So, really unsettling dreams anyone?

[Twyce]

I don't really mean nightmares, although I know those can be extremely unsettling.

For example, last night I remember waking up and clearly seeing a giant spider crawling on my bed next to me. I freaked out and instantly began crawling over to the opposite of the bed, which included me crawling over my fiance. He, naturally, woke up and grabbed me (I'm sure thinking I was crazy the whole time). He asked me what was wrong, to which I told him, and he replied that nothing was there. I wasn't convinced though, and made him promise he wasn't lying.

Finally, after some promising, I was persuaded to go back to my side and I 'fell asleep' again.

What I find so strange about it, is that I remember being cognitive of all my actions. I remember the spider clearly (even though it was big and neon colored), I remember my thought process and movements. But it had to have been a dream (combined with sleep walking I guess? But I thought sleep walkers don't remember what they were doing).

What's even more strange is that I have had this happened before a few months ago. That went on for three nights straight. I'd wake up and see something, jump out of bed and turn on the light. Then, when I came 'back to reality', I'd be sitting the middle of my bed or once was standing near the light switch.

Similar experiences anyone? Any idea what causes it?

 

[TheIronRuler]

I've been prone to looking like a raving lunatic when I'm in deep sleep. Such things include me sitting on my bed in an Fetal position with the pillow over my knees and me mumbling words as if my family is being killed in front of my eyes by Nazis.
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I think it's normal, yeah. Everyone has those, right?
Right?
RIGHT?

 

[A Satanic Panda]

Some time ago, I was woken by a buzzing sound to find a huge yellow jacket buzing on my bed. I took my pillow and covered it. I just sat there pressing the pillow down but it wouldn't stop buzzing. Awhile later I actually wake up and my dad tells me that he shut my computer off becasue it was buzzing.

Mind = blown

 

[DoPo]

I've been prone to looking like a raving lunatic when I'm in deep sleep. Such things include me sitting on my bed in an Fetal position with the pillow over my knees and me mumbling words as if my family is being killed in front of my eyes by Nazis.
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I think it's normal, yeah. Everyone has those, right?
Right?
RIGHT?

I'd only worry it happens less than five times a week. Otherwise, you sound fine.

OT: Well a past experience comes to mind. I already wrote about it once, so I'll be lazy:

Just last night I dreamt something odd. I just went to bed (IRL, not the dream yet) and closed my eyes. You know how when you're really tired you'll start dreaming very soon after you go to sleep, even if you're not asleep yet? Yeah, I was really tired. I saw flashes of scenery and stuff which I knew would settle down to be a dream but I was still conscious and thinking over stuff. Imagine you had the TV and were staring at it but not really watching because you were solving some problem in your head. Yes, it was like that - there were some pictures and snippets of scenes but I didn't pay attention.

Until it all settled down to a rather unassuming scene. It was, well somewhere and it was outside, the viewpoint was tilted slightly upwards, so you didn't see the ground but the horizon was visible. Looking back at it now, it was like if you laid on your back and tried to look to where your feet are pointing but without lifting your head. It was a relatively normal day and there was some sort of building like a warehouse at the back. A man walked inside the view. I'm talking about a view, because it was as if watching through a camera - I didn't really have any input. So, he walks into view and isn't in a hurry, sort of leisurely walking and is carrying a crate or a box over his shoulder.

Spoiler: Like this

Like this but it was on the other shoulder

And then he did something - he did a motion with his head as if trying to stretch his neck but his head changed. The skin turned greyish and pale and the mouth grew to a misshapen maw filled with teeth. It looked lie, well, some sort of undead being. Sort of a mix between these

Spoiler: Google search results for typical undead heads

Google search results for typical undead heads
definitely the skin tone of this but the teeth and mouth are too little

Yes, disturbing like this

And somehow still relatively human looking like this

That gives you only the barest idea of what sort of monstrosity it turned into. It was a clearly inhuman (albeit it was a humanoid being) head and it was seriously horrifying. The thing then grinned and seemed to notice the camera. Or rather me. It was me - it wasn't a camera. So, still carrying the box and still with the slow leisure pace, it headed toward me giving me a clear view of his teeth and that, well, nightmarish face. I think I am totally allowed to say that his face was made of nightmares. Nothing can truly capture just how awful and horrific it looked. It's not possible words to convey it, seriously.

I think...I believe I was lucky I wasn't really asleep but still sort of awake and conscious. It jerked me into attention as I watched the transformation and it coming for me. The man was only about three meters away before he turned into the thing, so even walking slowly, the thing shortened the distance in almost no time. Had I been to sleep, I think (or rather, I hope) I would have woken up scared at that point. But since I wasn't, I was able to exert control over the dream. Since I had already assumed that the thing was undead, I just twisted it's features into a less scary, more generic, more human thing. It ended up looking close to the zombies in Plants vs Zombies, and I tell you, you do not want to see such a face in real life in front of you. It was still better than before. So, having turned it into a zombie, I just made it shuffle onward and pass me.

As for what might cause what you've experienced, OP, I'm no psychologist, far from it, but what about some anxiety? Anything troubling you?

 

[Daystar Clarion]

While the context of the dream will be different, I will be able to move very quickly with relatively little effort, which is awesome, but then as the dream progresses, no matter how hard I try, I can't move quicker than a snail's pace. My legs aren't weighed down or anything, I'm able to move my legs as usual, but no matter how hard I run, I don't move any quicker.

Not so much unsettling, as it is bloody annoying

 

[TheIronRuler]

I've been prone to looking like a raving lunatic when I'm in deep sleep. Such things include me sitting on my bed in an Fetal position with the pillow over my knees and me mumbling words as if my family is being killed in front of my eyes by Nazis.
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I think it's normal, yeah. Everyone has those, right?
Right?
RIGHT?

