Scariest or Most Disturbing Nightmare You've Had

[Worgen]

Ive had some weird dreams but really only one I would classify as a nightmare, I mean it actually woke me up, I was running down a long slowly turning hallway and I was being pursued by a beast of darkness, I could see its claws shredding the walls, no matter how much I shot at it, it kept coming (yeah I had a gun or something), finally the hallway circled and I could see it coming on both sides so I threw out a number of cluster bombs to try and kill it but it didnt work and I was engulfed then I woke up, it was a very strange experience since as I said, Ive never had a dream that I couldnt stop or control in some way

 

[Happy Toki Toki]

The most disturbing one I can remember is being chased around an old church by a corpse-collaboration style butcher - then him catching me and dragging me down a long hallway and into some kind of torture chamber / butchers room - at that point I woke up.

 

[Atticus89]

When I was 8 or so, I had this dream where this tall man wearing normal office clothes was looking at me and my mom. Why we were I'm not sure since he didn't look like anyone I knew. The man had two small vials and held his hand out and drew my mom's soul out of her. I'm crying at this point as he closed the vial and then smashes it with a stomp and my mom falls dead. As I try to run he froze me in my tracks and held out his hand as well. As he bottled my soul it was if I was looking at myself in a mirror underwater and my reflection was dazed and lifeless but still living. The man placed my soul vial on the ground and when his foot was coming towards me I woke up crying and in a cold sweat. I was so scared and apparently loud enough for my mom on the other side of the house to hear me.

Ever since then, I've yet to have any nightmare quite like that even under conditions of extreme fever or medicine. Nothing has ever come close to scaring me that badly.

 

[Jack_Uzi]

Waking up, noticing that I wrote something I never intended to write.

 

[teutonicman]

This was more of a hallucination. I was a young boy at the dentist's office and getting laughing gas for the first time. While I was passed out I recall well... To those of you that have rubbed there eyes, do you recall seeing the weird moving designs(similar to a kaleidoscope)? Well I saw that and x-wing star fighters swoop over me. It freaked me out when I came too.

 

[JCBFGD]

I had a dream when I was about three that somehow involved the clown on the Schwebel's bags. I still get kinda creeped out when I see it. Then, when I was six or seven, I dreamed, long story short, of a ghost that sounded like what you'd hear when you picked up a phone while someone was on the internet. It may sound silly, but it was genuinely terrifying, and looking back, it sounded pretty awesome. I remember one dream that ended with an image of a pink flamingo in my head, and when I woke up, I had diarrhoea and a fever, and then I threw up. For a few years, it made me nauseous every time I thought about that flamingo...quite odd.
I've also had the typical dreams of, "YAY DAT GURL I LIEK LIEKS MEEE!", or a family member dies, and then woken up terribly depressed, and I'd stay that way for a few days.

EDIT: Not really a nightmare thing, but weird. Occasionally, I'll dream something fairly mundane, and then a few days later, the events in my dream come true. As a skeptic and an atheist, I don't believe in ESP or any of that crap, but I have no clue why this happens. My dad's tossed around the theory that the dreams are somewhat similar to the events in real life that caused me to remember said dream. The dreams are then mis-remembered as being completely similar to real life. That's as good and as logical a guess as any.
Again, not a nightmare, but it scares me. I'll have dreams that create memories of other dreams that I'm not sure I've actually had. It scares me because I can't tell, in these cases, what has and hasn't really happened.
This one's actually a nightmare. I had a dream my ninth-grade science teacher's face looked like this:

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When I remembered the dream in the middle of her class, I found myself literally physically unable to look at her.

 

[alligabbi]

Mine happened when I was around six years old.

I was sitting at the dining table in my kindergarden, when my chair suddenly tipped backwards. I fell into a deep hole, a grave (I just knew it was a grave, no reason, just dream logic). Then my parents were suddenly standing over me, smiling. My dad pulled out a shotgun, while my mom started laughing. Then my dad shot me in the face.

