What Is Your Worst Feeling In A Nightmare?

[OneCatch]

I quite often dream in the third person (does anyone else do that??) or perspective will change part way through, and time is generally quite fluid in my dreams - bits will repeat or rewind or happen differently - I think it's a perverse kind of lucid dreaming.

Luckily, I don't get utterly grotesque dreams any more, but it used to be lovely when I'd get to see and feel that crane hook going through my torso again and again! (mild example).

 

[Thaluikhain]

When I know it's a nightmare, but can't wake up anyway. Very annoying.

Or when I have to get out of bed and run away, and then I wake up in bed and have to run away again...over and voer. Very tiring.

 

[King Billi]

That one time when I woke up shaking with fear and drenched in cold sweat but was just unable to remember anything at all about what I'd just dreamt that caused that specific feeling. I knew I'd been dreaming and that whatever it was must have been bloody terrifying but after waking up I just couldn't recall anything about it.

 

[deserteagleeye]

Being hunted down by some irrational person. Usually it's my family members. I once dreamt that my uncle slit my dad's throat on a balcony right in front of me above a play that had hundreds of people in the audience. I remember just screaming looking at other people who were just ignoring the gore and continuing to watch the play. I've never been more bummed out than I did that day.

 

[mechalynx]

- someone I love dies
- someone I love leaves
- losing my teeth
- losing my hair
- not being able to outrun something

And there's the time I was dreaming of being on vacation with my husband, in the actual place we went to on our first vacation. Suddenly people in black masks carrying guns burst into our hotel room and, before I can react, put a bullet in my head. Had that dream several times and woke up immediately after the shot was fired. I swear I actually felt the burn and my ears were ringing.

Oh and the times I have sexy dreams only to wake up at the most exciting part from an alarm clock, a cat or the husband's elbow.

 

[AnthrSolidSnake]

I've had two very terrifying nightmares, that I never want to have again, when I was younger. The first, when I was about 4, I was dreaming that I was laughing uncontrollably. Just constantly, seemingly forever laughing out loud, standing in absolutely nothing. I fell asleep while I was in a car while riding home from a 2 hour trip with my father. He wakes me up to tell me we were home, I get out of the car, and then begin laughing for no reason. This laughing, like the dream I had not even minutes before, continues on for a few minutes. I then began to freak out about it, for some reason not having the ability to stop laughing, and I cried out for my father and he didn't know what the hell to do. What I assume was about 10-15 minutes later I finally just stopped. It was terrifying. I had no idea, to this day, what had caused me to laugh uncontrollably. I don't remember anything funny happening, only that I dreamt about the same thing moments before.

The second nightmare wasn't nearly as odd, but still something I didn't like. I was in a grocery store, trying to run away from these gang of men in suits shooting guns at me. Some of the shots actually hit me in the dream, and they hurt! Incredibly. And I've never been shot before. (this was combined with that incredibly annoying instance where you try to run, but you feel heavy and you go almost nowhere) Eventually I woke up with my arms in pain where I was shot, but it quickly went away.

 

[EHKOS]

Well, this one isn't a nightmare, but I got shot right in the middle of the stomach, and I could feel cool blood draining into a puddle around me. I woke up, and hadn't wet the bed or anything.

Then there were these night terrors I used to have as a very small child. I can barely remember the feeling, which is a good thing, all I know is that it was a feeling past fear, and slightly painful.

But the worst nightmares for me either the ones where my fists can barely move to punch something (usually evolves into sleep paralysis hallucination where I'm lying on the floor and can't move or scream for help), OR being chased by something you have no hope of stopping. Never had a dream about the Dahaka, but I did have a dream about running through a sinking cruise ship, shutting those steel doors with the valves on them to buy time, as I was being chased by a red-eyed Big Daddy.

While those are the worst, I have frequent nightmares, and most times I don't remember them upon awakening, and simply feel disturbed or scared for a few hours

EDIT: Oh yeah, and I think everyone has those nightmares about being back in high school and not knowing where to go, or what your locker combination is.

 

[trollnystan]

The worst one I had was when someone in my dream chased me down and injected air into my veins and I could feel myself dying. It was like fainting - and I've fainted a few times - only a lot worse. Was convinced that if I didn't wake up I'd die so I shook myself awake somehow. So dying would be number one, falling being a close second.

 

[thiosk]

Sometimes the inescapible urge to pee rears its ugly head. I find myself going.

Thankfully, when I awake, the seal is unbroken, and stagger to the bathroom I do.

My nightmares are pretty tame.

 

[FoolKiller]

I don't have nightmares... haven't had once in 20 years. Then again, I never recall dreams either. All I know is I go to bed, and then I wake up the next morning. There's no knowledge of what went on in between.

