Thread: Tell About Your Worst Nightmare

When I was little this creepy man with bright white hair was in my dreams every night for like 8 years. He killed me in so many different ways. Shooting me, pushing my families car off a cliff, ect. And he always had this creepy smile. Then in 2nd grade I saw someone who looked EXACTLY like him yelling at this kid. It freaked me out. Now its kind of funny when I look back on it. I didn't know his name so I called him "The white man" because of his hair.

I've definitely had more disturbing dreams then this, but as a child this is the most memorable.

Wow... what made you get over it?
I mean i would've been freaked the hell out/

My most emotionally distressing nightmares are always the ones where someone I love gets hurt or killed. They're actually pretty boring to talk about.

I did have one that wasn't too disturbing emotionally, but it didn't seem like any of my normal dreams, at all. It was very dark and violent, and even the setting looked completely different from anything I'd ever dreamt about. For instance, the sky was red, and overcast. No sunlight in sight. Every object around me looked like it was decaying. The buildings had broken windows and were abandoned, cars were strewn everywhere, their paint flaking. Garbage and scrap metal littered the ground. Rust as far as the eye could see.. You could get tetanus by just looking at it for too long.

It also involved a caged knife fight between two high-school age boys. One quickly got advantage of the other cut him up for a while, and then started prying his vertabrae apart, starting from the bottom, gradually paralyzing him.

That shit was messed up. I think I might have traveled to a different dream plane or something, because that was the first and last time I've ever dreamt anything like that.

Originally Posted by Marquis2988

Wow... what made you get over it?
I mean i would've been freaked the hell out/

I have no idea..they just stopped one day.

Originally Posted by Moonlit_Jade

My most emotionally distressing nightmares are always the ones where someone I love gets hurt or killed. They're actually pretty boring to talk about.

I did have one that wasn't too disturbing emotionally, but it didn't seem like any of my normal dreams, at all. It was very dark and violent, and even the setting looked completely different from anything I'd ever dreamt about. For instance, the sky was red, and overcast. No sunlight in sight. Every object around me looked like it was decaying. The buildings had broken windows and were abandoned, cars were strewn everywhere, their paint flaking. Garbage and scrap metal littered the ground. Rust as far as the eye could see.. You could get tetanus by just looking at it for too long.

It also involved a caged knife fight between two high-school age boys. One quickly got advantage of the other cut him up for a while, and then started prying his vertabrae apart, starting from the bottom, gradually paralyzing him.

That shit was messed up. I think I might have traveled to a different dream plane or something, because that was the first and last time I've ever dreamt anything like that.

o.O umm... I said nightmares not Mortal Kombat.

Well, I guess I had a Mortal Kombat nightmare?

Man that was disturbing...and scary I mean why didnt you help the kid out?! And What do You do in life to dream about spmething like that?? ^^

Good Stuff Though

Originally Posted by Marquis2988

Man that was disturbing...and scary I mean why didnt you help the kid out?! And What do You do in life to dream about spmething like that?? ^^

Well, first of all, I was on the outside of the cage. Second of all, I was afraid of the knives.
I did try and help, but my reasoning was a bit weird.. I got a girl next to me to go get help (They say that if you're with a large group of people and there's an emergency, ask an individual to do something specific instead of just telling the group to do something.), and I decided to stay and watch, because I thought I'd make a good witness. o.0 Then as the fight went on, I figured that was a stupid idea, and left to go get help, too. The dream ended before I got anywhere.

I have no idea what triggered it. I wasn't stressed, I didn't eat anything strange as far as I know, and I hadn't recently watched anything violent. Heck, I've never even seen a horror movie. I'm not even sure if I was in my own dream -- it honestly looked like someone else's.

sounds really intense

The worst nightmare I had was one of this woman running after me with a knife. My Dad had brought me to this old house, but then abandoned me to this middle-aged woman. At first glance, the woman looked normal enough, but she scared me for some reason I couldn't pinpoint. I stayed over the night at her house, and that night, she came tried to attack me. Terrified, I hid under the bed, but she knew exactly where I was. The last thing I remember then was her kneeling on the bed, knife in hand.

The dream scared me senseless, but it did have its use. I had the same dream the night after and the similar setting made me realise I was dreaming. My first lucid dream was achieved.

I rather enjoy scary dreams, the ones I call nightmares are when I've felt 'evil/powerful' and done things that make me sick to the bottom of my guts when I wake up in the morning. I've no excuse for my actions there as I've been totally lucid, yet done things (with utter delight) that would make hardened police officers shudder.
We all have a darkside, but to rub noses with it can be alarming.

Example I'm willing to share:

21/7/2011 Night Crawler (series) part 3 (1 and 2 old) - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Being in a empty, white room. Never knew boredom existed in a dream.

Funny. I don't have (or at least remember) any real nightmares. I have one or two that could be considered as massively failed attempts at scaring me but I usually feel so apathetic in dreams that it doesn't scare me at all.


maybe this one time where I was stuck with my closest friends and family in this underground mayan structure thing where this supernatural entity with lots of power tortured us. It wasn't a scary dream for me. It was just simply sad. Extremely so. Yet... I don't think I've ever felt fear in a dream. Just sadness, agression, and other such feelings. But fear seems to be completely lacking.

EDIT: made a DJ entry of it if anyone is interested.

When I was a child, I often had nightmares about drowning. When I learnt to swim, I stopped having the nightmares.

The only 2 dreams I can remember I'd call nightmare in the general meant way are 2 dreams were I got shot with a pistol, the wound was odd but I was pretty bad injured and woke up. They are over 10 years in the past however.
Then there are half nightmares, dreams that tend to do a bit'o'stuff to see and try to scare me, like people tossing out obvious threats of whom I know they'd make them true. While I have this partial natural fear in my body, my mind stays calm, or rather gets even aggressive. Like today in a dream, I usually prepare myself (like arming myself with an umbrella for whatever damn reason) and wait for the bad things to come. Usually they never do though, because my dreams mostly fade before conflict, leaving the end open for interpretation.
Yeah, there were these dreams about empty water, I made a topic about that not long ago (Dream Material), still got no replies there. It didn't turn into an nightmare but I know that these dreams had the biggest potential for an nightmare of all dreams I ever had.

The biggest nightmares I know however, are those I have in my thoughts in the day sometimes. I like to make up and process all sorts of situations and occasionally when I feel like it I make up nightmares, far worse than what I heard of others people nightmares so far. Yet even when I try as an experiment to get something of that into my dreams it doesn't work, so I stay nightmare-less to this day.

The absolute scariest dream I have ever had is one that I've had about seven or eight times throughout my life. This one recurring dream has haunted me since I was very small. The most recent occurrence of it was maybe two years ago. I am 16 now.

The dream itself has absolutely nothing about it that should be scary. It isn't even a coherent dream. Nothing makes sense, and I can't get a sense of things like location, or even my own body.

Whenever I try to describe it, I end up confusing people, which is understandable because of how weird it is. It isn't events happening, it's more like strange feelings and visualizations and sounds.

The first thing that happens is I get a very dark visual. This is accompanied by sounds of things sliding past each other and clicking. I get the feeling that there are creatures just too far into the darkness to see, but constantly there. The word that comes to mind when I think about them is "walnuts." They are either walnut-like in appearance or just sound like walnuts clicking together, I'm not sure which. This part of the dream comes with a horrible sense of impending doom and intense dread.

The "walnut" part of the dream eventually gives way to a different part, this one more distinctly visual in nature. It is dark, but I can see a silhouette of a church steeple, with a figure standing atop it. The figure is masculine in feeling, though I never see "his" face. The figure then draws in the air with his hand a large five-pointed star in white light, which appears partially hidden behind him even though he seems to have drawn it in front of him, as he is facing me. (Again, I can't actually see which way he is facing but I somehow know he's looking at me.)

The "steeple" scene and the "walnut" scene then often alternate a few times, each lasting maybe five seconds, until I am finally woken up by my fear. After I wake up, I am in a state of absolute terror, and the worst part is I don't know why. I normally end up getting out of bed, sweating like crazy, and walking around the entire house. I am unable to return to bed for at least an hour.

This dream is particularly disturbing to me because thinking about it now I can think of no reason the dream would be scary to me. It seems like the fear doesn't come from the visuals, but more from fear itself, like the dream bypassed my senses and went straight for whatever part of the brain controls fear.

Has anyone else had any dreams which seem incoherent but are absolutely terrifying?

Originally Posted by Alki

Has anyone else had any dreams which seem incoherent but are absolutely terrifying?

Though not terrifying, I had a few dreams which were more based on emotion, while most of my dreams are based on a plot and visuals, there are these rare exceptions. Recently I had my first dream involving taste at all for example.
But as for the emotional part, I once had a dream where I felt a insanely strong blood rage. I was just in a dark place and didn't see much and nothing happened. There was just this insane thirst to kill and destroy with all the power available to me.
An emotion I don't even know remotely out of real life, there was a calm part about my mind so it wasn't like insanity either. As far as I can tell a lot of people face incoherent dreams with strong emotions once in a blue moon.

My nightmares aren't very scary. In the dream they feel scary but when I wake up I realise that stupid things like flickering lights really aren't that scary. However, after pretty much every nightmare I have, I have a weird and disturbing false awakening. They are all similar, but they vary in scariness. The worst was probably this:
I woke up from a nightmare in which I drowned. The instant I "woke up" my eyes went huge and black and my mouth opened too wide so I had a huge mouth. I could see myself but it was as though I was simultaneously in my own body. I let out a horrible, inhuman moan. It's very difficult to replicate but its quite like a whale in pain. Lightning struck through my window, smashing the glass, then again several times engraving something on the wall. It might have been words or foreign symbols, I didn't have enough time to figure that out.
Luckily I don't have nightmares that often .

I was at a kids birthday party and I went to stand next to him and watch him open his presents. When I got to him he started running away and slowly turned into a baby sasquatch. And it was on the news in my dream after it happened. Ha. Weird one..

I had recurring nightmares as a kid. It would start with me waking up in my bunk bed, although my brother wouldn't be in the bottom one. I would clime down the bed ladder, walk out onto the landing and open a curtain into a little alcove we had in the house. There would always be a large, fat, cartoon style demon, with a spikt tail. It would ussualy always be different from there on, although it would always end with me being unable to breathe and waking up.

I don't think I've had many nightmares. I can remember one where I woke up "corrupted" with fear. I remember being in this dark room where there was this heavy, evil atmosphere to it. I started hearing this demon voice (ones that sound like many voices put together) I don't remember the exact words but it would probably be something like: "The light you bring will die. The light inside you will die. All that you are will die. You are tainted. The stain will never wash out. The sun will never shine upon you again. Tainted...broken little toys..." Something CREEPY AS HELL like that (cookie to whoever says where i got that from). Then this thick "darkness" and glowing eyes started to approach me, the voice still crippling my mind. I woke up and needless to say I was too frozen in fear to go pee for like an hour.
Scariest.Nightmare.Ever.

I've had a recurring nightmare for about 6-7 years now that I have no idea where it came from. It starts with a first person view of a girl - shortish black hair, round face, piercings, cute having an argument with who i can only assume are her parents. I don't know exactly what is said but it makes me feel very uneasy - things kind of jump forward and she walks towards me, starts to go down some stairs, stops, turns and starts laughing at me - I can see her "parents" blurry in the background and then she disappears. If that isn't weird enough I then see a third person view of myself sleeping in my bed, except there is a woman dressed in really old style clothing knelt on the bed slowly reaching towards me. This is the worst part as I jolt myself awake except it's a false awakening and I'm in sleep paralysis. I feel like my eyes are open, I can't move and I can feel the bed compress next to me like someone knelt onto it. This is usually followed by the sensation of someone breathing on my neck or a woman whispering things like "Hello" or "I can see you" into my ear very softly... but in a very taunting sort of way(like haha I'm here and there's nothing you can do about it). Because of the SP I can't move but I feel like I'm awake and that is the worst part. I always sleep on my side so I never get a view of whatever it is messing with me. Usually at this point I frantically try to will myself to move by trying to roll off my bed. When I succeed at that I get yet ANOTHER false awakening and it feels like something jumps on me as I try to crawl out of the room to get some help. Normally I make it out into a hallway which at that point I'm finally able to wake myself up. It is the most terrifying feeling I've ever had and it's so insane it took me awhile to believe it simply because it feels so real. After doing some research I'm able to stop it once the SP kicks in because I can recognize it and then do my best to become lucid or "wake" wake myself up. Pretty crazy stuff as the people in the dream I have no recollection of, maybe some crazy repressed memory but I don't think so. Weird stuff tho.

I used to have execution nightmares quite a lot when I was little. It used to always be me quite a long way away, seeing people having their heads chopped off and hearing the screams. But then times when I jolted myself awake from those nightmares, I would get out of my bed and run into my parents room. Then the same guy, with the axe, would step in the room after me..! I'd then wake in my bed again, and wonder if I was really awake or if that same guy would suddenly appear..