I love NIGHTMARES, tell me yours

[WintreKitty]

I tend to interfere with my nightmares. I guess it's called lucid dreaming. They start off scary, but then I basically half wake-up, decide that I don't want to be scared anymore, and change the ending.

The one that I currently remember is I was going to the bathroom, and I checked behind the shower curtain (cliche, I know), and there was a guy with a knife there. My brain basically said "NOT TODAY!" and I grabbed the knife from the guy and rolled my eyes at him, saying, "Seriously? That's the best you've got?!" ...and then I woke up.

I really haven't had many nightmares since then, and none of them really stick with me. I guess that's a good thing!

[noctuidae]

Much of the things that could be described as nightmares dont feel like nightmares when i'm actually in them -- what frightens me are dreams where everything seems normal, because then you could get that vague feeling that something is off. For a while when I was a kid I had recurring dreams where I'm walking in my house, realize it isn't real, and scramble to kill myself before the people inside my house warp into something malevolent.

There was another nightmare I had of watching my younger brother falling off a bridge, and interestingly enough when I told my mother about it a few days later she told me she also had a nightmare of my brother falling off a bridge, except she was at the bottom trying to catch him.

[Jewe11s]

I got two for you!

The first one, my hairdresser told me the last time I got my hair cut. She told me that she had been taking some medication to help her stop smoking and that she knew one of the side-effects were vivid dreams...

In her dream, she was fighting a shape-shifter that she described as having taken on a Chucky-doll/ clown appearance. (Classic, I told her.)
While fighting this creature through her house, she remembers it jumping up onto a table. She seized the opportunity to reach out and grab it and she managed to wrestle it to the ground. As soon as she had it pinned beneath her, she reeled back to strike at the creature.
She heard the creature whisper, "I'm going to hurt you where it hurts the most."
In her hand, there were then a pair of scissors, poised as if ready to stab the beast through the heart. She felt her arm begin to swing down with brutal force.
She blinked.
Her fist and the scissors' blade hovered inches above the heart of her two year old child.

She stopped taking those medications...

Secondly, my dreams. Mine tend to be either wild and fantastical and silly or mundane... but ominously terrifying. And I can't tell you why they are scary. If I described them visually, nothing would seem that scary to my understanding ... it's just the fantastical dream was touched with some waking world stress that my brain lost control of and it slips into my REM sleep time and the dream goes from 'disney's alice in wonderland' to 'salad fingers' in a snap.

For example: I dreamed I was in a canoe on a familiar lake and then out of nowhere a man-whale (literally) starts swimming towards me like a dolphin - with a blank expression - coming closer and closer with each breach of the water. I wake up when he jumps up right before my canoe and stares me dead in the eye.

OR in another dream, my sister, a friend and myself managed to find a secret network of hallways in my childhood home that led to a secret game room. The maze was in between the walls of the house so you had to squeeze into it and the entrance was difficult to open and a bit surreal. In my dream, my mother comes home from work and I rush out to tell her about the secret room but in the process, my sister and friend get stuck inside the walls and I can hear them going the wrong way through the maze. The dream ends when I realize they are lost in there and they won't ever be able to come back out.

[Jewe11s]

I used to have end of the world dreams all the time! I found them more action-movie thrilling than scary. Did you feel the same way? Mine were more zombie apocalypse themed and once I dreamed that the sun was about to go out and it was all my fault.

[Kappa]

@papachan
I thought you said what monster am I cause I said my nightmares were nsfw -_-.
But it was over 9000 hours ago by now (a lot more than that) and I have no memory more than the fact that it threw me. It looked kinda like the monster from where the wild things are according to my old journal.

[anon13984047]

Personally, some of the most terrifying dreams I have are not necessarily about violence, danger or monsters and the like. They involve a complete loss of control over reality. There will be some sort of supercomputer, government or alien creature (or just a conscious reality itself) governing everything and undoing everything that I do in order to escape. Natural laws and time get screwed up so there's no way out. It's often hard to awaken from these dreams and sometimes they continue once I fall asleep.

Not sure if I'm supposed to say 'I'm sorry' for those chronic nightmares of yours - do they bother you or do you perhaps enjoy them, in a creative way? And how are they nightmares if they're no longer scaring you? Just wondering.
Cheers!

Falco

[thomasfallaeriksen]

The earliest nightmare I can remember (and the one I remember most vividly) was when I was 4 years old. I don't remember the start of the dream, but I remember gradually slipping into a very abstract realm that I couldn't make sense of. It was some kind of a space, but at the same time it wasn't. It seemed to go on for miles, but it wasn't room to move at all. It was a dark place that felt like it was located at a very low altitude. With dak red, grey and brown colors that reminded me of smoke. But it didn't touch me. A tiny area around me was lit up by a very sharp and bright light. And after a while I got the notion that I was not alone there. It felt as if the whole place was alive. And after a while it kind of manifested something visible. It was basicly complete darkness inside a dark cloak. It didn't move or say anything but I could feel what it was all about. And that didn't feel good at all. I wanted to run away and escape but it wasn't possible. Because it wasn't possible to move at all. Then I understood that it wasn't possible to escape. This "thing" was everywhere and everything. And it knew that I had understood it.
Then I suddenly woke up.

