Your Worst Nightmares

**Raydrick** · 03-15-2007 09:45 AM

I've had many small recurring nightmares in my childhood, like dreaming I forgot my to put my pants before to school (lol).
When I was very young, I dreamt I was walking behind my mom in a street, but she would start walking very fast, and I couldn,t catch her and she would not hear me. Then some sad music played, saying "You're all alone" or something.

I also had one recurring nightmare back then , comming back once or twice a year.
I would be in a familiar house (home, grandparents, etc)
There are other family members, but they are always in another room, or in the basement or something. Then all of a sudden, I spot some kind of creature outside the patio door.
The creature looked like this, but slimmer, slightly taller, less goofy looking.

(abe from oddworld: abe exodus)
I was scared and wanted to shout for help, however, as soon I saw the creature, I would be paralysed, unable to produce a sound, or anything.
As time passed, I tried different things when that nightmare occured.
I was able to tap on the ground with my foot, but no matter what I did, it never got anyone's attention and I would wake up.

One day I dreamt of this creature, however the dream was different. There were plenty of them, running through a field, and I was running with them.

After that, I still had a similar recurring nightmare, but the creature would not show up ever again.
Instead, the setting would be similar. I would be alone in a house I knew (or at least alone in the room).

It happened in any dream, but it was always triggered by something similar.
The first time, I was petting my cat on my grandparent bed, then suddently, she would get up and hiss. The closet door opened by itself, and my cat got pushed away.
As I sense something is there, and it is comming for me, I woke up in sweat.

I've had this nightmare too many times to count, but each time it is a bit longer.

Usually, I mind my own business in a room of a house, then I notice it is dark, and I become stressed (IRL, I really hate looking in the dark when I'm alone),.
I try to open the lights, but theres always a power shortage, or they light up but emit a ridiculously small amount of light.
Then I would wake up.

But as time passed the nightmares got worst.
Now I don't even bother to open lights, because they never work, but each time I get alone and something suspicious happen, or it is very dark and I notice it, I get violently grabbed, by something I can't see (most likely invisible)
I can only describe that thing as a ghost of somesort, because I cannot see nor hit it, altho IT can grasp me hard and hold me in midair.

Like in my old nightmares, I could produce no noise, and trying to break free never succeeded.

I've also had this nightmare recently (about once or twice a year).

In the first LD I recall ever having (before I even knew it was possible to control dreams)
I was grabbed in a dark street and pulled in the air by that same annoying force.

For some reason, I recall having a "powerword: light" cheat from some game to light up the surroundings.
I said it in the dream, but it had no effect the first time. Pissed, I shouted it again and it actually worked! However, the thing pulling me in the air lit up and appeared as a bunch of young pranksters.

I was pissed because it made no sense that a bunch of kid could fly and lift me up in the air, and I woke up, still amazed to know I could have some kind of dream control.

The nightmare now occurs everytime I get in a suspicious/gloomy/dark room (usually alone)
of course, it's also because everytime I see such signs, I go "Shit, not again..." ,then it starts.

In the last 3 nightmares , I tried to fight it seriously, but I only ended up swearing because the thing was too cowardly to show itself/ fight me fair and square. Woke up less scared than usual, pissed, but still kinda happy to know I resisted and actually made fun of it.

The second to last time, I tried reasonning with it, asking wtf it wanted, but got no answer and woke up disappointed. Freaked out and seriously pissed that nothing so far worked agaisnt it.

I can't really remember the last time, which was a few months ago, but It didn't last long, I woke up stressed, but no real progress made in that one. Woke up quickly and freaked out, maybe I quit because I knew there was nothign to do.

Beside that, I've only had a few minor dreams which are almost not troubling enough to be called nightmare, like having a FA, looking to the right of my bed and seeing a little imp plotting agaisnt me (it got me a bit freaked out at first because I rarely get FAs, and this one seemed real.)

I've also had a cool action dream with a girl DC which seemed like my friend/partner during a mixed up adventure (which seemed to be the result of many games fused together).
After lots of strange thing, being attacked by a huge pack of easely squashable spiders monsters to say the least, we got separated and dream went into 3rd person view.

