Share your most memorable nightmare or weird dream

[Nail]

Being cased by someone (a predator) is one of the most primal fears, people have, so we all have inherited it on a genetic level from our ancestors... or something like that. But what about the clown... I guess, only you could know whom or what does he represent.

[Maps]

I had two repeat dreams as a child, all because I watched too much Jurassic Park and Free Willy.
Anyway.

The first one was a nightmare where my dad, my brothers, and I were hiding around my house from a T-Rex (that fit) and I remember always trying to hide in my toy box. My dad would get us out of the house and drive us to this grocery store. The grocery store had this conveyor belt that went into a curtained room, and I would pull the curtains back and walk in to just find the belt going toward a machine. I’d turn around to leave but the curtains were turned to cement so I’d be stuck in there until I woke up.
(The last time I had this dream, my dad gets us out of the house and my mom pulls up on this motor cycle like “Hop on!”. I jump on and she takes us down this cul-de-sac in our neighborhood where all the neighbors threw up ropes and took the t-Rex down, saving the day).

The second was this weird one where I’d walk down onto this beach. The hue of the dream was very blue, and there would be orca whales beaching themselves up onto the sand as if they were trying to get close to me. I’d walk along and have this very sorrowful feeling, but I couldn’t pin point why. I’d eventually walk up higher to this cottage and random things would happen.

Man. What the hell kinda kid was I?

[aqua03]

The clown might be from the fact I had it when the IT remake came out and my friend was talking about it (he really liked that movie). Jury's still out on the tupperware, though...

At least it gave me a pretty funny idea for a comic arc in Edible Green Tea should I decided to do that.

[Nail]

Jury's still out on the tupperware, though...

While dreams can "take" objects and people from real-life events, it's not neccesarily that they represent the named thing litterally, and it could be just a symbol for something else. That's what Freud says about it.

[aqua03]

Wonder what getting beaten to death by tupperware symbolizes then....

[Nail]

Well, you should turn your inner censor off and go freely with assosiations you have about it, untill you come somewhere.

[dawgofdawgness]

Mmmm, I used to have this recurring nightmare as a child where I lived in a mansion, and when I had to pee, I went upstairs to the bathroom. When I came back, there was a cat in my bed with lemons for eyes. This was when was I was in elementary school btw, and it was the most horrifying thing ever.

A nightmare I had recently was one where my mom had a seizure.

[Azifri]

From time to time I used to dream that on low terrain there are creepy shadow hands that will grab my feet and drag me down to their world, but because I'm not a shadow creature, they will smash me against the floor until I die. In every dream, I had to go actoss low terrain, down a basement, or some place where the hands were lurking.

I also had this weird recurring dream during my first lab internship. In that lab we did in vitro fertilization in cows, and oocyte collection days were mentally exhausting because I had to select hundreds of cells one by one, using a syringe while looking through a microscope. I would often finish past 2 am, and on those nights sometimes I dreamt that I was in a dark room with light dots around me, but on a closer look they were not dots but oocytes resembling eyes, staring at me with their nucleoli as if they were pupils.
It is so comedic but at the moment it was terrifying.

[Nail]

I had a recurring nightmare when I was like in kindergarden - first-second grade age. And it was the weirdest dream. Imagine all being black (only once it was either white or lightly grey), and all you see is a horizontal line running across your field of wiev (it was red or green; maybe also white sometimes). On the line there's a dot and it constantly moves from left to right, but also up and down bending the line, creating peeks and walleys. When the line is flat, you feel calm, but the higher and steeper the heels are made the more intence fear you have, and it's also being like mixed with extreme exiety up to the state of panic at the highest points (this is where I was usually waking up).
The other thing was - that weird but very distinct feeling I had during the dreams, I won't even try to describe. Interestingly, I sometimes have had the same feeling even when I was awake, usually at the evening on watching TV. I was scared of it, since I knew, that it meant that I'll have that nightmare again at night, which not always was the case. And even more interestingly, I was able to provoke that feeling or, rather state on porpouse even years after the I stopped having those dreams. Maybe I still can...

[Nail]

There's no oocytes in my book. Weirdly, no hands either

[Nail]

It was about Nuclear Apocalypse. I have climbed on the mountain near my hometown, and have observed nuclear explosions from here. But I was more stunned on their beauty than affraid, so I'm not really sure it counts.

Looks similar to the scene from that Apocalypse movie from 2012.

[indagold]

I only have one weird dream that I will cherish forever. I dreamt dexter from dexters lab was in a class being taught by a nazi doctor and dexter realized he had to fight the doctor because he was jewish and went into a machine that turned him into a massive swole hank hill.

[Buurd]

I don't usually remember my dreams ^^;
The only one I can really remember is a recurring one that's gone on since elementary school and into adulthood? I've had it so many times that as soon as it starts I recognize it. Use to be scary to me as a kid, now it's just like -- sad/bizarre and frustrating (cause i cant stop or change the events from happening.)