I woke up screaming and didn't sleep a full nights sleep for days.
The worst part was waking up and seeing my mom standing over me in my bed when I woke up...

 

[Nikolai Smirnov]

I always find the simplest things are the scariest.

I used to have my computer right next to the door of my bedroom, and I once had a dream where I was sitting at it typing, in broad daylight. All of a sudden, with no warning, the door opened and a really pale, bald man wearing black clothes poked his head through and grinned at me wickedly.

That description of the man reminded me a lot of Nosferatu, a vampire from the old movie "Nosferatu The Vampyre". Hope that helped you understand the dream a bit more.

 

[Mrselfdestruct]

I had a dream that I was lying in bed in a completely dark room, except for two red eyes staring at me.

A short one, but scary. I think it was because I watched 28 days later...

 

[Zeraki]

I always find the simplest things are the scariest.

I used to have my computer right next to the door of my bedroom, and I once had a dream where I was sitting at it typing, in broad daylight. All of a sudden, with no warning, the door opened and a really pale, bald man wearing black clothes poked his head through and grinned at me wickedly. I actually woke up screaming from it and didn't sleep for the rest of the night.

Are you kidding me.... holy crap. Holy crap. You saw slender man.

He comes to you in dreams. Then he comes for you in real life. Id be terrified. Just thinking about him scares me shitless. Scariest thing ive seen online. Ever.

I used to see something that looked a lot like that in recurring childhood dreams. I'm now uneasy, yay!

OT: I used to have this recurring nightmare that I was in my bedroom, and had my window open. I would look at the sky and see a Bald Eagle circling above the house, and then it would swoop down and viciously tear at the bug screen trying to get in, all the while shrieking.

The scariest ones I used to have as a kid were weird. It would be a normal dream, and I would be talking to someone like my Mom. Next thing I know I would hear a disembodied cat screech as if someone stepped on its tail, and something bad would happen. Usually the person I was with would turn into a horrific monster and attack me. Other times I would be trapped in some sort of a strange labyrinth of boxes and seemingly in a dimension where the laws of physics don't apply. And I would start falling to my death.

And I was a little kid when I had these dreams.

 

[jbchillin]

spiders. im deathly afraid of them. i dream that one turns massive and is invincible and i cant kill it. also when i have a high fever i see them and i freak the fuck out.

 

[trollnystan]

My scariest (that I can remember at least) was the time I dreamed I was dying. What I can recall was that people were after me, so I spent most of the dream being chased. Then at the end, some terminator type person cornered me - I fell off a building or something, so I was flat on my back - restrained me, filled a syringe with air and proceeded to inject the air into one of my veins.

Now, throughout the entire dream I was aware that I was dreaming; I usually do. But I started to feel much like I do when I faint IRL - everything going black and faded only worse - and I remember thinking, "This is a dream. But if I die now I WILL die in real life, unless I can wake myself up. So wake up damn it!"

I may have lucid dreams a lot but I've always been shit at controlling them. It took a lot of effort to wake myself up; when I did, I was hyperventilating and sweating. I still remember how I had to fight my way out of the darkness, to force life back into my limbs.

So yeah, that's the scariest dream that I can recall.

 

[Hal10k]

Having 4 Lovecraftian type horrors chasing me in my house trying to consume me.

So, basically, your nightmare was Pac-man.

 

[JUMBO PALACE]

I rarely remember my dreams, but I had a nightmare a couple months back that was just so disturbing I felt physically ill when I woke up. It had to do with a massive drill and a man's face and what he looked like afterward. Dear God I was shaken. Just remembering it makes me a little uneasy.

And of course, I've had those dreams where you meet the perfect girl and then you wake up and realize it never happened. Feelsbadman. Feels bad.

 

[Midnight Crossroads]

I had one of those dreams where people are half asleep and wake up swearing they saw something in their room.

