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.

 

[Meat Target]

People I love dying horribly, or disasters such as tornadoes or nuclear war.

 

[Poppavalyim Andropoff]

I have this nightmare the light comes on while I'm fuckin ya mum

 

[Broken Talisman]

I have recurring nightmares where I'm running from a beautiful woman. She's my wife or girlfriend or wants to be. Depends on the version of the dream I'm having. I desperately want to go to her, but I know that if I stop running something terrible will happen. There are further variations like sometimes she's a world leader and I'm some kind of freedom fighter or some shit and she's trying to convince me to give up the cause and join her. The dreams usually end with me agonizing over whether to give in or not. It's not usually the same woman, but they're always to my personal taste.

I also have dreams where I'm the drummer for a metal band, but I don't know how to play the next song so I keep stalling for time till the dream ends.

 

[2mm and 99 others]

Sometimes I dream about my long-time crush (as in: feeling crushed), but he is always holding hands with his gf, be it the real one or some made up, who is there too every time and is shooting daggers with eyes. C'mon, it's just my very own dream and I just want a hug. Maybe is this kind of dreams more likely to happen to people, than romantic or straight up erotic ones, but it's too sad and embarassing to talk about it.

The conventional nightmare shit is, when I defeat and badly injure a violent attacker (a man or a big animal), and it just refuses to die. The worst variant of this ended with me running him over with a car, hiding the body (badly) and then fearing police investigation and arrest.

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

It's not that weird, teeth falling out are replaying of a past experience, as every adult knows how does it feel.

 

[Jason Wynn]

Very Silent Hill/David Lynch feeling. Most of my nightmares start off feeling like completely normal and mundane dreams, almost boring. But then slowly the weirdness and uncanny aspects start bleeding into the background, never gets to the point where the dream becomes terrifying, but often gets to the point where it feels a ”this is creepy and disquieting in a way I can’t quite put my finger on.” way

 

[Lords Greatsword]

Can't remember the most recent nightmares I had, if any. Many of my dreams are simply bizarre rehashes of things and places I've done and been to IRL. The latest one I can recall, from many years ago, was where I was in some kind of large stairway at an icy cave, complete with stalagmites and the like. I looked down to see a strange figure, and upon looking behind me it immediately appeared there as well.

Typing this out actually made me recall another one, some years later, where I was scouring the house with a shotgun, but it ended up being completely useless against whatever entity had gotten in.

 

[WilliamDeLaPole]

I no longer dream, but I was once a hunter too. There's nothing more horrific than a hunt. In case you fail to realize, the things you hunt, they're not beasts, they're people. One day you will see.

 

[dick brain]

I no longer dream, but I was once a hunter too. There's nothing more horrific than a hunt. In case you fail to realize, the things you hunt, they're not beasts, they're people. One day you will see.

 

[Penis Drager 2.0]

Sleep is for people too broke to afford crystal meth.

 

[Lord of the Large Pants]

Usually just being chased by monsters, sometimes people. Frequently I have a gun, but it either falls apart in some weird way, or shooting them has no effect.

Weirdly, sometimes I end up kicking their asses hand to hand, which is... let's just say pretty unlikely for me IRL.

 

[ScurvyRat]

Sleep paralysis fucking sucks.

Luckily its been happening to me a lot less, but when I get really stressed the sleep paralysis rears its head.

Its usually accompanied by really intense and vivid hallucinations of shadow people, but when I lived in the city the hallucinations were literally niggers.

I have this re-occurring nightmare that I'm back in high school, senior year. I'm finishing up the semester and getting ready for graduation when they tell me:
"Nice job! Only one more year to go!"
No motherfucker!!! This WAS the one more year! I'm fucking done! Fuck you!

Variations on being chased, usually by government agents/CIA niggers.

There's one that really bothers me, where I have a gun, ready to kill something (zombies, glowies, pit bulls) but the trigger won't break. I'll pull and pull and pull and my hand will start to shake but the gun never goes off.
I have a similar one where I'm driving a car and the brakes don't work.

Or I have this other one a lot where I'm moving, but I have too much stuff. I only find out halfway thru that I can't get most of my things from the previous location.
That one is usually paired with this one nightmare of my cat(s) multiplying and I can't keep them all safe.

