You know how there are nightmares, then there are really bad nightmares? We are going to discuss the really bad ones, more specifically the sensations in them. My worst one has to be not being able to run, fight, or even scream when confronted by whatever monstrosity my mind has conjured. That is pretty much it for me, what about you?
What Is Your Worst Feeling In A Nightmare?
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Perhaps it's the fact that your head can generate anything from the past into a horrific experience. The fact that it seems so real, makes it all the more alarming. A dream feels like the real thing because all of our sensory feed has been falsified by the brain (taste, touch, smell, hearing, seeing). That's pretty much the inspiration for The Matrix:
"Did you ever have a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real?" - Morpheus.
I had a dream a couple nights ago where I was running down a wooden staircase and there was this bug the size of a dinner plate that had glossy, dark-brown, thick, sharp legs along with a yellow-black striped large abdomen and a couple of strange tiny tentacles coming from its mouth where I presumed it hid teeth of some sort.
I tried to block it off with a couple of boxes, but it successfully came up onto my shoulder. The strange thing was, it felt real! I could feel the sensation of it crawling on my shoulder about to bite me. I woke up after that, looking over myself and brushing my shoulder because it felt so real.
"Did you ever have a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real?" - Morpheus.
I had a dream a couple nights ago where I was running down a wooden staircase and there was this bug the size of a dinner plate that had glossy, dark-brown, thick, sharp legs along with a yellow-black striped large abdomen and a couple of strange tiny tentacles coming from its mouth where I presumed it hid teeth of some sort.
I tried to block it off with a couple of boxes, but it successfully came up onto my shoulder. The strange thing was, it felt real! I could feel the sensation of it crawling on my shoulder about to bite me. I woke up after that, looking over myself and brushing my shoulder because it felt so real.
Last night I had one of complete utter disgust, that almost made me vomit when I woke up from it. I would describe the events that made me want to gouge out my eyes rather than witness again, but I would probably get a warning for vulgar content. To sum it up it involved; two dudes, an asshole, human feces, and the word gaping. I'll let your imagination take over.
Strangling gets me as well. A couple months ago I had a dream I was being tortured and they finished me off by choking me to death. When I woke up I did find myself gasping for air and a tightness around my throat.
Strangling gets me as well. A couple months ago I had a dream I was being tortured and they finished me off by choking me to death. When I woke up I did find myself gasping for air and a tightness around my throat.
If I'm being honest with myself, I am a bit of a control freak. I don't trust others to do things without getting my hands directly involved. At the same time, when something goes wrong, I can't help but feel that it is my fault, even if it logically could not have been.
I do not have nightmares often, but it is not too surprising that the worst of them reflect this. In them, I may or may not be threatened, but the focus and cause of my fear is in terms of helplessness and guilt. Most commonly, I'm watching something terrible occur, and I know damn well I could have prevented it/could still prevent it, but failed/am failing to do so, usually because of some perceived shortcoming of mine.
The worst of all (in terms of lasting emotional impact at any rate) involved watching my younger sister drown. A sweet young girl I've always felt protective towards. She was always just barely out of my reach. The fact that I was drowning as well at the time barely registered.
In retrospect, this may have been an unwise thread to post in just minutes before going to bed...
I do not have nightmares often, but it is not too surprising that the worst of them reflect this. In them, I may or may not be threatened, but the focus and cause of my fear is in terms of helplessness and guilt. Most commonly, I'm watching something terrible occur, and I know damn well I could have prevented it/could still prevent it, but failed/am failing to do so, usually because of some perceived shortcoming of mine.
The worst of all (in terms of lasting emotional impact at any rate) involved watching my younger sister drown. A sweet young girl I've always felt protective towards. She was always just barely out of my reach. The fact that I was drowning as well at the time barely registered.
In retrospect, this may have been an unwise thread to post in just minutes before going to bed...
The feeling that, and this is regardless of what the nightmare or dream is about, nothing i do physically has any impact. Like for example i throw a punch or try to push something and it feels like i'm make no effect. The worst is trying to run and not being able to do so with any feeling of getting anywhere.
