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Do you have them?

What are the major themes?

Why are they so scary while you are in the middle of them, but when you tell someone the next morning they sound stupid?

Do you have them?

What are the major themes?

Why are they so scary while you are in the middle of them, but when you tell someone the next morning they sound stupid?

All the time.

Al sorts, werewolfs, and zombies quite offten, death and destruction mostly.

They don't they still sound pretty scary to me!

It usually includes something about biologically created monsters. And my family.

I have nightmares about two or three times a month.

I don't ever remember them, but the same thing happens each time; I wake up thinking I'm still in the dream and end up running into the hallway, then slowly come back into my senses and return to my bed thinking how much of an idiot I am.

Sometimes I know what I'm running from, sometimes I don't.

The last one I remember was being chased through a forest by a two-headed llama. Like Catdog (http://www.jrj-socrates.com/Cartoon%20Pics/Nick%20Toons/Cat%20Dog/Catdog_300.gif), except a llama.

Yeah.

Death usually. Specifically...mine.

The only one I really remember a lot of details to was one I had when I was younger. Freddy Kreuger was chasing after me and I jumped into a pool (apparently because he could not touch water in my dream) but he just grabbed a live wire and stuck it into the pool electrocuting me. Scary stuff back then..

Do you have them?

What are the major themes?

Why are they so scary while you are in the middle of them, but when you tell someone the next morning they sound stupid?

yep, my worst re-occuring nightmare usually comes when I have a fever.

and all it involves is my heartbeat.

It's pitch black and all I hear is the 'thud-thud' of my heart getting louder. this of course makes me anxious and my heart rate goes up making the noise in my dream louder and faster... which causes me to be more frightened and anxious...

it's been a while since I had that dream...

I used to have ones where I became aware that I was dreaming and kept trying to wake up. The setting of the dream itself wasn't scary but the fact that I couldn't get out was.

...and that one evolved into a dream where I kept dreaming that I woke up, but actually didn't...

I used to have ones where I became aware that I was dreaming and kept trying to wake up. The setting of the dream itself wasn't scary but the fact that I couldn't get out was.

...and that one evolved into a dream where I kept dreaming that I woke up, but actually didn't...

Aw man... I HATE those.

there were times where my alarm would go off and I could swear I got up not too long ago and went to work.

Yes, I've had nightmares. Although I tend to have them at certain times in my life.

Recently I had a dream, I don't know if it was a nightmare (it sure felt like one) where I was standing in front of an airport glass-pane, staring at a person very dear to me through it. He was staring back at me, loneliness in his eyes, and all we could do was press our hands to the glass, unable to have physical contact. It left me with a feeling of incredible sadness upon waking up.

Do you have them?

What are the major themes?

Why are they so scary while you are in the middle of them, but when you tell someone the next morning they sound stupid?

Yes, randomly at best. Sometimes I'll have a lot of them in one week, other times I'll go for months without having them. This week I have had a couple.

Death, murder, religious, fugitive. I would say the fugitive ones have been the most prominent.

I think they sound stupid because I usually only remember bits and peices.

I used to have ones where I became aware that I was dreaming and kept trying to wake up. The setting of the dream itself wasn't scary but the fact that I couldn't get out was.

...and that one evolved into a dream where I kept dreaming that I woke up, but actually didn't...

Oh, I've had ones like that.

I had one last night that my husband brought home a bug that was like a scorpion/lobster/roach mix and it was chasing me and trying to eat my feet, and everyone in the dream was laughing and then finally my kid caught it in a jar and took it outside and then she was like "I think his egg sac fell off" and my husband wasn't the least bit worried about that and then it started hatching and there were like 4000 of the little bugs running around and I couldn't get away. :( As they crawled all over me and started biting and stinging and pinching me, everyone laughed.

I told my husband about it this morning......and he laughed at me. :(

It was way scarier than it sounds.

I had one last night that my husband brought home a bug that was like a scorpion/lobster/roach mix and it was chasing me and trying to eat my feet, and everyone in the dream was laughing and then finally my kid caught it in a jar and took it outside and then she was like "I think his egg sac fell off" and my husband wasn't the least bit worried about that and then it started hatching and there were like 4000 of the little bugs running around and I couldn't get away. :( As they crawled all over me and started biting and stinging and pinching me, everyone laughed.

