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.
Oh, I never sleep with them open either, for two reasons. When I was younger I woke up from a nightmare and tried to get to my parents room. Turns out in the darkness I walked into my walk in closet and couldn't find my way back out. Keep in mind this is after I woke up from a nightmare. My parents woke up from my cries and found me a few minutes later curled up in a ball in the middle of my closet, sobbing. A few years later we moved and I no longer had the walk in closet so I thought I was safe to leave it open. I woke up from a nightmare and saw a full suit of armor in there, this probably wouldn't have been so scary had I not watched goosebumps earlier and been having a nightmare about being chased by a headless suit of armor. Turns out it was just a dream afterimage combined with light from the window reflecting off of some of my light colored shirts and my metal toy cars but I freaked out way before I figured that part out.
My worst dream, thats recurring by the way, has to be the one were I'm in my house as normal, but then somebody I live with, usually my stepdad, but sometimes my mum starts trying to kill me. I try to fight back, but I'm completely powerless. I'm pretty sure the dream is representative of something, but I don't care to analyze it, I'd rather focus on other peoples issues XD
I had a dream in my early childhood, one that you could put music in the background and start laughing, but for some reason when I have it now I wake up sweating.
In order to not get banned, I can say that the dream involves me as a young child, three other friends,a giant bride and a cult of pedophiles. I used to think its funny when I was young, but now I'm petrified.
I have no idea how this came to be.
If it makes you feel any better, sharks act nothing like the Hollywood ones. They mostly just bite people to see if they're food and generally figure a person is a pretty cruddy meal and swim off.
It's still not nice, even if the shark is only biting you in a probing manner, but it's not like sharks are malicious entities. I mean, if they were, they wouldn't bother checking if what they were eating was a dolphin or not.
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.
I see what you mean. You seem to have a psychodynamic perspective of your subconscious. Technically, i think this could be called a phobia, and therefor, a more suitable perspective would be the behavioristic perspective. Do you remember having some kind of childhood experience related to water or sharks or something of the like that could have triggered this?
Okay, maybe that hypothesis is understood, and perhaps you've already answered this question and I've missed it, but well eh yeah.
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. 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.
I can never sleep soundly if the blinds don't cover the window completely or if I watch anything on alien abductions. Hell, I couldn't sleep for a week after watching the trailer for that alien abduction movie 'the third kind'. Probably my greatest waking irrational fear is seeing something peering through the window. Oh and when I was a little kid I totally freaked out one time when I thought I saw a face at the end of my bed, turns out it was the blankets propped up by my foot that had gone numb.
Nowadays I have no space at the end of my bed and I don't imagine faces right next to me because I would just punch or kick them.
I've got that window fear too. The idea of seeing a face peering into my home scares me crazy.
OP - my one recurring nightmare theme is being frustrated about something. Trying to explain to people why I think something, or need something or have to do something and no one understands. It's not horror like sharks or monsters but the feeling of overwhelming frustration is crushing. It's a dream of being completely misunderstood and also that no one cares. Fortunately I haven't had one of those dreams in years but I'll probably never forgot how they feel. After checking dreammoods.com (thanks [user]Zeithri[/user]) it makes sense why I had them for so long and why I no longer do.
well i haven't had a nightmare in a while, but my latest one involved Aliens. Now there are some aliens i can stand, like from halo, or mass effect, but when it gets into the territory of the big eyed, small body, big headed aliens i just get freaked out. I blame my parents watching too many of those UFO conspiracy shows when i was younger.
Whats worse is i like watching those shows. I find them scary, but thats probably the reason i watch them.
Anyway, i had just watched one of those shows today. Fact or Faked, its from America and the episode had a video of a dead alien. I dreamed i was there and it woke up and it didn't go much farther from there but dear god the freaked me out.
Scenario, as in something that happened more than once? (without the "died and the whole thing replayed itself at super speed" kind of thing, you know, life flashing before your eyes)
Probably just killing people. I've had multiple dreams I could only describe as a psychotic rampage, my mouth painfully split in an unnatural grin. It's usually a bit like Dead Rising, when I'm sick of the survivors, just grabbing random objects and ruining people with them until they break, explode, or disintigrate, no-one trying particularly hard to stop me. The rest of my nightmares are unique, one-time things.