Another reoccouring dream I had for a while was that everyone else in the world suddenly died or vanished.
I was also afraid of heights for a while and had a few height related nightmares. One of them was that my family were going on an airplane, but the plane was overbooked so I had to sit on the planes right wing.
Another nightmare I remember from I was a kid was that I was walking along the docks. And suddenly I saw a man in the water that was attacked and eaten by a giant weird creature that looked like a cross between a squid and a jellyfish. Lots of people were around to see it, but nobody seemed to care or notice.
One of my friends also told me that he once dreamt that I transformed into a monster and tried to kill him.

[allenthomas]

The one nightmare that I've had to this very day since I was a child is one where I am around my friends and family and these faceless bald men appear out of thin air and start killing everyone BUT me. They simply touch someone on the face and that person loses their own face and their body just sort of collapses onto itself. They torture me chasing me the entire dream, but they never touch me. Then I wake up out of breath like a crazy person.

[anon13984047]

High five. Those elephants were among kid's animation's freakiest creations!

[anon13984047]

Those dreams of yours sound mightly eerie to me. Things coming at you, and your friends getting lost in a maze (and knowing they're as good as dead). They do sound inspiring too, though, in a way.

[scythe]

The first nightmare I can remember was walking down a path with very futuristic, immense cement and glass tanks of water on my left. Sometimes I'd be walking with my father. Other times my father would be swimming in the tanks, then a door would open in there and a great white shark would come out and eat him. Sometimes even I would be in a tank. I remember being very terrified but the nightmare would happen so often I learned to realise I was only dreaming and how to take control of the situation.

[Aetherwing]

I find them more scary to be honest. I've had ones about the sun going out too! I've also had one about the moon falling to Earth. They're honestly more scary and sometimes weird and I think what I find most terrifying about them is that they deal with things that are completely out of my control.

[carloswebcomic]

I dreamt of the abolishment of universal health care and the privatisation of the school system. I still get a cold sweat just thinking about it.

[KSlinger]

I don't have many nightmares these days, and if I do I automatically NOPE out of there. The last one I had was just the other night though, and it was about my little sister.

We were in a garden. No where scary. In fact it was beautiful- almost idilic. We were small again (or at least she was, maybe 12 or 13) and she was crying for some reason but wouldn't tell me why. She just kept on sobbing and sobbing, and I kept walking with my arm around her, taking her on paths around this garden and talking until the truth slipped out. I have no memory of what my sister said to me, when she eventually said it, but whatever it was, it made me so angry I couldn't control myself. I was furious. Absolutely beside myself. And in the dream I grabbed her by the shoulders and shoved her against a wall. All I could see everywhere was the utter misery on her face as she cried harder- her face was warping like a weird cartoon as she did- and all I could hear all around was myself bellowing and screaming at her, asking 'why?' over and over again. Then, seeing me so angry, my sister shook her head and took it back everything she said. She told me she had lied, that none of it was true.

Then, like some phantom thumb roughly moulding clay, her face began to distort and break, folding in and sliding across itself, becoming this horrifying, mutilated version of my little sister. I couldn't look away and I couldn't let go. I was stuck staring at this awful face until my brain decided to abort.

The ones about my sisters are always bad, but this one was horrific. I rang her the next day and she's all good! But christ did it shake me up for a while.

[Jewe11s]

Wah! Creepy! Those are some Majora's Mask flashbacks right there.

In my experience, the general emotions I'm feeling in a nightmare translate to what I'm feeling (but maybe not dealing with) in waking life. So at the times I've had epic apocalypse nightmares, it's possible they came from stressors that I have no control over (or at least it felt that way). ie. school stress, some crap I saw on the news that struck a nerve, relationship issues, etc.

[Aetherwing]

Yup I feel the same way! I definitely tend to have nightmares based on my stress level or if I'm worrying about a particular thing. A lot of the symbols in my dreams tend to be indicative of real life experiences.

[MannyMelancholy]

I had a dream last week that was at a party at some lake and some Friday the 13th looking dude was chasing me trying to kill me, I was able to get away by "swimming" into the air essentially flying via breast strokes. I"d be able to land for a few minutes but then that big bastard would start chasing me again and i'd get back to that swimming cardio of flying. I woke up feeling exhausted :/

[Kyushii]

Eh the only one I can think of for right now is I was sitting in my bed and from the corner of my eye, I saw a kid who looked like the Japanese boy from the Grudge. He was all white contrasting with the darkness and his face was blurry. I had this shit maybe when I was in high school now scary movies make me lmao so I don't have nightmares from them. Also, stress for exams or whatever just give me the same void/ falling nightmares .______.' .

[Kyushii]

Oh shit but yeah, faceless ppl will haunt me forever.

[CurlyComics]

sooooo...... I had this vivid nightmare when I was like 5 or 6 yo and I still remember it clearly down to the tiniest detail.
Are you ready folks?
cough cough
Summer, my hometown, my family home. It's starting to get terribly hot. Suddenly I hear people screaming in agony. I go to the balcony. The nearby mountain erupted and lava is closing to my house (note: it's not a volcano irl X'D ). My mother and father grab me and my sibling and rush to the garage where we keep our old shabby truck (note : we never owned a truck irl). We get on , the lava reaches us. There are people we know burning alive, flesh melting and oh the smell... It still haunts me to this day. some half burning people are trying to get on the truck. Lava is all around us now. The truck barely moves. My mother is crying. All hope is lost. And then I woke up. (couldn't sleep for like 2 days after that)