I told my husband about it this morning......and he laughed at me. :(

It was way scarier than it sounds.
Don't worry, giant bugs scare me too.:DGiant meaning a roach the size of a lobster

I had a recurring nightmare when I was a kid. I was in the middle of a graveyard being chased by monsters. The faster I tried to run, the slower I actually ran. When the monsters caught me, they turned into my parents.

This was pretty frightening, but not nearly as frightening as the nightmare where I woke up and found my whole office in the living room, including my boss, who had come into my room and was shaking me and screaming that the office was a mess and it was my fault.

Do you have them?

What are the major themes?

Why are they so scary while you are in the middle of them, but when you tell someone the next morning they sound stupid?
I have the most boring stress nightmares imaginable.

If I've got a presentation coming up, I'll have dreams in which I embarrass myself in public by saying something profoundly stupid.

If I've got an exam ahead, I'll have dreams about showing up and not recognizing the language of the test questions.

If I'm going to be traveling, I have dreams about missing my flight.

All of these are deeply terrifying while I'm dreaming, but the moment I wake up I will be shaking my head at the total lack of creativity shown by my subconscious.

I think I have only had a dozen bad dreams in my life. My stress dreams are a bit like Bottle's - I am usually about to take an exam and the exam paper is blank or in a language that I don't understand.

I had one where my friends and I were on a cruise, and we went in to a restricted area, and they started throwing us off the ship.

And I had a mafia-type dream about my dad recently, but don't really remember it except that my high school freshman history teacher was in it.

Never have "scary" nightmares but sometimes (about 2 times a year) dream of finding and then slowly loosing someone (no one in particular)

Its weird that you can have such an intense dream that you feel it all day long

I dont normally remember dreams good or bad for the most part so its odd when it happens either direction

Look up the comic "Slow Wave" by Jesse Reklaw, all sorts of messed up dreams & nightmares there. People send him a description of their dreams, and he turns them into comic strips.

I have nightmares about being tortured and about people fighting each other in a swimming pool and one gets caught in some sort of grate and turns green and drowns. Then other times I have nightmares about being late.

I used to have nightmares on a fairly regular basis - twice or thrice a week. And most of the time, they included lots of fighting, blood, gore, intestines, and me fighting for survival.

The most vivid and recurring one I remember had a setting like this: A group of people (strangely enough all faceless) and I were fighting a horde of whatever-they-were. All we had left were swords and axes since we had already run out of ammo.
The dream always ends with me being the last one standing atop a pile of bodies and limbs, spattered in blood and bits of body tissue, or wading knee-deep in blood, while fighting off countless foes.

I always wake up before I go down, so I don't know how the dream ends. But that shit is scary because it looks and feels so damn real.


Recently, my dreams ain't that scary any more (which is kinda sad because they lack action) - they're simply utter nonsense and pretty crazy. Uh well. I never try to make much sense out of my dreams - I mean, after all, they exist because my brain tries to make sense out of the day's input.

A few years back I had a lot of horrible dreams, mostly based around some apocalyptic scenario involving watching people I know die, usually with alien involvement, and waking up only just before whatever it was that was ending the world was to kill me. The most common one was that I was in a shopping centre when there's a massive commotion, everyone runs to the doors to see a stereotypical "flying saucer" UFO in the sky...then thousands of smaller ones come out from some hole in the side, and proceed to fly at people. As for what happens next, well it involved lots of decapitations and limb chopping, as they had sharp bladed edges. Sounds amusingly ridiculous, maybe, but it frightened the crap out of me.

Getting all analytical with the benefit of hindsight, looking at my frame of mind back then, I think it was actually about about a fear of losing those close to me if I stopped pretending to be someone I'm not, and the killing usually involving aliens maybe symbolised feeling "alienated" from the world around me, and the fact that this alienation was making me act so much like an asshole that I was hurting the very ones I was trying to keep happy by keeping secrets from them. Though if my subconscious mind was trying to tell me something, it could have made it a bit bloody clearer;)

I like nightmares because things are better when you wake up from them and the rush is great.

The awesome dreams where you can fly or win the lottery are what sucks cuz you wake up from awesomeness into the mundane.


