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

[Brainpalm]

To be honest I don't really dream, or at least not vividly.

The most nightmarish experiences I've had are just through normal dreams when I dream that I fall or something like that and I wake up genuinely startled/frightened. And the only time such dreams occur is when I am only half asleep, or trying to sleep after my alarm wakes me up.

 

[Meatman]

The classic "falling dream" that makes me sit up in my bed having had a minor heart attack.

When I was 4 and still struggling with bed wetting, I always used to dream about peeing into the toilet. Soon I grasped that whenever that dream came up, I was infact wetting the bed, and trained myself to wake up to stop it.

 

[googleback]

I honestly cant remember my nightmares. i know i've had some fucked up dreams in the past but they haven't stuck with me. thank god haha.
I tend to sleep easy, My dreams are usually quite pleasent but i never remember them when I wake up, But i'm always like PUT ME BACK IN!!! haha

 

[darthotaku]

I'm never really scared of dreams or nightmares, I have been in the past, but recently I decided that I would prefer there being something supernatural out there, even if it kills me, than there not being anything but our world.

That said, I sleep in a raised bed, and I once dreamed that a face was peering over it and watching me. Just to my right, with improbably long, spindly fingers hooked over the side, and the eyes I still remember so well sunk into a half-shadowed face.

Not a human face...

...I woke up to find that the dream had been perfectly accurate in regard to the state of my room, and that the curtain to the window had been left half open.

That did scare the shit out of me, though I've convinced myself that it was indeed a dream, and that I must have just left the curtain open a bit.

dude, leave the "It must have been a dream" part out and post that story on the Scary thread. I never sleep with a closet or blinds open simply because of dreams like that.

 

[Redingold]

I had a weird and terrifying dream years ago. I can only vaguely remember it, but I think what happened was that I pissed off Jesus, who made plants grow through the floor. Then I was suddenly at school, and giant plants grew out of the ground and killed everyone. That was utterly terrifying, though it doesn't sound it.

Just recently, I had a dream that this girl I like was in my bedroom, and she asked to use my computer and then for no reason at all I was on some sort of Rube Goldberg-esque rollercoaster lift...thing, and I drowned upside down in a vat of blood. That was odd and scary.

 

[Grayjack]

The last nightmare I recall having involved what looked like Baby Face from Toy Story touching my hand. I was only 3, so I doubt I watched Toy Story before that.

 

[aLivingPheonix]

The worst nightmare? Seeing the girl I've had a crush on for nearly 2 years being skinned alive, then being forced to cannabalize her. I didn't sleep for 2 days after that shit.

 

[[Kira Must Die]]

I had a dream once where I was friends with Justin Beiber.

No, I'm not making this up. I would go into greater details, I just don't want to >.>

 

[Mrselfdestruct]

Worst nightmare I ever had was me lying in bed in a dark room, and somewhere off to the side were two red eyes in the darkness, staring at me.
It was after I'd seen 28 days later I think...the red eyes had infected my brain.

Oh and once there was a dog on top of me licking my face and I couldn't get it off!
That dream was much less scary though.
I wonder what it means......
Though I think that might have just been sleep paralysis, so not sure if that counts as a dream.

 

[Cpu46]

-snip-

But sharks are so friendly and misunderstood! Sharks don't eat humans and are normally very timid. They even play with dolphins!

Yes but try telling my subconscious that. Truth be told the reason I fear sharks so much is because my imagination doesn't need to strain itself to make them scary. I know that I am more likely to be killed by lightning and whatnot but I would rather stand out in a thunderstorm with a 30 foot lightning rod than tread water in the ocean.
Sharks hunt lightning doesn't.

 

[Deviluk]

Sometimes I dream that I lose my girlfriend to an absolute douchebag. We're in a long-distance relationship so its really not good when it shakes me up so bad.

On the topic of nightmares, remember that its just your brain training you for your worst fear, whatever that may be. At least your fear is relatively easy to avoid (avoid the sea). Unless you live in a houseboat of course. In fact some psychologists say that a nightmare is a sleeping disorder, rather than a dream. Dream's don't disrupt your sleeping, or cause you to wake up, normally. But nightmares are freaky because they will never stop having that ability to completely fuck you over, it doesn't matter how many times you dream it!

Its weird as well in this day and age one of our most popular fears shown in nightmares is still being devoured by something. We still fear the predators we've evolved so far ahead of. Just like the douchebag in my nightmares.

 

[KingofallCosmos]

I never dream, or at least, I don't remember.
Gotta add that I sleep little, irregularly and very deep.

 

[dkyros]

My dream sequence that shook me to my core happened about a month ago. No sharks, water, not even a monster. Instead it was an active volcano. Somehow I got commissioned to clean this active volcano that had a 30% chance of eruption. My dream self didn't see any problems with this so I went to cleaning the area around a vent on the volcano that had a little basin. In the back of my mind was "30% is pretty good chance nothing will happen". The next second I see lava coming out of the vent and my dream-jelly legs begin moving to run out of this depression in the mountain. However I'm not quick enough and my body begins becoming consumed by lava while my head watches it. I feel a strange feeling in my head, like the one you get when your lightnheaded, or more accurately the feeling you get after sex. While still in dream I was pretty depressed that this was how it ended. I awoke from the dream and was kinda freaked out. Started learning independently about volcanoes.

 

[Marcosn]

I think my unconscious upped its game after I got over most of my nightmares, now instead of waking up terrified I wake up depressed. A while back I had fairly standard nightmares, things chasing/hunting me, etc., and I can remember clearly thinking occasionally "Can't wait 'till this nightmare's over." After that, I started getting more "good" dreams, the girl I've had a crush on, a good job, the dead back to life, and those are far worse than being hunted ever was, because most of what I can think about during them is hoping really hard that it's not a dream when I know it is. Haven't had one of those for a few weeks, thankfully.

This exactly!! my nightmares stopped being scary after it realised that im used to freaky stuff so it went to the "show you happiness" phase which isnt as good as it sounds.
I dream about amazing things such as having my dad back or being with that one girl but then i wake up and its like a kick to the nuts. A similar one i have is dreaming about having lots of fanta then waking up thirsty and not having any, it doesnt sound bad but i'm not allowed fizzy drinks so i wake up feeling gutted :')

 

[jakjawagon]

I haven't had a proper nightmare in years, but recently I've had dreams that were just starting to turn scary, when I'd realise it was a dream and force myself to wake up. I also wake up immediately if I see a spider in my dream.

Once I woke up in the middle of the night and had forgot that I'd hung my black coat on the door of the wardrobe opposite my bed, so when I saw it it looked like a hovering hooded figure. Really scared me for a moment.

 

[imnot]

I hope to hell you havent seen A Goblin shark, or you will never want to touch water again...

On you sonofa! You knew Id google that! *cry*
Thanks to you I wont even be able to sit on the toilet no more!

I take it you saw the picture of the extendalbe jaws.
*Shivers*

 

[Doclector]

2 things in dreams likely to freak me out immensely.

1) spiders. I am hugely arachnophobic.

2) necromorphs. I really don't know why. I'm not even that scared of them in particular, but any dream I have about them descends quickly into terrifying bloody chaos. Also, it usually takes place on earth, last time a devastated mall, which if visceral somehow pull that out of my subconscious into dead space 3, that level's gonna be awesome.

Last time was okay though, Malcolm Reynolds turned up and saved me in the nick of time like a big damn hero.

Man I have awesome dreams.