Scariest Dream you have ever had.

[The Iron Ninja]

The constant theme for mine is being chased.
Giant Chickens (Scarier than it sounds)
Fast Zombies (never slow zombies)
Velociraptors (The massive Jurassic park ones, not the realistic dog sized ones)
Some weird chick in a long black cloak that floated around screeching
Some weird naked anorexic ghoul that looked a hell of a lot like David Bowie
They all chase me.
And since the overseer of my dreams is an asshole, my legs often don't function properly and I can only run in slow motion.
Stupid overseer.

 

[asiepshtain]

Got perfect recall on this one.

I was about 11 at the time.
The dream started completely real, I was walking down the stairs in my house.
Near the door we had a full length closet mirror. I stand in-front of the mirror and look it. My face was contorted, pulled high, eyes and mouth just rips in the face. In my mouth were just the four top teeth, with three horizontal lines on them. I start screaming, and raise my hands to cover my face.
Out of every finger on my hand extend five more fingers, at the end of each of them a face like my own, screaming.

Like I said, perfect recall. I didn't go to sleep for three days after that, and wasn't OK with sleeping for weeks.

 

[Adam Jenson]

It was a dark, cloudy day. Crows filled the air and a huge black dog chased me. After I saw an old woman fall so did I as I got up and turned the dog pounced me and thats when I woke up.

 

[The Giggling Pin]

the scariest one i have had, would be randomly loosing all of my teeth, i dont know why i keep on getting this dream but it keeps haunting me

Apparently dreams of this nature are representations of high anxiety in your life or more specifically anxiety about your own appearance. Other theories include that it means you have some issues with communication as the teeth are obviously linked to your mouth.

My scariest dream I am not even sure was a dream but I do remember it like it was yesterday. Which it wasn't. I was about 10 and was in bed and I think I was sleeping. All of a sudden I had this most incredible pain go all through my body. The pain was intense and like nothing I had ever experienced before or since, leaving me barely able to move and I felt genuinely terrified. The pain passed for about 30 seconds or so and came back. I tried to scream out to my Mum for help as my 10 year old mind thought death was on its way yet when I opened my mouth no sound came out. I tried to scream out again and still no sound. I used my last ounce of strength to roll over so I could bang on the connecting wall to make her come in but alas all I could do was delicately touch the wall. Then there was another surge of pain and either I passed out or woke up and instantly fell asleep again because the next morning the sun on my face made me wake up and I could not figure out if the night before actually happened. I still do not know if it did or not.

 

[Arachon]

The constant theme for mine is being chased.
Some weird naked anorexic ghoul that looked a hell of a lot like David Bowie

Hey, I also used to have nightmares about being chased by David Bowie... When I was little, he scared the bollocks out of me in the music video for "Life on Mars?"

 

[Locust]

I usually don't dream, my insomnia keeps me up for prolonged periods of time and when I'm depressed I find myself scared to go to bed. The two kinds of nightmares I always seem to have are often firstly, me being chased by a killer of some sort, becoming trapped and then always realizing in my head "It's just a dream" and waking up when I realized I'm trapped. The second is often someone I'm in love with being with someone else or just not with me in a dream.

 

[Ultrajoe]

the scariest one i have had, would be randomly loosing all of my teeth, i dont know why i keep on getting this dream but it keeps haunting me

This is a very common nightmare, and is linked to self-image issues. Make of that what you will.

 

[Corpse XxX]

I once dreamt that my pillow and cover clustered into a soccer like looking form, and chased me all around the house, up and down the stairs, absolutely every where.. Freaky shit when your pillow is about to kill you.. When i woke up, i was struggeling inside the sheets having a hard time to breath.. lol..

Also, i sometimes wake up in the middle of the night, drenched in sweat.. Every noice are ektremly loud, and time feels like it is sped up tenfolds..
Its like having a VHS movie on, pressing play and forward at once, then turning the volume on max.. Its really scary..

Some of my previous girlfriends have seen it happen to me, i get out of bed, standing on the floor shaking like crazy and they not beeing able to speak to me.. It freaks them out... hahaha...

 

[Arntor]

The constant theme for mine is being chased.
Giant Chickens (Scarier than it sounds)

Yes.
I've had this too, there's something frightening about giant angry birds staring you in the face, squawking loudly. Then there's also the fact that it was supposed to be my dinner, which came back to life.

 

[rekabdarb]

And since the overseer of my dreams is an asshole, my legs often don't function properly and I can only run in slow motion.
Stupid overseer.

That part looks familiar... no but
My personal philosophy on dreams are that they are what you repressed during the day, and your imagination is trying to let it out through your dreams...

and my scarist one is probably a race to the end of a forest maze, with 10 mass murderers... and as i quoted above my legs don't move fast...

and the person to reach the end gets a high caliber automatic weapon and then starts to hunt down all the survivors, anyone who reaches the maze after the first wakes up (disappears) and i'm almost always the last person to get to the end. But the few times i've was actually killed I actually ran screaming to my parents room (in my sleep mind you... i do that a lot apparently)

But i had these dreams like 6-10 years agoish i don't quite remember so i was like 7

nowadays my scaryist dreams i have are me waking up before anything "good" happens

 

[rekabdarb]

I once dreamt that my pillow and cover clustered into a soccer like looking form, and chased me all around the house, up and down the stairs, absolutely every where.. Freaky shit when your pillow is about to kill you.. When i woke up, i was struggeling inside the sheets having a hard time to breath.. lol..