This one summer I was taking care of a friend's aquarium with some tree frogs in it while he was traveling in Europe. I kept having nightmares that the aquarium would break and the frogs would get out. And of course, the frogs were multiplying. So while IRL I only had to deal with 3, I was distraught in my dreams that I lost my friends 6 million frogs.

I could do a whole post about JUST the horrifying shit from sleep paralysis, but this is a few of the regular nightmares that I have. I'm sure I'll think of more.

 

[We Are The Witches]

I cannot have nightmares.

 

[2mm and 99 others]

As for animals, sometimes I dream I forgot to feed my hamster for 25 years, cos I abandoned my old room back then or something. It's very miserable, but somehow still alive.
Some friend told me a similar story about forgotten goldfish that turned into monsters floating in green sludge.

 

[Burning Bridge]

I once got woken up by a jump scare that I saw coming. Empty chair in an empty room with a mirror on the wall, look in the mirror, nothing, look away, look in the mirror again and now there's something similar to a zombie in the chair and screaming. I knew it was coming and it still got me.

 

[Anonitolia]

I can't say for sure because every one I have is unique, but I guess a recurring theme is that a lot of them involve a lot of really brutal and weird deaths. Most recent one was getting repeatedly beaten in the head with a live, terrified pufferfish. I just wouldn't die and kept bleeding until I was laying in a pool of blood up to my ankles. Comically, this was happening because I got caught trying to rescue several toddlers, who were already partially on fire and crying loudly enough to give me a headache, from the burning kindergarten that I used to attend. For whatever reason, the arsonist was still inside the burning building and had a pufferfish.

Another recurring theme is surrealism, I guess? In another dream I was at some arcade that slowly deteriorated into a whorehouse while I played bowling, for some reason. I managed to make it stop by grabbing my family and running out the door, but that led to a parking lot in the middle of nowhere. Then I felt compelled to read some six-sided sign with a riddle on it (that I can't remember anymore, but remembered crystal-clearly in the dream) in which every line rhymed with the last. While I was trying to read the line, I had to stop three times... because every time I tried to read, a truck with no driver appeared out of nowhere and started barreling towards my family.

Now that I'm reading all of this over again it's kind of funny. Why the hell did this stuff actually disturb me after I woke up? lmao

 

[Agamemnon Busmalis]

disasters such as tornadoes or nuclear war.

Same, The nuclear war one was terrifying because it all went dark other than the mushroom cloud rising in the distance. Giant tsunami waves are another one but they always break before they reach me. In strange demon/ghost dreams I try to scream in terror but it's like I have no voice, just a whisper.

I'm afraid of things such as this that I can't personally control.

 

[*Grunts Softly*]

recurring bad dream where i just miss entering a dfs tournament

 

[Officer Douche]

I once had a nightmare where i was in my car leaving the garage at my house. After leaving the roads turned to steel and started splitting down the middle slowly like a door. I got out of the vehicle and there was a massive earthquake that caused everyone around me to explode into a disturbing amount of blood and intestines. The steel on the road that opened up now had flames shooting out everywhere, when i go back into the garage again I saw demons playing cards at a table looking very surprised to see me then I woke up.

Not the first time ive seen demons playing cards around a table either, I saw that years later when I was retarded and tripping on memantine. That's a different story though.

 

[⚞⛇⚟]

Death in dreams has always been strange for me. I usually reincarnate into something that gets involved with with everyone I used to know (like a dog that my parents adopt), but once when I was four I had a dream where I died and floated out of the Earth into space.
Also in a lot of my nightmares I am invincible but I also keep fucking up at everything. Like I accidentally commit a terrorist attack, accidentally kill my cat, get hit by car, get crushed by a building, get chased by something evil, but I rarely die.
Reading about other peoples dreams is interesting. It introduces you to new worlds that are often surprising immersive and strangely relatable. But it's hard to really have a conversation about dreams because there isnt much to relate about. Obviously there is the back and forth "I dreamed about x" "I dreamed about y" but I'm not counting that as a conversation.

 

[stares at error messages]

Fine, until I wake up.