My nightmares usually involve me being in the middle of a war right on the battlefield with explosions and people dying all around me. These started occurring when I was very young before I even knew what war was.

SOmetimes I get chased by ferocious animals wlike wolves.

I've had a few where my wife died. In one of them a gang of thugs killed her and then forced me to work with them robbing people. As soon as they gave me a gun I killed every single one of them. That started out as a dream but by the end I was feeling satisfied :P

The only nightmare I can remember actually broke one of the "laws" of Nightmares: You can never die in your dreams.

Let me explain. It was a couple years back when I lived in the dorms. In my dreams, a virus epidemic was breaking out, and people were dying. We were going to die at 6 p.m.(Strange how I knew the exact time). We were then quarenteened to our dorms, and everyone was sitting in the hallway. There were people crying, there were people praying and all that. Anywho, 6 p.m. comes around, and people start to freak a bit out. Then the first person slumps over. Then quickly, a third, fourth, fifth, and so on. The girl sitting next to me slumps over onto my lap, dead(I could actually feel her hit my legs, and the weight on my legs). I start to feel light headed, every thing fades away, my "hearing" became muffled. I remember that in the dream I became very "tired", trying, but failing, to keep my eyes open. Then, everything went black. Complete black. I was "conscious", in a sense that I could "see" what was going on, but my mind was not thinking, not doing anything other than "seeing" nothingness. Then, a few tiny specks of light started to poke through the darkness. And then a few more. Suddenly, I "realized" I was seeing the universe in all of it's glory! I can see everything, everywhere, all at once. I was "concious", as I didn't have the thought process of it, all I knew that I was dead and this is what being dead was like.

Not really a "nightmare" towards the end, really, but the first half was freaky as hell to go through.

My nightmares usually involve academics in some form or another. Also, they usually involve me ending up catatonic for several "dream-hours," after which I wake up and have to sort out the hell my life has descended into.
Trust me, from my perspective, they're terrifying.

I haven't had a nightmare for some months; in saying that, I don't have that many dreams anymore either.

Look up the comic "Slow Wave" by Jesse Reklaw, all sorts of messed up dreams & nightmares there. People send him a description of their dreams, and he turns them into comic strips.

I love that strip, our local "alternative" newspaper runs it. It reminds me of Zippy the Pinhead.

I haven't had nightmares since I was very little. I do have stress dreams, where I forget where I am and try to find my way home, get stuck walking in a large group of people, etc. What stinks is that I get them most often when I'm feeling stressed in real life, so I can't even escape through sleep.

Do you have them?

What are the major themes?

Why are they so scary while you are in the middle of them, but when you tell someone the next morning they sound stupid?

I few weeks ago I realized that I didn't remember my dreams anymore at all, so I made a point of trying to remember them the way I used to.

The first one I had that I remembered was a nightmare in which I nearly drowned on a trip with some people in a van. We made a pit stop and parked the van by a lake. Some of us went to buy food, the rest of us waited in the van, which then rolled into the lake. I helped my companions out of the van, and then we were able to drag the van back onto dry land, but it was no longer functioning.

I interpreted this dream to mean that you aren't going to accomplish much trying to dredge useful information (the van) out of your unconscious (the lake) and that dream interpretation (the road trip) is a waste of time.

I have nightmares pretty often, but the worst ones have been the two series of recurring nightmares I've had in my life. The more recent series was quite simple - I relived the events that caused my PTSD, and slight variants on them, over and over and over every time I fell asleep for a year or so afterwards. I'd wake up several times a night crying because of them. Several years later, that dream still shows up now and then, but I can deal with it a lot better now.

Possibly even worse, though, were the recurring dreams I had once a week or so from about age 10-15. They varied a fair amount, but the basic gist was always the same: men with no faces tortured and eventually killed my family and friends while I was made to watch, and I was helpless to stop them. Sometimes the men wore masks, sometimes they were in shadows, sometimes their faces were literally missing; sometimes I was tied down, sometimes they broke my arms and legs, sometimes I was just mysteriously frozen in place - the mechanics of how and why and who changed with each dream, but the fundamentals remained the same.

