When growing up I used to have really bad nightmares about people tearing me apart, like limb from limb. I used to always find myself in a corner or a small space with people rushing in, pinning me to a wall and tearing me apart piece by piece. I used to wake up screaming holding my arms to my chest, and my joint always ached after such a dream.
I also used to dream a lot about dying, but it wasn't scary, more transitional. Like it was terror, then peace, then I used to fade out back into reality.
Lately I have started to open my eyes in my sleep. It's really f*cked up. I can't move and my vision is blurry. At some point I realize that I'm not awake and the idea that I'm paralysed hits me. I try to wake up, but my body won't respond. Sometimes this happens mid-dream, and I have these vivid scenarios when I'm laying in bed, and my eyes open, and the dream I'm having starts to melt into the reality that is my room. Some of these dreams were beautiful and very moving, but others were more terrifying.
I remember a really bad dream I had, I opened my eyes, and my dream followed me home so to speak. I remember looking around my room and seeing these dark figures around my room, they talking very loudly in a dialect I did no understand. At this point in my dream I must have closed my eyes again, because I felt the ability to move outside my body, I still felt my body, but I could walk around it. I remember standing over my body, staring at it. I decided to pick myself up, so I would have it close. I carried it outside to the yard and started to get tired. I put the body down, but now it wasn't me, it was more of a parody of me, a distorted version, with a weird face. And it started biting me. By that time, I felt that my real throat started to choke from panic and I woke up, had to run to the bathroom to clear my airwaves. When it was clear I sat down on the bathroom floor and felt very nauseous.
THAT is the worst nightmare I've had lately.