Zombies?

Hi..

I'm currently 15 years old and these dreams have been happening ever since I was 12 or 11.

I'm a huge horror film fan and I love zombie movies, but it seems whenever I go to bed..these creatures haunt me.

These dreams are VERY detailed and frankly, sometimes I don't even know when its real or not.

These dreams all began awhile back when I was 11.

In the dream, I was sitting on MY couch with with my father(Everything in the house seems normal and it was peaceful.) I was drinking some kind of juice and was talking and laughing with him when suddenly I just so happen to turn my head and look out the window that was behind our couch and was on the left side of the house and there's a horde of these..creatures.

To be more detailed, I saw a fat man wearing a white tank top with black blood all over his chin and chest area and he had some kind of cooking tool in his hand. A woman with long brown hair was next to him and to me it looked like she had some kind of broken neck. She was wearing a pink lace looking night gown with fuzzy pink slippers, but these slippers were dirty and her eyes were grey and...dead looking. It was horrible. I screamed at both of my parents as I noticed this horde was coming closer and that my DOG was outside. I immediately ran out the door once my parents didn't bother to help me. My dog was now barking at these figures as they pressed up against our gate and was trying to push it down while I was trying to grab my dogs neck or collar and pull her inside. But it seemed she wouldn't move at all. The zombies then went on to successfully knock the gate over. I jumped back of course and when I turned back, the whole group was eating my dogs insides. I just stood there in shock, the entrails were so...real looking and the whole thing looked like it was really happening. And with that the dream ended and woke up crying and forced my mother to hug me and sleep with me because it was horrible.

A few days after that dream I had another.

In this dream, I was alive and both of my parents were there. My pets that I had at the time were no where to be found and my parents and myself look like we were going to war. So we step out onto my porch, there's dirty..snow on the ground and some dirt. It looks more like sleet then snow but it looks very thick on the other hand. The sky was a grey color, no sun, and no clouds really, it was almost like ash was covering the air and it was hard to breath. As I looked over I noticed that a ice cream truck had crashed into the house across from us and bloody hand prints were all over it, along with all the other cars on the street at the time. A few of these creatures are limping around the street, like 4 or 3 of them and they don't seem to notice us. For some reason my Dad tells my mother and I to get back in the house but we refuse for some reason and go towards the gate and open it, once we did it made a odd creek noise that seemed to alert the zombies and they immediately came over.

It was if my dream flashed and now my Dad was being pulled over the porch and his neck was being torn apart by these creatures. My mother was no where to be found and I for some reason run into the house, lock the door then go into my room, for some reason my cats are in here and I grab them, to pull them in the closet with me and hide. And then; I started to cry in my dream.

When I woke up from that one I was in cold sweat and was nearly going to cry. Those are the main ones I remember but I have a few more smaller and shorter ones with the same plot and same creatures walking around. I would really love to get advice on how I can find out what's going on in my dream, not to exactly not dream about them anymore but to stop myself from being afraid in these dreams and maybe as I said, figure out what's going on. Thank you for any replies. ^_^

I also tend to have dreams involving zombies. I'm sure that mine were initiated by playing games involving them. There are a few strange things about these dreams, but the strangest is how real and natural they feel. They do not feel at all like the games I play which involve them. Instead, it's as though my brain has created realistic scenarios that feel exactly as they might if they were real. Another strange thing is that I almost never fight, I'm never violent, in any of my dreams, except for these ones in which I'm killing them with baseball bats, machetes, etc. I'm afraid, but usually really brave. The dreams, although they're always set at night which usually implies less vividness, actually tend to be quite vivid, with plots more intricate than those of most of my dreams.

You aren't the first person besides myself who I've heard dreams of zombies often. Just a few months ago I remember another thread just like this. I'm not sure why our brains take in the idea of zombies and make it more likely that we'll dream about them than other types of 'enemy' creatures. But I'd guess it has something to do with the definition of a zombie, that it's a dead, animated human.

We're used to seeing humans a certain way, to associating with them personalities, emotions, intelligence. We sympathize with them. For that reason, seeing a dead person can be a very scary experience. We're so used to seeing live humans, and are so used to sympathizing with them and expecting them to react in certain ways, that dead people confuse our brains. We know consciously that they aren't going to get up and move, but we're so used to them being alive that we subconsciously sort of expect it. This is where the idea of a 'zombie' comes in, why it's so popular, I'd guess. Because with zombies, the dead people actually have come back to life. Our brains on some level still expect dead people to be able to move, and zombies are basically exactly that. But they aren't the same as the humans they once were, they're monsters now. This confuses our brains even further. As though these people we are used to acting a certain way being dead is not confusing enough, they have now been reanimated and are monsters who want to devour your humanity too. The dead/alive uncertainty is terrifying, but it also intrigues us.