Also, i sometimes wake up in the middle of the night, drenched in sweat.. Every noice are ektremly loud, and time feels like it is sped up tenfolds..
Its like having a VHS movie on, pressing play and forward at once, then turning the volume on max.. Its really scary..

Some of my previous girlfriends have seen it happen to me, i get out of bed, standing on the floor shaking like crazy and they not beeing able to speak to me.. It freaks them out... hahaha...

thats kind of scary...

 

[Cxizent]

The thing that scares me about my dreams is watching them evolve to keep up with my escape mechanisms. For ages, whenever I had a freaky dream, I'd tell myself "It's just a dream", and when I inevitably didn't believe my dream self, I'd tell myself "Look around. See that building? Real bricks don't look like that, it's not real."

So then, after a week of this, I'd tell myself to look around, and see tiny little things like the grass in absolutely intricate detail, and I couldn't tell if it was a dream all over again.

The scariest dream that I've ever had? I was about eight, and I dreamed that my Mum was driving me to meet my Dad. In the car, she pulled off a mask and was my Dad, then pulled that mask off etc. etc. I finally got to the doctor's appointment (You know how dreams go), and the doctor was a tree that was also a lady. Not one or the other, but not a combination of both, right? She wasn't like a normal lady with branches or roots, nor was she a tree with a face, but I knew she was both. Then the masks etc. and the dream gets hazy. Then my Dad was piggybacking me down a path that had old oaks hanging over it, and one of them was the lady. She grabbed me off my Dad's shoulders, and started cooing to me, and I was struggling and screaming and hoping that my Dad would realise, but he just kept walking with nary a backwards glance.

Upon reflection, my separation anxiety took root early.

EDIT: After crawling to my parents' room crying, I couldn't sleep or had sleep paralysis or something, and I could see plants and trees climbing and growing all over their bed. Was pretty inconsolable. Why trees? They're not even scary. Stupid dream.

 

[_Janny_]

I doubt there's anything scarier than a Silent Hill dream. I still have those, and the worst part is that there's no Esc button, the windows are barred up, it's just you and your worst nightmare that you have to face by yourself.

At least I manage to wake myself up before I get slaughtered to bits by all those monsters. Damn dreams make me wake up shaking..

 

[Kevvers]

When I was a kid I used to get a lot of really bad dreams, mainly the same recurring dream about chased around by some big monster or something stupid like that. Eventually, I don't know, I just seemed to be able to tell I was in the dream, and not only that I was able to sort of say 'I'm not playing' and sort of unimagine all the monsters. So, then I was just like, now what.. and basically tried flying around for a bit which actually does work in dreams. Its sort of like you've turned on cheat mode in a computer game, and just deleted the end boss and then decided to turn off gravity. Just don't get too wrapped in it, or the original dream restarts. All of this was pre-Doom I might add.

I didn't really get dreams after that until University when I took sleeping pills to help me sleep before finals... The first week of those let me tell you they are by the worst nightmares, because its like a normal nightmare, except you can't wake up because your drugged, so that horrible point where you normally wake up in a cold sweat -- you don't!

 

[Kevvers]

In the car, she pulled off a mask and was my Dad, then pulled that mask off etc. etc.

Yeah I used to get that, sometimes it would get ridiculous how many masks they could fit on there.

 

[DoomyMcDoom]

well I dreamt that i was living my average everyday life... then i woke up... and i was still dreaming... and that happened like... so many times, i think i woke up in every place i have ever woken up in before in my life before i actually really woke up, and when i did i thought i was still dreaming... so i smashed my hand down on something on my desk.... and lets just say... it hurt and the object in question was garbage after that moment... got a new mouse a day later

 

[Archereus]

the scariest one i have had, would be randomly loosing all of my teeth, i dont know why i keep on getting this dream but it keeps haunting me

Apparently dreams of this nature are representations of high anxiety in your life or more specifically anxiety about your own appearance. Other theories include that it means you have some issues with communication as the teeth are obviously linked to your mouth.

My scariest dream I am not even sure was a dream but I do remember it like it was yesterday. Which it wasn't. I was about 10 and was in bed and I think I was sleeping. All of a sudden I had this most incredible pain go all through my body. The pain was intense and like nothing I had ever experienced before or since, leaving me barely able to move and I felt genuinely terrified. The pain passed for about 30 seconds or so and came back. I tried to scream out to my Mum for help as my 10 year old mind thought death was on its way yet when I opened my mouth no sound came out. I tried to scream out again and still no sound. I used my last ounce of strength to roll over so I could bang on the connecting wall to make her come in but alas all I could do was delicately touch the wall. Then there was another surge of pain and either I passed out or woke up and instantly fell asleep again because the next morning the sun on my face made me wake up and I could not figure out if the night before actually happened. I still do not know if it did or not.

well then, i guess i have some sort of anxiety some where, thanks for the heads up though i look further into that

 

[Slayer_2]

I had a dream were I kept falling and falling and falling. The whole time I was terrified of hitting the ground, until near the end of the dream, where I started playing myself a game of chess. Then, with no warning, I smacked into the ground and woke up. It was so shocking for some reason, I woke up drenched in sweat.