Screeching sound, woman rape and shadowy figure.

[Payneszankio]

So I wake up and I'm in my bed, there's a low humming/a screeching sound inside my head, I'm not hearing It from anywhere else. I either choose not to move or I can't move, im not sure but I see my room is dark and I'm looking at the door on the left, the door has four indentations (squares) which is normal but one of the lines of the squares in dark, very dark like its a cutout almost. It freaks me out and I can't scream the dark patch gets bigger and bigger like the cutout is expanding and I could feel that something is watching me either from the side of me or behind the growing dark patch. I try to scream and still cannot. The noise in my head is gradually getting louder to the point where I just want to cry, on stab a screwdriver into my ears. The patch is now the size of one full square on the door and the noise is crippling my brain. I try to scream and then suddenly. I'm in bed, my mom walks into the room. (i moved out years ago) she gets Into the bed with me. (Weird) I say.goodnight and look over and it's not my mother anymore it's a figure of a woman, bald and I could not see her face even when looking into it, it was blurry and she's naked. She gets on top of me and pins me down its obvious she wants sex. (I'm gay so wtf) I struggle and look over to the right to grab my lamp and there's a figure standing there, watching me. I wake up. Or so I thought, I'm in bed again. I can't move, the sound is back, low at first. I try to look around, cannot. The sound gets louder, I figure I woke up and have a severe migraine or something. Something is watching me but not showing itself. i want to cry, my night feels infinite as if ill never be okay again. Then it feels as if my bed, the whole right side of it is being pushed upwards. Not a dizzy feeling or a floating feeling but like something is under my mattress pressing upwards on it as if trying to reach through it. The sound in my head reaching its climax. I wake up what I feel like is a few hours away and start my day, I felt like I had gotten no sleep. Miserable. The second nightmare felt like a legit nightmare. The first and second were so subtle and felt so real I was even scared to go to bed that night to just never experience that sounds or those happenings. Sleep paralysis? Or is this nightmare after nightmare after nightmare. I don't believe in ghosts, or demons or aliens(at least the nighttime abductor ones) But I feel like if people are having crazy nighttime experiences like this then perhaps just perhaps I understand at least WHY they could be so scared This was several months ago but just a few nights ago the screeching sound was back which prompted the day long google search fun. . I try to talk to people about it in passing like "oh hey I had some crazy nightmares last night" and it's always the same. "You're weir" or just laugh it off. What... The... Hell?

[LSDgarfield]

I really dont know how to explain that sort of stuff, but my guess is it was like this: First as you were falling asleep , sleep paralysis kicked in and you had those weird sensations and the woman trying to rape you. After that you had a false awakening where you experienced a sleep paralysis in your dream. Might be stress or any problems in your real life that get projected in all sorts of forms in your dreams. //edit: You should really make nose pinching then breathing and seeing if you can , a habit when waking up. prevents false awakenings, and gives you the opportunity to influence your dream so it gets better or at least less worse read more on Reality Check in the dream views wiki hope it gets better, regards garf

[JoannaB]

Fear of the unknown (the different square, the voice coming out of nowhere), fear of not being in control and not having a choice (rape), these are common fears that often show up in nightmares - fears that many human beings share, and which are very difficult to face. I think it is interesting that both your door starts out almost normal and then turns more and more into like a cutout, and your mother (familiar and safe - I assume, unless you and your mother have issues) turns into the stranger who is not safe. I wonder is there something in your life / some aspect of your life that used to be familiar and safe, and has recently changed in a way that concerns you: something that used to make you feel good and now causes you to worry and stress?

[LSDgarfield]

Wonderful thoughts, very interesting JoannaB, ill keep track of this thread

[Payneszankio]

I feel that the rape portion was (girls raping guys is kinda funny when I say it out loud) DEFINITELY a nightmare after the first part because I was able to move and try to grab the lamp . Very interesting, Joanna I have very good relations with my mother, but at the time it first started I had just moved in with my partner, so my first time living with somebody thats not my parents or by myself. Seeing as this recently happened again, albeit in a different way, i don't think after all this time THAT would be the issue still so I'm not sure at all. But it was an absolutely terrifying experience. And I'm a puss, ill jump when people scare me or in horror movies(occasionally) but this shook me to the core. It's crazy that the feeling of the bed pushing up on my side and back is something I can still visualize and feel to this day. It's felt so unbelievably real...

[JoannaB]

Ok, so the first dream happened right after you moved in with your partner. Is there anything important that happened in your life around the time of the more recent dream or was about to happen? Anything that would make you anxious, and I really do not think it has to be in any way related to what happened the first time, so it may have nothing to do with moving or with your partner necessarily, just something anything that would cause you to feel nervous insecure or questioning safety of familiar things. Alternatively was there anything that could have reminded you of your moving in with your partner, made you reminisce in your dream about how anxious you felt? My main experience with reoccurring nightmares was as a teen I would have seasonal nightmares. Every winter when ski season started, no matter whether we were planning to go skiing or not, I would dream of skiing out of control. I would be skiing at top speed, downhill and uphill, up stairs, etc. I do not know for how many years I had this nightmare nor why it stopped. However, this nightmare like yours was also about not being in control. In my case even though skiing is actually something I was pretty competent at and confident about as a teen, I generally had self esteem issues and often felt like I was not in control or not competent. And I bet this had something to do with this recurring nightmare of mine. What triggered it in my case was the season of the year, though I am sure I had other nightmares that were also about not being in control, but when it was not ski season, their theme / the window dressing would be different. I bet the ski season was not what actually triggered the nightmares for me, I was not anxious about skiing, but I was anxious, and my mind used skiing as a way to visualize that anxiety, whatever caused it - and there probably were different causes. Similarly, what I think is happening with you is that you are stressed about something, but that something may be something completely different from what made you nervous the first time you had this dream (moving in with partner). For example, if you had had stress in your job or anything else. Your mind could then have reached into its repertoire of nightmares, and found that this one will work for your current distress just as well as it worked for your nervousness when you first had this dream. Anyway that's one possible theory. It could of course be completely wrong.

[101Volts]

Door = Door of opportunity for something to come in? And those people saying "You're weird" Don't sound like they're helping you. Perhaps up your water intake to have a clearer head. Soda it isn't very helpful in clearing your head.

[NewZealand]

Once again, dont think too much into it, you are going to imagine problems that you dont actually have. Its just a dream, i dont think it really meant anything.