It starts out with me playing a racing game and crashing, getting a "game over" screen, when I hit "try again" it changes to me at my family's home at the end of our really long driveway. The mountain above my house is HUGE in the dream, and it has like a t-rex shape pressed into it?? Basically I have the knowledge that a disaster is coming and need to get my family to leave. So I travel down our driveway and run into my family doing various stuff along the way, trying to convince them we need to go but nobody listens. I have a family of 7 ^^; so it goes on for a while of futile attempts.
It ends with me trying to get my mom to leave the house, but she's busy doing chores and insists she'll leave when she's done. The dream either ends in me running back down the driveway and seeing everyone refuse to leave as the mountain comes alive and they're all killed. Or ends with me still urging my mom to leave when the house gets destroyed with us in it.

Even tho the whole situation is really bizarre - while in it I feel so much dread ^^;

[Nail]

It really looks like one of those adult things being percieved through a prism of clild's minset. Like, when I was a kid, my parents were constantly arguing, and I always thought it was something big and family threatening (like your overhanging mountain), and it kind of was my resposibility in a way to save it. But who's going to listen to me, since I'm only a kid and don't understand anything. I also used to have tha fear, that they're going to divorce eventually, so it kind of that feeling of dread in your dream. I mean, I can see, how would I explain this dream if it was mine. And it definitelly triggers some of my hidden strings... but it may be something different for you.

[winterpenwell]

In a particularly unpleasant one, my younger sister* went missing. Our house was in the middle of a forest, so I spent some time being chased by deer before I finally found her. She was half in the ground, only visible from the waist up, kind of like she’d fallen in and gotten stuck. I can’t remember if I pulled her up or if she pulled herself out once I got close, but her lower half was half of a giant spider.
*I have no younger sister, half-spider or otherwise.

[wekanian]

Once I dreamt that I lived in a dormitory. I just came home from shopping groceries and I saw my dorm mates were circling an old well in the backyard. They were doing a ritual to summon a devil. I didn't join them, scared, but I was intrigued so I watched. Then a sadako-looking girl emerged from the well and I noped out of there. I ran to the front part of the building and when I passed the front door and closed it, I saw my dorm mates were screaming help and clawing at the glass door and before I could open the door they exploded. I knew I was next so I ran. Apparently there is an invisible border which the devil couldn't cross. I ran passed that and she stared at me, smiling, telling her name was Delilah and that she will get me one day as I am the last survivor.

[Ashwin_S_D_Byss]

So i had a nightmare(?), i was like 11? i remember at the age of 7 i had had the same dream.....or something closely related. you see unlike when i was 7 and somewhat innocent i had been through some....messed up shit that was still fresh and traumatizing so in the dream i was in a different world one that i had created all was happy and merry just like how it was when i was seven but this time i was aware(?) that i was dreaming i was watching myself through myself in a dream(?) either way i walked to my room in the dream and looked at a mirror and i saw the 7 yr old me which transitioned to the 8 yrs old me to the 9 yr old me until 11 yrs old me was staring a me and in the mirror my head exploded and i remember just watching it and feeling nothing i was numb to it (partly cuz i knew it was a dream) but then the world started to change into the world the 11 yrs old me saw terrifying, cold, scary, all my demons came to life and i remember just running and telling my self to wake up. i tried to move and roll off the bed but i was stuck i couldn't do anything and i remember screaming at them to get away from me but they kept coming at me all of the people who had tormented me in real life became disfigured monsters in my dreams. i remember sitting down and cradling myself even though i was screaming for my dream self to run to hide i could do nothing they had their "fun" left me shaking on the ground each time i tried to will myself to move, leave, be alive. Nothing happened.....

This went on for a while before the ground collapsed and crumbled under me and i fell into myself, it felt like my soul had been yanked back into my body. I remember gasping for air as though i had been drowning under water. I walked , or more like stumbled into the kitchen in cold sweat. i remember my mom asking..
"are you okay?"
and i thought about how much better it would be to just tell her what i was going through. the thing that had creeped into my dreams.
i simply replied masking my feelings and problems with a weak smile.
"i'm fine"

[demthorshie]

I have a reoccurring nightmare that I've had every 3 months or so since graduating highschool. I get a knock on the door from the cops telling me I have to repeat highschool from grades 9 to 12. The rest of the nightmare contains me being forced to go back to school shopping and being asked why I'm over 30 and still in highschool. I had a hard time in school so this being a reoccurring thing doesn't surprise me, but out all of the horrible dreams I've ever had, this one has got to be the worst.

[Buurd]

I never perceived it that way personally, but its interesting to hear your view on it because my parents did argue a lot and are now looking at getting a divorce.

[chickknightgreenleaf]

there are one dream I still remember, it more magical than weird. In that dream, I was walking around the house, in a sunny ordinary day. Then suddenly from my fish tank, my fish jump out of the tank and starting to swimming around in air, then other fish appeared out of nowhere Arowanda, Tetra, Beta fish the kind that you'll find in a aquarium shop and what not, they swimming around in the air, everywhere when I starting to chase them and thus wake up.