I saw the girl get stabbed in the leg with some sort of paralysing spear. The guy holding the spear looked at the girl with a grin, and I had the weird feeling he was going to rape her or something.
Back to me(my character), I went berserk and ran very fast through swamps and forest to save her. When I finally get to them, (just in time too), we are about to fight, but something disturbed my sleep I woke up disappointed (like a movie where you could not see the ending).

A more recent one seemd like a normal dream resembling real life, but it ended with me looking at a nearby town and seeing a bomber approacher.
A nuke falls down and a huge mushroom forms. As the explosion radius gets to me, I'm like, "So that's how it ends? How lame." Which made me laugh when I woke up.

And the only zombie dream I,ve had was actually a fun one, Killing zombies, what a delightful pleasure.

That's about it.

Now after I read through all those nightmares, It would be surprising not to have my recurring nightmare again.
This time I'll try not to wake up to and find a solution to this once and for all

I feel some lucidity might be required, but so far I was unable to force myself into LD, simply acquire a certain level of lucidity during a dream.

Wish me luck! (and a lot of willpower/imagination...)

**bro** · 03-16-2007 01:51 AM

Years back I was on Zoloft and quickly got off of it due to the horrific nightmares that ensued.

-I was running outside a mansion like place on a cold night and was pulled into a dirty bathroom and slowly drowned in the bathtub by a man and woman.

-I was in an underground garage and a bald scary man came over to me and punched me to the floor beating me reletlessly in the dark night until I woke shaking and traumatized.

Thank god, no more of these for a while, though I wouldnt mind one now for lucidity

**cathypw** · 03-31-2007 11:55 PM

Originally Posted by bro

Years back I was on Zoloft and quickly got off of it due to the horrific nightmares that ensued.

-I was running outside a mansion like place on a cold night and was pulled into a dirty bathroom and slowly drowned in the bathtub by a man and woman.

-I was in an underground garage and a bald scary man came over to me and punched me to the floor beating me reletlessly in the dark night until I woke shaking and traumatized.

Thank god, no more of these for a while, though I wouldnt mind one now for lucidity[/b]

**cathypw** · 04-01-2007 12:16 AM

In my worst nightmare, I arrived home from school, and without allowing me to change clothes,
my mother ordered me to rake leaves.

After a minute my mother, 2 nemesis from school, and a muscular typhoon guy I knew, walked
out, all looking at me very sternly.

All four walked swiftly toward me, and before I knew what was happening, all except my mother
picked me up. I was kicking and screaming, as I saw my mother take handcuffs ,out of her dress
pocket.

Then I woke up clenching my sheet, as I always due, awakening from a nightmare.

BTW- My parents marriage was on the rocks, and it effected my mother more adversely than my
father. One girl hated me because she had bulimia and anorexia, and I've always been able to,
"eat like a pig", and not gain weight. The other girl, and I, dated the same guy for awhile, causing
us many tiffs. The guy lived a short distance away, but we seldom had any contact, good or bad.

**Super Duck** · 04-01-2007 04:23 PM

Wow guys. One of my favourite threads is still going. Thanks for all your inputs

My worst nightmares are still all about mental cases so nothing's changed.

But I did have a really freaky find a while back. This guy looks just like the jester from my nightmare...only he needs a long pointy nose and claws...and a Frankenstein mask instead of a scourging whip:

I hope that URL works...

Sleep easy and nightmare-less,
Super Duck

**Xanit** · 04-02-2007 11:54 AM

White background. Black dot in center. Images of father, self, and other things alternating within, inexplicably. Slow, but at normal tone, voice as the dot grows into a dark column, consuming the nothingness.

No idea why I'm scared of it, but when I'm dreaming it, intense, unending fear, nothing I could imagine while awake, is injected into me.

**Lunalight** · 04-03-2007 02:56 AM

In one I saw myself being dissected alive.

**Howie** · 04-03-2007 03:24 AM

Originally Posted by Burns

Spiders.[/b]

[attachment=441:herpyllus_ecc.jpg] Like this one?