I consider murder-frenzy a nightmare because I keep thinking one day I won't wake up at the end of it, having actually killed (mostly) innocent people for no adequate reason. Luckily we have law enforcement around here, so it's not much more a danger than the dragon snakes, razor-birds, or the mutilated ligament spider I only only met once... Also, is it wierd that the killing dreams usually start with a menu like this?
"Resume.
Save.
Load.
Options.
Help. (often darkened or discolored)
Quit."
I think nightmares are pretty much dreams made of the less socially-acceptable side of our minds, dreams from the dark side, if you will. I dream of homocide because there are a lot of stupid people I'd like to physically correct, a lot of aggression I'd prefer to not have to vent at pixelated foes. As such, my mind creates a playground in which I can bludgeon to my heart's content. It doesn't quite explain why I've been crushed, drowned, impaled, or put in a broken carnival ride which then fell from a great height, but I think those were a result of doing something wrong, seems oversized-knife-wielding skeletons have little patience for being punched in the face.
I don't see nightmares while being asleep, I see nightmares when being awake.
Sounds emo, but thats what you get for being in a pain condition and being medicated heavily and on top of that having social problems.
But what I remember being my worst nightmare was my reputation being ruined by internet hackers/rumours destroying my career, life and reputation. The nightmare ended in me doing suicide by detonating extreme collection of explosive ornaments inside a HUGE office building that had the people who ruined my life in it.
Oh, well...
Fortunately I haven't had any dreams about "The Fourth Kind" movie, but it is really scary when I wake up at 3 am with no reason. Also lucky for me, I haven't had any nightmares lately, or just can't remember them.
I once had a dream of sounds, basically:
I was at the countryside, 6 years old. The dream took place there as well. I was dreaming that i was lying in the bed, but i started to hear grinding metal, warplanes, tanks, gunfire, explosions. The sounds got louder by the second till they were deafening. This happened twice during the same night and once more in the following. I still don't know what that meant or how i knew so well what these would sound like, as i hadnt watched any movies about war at the time.
The scariest dream I've ever had includes spiders. Generic? No.
I was in a cave, I could hear pattering, and I kept getting dripped on, I was walking down the cave looking for a light, I look up and it turns out it was a huge ass spider(like really cartoonishly huge) with fangs dribbling on me, not water dripping on me, it dropped on me and I woke up screaming just before it hit me.
Occasionally I have the same dream, but in a setting I've been to but didn't like.
Falling - it wakes me up violently every time. Wierd thing is that I'm not having a dream; I suddenly feel the sensation of falling head first and wake up. Only happens once or twice a year, but really does feel weird and very uncomfortable.
I had this dream where two friends and me were in some Fatal Frame type place with one ghost, we ran away from it into this really eerie stone room. The room had one chest at the end of it, I curiously went to open it and well. I was possessed by the devil, and it wasn't just kill everyone and wake up kind of scenario. I was acting out disgusting, inhumane stuff, I was torching the room on fire hurting my friends while inside my mind I was being ripped to pieces by the demon over and over again. It wasn't just like I was doing it for fun, it literally felt like being controlled and forced against your will by some dark power that is incomprehensible. I would be taunting my friends asking them "Do you want to go home?" and then laughing when they cried, and I wasn't talking with my own voice, I could hear that really low demonic type voice echoing and bellowing inside my head. Hearing my friends scream in pain as they burned and were tortured with hooks and utensils was so terrible to bear.
My last nightmare was only a week ago, I was put in a saw type situation where I got tortured, and I then see baby animals (yes seriously) tortured by sadists, and then I hear a voice telling me to open up an object (cupboard, fridge etc.) and then a scream, so very loud screaming from a girl, and then I scream and I wake up with my Heart pounding in my chest.
Now I'm not too keen on the "universal symbols" theories that spout compact answers for deciphering dreams. Every psyche grows its own meanings, though some are relative to culture. Nor should I read too much into the dream of a stranger online, but...heck, I want to
What I find interesting is *why* you end up swimming with the sharks. You're in a boat with drunk teenagers, and I gather you find that unpleasant to begin with. Who are those teens? Random constructs, roommates, people you meet every day?
Suppose you're nervous because you feel the people surrounding you are not as trustworthy as they should be. Or maybe you worry you're not mature enough yourself, and that it's bound to bite you in the ass. Just my two cents
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