Nightmares You've Had

[Anon22]

Considering the fact that tomorrow's halloween, I think it'd be interesting to discuss nightmares we've had. Try to be as descriptive as possible. I'll start(by saying that, it makes me feel as if this was a game... hope I didn't post it in the wrong place)

Once, when I was six years old(yes, I remember nightmares from that far back) I had this short nightmare. It was an eerie night. Clashes of thunder, and splashes of rain were heard from outside. The radio, the only thing I heard. A man hosting a "show". Chills running up and down my spine. Then slowly my mom called. I went to the kitchen and there I saw my family. I wasn't focusing to much on them though. I felt something... something strange and out of the ordinary. There was silence... I couldn't figure out why she called me there. I looked at my Dad who, from my perspective, was standing beside the window. Flashes of lightning were seen. It started to feel chillier. Spine- colder. Then all of the sudden... with one flash of lightning... a hand covered in blood appeared on the window... a stare from a guy with no hair... all bloody... was seen. He was looking directly at me with an evil face. One that could corrupt the purest soul. Then the flash ended and it disappeared into the abyss. Then everyone started to walk away. My sister and me the only ones left. She changed into a creature... a shadow. Arm around my neck and choked me.

[starrwriter]

For the past several nights I've had this recurring nightmare that I was trapped in a writers' forum where I was forced to read pinheaded posts.

Wait ... Where am I?:crash:

[permanentstain]

when i was younger, i had a reoccuring dream that a mad doctor kidnapped my sister and took her into a pink doll house to operate on her. i always would go to save her but cuoldn't; he would take me in to. i didnt stop having the dream until my grandma interpreted it and told me it meant i was supposed to help potty train my sister.

[subterranean]

You're somewhere around here...;)


For the past several nights I've had this recurring nightmare that I was trapped in a writers' forum where I was forced to read pinheaded posts.

Wait ... Where am I?:crash:



My last nightmare: a tripod with iron hands..

[Dailen]

I'm blindfolded, face down on a table, its wooden and warm,
Can't move, cant feel my body, but I know I've been here a while.
I hear two sets of feet, with hard soles
Dirt grinds against stone as they walk
I think I'm in a barn, Smells like horses and hey

One of the men comes close to me, leans over and speaks
"OK, Molly, You know we have to do this."
"we're going to try to make it painless." Says the other
The other is by an opening, the fresh air comming in carried his scent.
My collar is being undone, his hands are cold
Then the itch, colder...harder...serated!

I understand what's about to be done.
Yet, I have no fear....I'm calm.
"It will be over before you know it." He spoke again.
I know that voice....Can't place it.
The edge of the cold metal moves around to find a place

It stops...
"I'm Sorry Molly."
The pull !....The pull...!
My skin is torn to the left as he moves the blade
-why couldn't he haved used a strait edge?

"we're almost done, Goodbye Molly"
He had wedged the blade between two bones.
Pop!....A tingling sensation, starting at my feet rushes to my head
Sparkles of light...
Then nothing.

* This is one of the most Lucid dreams I've ever had,
and I have it over and over.

[Anon22]

woah, that's kind of freaky. Odd how you weren't afraid. If it was a lucid dream, why didn't you do anything to stop that unknown man? or at least phazed out of the dream into reality? well... anyhow... I just remembered a lucid dream I've had... lol... kind of funny:

Alright, so I'm on the computer typing. Typing and typing away, when all of the sudden I spontaneously realize I'm dreaming(happens all the time to me, chance of me realizing rises if I try to have a lucid dream). I start trying to do cool things when I realize the TVs next to me. Been a while since I've had a nightmare, I thought. So with that... I start breathing a bit faster due to temptation. I wonder if I can handle it. Then I just decide to go ahead. Static turns on... and The Ring begins. Then I'm stuck and can't get out of my dream because I lose lucidity.

[AimusSage]

I don't really mind a good nightmare once in a while, I consider it like a really good horror film. Scary as hell, but interesting at the same time, what I really don't like is the following dream I had recently:

I was sleeping, when the alarm went of, so I got out of bed, picked clothes to wear, went to the bathroom to take a shower, etc. and when I left the bathroom I realized I was still asleep, so I woke up and was still in my bed. It was 6 AM instead of 7, when my alarm is supposed to go off. That really pissed me off, because it made me loose an hour of sleep, that I really needed, and it forced me to wake up twice too. Waking up early has to be one of the worst things ever invented.