My worst nightmare was I was tied up by a demon of sorts. All my limbs were roped. I was being torchered and the pain was unbelievable. It began to take a gut hook and tear at my intestine. Thank god but I was moaning so loud in my sleep that my wife woke me up.
I was sweating big time.

Originally Posted by Burns

White background. Black dot in center. Images of father, self, and other things alternating within, inexplicably. Slow, but at normal tone, voice as the dot grows into a dark column, consuming the nothingness.

No idea why I'm scared of it, but when I'm dreaming it, intense, unending fear, nothing I could imagine while awake, is injected into me.[/b]

Well that is a hell of a first post.
I think a good night is in order...sweat dreams. and welcome!

**Arachanox** · 04-03-2007 03:33 AM

I used to have a recurring nightmare when I was yougner. I can remember frantically running around and around, trying to reach this man in a black suit at a desk. There was a button on his desk, and I was screaming and crying, "Please! Please don't press that button! I'll do anything, ANYTHING!" By now I was literally screaming my head off in my dream.

But he presses that button anyway, and all things go black.

Next thing I know, I'm being pushed from behind, at a walking pace. I'm walking between two walls, with jail cells on either side. The walls are filthy, with every color of grey, red, green, black, orange, and anything else of grime and mold. The hallway extends endlessly, and there are people in the cells. They are all saying at the same time in a monotone "It's all your fault...it's all your fault...it's all your fault..."

Wouldn't you be scared if you dreamed that you sent all of humanity to Hell and stole their chance at Eternal Life?

**Super Duck** · 04-12-2007 03:46 PM

Cool. We're nearly on page seven.

I have had this nightmare of standing on this pillar only big enough for one of my feet.

So here I am, one on leg on the top of a pillar. The room around me is pitch black and yet for some reason I know what i at the bottom of the pillar. Nothing. Just an endless drop. My leg tires. I can hold on no longer so I try and hop onto my other leg...loosing my balance in the process.

I fall and the lights come on. They are only faint but bright enough for me o see that the room is huge. It's like the size of a soccer (or as us Brits call it, football) pitch and the walls are covered in rotting bodies like on Jeepers Creepes some of the bodies are barely recognizable as human anymore and it's these less whole corpses that start to come to life, first blinking, then following my endless plunge with their empty eyesockets. I seem to fall for hours, days and alost a week watching gruesham terrors go past as I descend.

I eventually eat parts of myself as I am starving and soon get infected all the while falling, falling, falling. I starve to death days later due to not being able to put myself to eating any more of my body.

(This nghtmare is in third person by th way - seeing myself through 'movie cameras' placed around the room)

Suddenly, dead, I hit the bottom and hear the scraping claws of something's footsteps. I awake panting like never before in my life.

(BELOW: My waking emotions):

:sweat2:

**Super Duck** · 04-18-2007 06:41 PM

OMG!

I was in a canyon about 1 mile wide and an eternity long. It was about 50 metres tall and the floor was flat and sandy like a desert.

I saw in the ditances the two figures I knew were hunting me and yet hunting eachother. One was one of the Bella Sisters from Resident Evil 4 pictured below.

This is a bad picture mainly due to the shine that some prat decided to include but maybe someone can fid a better one?

The other hunter was El Gigante (also from Ressie 4) except he was badly proportioned (too short and to wide - but not fat). It was as if he had been stood on.

This is his head

He held in his hands a branding iro that was glowing red-hot. The two engaged in combat before they saw me. The Chainsaw weilding woman shoved the saw deep into the Giant's belly and I ran while she was distraced.

I falsely woke up in a tent in the desert valley canyon thing to the sight of Mrs. Chainsaw entering with her bloodstained bandages blowing in the wind. She shoved the chainsaw deep into my chest and I just lived long enough to see the blood and guts.

I should play Ressie a bit less shouldn't I? Ugh...freaky!

**In My Own World** · 05-03-2007 01:57 PM

Originally Posted by Lunalight

In one I saw myself being dissected alive.[/b]

Holy crap! Tht's messed up...

