Nightmares and why I am up at 5:45 am on a weekend

[inFAMOUSCowZ]

Am I the only one who enjoys nightmares? I don't know why I just love the rush when I wake up and realize it was all a dream. Either way I hadn't had a nightmare in a while, but when I do the ones that bother me are ones that involves my dogs. And I mean in bad ways, such as them running away, dieing things like that. Simply put I love them, and I've felt this way ever since I watched my one dog, get run over, so yes I'm scared in they ever run away, or something.

 

[ramboondiea]

the elder gods themselves could enter my dreams and it would not wake me up, my head hits the pillow i am not getting up before 7 ha
but i dont remember dreams or nightmares, i assume i have them tho but just lack the brain function in the morning to remember them

 

[LightningBanks]

I generally dream about a scenario recently in life in which something I preffered happened, lick rec ently being turnt down by a girl. Then I hear like ghost voices and a version of me wakes up, as if I was dreaming said scenario in a dream, and then I sorta watch from a 3rd person me doing horrible things like butchering people and setting fire to them. Then I generally wake up.

The fact that even when Im awake I have sadistic thougts, combined with this, worries me greatly.

 

[willsham45]

I once had a dream I was going to the cinema with my girlfriend the thing we were going to watch was sold out so we went to the next thing that was on that was a panto, because of the nature of the performance everyone had specific seats so my partner and I were separated, instead of sitting infront of a stage there were large tables with different tables representing different areas and each seat representing different actors, I ended up on the pirates table, and before I knew it I was being hunted around a dark and stingy harbour.
I woke up really confused and freaked out.

Another one involved a bed in the middle of the sea being invaded by lobsters...I cannot remember what happened exactly in that one but i woke up with my pillows on the other side of the room and a mild thought of if i get out of bed i will get attacked by lobsters.

 

[The SettingSun]

Around a month ago I woke up and when i looked up at my bedroom ceiling there was a frickin giant bat gazing at me. This scared the jeheebus out of me and I began manically shouting for my mum. My dad came instead and I remember trying to tell him about a radio station changing it's name, but i couldn't form my words right and I got fustrated. He left and went to bed, I got up and threw up. When I went to bed I had a short nightmare about robbers which i thought was true then woke up and thought i was in a dream because i knew that giant bats and robbers were absurd (well maybe not robbers) and i had also thrown up so i concluded that i was stuck in this dream forever and the night would never end and other scary stuff would happen. I was lying down in that state for around 4 hours when finally dawn came and i got a day off school cos according to my mum i looked like death!

 

[Loremaster P]

The most common returning nightmares for me is running from something. Can be zombies, soldiers, monsters, all i know is that i'm screwed if they get me. These dreams last quite a long time, i run, duck, dodge and narrowly escape like 15 times every time. It usually begins with me running through a familiar area like my house or school. Then i notice what's hunting me, i eventually think i'm getting away but they keep coming and i can't hide. Eventually i think i've finally lost them when they suddenly close in on me from all sides. Cue me waking up, sweating and heart beating. Prob has to do with some personal issues or something but damnit i get terrified in these dreams.

 

[The SettingSun]

The fact that even when Im awake I have sadistic thougts, combined with this, worries me greatly.

If your really worried i suggest reading this http://www.ocdsymptoms.co.uk/dealing-with-intrusive-thoughts-paranoia.html

 

[Dfskelleton]

I had this horrible dream that I woke up one morning. In the dream, everything in my room was completely normal. As I began to kinda look around my room, I noticed that there was this tall man (who didn't really even look like a man) standing in the corner of my room. Before my dread overwhelmed me, the man levetated (he wasn't moving his legs when he moved) towards me at ridiculous speeds. He stood by my bed for a few seconds, and then I woke up

 

[michael87cn]

Wow, that's an interesting nightmare OP. I can safely say I've never had a fear of water/sharks, I just don't swim very often.

I've also learned to control my dreams so if they turn bad I know how to make them better or how to wake myself up.

That said the worst dreams are the ones where you think you have just woken up but you're still dreaming. Then you wake up wondering if you're STILL still dreaming...

 

[Zakarath]

Well, I don't often have nightmares, but I did have a really oddly vivid dream last night where I was an agent dropped by some government into Indonesia to investigate something about air or water currents (don't ask me why that was important)... and from there I was lurking around some village with an invisibility cloak, living off the land around it, spying on them for no real reason, until they discovered me and began hunting me so I burned down the village with Aleran fire-spheres (kind of like magical incendiary grenades from The Codex Alera) before waking up.

 

[Kadoodle]

I don't really have nightmares anymore...I had a whole myriad of them when I was a child. They were worst in the summer, because the fans would be on at night, and they would make a whirring mechanical noise that, when asleep, caused me to dream about various meat-grinder-esque machines that would try to kill me, and I would fall down, unable to walk.