I stopped having em a while back, I want to get them again though.:


1. My mother, naked in a sandbox. Dreadful images.

2. A lot of zombie dreams all in one.

3. A haunted house where i was a GIRL!

4. Kidnapped and forced to stay in my own home by terrorists. Escaped with the fuzz on a motorcycle.

5. Followed/Chased by a pedophle.:eek:

The only nightmare I can remember actually broke one of the "laws" of Nightmares: You can never die in your dreams.

Let me explain. It was a couple years back when I lived in the dorms. In my dreams, a virus epidemic was breaking out, and people were dying. We were going to die at 6 p.m.(Strange how I knew the exact time). We were then quarenteened to our dorms, and everyone was sitting in the hallway. There were people crying, there were people praying and all that. Anywho, 6 p.m. comes around, and people start to freak a bit out. Then the first person slumps over. Then quickly, a third, fourth, fifth, and so on. The girl sitting next to me slumps over onto my lap, dead(I could actually feel her hit my legs, and the weight on my legs). I start to feel light headed, every thing fades away, my "hearing" became muffled. I remember that in the dream I became very "tired", trying, but failing, to keep my eyes open. Then, everything went black. Complete black. I was "conscious", in a sense that I could "see" what was going on, but my mind was not thinking, not doing anything other than "seeing" nothingness. Then, a few tiny specks of light started to poke through the darkness. And then a few more. Suddenly, I "realized" I was seeing the universe in all of it's glory! I can see everything, everywhere, all at once. I was "concious", as I didn't have the thought process of it, all I knew that I was dead and this is what being dead was like.

Not really a "nightmare" towards the end, really, but the first half was freaky as hell to go through.
I had one like that. I got shot in the back by someone with a shotgun.

it was a very... unique experience.

I also had a dream that I died in...

Was robbing a bank in a mall with this guy

walking towards the mall exit alarms go off and all the exits lock (shuttered)

my partner and I run to an elevator (glass elevator that sees parking lot) and start going up

my partner in crime gets angry and begins to accuse me of setting him up

I pull out a handgun and shoot him several times in the chest

then I shoot out the elevator window and jump out

as I am fallign I shoot myself in the head

I feel myself hit the ground

my body was dead but I was conscious and still in my body watching people gather around me in horror

a dog comes licking my face

I wake up
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


that was my favorite dream ever - even more so than the lucid dreams which are super awesome

My nightmares usually feature me dying in some fashion. Very unpleasent.

I dont really have them anymore. But when I do have them sirens go off first and in my dream I know who's about to come and I plead to the people in my dreams to stay with me. But they run and I always end up seeing this man or the alien with mars attack. Sometimes a good dream can go bad and I feel a shiver in my spine. When I fall I feel my feet and when I'm running from something or something is on me I can feel it! It's so gross and it scares me!


And when I wake up their is always a chill on my spine when I think about what just happened

As long as freddy krueger isnt in your dreams its not a nightmare

When I was a minor I had recurring dreams where I was paralyzed. The first was where I was sitting on a chair in a room similar to the one in Peewee's Playhouse. Two muppet rats were debating on how they should eat me. Luckily a big muppet monster came and scared them away. Those muppets are more dangerous than they look.

As long as freddy krueger isnt in your dreams its not a nightmare

He's only in my most erotic sex dreams.

What I really hate is when I'm sort of half-asleep and I have these sort of half-dreams where I'm falling off a cliff and I try to jump up to save myself, then I hit the foot of my bed and realize its not real.

When I was a little kid, I used to have these dreams where I was being kidnapped and I tried to scream for my parents, but no noise would come out.

As long as freddy krueger isnt in your dreams its not a nightmare
You mean, it's not a Nightmare on Elm Street! http://www.greensmilies.com/smile/smiley_emoticons_halloweenstars_freddykrueger.gif

Do you have them?

What are the major themes?

Why are they so scary while you are in the middle of them, but when you tell someone the next morning they sound stupid?
They're always about my teeth, or i'm a pilot who manages to crash the passenger jet i fly into a giant, twisted, burning wreckage, and i manage to limp into the personal belongings of the deceased, what with all of them being dead except for me ... and i make my way on foot to deliver condolences to the families of each and every passenger. The dream takes days in my head.