**Folqueraine** · 05-07-2007 10:50 PM

I can remember only 5 proper nightmares, and 3 are more or less the same recurring theme.
1st one, I was 9 or 10. My father came to pick me up from the "wednesday club" (there was no school those days) where I was miserable. But I lingered in the building, watching other children play, and I saw out of the window my father leaving without me, abandonning me. I was traumatized, and the funniest is that my dad actually feels guilty for that dream!
2d one, I was drowning. In swamps, my family was on a bark and for some reason I was underwater, I could see the boat and tried to reach for it but no matter what I did I was pulled to the bottom. Same age.
3d ones, happened last year or so... Three times I dreamt that I found worms or maggots eating a part of my body... The first time I had maggots in my mouth. (I had to actually get up and check in the bathroom mirror) 2d dream, I felt an itch in my foot's sole and found a worm poping his head out of a little hole. 3d dream, they were digging their way in the back of my hand, and I had to dig/take the flesh out to get rid of them. And they were huge.

Brrr.

**mel91** · 05-08-2007 02:50 AM

when I was 6 I dreamt that the toy aliens from Toy Story abducted my mom in a spaceship no joke.

**Chaos** · 05-19-2007 04:27 PM

When I was about 12 or 13 I had this dream where every one of my family and friends stabbed me to death with steak knives. I could actually feel the knife tearing through my flesh.

At about 14 or 15 I had 2 sleep walking experiences that scared the hell out of me. In both cases I dremt that I was trapped in a room and couldn't get out. There was nothing really scary in the dream, yet I was terrified anyway. The first time this happened I woke myself up by knocking one of my ceramics off of my dresser. The second time I woke up w/ my mom banging on the outside of the room. I opened the door and at first had no idea where I was. I had never slept walked before that, and to my knowlegde it hasn't happened since, though I have had a couple nights where I woke up sitting up in my bed or on the other side of the bed entirely.

A couple of nights ago I had a dream where some woman forced me to hang myself from a chandelier. Throughout most of the dream I acted like a zombie and had absolutely no control of my actions. When I hung myself, I could actually feel my life slipping away. When I woke up, that feeling was still with me.

**Harrycombs** · 05-21-2007 01:47 AM

I have not had any really bad nightmares. My worst nightmare was when some one climbed into my window and started shooting at me. For the next few days I just staired at my window while trying to fall asleep. It really freaked me out.

27 · 05-27-2007 02:14 AM

I had a dream a while ago where my mom died and I woke up really sad. I don't usally remember details aobut scary dreams.

**Stuart** · 05-27-2007 06:05 AM

the worst one i can remember is from then i was about 4. i was sitting on my bedroom floor with mum talkig about stuff when "the monster" under my bed started talking to me. mum couldn't hear it talking so i got really stared and began to scream uncontroably. it started to pull my under the bed with an invisible force but i made it out of the bedroom and he stopped sucking me under. in the lounge room there was a massive lion there that didn't seem to notice me when i barged in there. after a while of staring at the lion mum pushed me at it and the lion mauled me to death.

still fresh in my mind after 12 years

**blahaha** · 05-29-2007 03:05 PM

I once had this nightmare where my dad and I were driving in a huge, flat desert with skyscrapers and trailer parks scattered about. We were trying to avoid these red tornados for a few minutes, and finally we got sucked up into one. Usually this wouldn't be very scary, but it was so vivid I can still recall the exact feeling of flying through the air really fast, and the crunch of hitting the ground. I woke up with back pain

I've had tons of those ghost/murder dreams, they just aren't scary anymore

**joey11223** · 06-01-2007 11:18 AM

well its been more then a month since i've had this nightmare and im sure i dont know anyone on this site so i guess i'll post it now...this is the worst nightmare i;ve ever had and it was mkore shocing because i hadn't had a bad dream in more then a year.

I had the dream on friday 13th, it was during my easter holiday but i wasnt worried about going to back to school, just enjoying myself really, which is why its such a shock.

