The Stuff of Nightmares...

[SeriousSquirrel]

I don't have any recurring nightmares, but recently had a creepy one. In the dream I was in my History class and we're carving totem poles. And let me tell ya, these were some fucking creepy totem polls. And the odd thing is that I saw it as a movie, like there was a long shot of the class and then a montage of totem making and then a close up of this red eagle totem pole.

Then it cuts to my POV and my cell phone rings. I answer and Freddy Fucking Krueger starts talking. Shocked I say something to him, and he says "Shut the Fuck up". I then hang up and turn to face my class but I know for some reason I can't trust anything I see. Next thing I know I'm in my bed at 4 AM. I was still on edge so I went and got a glass of water and sat in the kitchen for a minute before going back to bed.

I had several other weird dreams that night, but not since

 

[Freethinker101]

Well, considering my latest dream was me on an ice plain in the middle of now where when it started to crack, then I was instantly in a luxurious house, with marble walls and a flat screen T.V. and my sister appeared with a gun and tried to kill me though I wasn't scared just paranoid, then I threw a bullet at her and she disappeared... MasterSteef also interpreting your dream you seem to be afraid to join the "pack". That or just lay off the candy/food before bed...

 

[manythings]

my worst nightmare consisted of me meeting a great, nice, beautiful chick and sleeping with her. then having my father show up and tell me she's my half-sister.

only time I ever woke up screaming.

You'd be surprised/horrified to find out how often that happens to people. Always remember the thing that attracts us most is ourselves...

 

[Sonic Doctor]

Lately, the only nightmares that I remember are where I hit and run with my car. I'm always being chased by cops. The reason I see behind this is that I hate driving and am always worried that I will hit someone (I've crashed into the back of 2 cars a few years ago, lucky with the same car, the second one finally totaled the front end.) I've only gotten 2 tickets.(No warnings, I don't even think they exist, at least not for me.) My mom has actually gotten out of a ticket by faking she was having an asthma attack.

I actually have a sixth sense now on where cops are, I've very good at spotting them, even unmarked.

Other than the hit and run nightmares, I did have one a few nights ago where my teeth were falling out, very creepy and horrifying.

 

[rosemystica]

The Slender Man.

Yeah, I know he was completely made up by the SA goons, but his general concept does terrify me, and I've had an unusual amount of nightmares where he shows up. (I usually only have one or two nightmares every few years, but I've had tons this year... dunno why.)

That's just recently, though.

There's one nightmare that's stuck with me for nearly twenty years. I was three when I had it, and it's one of my earliest memories.

I was an astronaut repairing a satellite near the moon, when someone shoved me off of the platform and cut the cables securing me to it. I just tumbled through black and empty space for what seemed like a long time; it wasn't like most falling nightmares, where you wake up suddenly. It... lingered for several minutes (or so it seemed). It's sort of hard to describe, I guess.

But it still sort of creeps me out to this day.

 

[Sonic Doctor]

Back in the time when i still had nightmares, last one should be about 12 years ago, one interesting reocurring motive was sunfishs. Mostly , strange enough, in a river i fell in.
They dont do nothing and are afaik totally harmless. But they scare the shit out of me. Huge freaks of the oceans

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Lol, thought it strange when you said Sun Fish. Until I saw the picture you showed, I thought you were talking about these little fresh water Sun Fish:

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[Snor]

I never have nightmares...am I weird?

bad dreams sure but never nightmares

 

[Wolfwind]

I'm pretty lucky in that I don't have many bad dreams, and a lot of the times when I do, I tend to develop some ability within the dream to deal with it, so it becomes a pretty awesome dream.

However, I've had a few nightmares where I couldn't do anything but run, and I remember one where I actually did "die".

My girlfriend at the time lived in this townhouse neighborhood. It was a bright day in the dream, and I was going to visit her, but for some reason, there were these guys with guns everywhere. It was weird, because they were like the kind of mercenaries you'd expect in a game like Far Cry 2 or something, driving around in jeeps and armed with AK-47's. They were looking for me and this other guy who I didn't know in real life, but seemed to know in the dream. We were pretty much just using the terrain to hide from them, and we'd work together to take these guys out when we encountered them directly.

But then part way through the dream, he goes missing. I can't find him, and start looking around, when I'm spotted by the mercs. They start chasing me, shooting to kill. I manage to avoid their fire long enough to duck into this large, out of place building. It's like a huge barn, or a hanger, and it's pitch black inside. However, I've lost my pursuers, and can see light on the opposite side of the building where there's an exit. As I walk towards it, I suddenly have trouble moving. It's as if some invisible force is holding my limbs. Suddenly, I realize that my wrists and ankles have been bound by a barely visible thread, and I'm being lifted. Slowly, I start to raise to the ceiling. I struggle, but it's like fighting water. As my legs are brought up so that I'm being lifted laying flat, I start to see the faces in the darkness of the ceiling. They're blurry and hard to make out, but I think they're smiling. Then, as the darkness starts to envelop me, a pure white face with pitch black eyes, almost like a dolls face, emerges from the shadows. I struggle, but can't do anything to fight it, my face is almost touching it. And as it opens its mouth, I wake up with a gasp, as if I had been holding my breath.

