly vanished after I rubbed my eyes a bit, but holy shit if it wasn’t creepy.

Also the other night I had a regular nightmare where I was trapped in a labrynth with something I couldn’t see, being terrified of what the fuck this thing could be, when I eventually look behind me and see Mike Tyson with a bunch of new shitty face tattoos and wearing a schoolgirl outfit sprinting towards me and suddenly punching the shit out of me until I woke up. I might have some form of mental illness.
 
My nightmares tend to be anxiety related, but I rarely have them. When I do have nightmares, they usually involve the brakes in my car not working at all or being slow reacting and I’m about to crash into something. (:_(
 
My recurrent nightmares are incredibly abstract.

In the first nightmare I remember and recurrently have I am 10. I'm walking through some neighborhood which I recognize as my own but everything is very unfamiliar, like when you visit a place as a kid and try to remember it as an adult but you can't. Anyway, I'm walking on the sidewalk and the more I walk, the more I start to feel this horrible feeling of impending doom. Like the world is about to end in a really painful manner. Even worse, I'm CERTAIN I am the one who will cause it. All of a sudden I start feeling ill and somehow I know I have a nuclear bomb or some kind of very powerful explosive down my throat, I feel it pulsing. I can taste it. I try to puke the thing out but I can't and I know it will blow up any time. When I'm about to let it out, the nightmare ends abruptly and I always wake up with this awful coppery taste of barf in my mouth.

Funny thing is I'm always 10 in the dream, even now that I'm an adult. I think I started having this very same dream when I was 10 and the age stuck.

The second one is way more abstract and it used to scare the shit outta me me when I was a kid but now is just an ugly happening. I dream of 3D shapes. Textured 3D shapes like spheres, cylinders, cones and cubes. These shapes have a "skin" like orange peel or human skin and I see (and feel, somehow) a progression on how it gets rotten from the inside until it becomes either a tiny shapeless black speck or some kind of gooey substance much like petroleum. Sometimes the shape engorges before exploding and rotting, sometimes it starts to shrink and ooze different foul substances but there's this constant of rottenness and festering going on. Worst part? It all happens in a kind of aged movie, like the clip from "The Ring": black and white, full of scratches and with jumping frames but it doesn't feel like I'm watching it, it feels like I'm there, seeing all these shapes rot in front of my face. This nightmare usually last a few minutes and I wake up in cold sweat.

And those are my two recurrent nightmares.
 
I had a nightmare last night that I was standing in my living room and heard a tapping at the window. I look over and see the torso of a man in the window. He's so tall I can't see his head, which given how big the windows are puts him at over 10 feet tall. He's tapping on the window to get the attention of my cat. Then I'm in bed with my husband sleeping, but it's day time because I can see sun from behind the curtain, and I hear the tapping again just like before. So I start to try to shake my husband awake to tell him someone is trying to get into the apartment, but he won't wake up no matter how much I scream and shake him.

And then I wake up, and it's dark, my husband is asleep, there is no tapping at the window, and the cat's asleep in his bed. It took me awhile to realize that I was really awake. I hate it when that happens. Really tapping isn't scary at all, but it was the feeling in the dream of dread that I had that made it so scary.
 
Nekromantik said:
I had a nightmare last night that I was standing in my living room and heard a tapping at the window. I look over and see the torso of a man in the window. He's so tall I can't see his head, which given how big the windows are puts him at over 10 feet tall. He's tapping on the window to get the attention of my cat. Then I'm in bed with my husband sleeping, but it's day time because I can see sun from behind the curtain, and I hear the tapping again just like before. So I start to try to shake my husband awake to tell him someone is trying to get into the apartment, but he won't wake up no matter how much I scream and shake him.

And then I wake up, and it's dark, my husband is asleep, there is no tapping at the window, and the cat's asleep in his bed. It took me awhile to realize that I was really awake. I hate it when that happens. Really tapping isn't scary at all, but it was the feeling in the dream of dread that I had that made it so scary.
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I’ve actually had a nightmare just like that before. There was a giant standing in my window tapping on the glass, and he kept calling out my dog’s name in this really deep creepy voice and everyone but me and my dog was ignoring him. I remember screaming insults at the huge motherfucker trying to get him to go away, which is my natural defense when I’m scared.

Is there just something about owning pets that makes people have weirdly specific nightmares about giants trying to steal our cuddly lil’ buddies?
 
I've had repetitive nightmares of rats spawning and running around, being naked out in public and just dreaming of floating around in the air on air currents.
 
Kari Kamiya said:
I don't really get nightmares, far as I know, I just get weird dreams with elements of what you'd find in nightmares. The most common I get is loosing my teeth in that they just individually break apart into crunchy pieces in my mouth, but then everything in the dream continues like normal.
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I have this exact nightmare. It's like you know your teeth are crumbling apart and you're upset about it, but you just go about your business as usual. Sometimes I'll try and put the teeth back in my gums and continue with whatever dream Dee was doing. Weird.
 
eh im usually inactive in the whole dream sector as 90% of it is a black screen but when i do have the rare dream or nightmare it always involves people who i have never seen or heard of but i recognise them none the less, be they fictional or historical.

it then bugs me for days trying to find who these entities are.
 
Fiend Savage said:
I have this dream where it’s dark as fuck,and when I go outside a bunch of birds fly full force onto the pavement and kill them selves. It has been a reoccurring dream these past few months. Shit is pretty freaky.
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That would mean your spiritual understanding is blocked and when you try to meditate on something you can't gain insight on the matter because your spiritual mind is crashing down
 
SweetDee said:
I have this exact nightmare. It's like you know your teeth are crumbling apart and you're upset about it, but you just go about your business as usual. Sometimes I'll try and put the teeth back in my gums and continue with whatever dream Dee was doing. Weird.
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This means your deep understanding that effects how you see and understand things and decide things is fundamentally changeing rather you want them to or not
 
I just had a nightmare where one of my younger cousins came over with a bunch of his friends, and had a lan party in my living room after taking it apart. They left the front door open and let stray cats in, they broke the lights in the bathroom, they messed with my knitting, and then they tried to take my husbands computer because the wanted to see it. The dream ended with me saying get out or I'm going to hit your head with a brick.
 
I have this recurring nightmare where I get in this lake to swim and when I swim out pretty far I realize it's full of babies and I can't swim back because it's so dense with babies. So I'm stuck in this lake and I need to pee and I can't pee because I don't want to pee on a bunch of infants. Then I usually wake up because I actually do have to pee.
 
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