I'd only worry it happens less than five times a week. Otherwise, you sound fine.

Which is why I'm very worried for my mental well being.

 

[theparsonski]

I have had one lucid dream before, which was bloody amazing for what felt like half an hour, until it turned deeply disturbing. I was talking to one of my friends,(obviously not a real friend, my brain's copy of a friend) and all of a sudden he had the head of my lampshade. I had been controlling everything easily up to this point, but as soon as I saw that head the dream started to go out of control.

The next thing I knew he was chasing me and screaming this horrific scream as loud as a jet fighter, with his lampshade head, and I was running but all of a sudden it was like my feet had sunk into the ground and I was wading through water.

I can remember all of this vividly, I turned around and instead of my friend with the lampshade head I saw this Gollum-like figure crouched in front of me with his hands over his face sobbing loudly in a high pitched voice. It was really surreal and kind of creepy.

I then saw the creature's head expand, and grow all these big, smooth boils. These then grew tiny legs and crawled off his head, which was now shaped like a dead, curled up spider. The boil-creatures crawled towards me and started engulfing my vision, until I was completely buried beneath them and I woke up.

Bear in mind, this was a lucid dream (a dream in which you know you are dreaming and you can control what happens), and though near the end I had lost a lot of control, it still felt extremely real, and I can remember it almost as clearly as a memory.

Very disturbing and surreal.

 

[Catfood220]

Once as I was falling to sleep had a feeling like a cat had just walked across my back, I spent the entire dream in a dark room trying to find whatever had just walked across my back. That was pretty freaky.

I often have dreams where I am trying to escape from someone or something, they are pretty panicky dreams beacause I am sure that I can't run fast enough or far enough away from whatever is trying to catch me.

 

[Twyce]

As for what might cause what you've experienced, OP, I'm no psychologist, far from it, but what about some anxiety? Anything troubling you?

Nothing off the top of my head. However, I very recently wrote down my past experiences on the very same subject (what happened months earlier), maybe that triggered it.

I've had those dreams where I'm half awake/half asleep and sleep paralysis kicks in. That is the worst. Where you try to move, but your body feels like it's drugged and weighed down. I usually only get that when I'm napping.

Once as I was falling to sleep had a feeling like a cat had just walked across my back, I spent the entire dream in a dark room trying to find whatever had just walked across my back. That was pretty freaky.

I don't think I could sleep for the rest of the night if that happened to me >.>

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Maybe this happened because you were in the process of waking up? Either way, it's sounds terrifying.

 

[Amethyst Wind]

I've only ever had two unsettling dreams.

The first was close to 20 years ago after watching that frigging terrifying scarescrow on Round the Twist.

The second was when I was in University, where I dreamed that my dad died. I was so shaken by that I had to call him up to make sure everything was okay. I very much doubt I learned much that day.

 

[GrimTuesday]

When ever I doze off in class, I always have freaky solitaire dreams. I play a fuck ton of solitaire, if my computer is on, there is likely an open solitaire window. What makes the dreams so freaky is all the cards have these creepy faces that move and try to escape the cards. Of course, I'm still kind of awake and trying to listen to what my professor is talking about so its like the cards are talking to me in my professor's voice.

 

[Skeleon]

I haven't dreamt in a long time. Or rather, I haven't remembered dreaming in a long time. From my understanding, we dream every night quite extensively. Anyway: No.

 

[DirtyJunkieScum]

Yes, I do have them on occasion, however describing them is either too short to get anything meaningful across or TL;DR. Generally they are either related to things that happened a few years previous (this I assume is my memory doing a bit of system maintenace, moving from mid to long term memeory) or drug related. However a couple I can remember from when I was very young could not have been either.

 

[davidmc1158_v1legacy]

I had my first lucid dream moment just last week. Sadly, it ended up as "Hey, this is a dream!" followed immediately by my waking up. Time lapse between realization and wakefullness: less than 1 second.

Captcha: well done OK now I'm getting a little freaked out by the sentient computer!

 

[Amethyst Wind]

I had my first lucid dream moment just last week. Sadly, it ended up as "Hey, this is a dream!" followed immediately by my waking up. Time lapse between realization and wakefullness: less than 1 second.

Captcha: well done OK now I'm getting a little freaked out by the sentient computer!

You thought it was one second. Time rarely moves the same in dreams as in consciousness, I'm guessing the entire process took around 15 minutes, that realisation was your dream state winding down.

 

[bauke67]

I've had the same thin with a black spder once, when I was very little though.
After getting up, turning on the light and grabbing a book in the blink of an eye, I realized there was nothing there.
More recently, though somewhat less vivid, I woke up completely certain that my(then, it's a few weeks ago) crush had started dating someone else and they were kissing eachother right in front of me, without there being anything I could do.
Doesn't seem very scay to anyone else, maybe even pleasant, but that scared me a lot.

 

[Nooners]

Well, I've been having the Slender Man and Observer from Tribe Twelve pop up a lot recently.

 

[fish iron4]

Looks like ive been ninjed about Slender men, who is probably one of the scariest and best horror type characters every made (seriously, he may scare the shit out of you but you cant stop watching) Anyway I do have very found memory's of around about when I was 4-5 year old, which like the original post is a bit like a hallucination when you wake up. as like many children I would often go into my parents bedroom and try steal some of their luxury king sized beds, and alas I shall never forget how I saw a huge hornet, a lion and some multicoloured floating hieroglyphics (which looked very similar to Warhammer 40k Necron glyths)all in the same night and too be honest I remember not giving a shit about what I saw