[A Hard Rain]

i had a nightmare last night lets see if i can remember it...

It started like... like a movie, 3rd person i am watching these two detectives and they are after this like serial killer -hanibal lector/norman baites type freak and their interviewing this guy and he has a very nice cosy home. they are just following a lead it seems. then one of the characters who i both was and wasn't, realized that this was the guy they were after, but it was shocking because i looked into the face of the guy and i had a past memory of him biting my finger off and his face metamorphosed. Well i try to warn my partner (who was female... quite possibly scully herself from X-files) and i pull the gun on him but i'm still watching 3rd person and finally like we scuffle and he bites my ear off and i bite his neck and then like shots are fired and scully's knocked out and i didn't even realize i'm it hapend but i'm missing another finger. that is the opening scene and i dont know...

A year later we're again seeming to be just doing normal **** and we get this house call about a kidnapping and we go to the house and its holloween. and i just realized i do not have the time, or the patience or writing aptitude to describe this crazy dream. it was insane.

But what basically happens is he keeps kidnapping and asking for ransome and then always killing the kids in grotesque ways.

Then there was some kind of like gameshow and he got on it somehow and started killing all the contestants and he was superhuman in his resiliency. I thought i killed him numerous times through different characters but the mother ****er always came back. I blew him up and severed limbs, but the bastard was a demonstrative s.o.b. one time we were all set and ready ... we had him trapped... and he made it look like our team... our own members of detectives/marines or whatever was in on it and i was like oh ****. I was taking on several characters roles... and the one guy he made to look with a most guilty countenance i was able to become and when they were going to shoot me and not him... i grabbed him and with a can of propane and a land mine and grenade or some **** i tried to blow him up, and i think i did... but he was able to be like proteus or whatever... the god who can take on different forms and go through metamorphosis. Not lycanthropy but like... something else, i can't think of the word. Anyways it was a crazy dream and very graphic and then it ended.

When i woke up i was a little disquieted.

[subterranean]

This was from last night: I brushed my teeth but suddenly they starting to fall apart one by one and blood was all over. It was a too short dream.

[Perspicacity]

One night I had a nightmare where someone cut off my head, and I woke up actually out of breath and lightheaded.

[starrwriter]

Okay, I'll tell you about a real nightmare of mine.

It was a recurring nightmare I had periodically for years. I am standing in this house, looking out the window at a treeless plain, when I see a funnel cloud form. It shoots down to the ground and churns up a a huge dust area like an explosion.

I feel absolute panic when I notice the tornado is moving toward the house. I run from room to room, trying to decide where to hide. I hear a terrible noise outside like a freight train.

And then I wake up sweating with my heart pounding.

I got so sick of this nightmare I finally resorted to lucid dreaming one night. In the middle of the nightmare I made a choice to let the tornado hit the house before I woke up. When it did, the house came apart and I was flying through the air. When I woke up, I didn't feel panicked like before.

I never had that nightmare again. I have my own interpretation of what it all meant, but I'd like to hear opinions from you guys. Should I lay down on the couch?

[permanentstain]

i had a dream (well i'm hoping that's what it was) that something was laying beside me in my bed except on the outside of my cover. i 'woke up' in my dream (it seemed like it was real because my room looked the same as it did when i went to sleep) and tried to sit up but i couldn't, i kept getting pushed down by whatever was in my bed. then i really woke up and tried to sit up but i felt like i couldn't so i started freaking out.

[starrwriter]

This was from last night: I brushed my teeth but suddenly they starting to fall apart one by one and blood was all over.
Freud said dreams about losing teeth symbolized fear of impotence. But his dream interpretation was skewed by an over-emphasis on sexual matters. In other words, he was a dirty old man.

[Dailen]

DigitalCrash:
woah, that's kind of freaky. Odd how you weren't afraid. If it was a lucid dream, why didn't you do anything to stop that unknown man? or at least phazed out of the dream into reality?

This gives me an Idea.....

The nightmare I shared,.. I've often wondered why the submission to the
beheading was so complete...So I propose a game.

In a new thread, I will post the nightmare...Draw attention to the
Constants of the dream and ask that others would come and
write a small bit of what they could see as being, a set of events
leading up the submission.