That's probably the only time I've ever felt completely powerless in a dream. For a while after that, I suffered from sleep paralysis too, so that was pretty freaky until I learned what it actually was.

 

[ThreeWords]

Usually, physics breaks in my nightmares.

I'll be somewhere familiar, my room for example, and it'll be so vivid that I'll think I'm awake. Then, the perspective shifts. Distance warps, things are both near and close, huge and tiny at the same time. The bed becomes so small I'm afraid I'll fall out, while the duvet over me forms an intimidatingly huge cavern. The posters on the far wall leer at me as if they're ten feet tall, while the room stretches almost to infinity. All I can do is quake as the world around me dissolves into total chaos

My dreams are messed up...

 

[Duckslayer]

I remember someone (in my dream) asking me what time it was, and I answered out loud "7:30". Then I checked my watch ( my real, not dreamy one) and it was like 7:30:01. Freaky stuff.

 

[CharrHearted]

An interesting thread. Honestly I cant remember the last time I had a nightmare. Though I warn you with that story, Don't play Red Dead Redemption. If anything I have daymares.

 

[The_ModeRazor]

In one of my more recent dreams, I was sitting in a car, someone I don't know (or remember their face) is driving. We speed up, a lot, and then crash right into a wall.
Here's the creepy part: I don't wake up yet. There is nothing. Literally. But I can feel it.
A few seconds later, I wake up covered in sweat.

 

[noble cookie]

I don't usually have nightmares, but when i do they're very strange...

and fun,

usually because they aren't that scary. Although one time there was one with the scary maze game face in it.

...sad (and very scared) face.

 

[crunchieman]

I haven't had a nightmare in a while. Even though I have a lot of nightmarey situations in my dreams. But in my dreams I'm a total badass. It's awesome, I mean I go around kicking the *hit out of all these horrible creatures and I actually had a dream were I killed Pyramid Head. That's why it was all the more horrible when I had a dream were I was defenseless and all the people I had fought were coming to torture me. That was the worst nightmare ever. I couldn't believe it when I woke up. I just pulled my knees up to my chest and lied there until morning.

 

[Gudrests]

so this morning I woke up panicked having just escaped from an awful nightmare wherein I was being attacked by two bears and had nothing to fight back with, and so was quickly eaten. When it comes to nightmares that take place on land, I'm always being attacked by bears, cougars, and wolves. But my worst nightmares consist of a reoccurring scenario, I am in a boat on the middle of a lake with pitch black water. Something swims by and capsizes the boat, and I get dumped into the water to come face to face with three or four enormous great white sharks that then quickly devour me, and then I wake up. This dream has been so vivid that once while being bitten (in my dream) I woke up and the skin on my stomach was turning red.

So fellow escapee's what pervades your nightmares? And which to you is scarier, a creature, or, a scenario you can't escape from?

I wish i had your nightmares...an Ex-Gf of mine likes to creep into my head and taunt me all night with things i know ill never get...i normally wake up screaming sweating and breathing extremly heavy...sometimes almost crying...thats what 4 years will do to you..sooo if you wanna trade..ill take the bears

 

[Valkaris]

three twinked paladins...

 

[Prof.Wood]

My mind is skrewed up, all my nightmares turn 'R' rated.
In my nightmares Im always chased by hot emo/goth chicks.

In your good dreams do they catch you?

Thats what I was trying to say but it sounds odd.
They start as nightmare then end R rated I.E very good.

 

[Chronic42]

As for me I think being chased in a non-escapable area. I dream t I was being horribly attacked by zombie/demon creatures who kept gnawing at my back and I couldn't get it off,while running through an endless battlefield, littered with dead bodies everywhere.
Usually I could control my dreams, but for some reason I was just too scared in this one to even realize I was dreaming.

 

[BENZOOKA]

I never really have awful nightmares, like anything awful and/or scary happening to me in a dream. A shark bit my leg off in a dream once. It wasn't horrible. It just happened. And in another dream there was a dam built of tens of thousands dead swans.

The real nightmares I have are the most happy ones. They are so vivid, that I always open my eyes and feel happy, but in a few seconds I realize it was just a dream and my world comes crashing down. It's devastating. I kid you not.