I don't get, or I don't remember, all that many nightmares (or dreams for that matter) but the worst ones that I do remember tend to involve me being hunted or chased by some thing that I see. Sometimes I don't even hear it, I just know that I'm being chased/hunted.
I am usually maimed, tortured, beaten, sliced, or otherwise harmed in my dreams nightmares.
The worst part is the pain is real while I live within the fiction; A knife sliding between my ribs or a crocodile's jaws crushing my chest are all horrifying and vivid.
The only release is when I die, that's the only time I'm able to snap out of it, gasping in a cold sweat.
The worst part is the pain is real while I live within the fiction; A knife sliding between my ribs or a crocodile's jaws crushing my chest are all horrifying and vivid.
The only release is when I die, that's the only time I'm able to snap out of it, gasping in a cold sweat.
My mind generally rejects such things and promptly invokes lucidity.
My girlfriend has had numerous dreams of a different sort that are terrible to behold and have involved being eaten alive.
My girlfriend has had numerous dreams of a different sort that are terrible to behold and have involved being eaten alive.
The utter hopelessness of wondering if you'll ever achieve anything you want to. The idea that instead of prevailing and achieving self actualization, you'll be forced to settle for something lesser and regret it until you slowly die alone and resentful of the entire world for everything its ever done for you. That utter loneliness that comes from feeling completely isolated from the rest of the social landscape and wondering why you can't relate in any way to those you want to care about and the envy that follows those who can.
Yeah, nightmares suck when you suffer from heavy depression.
Yeah, nightmares suck when you suffer from heavy depression.
For me the worst feeling comes AFTER the nightmare when I wake up and I think that the nightmare was real and that it happened before I went to sleep.
It usually last for a minute or two before i realize that I: wasn't there that night/didn't murder my best friend/didn't have my house burnt down/ wasn't getting evicted etc etc
It usually last for a minute or two before i realize that I: wasn't there that night/didn't murder my best friend/didn't have my house burnt down/ wasn't getting evicted etc etc
the only nightmares i ever have are about getting my hair cut short. Im not sure what that means but i have way more bizarre dreams that cant get my pulse up at all.
I have a reoccuring drwam of getting chase through a land made of colorful clay, like playdoh. what is chasing m e is a monstrous insect with a thin body mostly made of legs, while its head is a giant metalic shield with a human face on it.
well I get to the next hill that has lots of caves and watch it fail to get in because of its giant head. usually its so boring that I fall asleep again...
rest of my dreams are either about the white cube, a white glowing cube which is the only thing in the room I am in, or often some of the following:
steering a cargo ship through a storm, fighting greenskinned mutants while wearing a bikini and drowning them, fighting with sword and shield in a medival war, sometimes with bare hands instead.
I love dreams like a recent one where I am ghosthunting in a mansion, finding dancers in a ballroom and catching them before jumping through a portal in the ground to be dropped above an island with a parachute and help little friendly critters to fight back raptors by driving the raptors into a stampede. after wards I try to make friends with plant people but a guy I simply call Captain makes fun of them and ruins it.
I have a reoccuring drwam of getting chase through a land made of colorful clay, like playdoh. what is chasing m e is a monstrous insect with a thin body mostly made of legs, while its head is a giant metalic shield with a human face on it.
well I get to the next hill that has lots of caves and watch it fail to get in because of its giant head. usually its so boring that I fall asleep again...
rest of my dreams are either about the white cube, a white glowing cube which is the only thing in the room I am in, or often some of the following:
steering a cargo ship through a storm, fighting greenskinned mutants while wearing a bikini and drowning them, fighting with sword and shield in a medival war, sometimes with bare hands instead.
I love dreams like a recent one where I am ghosthunting in a mansion, finding dancers in a ballroom and catching them before jumping through a portal in the ground to be dropped above an island with a parachute and help little friendly critters to fight back raptors by driving the raptors into a stampede. after wards I try to make friends with plant people but a guy I simply call Captain makes fun of them and ruins it.
I don?t remember dreams or nightmares that often. Occasionally I'll dream I did something I was planning on doing and confuse myself when I wake up or if I played a game a bit to long I might have a vague memory of game related one but that usually all. Boring stuff.