My worst nightmares have been flashbacks to the earliest memory I can remember, which was when I was around 3 or 4, at a daycare center/preschool called The Little Red Train. Let's just say that place got shut down by the feds.

 

[Kenjitsuka]

I had a sharks nightmare last week!
I was on this large complex of old wooden structures suspended above dark water and the sharks where going mad already beneath me. And then the structures, flooring etc. started to break down and sink.

So yeah, eventually I died horribly and woke up in sweat.

Have had tons more nightmares lately.

 

[Bealzibob]

I have 3 things that stand out as nightmares.

First is always have nightmares of being chased by dinosaurs for some unknown reason... Don't ask me why dinosaurs but it just is that way, some talk to in a very villainous fashion.

Another was one where a faceless girl who had every feature of her body burnt away. She began igniting everyone around me with her mind. Turning people instantly into ash.

Finally, I had my one and only episode of sleep paralysis, where I was walking in a massive cave and flashing my torch on a distant speck of light when suddenly something grabbed my hand and then I woke up. I was unable to move even while awake and had the distinct feeling of someone holding down my arm, even though I was staring directly at it and nothing was obviously touching it.

But it's not really a problem, I don't get scared from these things. Just unsettled for a short time and then go back to sleep.

 

[E-Penguin]

Has anybody here ever watched the show Moonins?Then you may be familiar with a character that has several different names depending on where you live. Here in Norway, she's called Hufsa, while in English-speaking countries she's known as The Groke. She's also known as: Mårran, Mörkö, Buka, Morinn, La Courabou, Morra, La Bu, La Coka and Urr.

I've had nightmares about the bloody thing since I was four years old until I was about twelve. It happened every two weeks or so, If not more often.

I'm okay now though.

Also, I refuse to search for pictures of her for this post.

 

[Hawgh]

It's been a long time since I had a nightmare that I remembered. Ten years I think. It was an incessantly recurring one, however. Procedure: I go into my garden. There is a wolf in the garden. Then I usually woke up somewhere between noticing the wolf, and it tearing out my guts. Never figured out why I had them. I don't have an unusual fear of wolves, if anything, they're my favourite non-domesticated animal.

 

[Fooz]

i had a dream there was a spider living in my pillow and it would bite me when i went to sleep, and when i tried to kill it, it would run out of the pillow really quickly and hide, it was like a shiny black massive thing, like the size of an adult hand, and if i slept somewhere else it would sneakily follow me, wait for me to sleep and then bite me again

i then woke up and was scared of my pillow for a night

 

[k-ossuburb]

Children. Normal children with no disfigurements or horrific contortions making them into some twisted thing beyond recognition. No, just sweet, normal-looking little children. The disfigurements would actually make me less afraid of them because then I know I could kill them and not feel bad about it.

I'm trapped in a room with about four of them and for some reason I'm the one who has to look after them. They're messing everything up, getting my paint all over the place, destroying my laptop and breaking my sculptures before I've even had a chance to cast them. I can't do anything to stop it, for some reason I know that if I tell them to stop they'll all start crying and everyone will treat me like I murdered them or something.

I just have a terrible case of pedophobia (that's PHOBIA not PHILLIA), children scare the crap out of me because I don't feel like I could be trusted around them, like, if I move or do anything I run the risk of killing them. I don't want to accidentally knock one off of a cliff when I turn around to grab something behind me, how the hell do you explain that? "Oops"?

It's the normal, happy ones I have the problem with. I'm a cynical, skeptical, dickbucket of a person; I don't want to be asked a question and give them an answer because I know my answers would make them cry, and I hate it when they cry. I actually hate it when anyone cries, it makes me uncomfortable because I lack the emotional dexterity to deal with it properly. I don't want to be the one who ends up telling them that Santa Claus is a myth or that it's impossible to be a tiger when you grow up, but I also have a severe problem with lying to them. Everyone (me and them) would be better off if they just left me alone.

Children just creep me the hell out, unless they're intentionally creepy, like Alma in "F.E.A.R.", the twins from "The Shining" or Samara from "The Ring". I can deal with that perfectly fine, but "normal" children in real life? They just creep me out and I'd like to stay as far away from them as possible.

 

[k-ossuburb]

i had a dream there was a spider living in my pillow and it would bite me when i went to sleep, and when i tried to kill it, it would run out of the pillow really quickly and hide, it was like a shiny black massive thing, like the size of an adult hand, and if i slept somewhere else it would sneakily follow me, wait for me to sleep and then bite me again

i then woke up and was scared of my pillow for a night

Aww! It sounds like it likes you!

No fair! I want a pillow spider. I will call him Mr Theodore T. Piddlewinkles III.

 

[Fooz]

take the thing, i hate it