You mean, it's not a Nightmare on Elm Street! http://www.greensmilies.com/smile/smiley_emoticons_halloweenstars_freddykrueger.gif

Master of Smilies! *mega-BOW*

What about ...
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t196/mrfreeze9000/strrettt7lc1.jpg

yep, my worst re-occuring nightmare usually comes when I have a fever.

and all it involves is my heartbeat.

It's pitch black and all I hear is the 'thud-thud' of my heart getting louder. this of course makes me anxious and my heart rate goes up making the noise in my dream louder and faster... which causes me to be more frightened and anxious...

it's been a while since I had that dream...
http://www.scad.edu/filmfest/images/telltaleheart.jpg
These are more like my kinds of issues. 'Cept i tend not to be actually "dreaming" when they come up.

All of these are deeply terrifying while I'm dreaming, but the moment I wake up I will be shaking my head at the total lack of creativity shown by my subconscious.
Mine are similarly dull. I wonder if there's a difference between anxiety dreams (which for me at least are stress-induced) and true nightmares, which seem to come at random.

Until I was about 10, I only had nightmares. Every single dream I remembered was a nightmare.

My nightmares are often the usual "bad guy chasing me for an hour" kind. When I was a teenager I had a lot of very violent dreams, and still do sometimes; I've died in dreams, cut people's faces off, been tortured, etc. The worst nightmares are probably rape dreams, but thankfully I don't have those very often.

I also have frequent nightmares that some strange flaw has been found with my diploma and I have to go back to high school. :(:(:(

The only nightmare I can remember actually broke one of the "laws" of Nightmares: You can never die in your dreams.
I've done it. Satisfying, really.
I've also had dreams where i was dead and awaiting a choice of moving into another form with my consciousness intact, in a form of appreciative servitude, or feeding a newborn in a spiritual torpor and the dissipation of my consciousness into a form of their conscience.

Oh, I also have a TON of nightmares about driving. Any dream in which I have to drive, things go terribly wrong. The brakes stop working, I drive off the freeway and crash into a tree, I try to park and swipe a car, etc.

The "Awesome" nightmares usually involve me getting stuck in the middle of a Zombie-Vampire-Midget war xD



The crappy ones are usually flashbacks, and the like

I like fish and am an amateur aquarist. Ever since I got into aquariums as a boy, I had nightmares of fish in peril in aquariums. I have had dreams of fish neglected in forgotten aquariums where they are starving and most of the water is evaporated, aquariums filled with peanut butter, dirty tanks, etc.

Overarching nightmare theme for me is that my teeth get broken. Who knows.

The last one I remember was being chased through a forest by a two-headed llama. Like Catdog (http://www.jrj-socrates.com/Cartoon%20Pics/Nick%20Toons/Cat%20Dog/Catdog_300.gif), except a llama.

You have a deep childhood fear of Pushmepullme from the Dr. Dolittle film. This should help.

http://eclectech.co.uk/b3ta/pushmepullme.gif

Aversion therapy. :p

Apocalyptic scenarios dominate my dreams, but they tend to be fun rather than nightmarish, probably because struggling for survival against insurmountable odds is more fulfilling than the desk job I do in real life.

The most freaky ones are probably where I dream I have woken up, but paralysed and partially blind, and it's usually due to me being in a weird position with me pressing a pillow onto my eye when I really wake up. The only way I can get out of it is to 'will' myself into waking up.

Had some freaky 'death' dreams too, where I have a really odd sensation of my consciousness 'I' dissipating, like a cloud of smoke being blown apart. Like some sort of consciousness spaghettification.

last one I remember in detail involved me and then girlfriend encountering a gang of 4 thugs which somehow (>.>) floored me (with terrifying dream paralysis)

The Mrs begged them to leave us alone but the leader demanded that she "get off" with him which she did (the stupid bitch), that of course didn't work at which point I woke up feeling terrible.

When this came up she was pretty freaked out by it but decided to tell me about all her near misses to make me feel oh so much better (the stupid bitch)

Master of Smilies! *mega-BOW*
http://www.studip.uni-goettingen.de/pictures/smile/stars.gif I aim to please.

What about ...
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t196/mrfreeze9000/strrettt7lc1.jpg
http://www.studip.uni-goettingen.de/pictures/smile/erm.gif Okay. Now that is creepy! :tongue: