Welcome to the Machine, literally.

For the past week, I have been having the same dream over and over and over again. It is probably the most horrifying dream I've ever had. Mind you, some time ago, I had severe insomnia, which forced me to start keeping a dream journal. I've been keeping one ever since, and that was 3 years ago. An avid and often lucid dreamer, I've still not yet learned to control my dreams, but that's decides the point. I was wondering if anyone could even slightly decipher this for me, because it is the most horrifying thing in the world to me.
I start off walking through a dimly lit room, and because I'm nightblind in real life, I am night blind in my dream, as well.Hardly able to see, I bump into what I think are the walls, and this is when everything becomes conscious. It's then as though I'm watching myself traverse through the building from a pier somewhere above. I then try to advance my position, and this is where I start to lose my balance. The ground beneath me gives out, and I fall a short distance, clenching my eyes until I hit the ground. When I hit the ground is when I open my eyes. Now that I can see, I'm in some large machine, and as I try to stand up, it's as though I'm drunk. The place I'm is this old abandoned factory I used to urban explore before it got renovated. The walls then move in on me and my boyfriend crawls out of a pit in the ground, and starts walking on all fours, estranged and foaming at the mouth. I look to check the time, as I often do when I'm consciously dreaming: 2:13, I turn my head and look again: 4:44. After this, I continue walking until I reach a door, upon opening it, the dead corpses of all of my closest relatives pile on top of me.As soon as I go to reach, I am gripped by one of their arms, and swallowed within the mass of them, as this happens, I wind up back in my bed, but my room is now filled with blood-tinged water and the scent of gasoline and iron. I then proceed to watch myself through a window outside my room struggle to move, as I am temporarily paralyzed, and so I drown. As soon as the water reaches the level of the window that I'm at, and my body floats up to its level, I wake up.

Why is this happening? Because it's scary as HELL.

:eek: Woah, that's intense.:eek:

That's a good question, such an intense and reoccurring dream is not something to be taken lightly, but on the same note, not something people hear will be able to understand here. If you have the will, and the means, speak to a psychologist, or at least someone who has some experience interpreting dreams (he, I guess thats why your here).


But, damn, thats an intense dream.

when you say for the past week, over and over, do you mean once a night, every night, for the past week? or do you have it more than once a night? you've never had it before this week?

I guess what I'd ask is, are you under any kind of stress right now, or do you have any personal problems you're in the middle of sorting... you don't have to say what they are (don't have to say anything, obviously), but I'm wondering if this dream is a manifestation of something going on in your waking life. I'm not a psychologist though - it's just a thought.

eta- you say you don't have control over your lucid dreams yet - oh that's another question - is this nightmare always lucid? but you do have control over what YOU do in the dream, right? Cos if you do, and it's the same dream over and over, maybe you could do something different? Like not open the closet door..or when you see your bf acting crazy/foaming at the mouth, say "what's wrong? why are you acting like that?" You know, just try to question those parts of your dream that are scary, and see what develops from that. Just an idea.

That sounds horrible :[

Hope you sort it out

Try this, it helps me with lucid dreams controls. Try to speak what you want happen I always had controls over my dreams doing this

Do you fear the dark because you have night blindness or do not have such fears of the dark?

One thing that may help just because you have night blindness in real life is only part of the reason you do not see in in the dark in your dreams. You need to relize that you can see in the dark in your dreams. This is something you need to figure out. Now this is only adressing the start of your dream but maybe it will help.