I jumped into the dream quite fast, though it seemed a had jumped in to a scenario that had already started. I opened my eyes and i was instantly filled with a great amount of fear before i even knew what was going on. I was laying on what felt to be a bed but i didnt seem to be able to move my limbs and i could only move my head a tiny amount, i felt a weight on my head, like something was tied around it so i could only left my head a tiny amount, not enough to see much. I was able to see enough to be aware that i was in a females body and i did seem to feel physically different, it didnt occur to me i was dreaming as there was to much fright. I managed to tilt my head to the left and i saw a wooden door, it looked like it was a hotel room, the bed covers were red. I suddenly felt a strong pain( it did actually hurt unusually) and a pushing feeling, it became obvioud to me i was being raped by someone. It felt horrible, i couldnt see the person as i could hardly lift my head but i felt him pushing into me, it was an unusual pain, it felt like something was being shoved inside me that was too big for the opening. The pain was in waves and he pushed in and out. It lasted for what felt like around 90 seconds real time. After this the room suddenly darkened and my vision seemed blurred. The man got up and was looking at me, i couldnt see him properly but he was tall, had short hair and i think blueish eyes.

After that i woke up sweating like mad, the pain wasnt there but i was soo freaked out i was crying. Ive tried to shrug it off as a bad nightmare but its getting at me before i go to sleep and stuff, i cant shake the feeling of helplessness and pain.

**Lofton** · 06-02-2007 07:20 PM

It's a toss up between these two:
1. I had just had had my first child only one week before.......I dreamt that I was looking out the bedroom window and saw a huge atomic explosion and realized my life was ending. I then looked down on the bed at my beautiful baby daughter and realized I was losing something more precious than my own life.
2. I was about 9 years old and The Wicked Witch of the West was at my bedroom door to steal me away. My parents were looking on and said nothing....

**stateofmelancholy** · 06-14-2007 05:17 AM

I can remember many nightmares from my childhood, but the scarest ones were dreams that included a witch that lived in the basement...

I don't remember when these dreams started, but I was probably about 5 or 6 years old at the time. And I think I was about 10 when I had the last one. It all started in a dream when I passed the stairs to the basement. I noticed a light on the wall, and stopped to see who came up from the basement. I didn't notice before the creature was a few ft infront of me, this was a witch, and not someone I knew... I ran into my room, slammed the door and hid under the covers...

I woke up terrified that night, sat up in the bed, trying to shout to my parents... But I couldn't make a sound, and it was quite dark in the room, so I didn't dare to move out of the bed. I saw the door in my room open up, and the witch entered my room. She walked slowly towards me, with a wicked laugh and smile.. I tried to get myself under the cover, but was too afraid to move. When she grabbed me to take me away, I finally got enough control of myself to fight back, and shout... I heard some steps from the hall, and the witch faded out as the lights was turned on...

This witch followed me in many dreams for a long time... Many good dreams, turned into nightmares where the witch chased me, and tried to get me down into the basement...
When I was about 10 years old, I finally managed to kill the witch... I somehow set her on fire, but I don t remember anymore

I'm now 22 years old, and I remember that first nightmare as if it was something that happened yesterday. I've had nightmares after that, but no one that has scared me as much as that one. I still feel a bit tense when I pass the basement stairs, hoping that I won't see the candlelight again..

**JonTan** · 06-21-2007 06:26 PM

I dreamed that I lost the use of my legs. Worst nightmare ever. Worse than dying in dreams.

**joey11223** · 06-21-2007 07:26 PM

losing legs, i wish i had that happen instead^^

i couldnt sleep properly for ages, to scared to.

**lily** · 06-25-2007 01:38 PM

I've had a couple scary ones. The scariest dream when I was little was.. I was covered in ants and they were so thick.. i couldn't even see my body just ants crawling over me. I remember I got nervous because I started wondering what those 'bed bugs' were my mom always told me about when she said, "don't let the bed bugs bite."

Then recently I had a horrible dream where I was driving fast, i couldn't seem to slow down.. and then all these other cars were coming in from the other lane, only they were swerving around everywhere and I had to swerve to avoid them. Finally there was one I couldn't avoid, and we hit. My car nearly went over the cliff near the road but I managed to slide away from it instead. Then I woke up - crying

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