 

[Grimh]

I haven't had a nightmare in over 10 years. But I do remember my last one which I had somewhere around the age of ten.

I was lying in bed in an apartment building. The dream played out like I had an out of body experience. Anyway I'm seeing the outside of the building where I a vampire is climbing up the wall searching for a victim.
I knew it was coming I could see it and I wanted to hide but I couldn't move my body. It was like I was in it and not at the same time. It eventually made it's way to my window and came inside.
I felt absolute dread, the room was dead silent and it was freezing all of a sudden and I just wanted to start moving so I could run away or even do something as worthless as crying, just do anything to know I at least had some control.
Then it bit me, and it was the most excruciating pain I had ever felt, like someone putting a hot iron to the inside wall of every single millimeter of every single vein in my entire body. I still couldn't move.
I don't remember how long it went on. It eventually stopped though and pulled it's head back and put it's hands on my over my ears and twisted, that's when I woke up.
So yeah the worst feeling I had was torturous pain.

Nowadays my dreams are just weird like the one ending with me laying on a hill waiting to snipe a target. Except I had a flowerpot resting on my head and my by then dead comrade in arms about a centimeter from my face telling me how sucky hell was.
He wasn't a ghost or anything, he was just there like he'd accidentally wandered out of the underworld and happened upon me.
The dream started out all serious too.

 

[Souplex]

I cannot recall the last nightmare I had as it was over a decade ago.
My dreams are all fairly mundane things, to the point that they're indistinguishable from reality.

 

[game-lover]

Some of my more unsettling dreams never last past the dangerous part coming up. I'll forget most everything else about the dream except for that.

Most recently, I had a dream where I was following someone for some reason through a relatively large room--like maybe the size of a gym that had a waterfall streaming from someplace on the ceiling. With only one way in or out. The person I followed went out the mechanical door before me and it closed. I pressed the button to open it up but it wouldn't. So I was trapped in. I remember the clear panicked realization that the room was going to fill up with water before I woke up.

As with other dreams, I woke up almost immediately and felt breathless. My heart pumping and everything. I think that's the sole sensation I remember. That burst of adrenaline that makes my body react.

 

[SamuraiFromHell]

The worst nightmares must be when they happen in the same room you sleep. Cause even after waking up you still think there's a ghost or invisible monster who has just moved in and just said hello in your nightmare.
The most terrifying dreams are lucid dreams, when bad stuff happens. One time I almost was abducted by aliens and it took all my willpower to wake up.

 

[aegix drakan_v1legacy]

The worst feeling in a nightmare?

Being mind controlled. HANDS. FUCKING. DOWN.

Ever felt your body march inexorably to your own execution, and get back control the exact second before it's carried out, and you can't do a thing about it? Mentally screaming in terror as you have no control of your body and it willingly allows itself to be mercilessly and painfully killed, as you desperately try to break free and run? And then you regain control just in time to die terribly?

It's not pleasant. Quite possibly the worst nightmare I've ever had. I still get queasy thinking about it.

I used to hate running in dreams, because every time I did (usually when fleeing something that wanted to eat me alive), my feet would sort of run in place and I would never be able to get any distance on my slowly approaching enemy.

And then I discovered how to lucid dream. Now, being unable to run like that is an instant trigger for me to realize I'm in a dream. And my immediate instinct? To either fly away from the problem, or I bust out the grappling hook that spontaneously appears in my right arm. (Chaos Control and grappling hooks have quickly become instinctive to me in dreams. Most of my dreams are now half-lucid, and those two means of transportation come naturally to me without even thinking)

Oh, and ironically, one of the best feelings I had in a dream was literally being dead, but being able to physically act ( I was a solid ghost, a Shade if you will). Being invincible feels SUPER good, even if you feel dead inside.

 

[Jamieson 90]

I have bad nightmares I'll just get that right out there so there's no confusion, but the worst dream I've ever had was back when I was in University. I was studying a lot about child abuse at the time for some of my courses (Needs to be done if you want to go into Social work) and in particular child sexual abuse. Now let me just say I'm absolutely certain that I've never been raped, so it was extremely weird and horrible to dream that you have been, especially considering I was a 9 year old boy in the dream and even more so when I realized I didn't even look like a younger version of me.

I didn't actually experience the act itself, thank god, but I got the aftermath in full force; the humiliation, the confusion, the fear, the hopelessness and utter shame, along with the pure undulated dread as dream me tried to tell my dream parents about what was going on only to utterly fail. I never want to feel like that ever again, not even in a dream.

I still don't really know why I had that dream; I suppose it could have been my brain processing all that I'd been learning, or that I might have felt as though I was being taken advantage of in real life only in some other way, who knows?

Has anyone else had a similar experience? You know dreaming of being raped when you haven't actually been?

Captcha: Run away!
How appropriate....