What Are Your Nightmares?

[bouncyegg]

Hey all! I'm toying around with the idea of doing a short, horror series and want to illustrate some nightmares. So does anyone have any memorable or reoccurring nightmares? If I illustrate yours, I will absolutely give you credit. Thanks

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[Gaspode12]

I used to have a recurring nightmare when I was a kid about a giant vampire rat with red eyes... Not sure what that says about me X)

[PixyByte]

There's one where I'm being followed by a huge crowd of people, which is terrifying enough, but the second I turn to look at them, they turn into monsters with crazy, glowing eyes.

[DTSaranya]

I had a few nightmarish experiences while trying to induce lucid dreams. The end goal was to fly in a dream, because it's supposed to be really fun.

I successfully reached the point of semi-lucidity a handful of times, and then would find that I could either leave the ground as though flying or be able to jump really high.

However, whenever I would get to a certain height, something awful would happen, like floating away from the earth without being able to stop, or the ground turning into horrible disfigured faces that were trying to bite at me as I came back down.

I very rarely have scary dreams, so the fact that they would take a bad turn so consistently when flying was involved makes me think that it's related to my fear of heights. I have since stopped trying to fly in dreams.

[SpavVy]

I tend to have reoccurring nightmares of my teeth falling out.
In these dreams, one tooth becomes loose and then it falls out, and soon the rest will do the same, falling out one by one until I have no teeth left except for my wisdom teeth. I think this might be my brain telling me it's time to get my wisdom teeth removed lol.

Another one I tend to get is sleep paralysis and it's often a dark figure standing above me, sometimes I have paralysis episodes of being shook or grabbed.

[Aspie_Gamer]

I don't usually have nightmares. I also remember my good dreams more than I do my nightmares so I'm not sure if I have any decent nightmares to share with everyone. The closest thing I've had to a nightmare of any sort in years was being late for school and that was a few years ago when I was still in school. When I was younger, I think I had a nightmare involving a skeleton but the details are sorta hazy right now.

[BraveHeartTatsumaki]

I've had dreams of monsters coming to me trying to kill me, but that was long ago, I haven't had any nightmare since 2 years ago, from time to time I get paralisis of dream but I know how to handle it and I know why it happens so I'm not scared anymore.
One that was creepy though, was like I was seeing myself in third person and then I was zooming out to my ear and I saw like tons of small holes like tripophobia triggered and when I woke up with a weird sensation so I think that would count as a nightmare? I didn't wake up scared, I woke up like "I remember I dreamt something" so I usually try to remember what I dream first time I open my eyes and write everything I recall from it, it's a good exercise for the memory

[SirHellsir]

The only nightmares I remember were about my dog getting hurt or going missing. Once about my sister getting killed by a lizard that grew into a monster while we were at the zoo.
And all of those were I'm naked only wearing a sweater trying to hide the fact that I'm naked in a huge crowd.

[ERossUra]

My most common recurring nightmare is being trapped in a Jurassic Park like situation. I spend seemingly hours being chased by dinosaurs before realizing that it's a dream and that if I allow myself to be eaten/attacked, I'll wake up.

The other one is that happens frequently is that there was something wrong with my high school diploma and I have to go back and take a math or English class in order to properly "graduate." Midway through the dream, I panic thinking that I haven't been attending one class or another. Mind, I graduated from university last year so idk why I'm so worried about my high school classes >.>

[Kelty]

there's this one nightmare that i remember real well, about walking through a tunnel on a train track and not being able to go at a normal pace, like when you walk under water? On either side of the tunnel were open graves in the walls displaying mummified children dressed in traditional first communion attire. And when I'm almost out of the tunnel, it slopes up into a hill and since it's hard to walk quickly, I'm having trouble making it up the hill, and then the train horn blows from a distance and I just can't make it up this fucking hill.

Next thing I know I'm on the side of a dirt highway in the middle of a giant expanse of grassland.

It wasn't so much scary as it was bizarre and anxiety-inducing. I hope it helps and I hope you find some really good material, because that comic idea sounds really neat.