I woke up to see a tall, hooded figure with horns and clawed hands in black at the side of my bed staring at me. There was a small metallic object floating next to its head. It scared the hell out of me because for the longest time I was convinced it really happened. I even remember pinching myself because I heard that's a way to tell if you're dreaming or not.

 

[Innegativeion]

I was at some kind of pub-themed restaurant, like piccadilly pub with my two daughters I inexplicably had(I have no kids IRL), my parents, and my grandparents, including my late grandmother.

The restaurant was crowded and busy, and things seemed to be going smoothly. Some guy in a trench coat and fedora sits at the table next to us and is talking to someone, can't remember who. I talk to him for a bit and I ask him his name.

Now the dream goes to shit and the figure takes out what looks like a fried meatball, bites a piece of it, and tells me he's "the man who ate the boy-shaped ball of snow". Don't ask me where that came from, I have no fucking idea. Anyway, blood and giblets immediately start pouring out of his mouth, and his face melts away and twists, until his mouth (now with sharp teeth) is sorta on his forehead, with his eyes drooping down his cheeks.

Apparently in this dream universe, somebody wrote a book about a cannibal-murderer and the italicized title he gave me was the name of said book.

My hearts IRL starts pounding at this point, I scoop up my dream daughters(who were dangerously close to the man) and get the hell out of there as the guy bites someone's neck. Outside, the police already have the place surrounded, and my entire family gets in our cars and drive away.

The dream ends there. It was weird because it was the first nightmare I'd had in years, and one of the most vivid dreams I've EVER had.

 

[xemnahort]

The wierdest dream I ever had started with me on a pirate ship and a strange crystal tower/house looking for my friends (no specific ones either...odd) then I ended up in a middle school for serial killers and the teacher was a pumpkin head who threw a girl into lava (don't ask) then I cut off his head then it was somehow a year later, winter, and London at the same time and I tricked an old guy into giving me $1000 for the school and I ice skated over to the headmistress.
Not just my wierdest dream but also my longest.

 

[signingupforgames]

Keep in mind i was going on a South Park binge at the time to watch every episode.

It was late at night and Cartman, whom for some reason i "saw" as me. He looked the same and everything, but i had this feeling it was me. Thing is he was just lying in my mom's bed (oh by the way all the characters look the way they normally do except the surroundings are real.) while he was eating cheesy poofs, and watching tv. Switching to my bedroom, i saw kenny's mom crying that she lost her job, while kenny tried to console her. 'Something' happened, maybe she snapped out of grief or something, but she pulled a knife and started to chase kenny. Cartman called the police on the phone to say "My friend's mom is trying to stab him ( him being Kenny)." (actual quote) the police on the other line asks "Should we help?" Cartman:Nah. and goes back to eating and watching t.v. as the mother chases her son with a knife. Kenny gets outside but his mother catches up to him there and rams his head into the white vertical support beam-grate that is right outside my house. She then proceeds to stab him multiple times, while he screams in agony. Real blood is spilling out of him. She starts to laugh like a lunatic as blood splatters her face. She then starts running towards my view point (I'm somehow on the other side of the street watching all this) with the knife held high, laughing all the while. She gets as near as about five feet away before i wake up.

 

[Johnny Impact]

Imagine a spider, thirty feet tall, made out of shadow and pure malevolence. I was pursued by this thing through a maze-like battlefield reminiscent of a multiplayer map. I had no weapons, no way to stop it. The thing relentlessly smashed walls and cover, eliminating one hiding place after another. I was running out of places to go. Just as I became absolutely certain I was about to die in the next few seconds, I woke up.

Probably sounds silly but it was damn scary when I dreamed it.

 

[SilentCom]

I don't remember what my nightmare was but when I woke up from it I couldn't move my legs... I mean seriously, I lost blood circulation to both my legs and I couldn't fricken move them. I was afraid my legs died or suffered permanent damage or something. Fortunately the blood rushed back into them and I was able to walk again. It probably took a few minutes and after that they hurt like hell.

That was one wierd experience to say the least.