I did have one nightmare that was weird and I actually remember. It was basically just sensations. My mother said something to me but I couldn't make out what it was and just got hit with intense feelings of confusion, helplessness, fear and feeling sick in my stomach. Nothing actually happened. There was no monster and no terrible real life situation. My mother just vanished and there were people just going about their business on the street ignoring me but everything felt really really wrong. I still have no idea what the hell it was about and the feeling stayed with me most of the day after I woke up. Maybe it was something I ate.
I do have some stupid semi nightmares while I'm awake. I am for some reason afraid of the dark in my own home unless I'm in my bed which is so ridiculously childish. If there was actually something to be afraid wtf is my bed going to do? in fact being in bed would be worse since then I would have to untangle myself from blankets to fight back or run, there is only one exit in my room and it's on the second floor. Really, this is like a 5 years old logic and the weirdest thing is I'm not afraid of the dark in other circumstances. It's just in my home that I have random vivid visions of being murdered, usually in the lounge or hallway. Too many crime programs maybe? You would think it would be unfamiliar environments that would get me not the place where I live. My brother notices that I'm hesitant to go down the hallway with no light and mocks me for it.
I did have one nightmare that was weird and I actually remember. It was basically just sensations. My mother said something to me but I couldn't make out what it was and just got hit with intense feelings of confusion, helplessness, fear and feeling sick in my stomach. Nothing actually happened. There was no monster and no terrible real life situation. My mother just vanished and there were people just going about their business on the street ignoring me but everything felt really really wrong. I still have no idea what the hell it was about and the feeling stayed with me most of the day after I woke up. Maybe it was something I ate.
I do have some stupid semi nightmares while I'm awake. I am for some reason afraid of the dark in my own home unless I'm in my bed which is so ridiculously childish. If there was actually something to be afraid wtf is my bed going to do? in fact being in bed would be worse since then I would have to untangle myself from blankets to fight back or run, there is only one exit in my room and it's on the second floor. Really, this is like a 5 years old logic and the weirdest thing is I'm not afraid of the dark in other circumstances. It's just in my home that I have random vivid visions of being murdered, usually in the lounge or hallway. Too many crime programs maybe? You would think it would be unfamiliar environments that would get me not the place where I live. My brother notices that I'm hesitant to go down the hallway with no light and mocks me for it.
Well, one of the worst ones recently was being in a crowd of people in a mall and looking up to see a baby being crushed in the machinery of an escalator, in a VERY gory fashion. The vividness of that dream and that I was stuck in the crowd of people who acted like nothing was wrong was awful.
There's also being chased. That's fairly common.
Also general mutilation. I had a dream that the severed fingers of someone were glued to the railings of my stairs as if grasping the railing.
The vast majority of my dreams are nightmares, and my mind seems to be very good at making me believe the horrors it creates...
There's also being chased. That's fairly common.
Also general mutilation. I had a dream that the severed fingers of someone were glued to the railings of my stairs as if grasping the railing.
The vast majority of my dreams are nightmares, and my mind seems to be very good at making me believe the horrors it creates...
I hate it when something really plausible happens in a nightmare. Then when you wake up, you feel the need to go and check it didn't happen.
I don't really get nightmares very often, at least in the usual sense. Normally in nightmares people are chased by monster(s) or see someone die or get into the scary accidents. Amusingly, in my worst dreams I am the one chases people and murders them. Just 2 nights ago I had a dream involving a sledgehammer and about a dozen people I've meticulously stalked and killed. They were not defenseless, mind you, they were grown men with some kind of improvised weapons which they tried to use but to no effect. I vividly remember the feeling of ruthless cold blooded determination as I hunted them down one by one. I don't really know what that stuff was all about, I am not a violent man by nature and rarely get into fights, don't really like action/horror movies either.
I also have dreams about meteors and asteroids falling from the sky pretty regularly. Those dreams are also pretty vivid, and if you could somehow present you dreams as films, I would have gotten an oscar for special effects for sure.
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I also have dreams about meteors and asteroids falling from the sky pretty regularly. Those dreams are also pretty vivid, and if you could somehow present you dreams as films, I would have gotten an oscar for special effects for sure.
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