[thesisterscomic]

I, over the summer, had a dream with this hunched black thing with a large head and tiny needlepoint red eyes; and he told me I was courting weakness and to bring him a swine because he could show me everything I could do. And I kept trying to waive him away, to get him away from me, and I remember waking up with sleep paralysis a few times and talking to something and telling it to leave me alone and it isn't my fault. My brother, who I was on a roadtrip with at the time, heard me screaming this apparently, at about 3 in the morning. He was sleeping on top of the van to look at the stars, I was within.

And this thing, this weird man, it showed me everything that was my fault, so I could be relieved of "the burden of unneeded guilt" and like, shit; information overload through the butterfly effect. So many things that I didn't blame myself for I now saw as being my own failures; and many things I had regretted were not my fault. It was as though I could see the webs and lines between how these things happened; and it made it all very easy to understand.

This creature wasn't much taller than a man, and it had to have its hands on my head to talk in words I could understand. Wasn't shadow, but was empty of light. In my dream I wasn't elsewhere, I was just in my car. Which is what made it all very frightening. When I'm scared of things, having a bad conversation with them, it is usually somewhere else off in dreamland. This thing was with me. It kept calling itself Annoka, or repeating that phrase plenty. Its voice felt like smoke in my ears. Just this angry little man whisper.

I'm pretty much always having night terrors and other such nastiness. This was one that really stuck with me because the imagery and creature were stranger than what I usually contend with come sleep.

[insomniascrawl]

I don't know if it counts as a nightmare, but I often dream that all of my teeth are falling out like rotting out of my mouth rapidly and then I keep trying to put them back, but they wont go back.... Not as bad as some of the things on here, but it feels very real and I always wake up checking to make sure I have my teeth and having to check to make sure that you have teeth is pretty alarming first thing in the morning.

[Aloredd]

The closest thing to a nightmare I ever had (that I remember, anyways) was a dream that I was taking a simple, 10 question test on grammar and sentence structure and other basic things that I know really well (took college courses in high school for this stuff and earned a couple of English awards and what not). My brain wouldn't let me read the questions despite my best efforts and for some reason I thought I did really well despite not remembering filling in the bubbles (I was looking at a question on parallel structure and the next thing I knew the teacher was handing the tests back). I got a 3/10 (more humiliating than anything) while my sister (she's randomly there) got a 14/10. I woke up shortly after and couldn't go back to sleep (2 am and I had work at 6 am).....I was in kind of a bad mood for a while.

You have to understand though, that I'm not a Hermione Granger. I love school (I played school when I was little...pulled out my friend's mother's encyclopedias and read them, taking notes on the things I thought were intersting) but in real life if I got a bad grade on a test I didn't care too much. I did the homework and class work, but I didn't really study outside of school. I'd go over the test with the teacher if I could to see why I got the bad score, but I really didn't care enough for it to be nightmare material. I still think about the dream and wonder "why? "

[demthorshie]

I have this exact same nightmare from time to time. Indeed it does feel extremely rare and it's super scary because the thought of losing your teeth at such a young age is frightening as heck x.x!

[bouncyegg]

Yikes! I have trypophobia and that dream sounds terrifying.

[bouncyegg]

Thank you! I've been wanting to do a horror comic for a while and thought that this might lend to good, short scary pages,

[bouncyegg]

These are all wonderful and are definitely getting my creative gears turning!

[gnekomikero]

i just had nightmare and it was that I was assassinated by my mom's ex bestfriends which is now mortal enemy... i was really begging to spare my life since I really felt that it was real since he was a retired military. The only thing I remember I was shot at my back living me bleeding as I beg for help.

[Stinahhh]

OHHHH GURL. If you want nightmares, I am a breeding ground for them. To the point where I'm numb to horror. Had a full year with ONLY nightmares as a child.

One off the top of my head:

I was walking around the house when I saw the ceiling had an opening to the attic. It was open and there was a ladder, stupid me decides to walk up it to find a body of a woman hung in the center of the room. A pool of blood was forming under her and she had a large hook through her neck. I walk up to the body and end up drowning in the pool of blood, everything goes greyscale but in red. Some other things happened but I don't remember the rest. I had this nightmare when I was around 8 years old LOL

If you'd like I'd love to share some more ^^

[Stinahhh]

I like flying because it feels so damn real but I hate that flying away feeling! You have absolutely no control and I get so afraid of falling down and crashing the ground LOL I never try to induce it, sleep paralysis aint fun.