As a short story or just quick thoughts...whatever you pleasure.

(I love to play with the cut and paste,
but it's not as delightfull as My Blue Pen)

[LightShade]

Freud said dreams about losing teeth symbolized fear of impotence.
lol, does that apply to women as well? :D
I do agree with you on his being obsessed with interpreting everything from a sexual perspective. Which means he got most things wrong.

Your nightmare sounds like a "fear of something" dream. Maybe fear of a change or of a decision? When you finally faced it and came out basically unharmed (although the house, which maybe was your protective shell :p was destroyed), the fear disappeared. Problem solved, nightmare gone. imho, of course
I can't help wondering how Freud would have interpreted it :D

Can you really "resort to lucid dreaming" as in going to bed with the idea of solving that dream once and for all, or did you mean it was just a spot decision while you were dreaming on that particular night? just curious

[el01ks]

I used to have two recurring nightmares - In the first one, I would be walking down the stairs in a big, Gone With The Wind-style mansion, and suddenly I realised the banister I was brushing my hand down was a long green snake. Then the floor was suddenly covered with smaller snakes, all in different colours.

In the other dream, I would be in a cabin in a dark forest with my sister. It was always a short dream, but I knew from the start that everyone in the world apart from the two of us had been eaten by a giant bulldog, which couldn't get to us because we were hidden in the forest... Then Freddy Kruegar would come tapping on the window, and I'd wake up (and I've never seen Nightmare on Elm Street!).

I had those dreams a lot when I was between 7 and 9...

[A Hard Rain]

Honestly...

I loose my teeth in my dream about once a week. My gums turn to mush and my teeth move around and i freak out and then they finally like fall out or break or something. It is unpleasant.

I've read that is of overwhelming ambition or ravenous desire or something....From a recent psychoanalysis/therapy book integrating buddhism and psychotherapy. Still... when it happens it is disquieting.

And Mona Lisa must've had the highway blues you can tell by the way she smiles.

[Anon22]

lol, didn't realize that teeth dream was so common. I'd figure it was the least common of all dreams. Well, never had that dream. El01ks those are pretty freaky dreams. You know... a couple of weeks ago I remember I had this nightmare about me working endlessly on a report on discrete simulation. Oh wait... that wasn't a dream that was real! ;_; and now I'm working on another report, I'm alive with pleasure now.

[samercury]

Whenever I go visit someone and sleep over at their house, I keep having this dream...

In my dream, it dawn and I'm trying to wake up. All of a sudden, I hear people talking around me but I can't really hear what they're saying. It's dark around me but I can see a light coming through the window. I try to wake up, but I can't, I call out to someone to help me wake up, but no one answers. Finally I 'wake up' but I'm still sleeping... This usually keeps on happening until someone actually wakes me up to go somewhere. In the end I end up more tired than ever before.....

[el01ks]

Do you believe that with dreams of falling, you'll die if you hit the bottom? I'm not sure - I have that dream every so often and have never actually hit the floor! So can't disprove the theory.

[Dailen]

Oh Dear....

Developing a suspicious side, could help me greatly.

(Never mind me, I just bought a clue)

[pcockey]

I remember the first time I was able to alter a dream. Except it was really bizarre...I was in a house with four rooms that all connected, so you could run through them, and I was chasing someone. I realized I was dreaming, and for some reason what my mind came up with was:

A bottle of Dr. Pepper and a chicken. A live one.

Needless to say, they appeared in my dream, and I was struck by how very silly that was and then woke up.

[starrwriter]

Do you believe that with dreams of falling, you'll die if you hit the bottom? I'm not sure - I have that dream every so often and have never actually hit the floor! So can't disprove the theory.
It's widely believed that nightmares occasionally cause heart attacks or strokes, but only if the person already has arteriosclerosis. Nightmares can't kill healthy people.

[Anon22]

Also, that dream of falling, sometimes it's just simply that the blood pressure becomes low, or somewhere around those lines and so to prevent that, the body causes itself to jerk. Quoting from a site(forgot name) "Often preceded by the sensation of falling". Even though, of course, sometimes it is a dream. Lol.

[Dailen]

And sometimes, you realy are falling out of bed.
-(I hate when that happens) :)