Thread: I'm going to have a nightmare this Friday night!

28 Days Later, Creep are some good suggestions. Not too gory as I remember. There must be some foods that induce nightmares.

There must be some foods that induce nightmares

good idea i'll look into that thanks!!


i just did some searching on inducing nightmares... http://www.wikihow.com/Induce-Nightmares if anyone in interested!

aka eat spicy dorietos! but i spelt that wrong

my personal opinion...nightmares aren't all that fun...

I have more nightmares than normal dreams...It makes me a little upset that people would actually think it's fun to have your dreams turn on you and scare you. If I could never have another nightmare again I would be completely happy in every aspect of my life.

Originally Posted by still composed

my personal opinion...nightmares aren't all that fun...

I have more nightmares than normal dreams...It makes me a little upset that people would actually think it's fun to have your dreams turn on you and scare you. If I could never have another nightmare again I would be completely happy in every aspect of my life.

I understand that, but I havn't felt scared since I was a kid! I am the type of person who goes and watches scary movies for the thrill of being scared but i'm disiapointed everytime... I would just like to be able to understand the feeling of being afraid... I only plan on inducing one nightmare just to see what it's like...

well good luck and I hope you wet the bed

and i mean that in a nice fun way...not the angry way

It was just a little shocking at first to see this thread..I guess when you have more nightmares than normal dreams you get frustrated real easily with the subject.

I can see that.... that would suck... i have dreams that should be scary but don't scary me. have you tried doing the oppisite of what i am doing... and like watch i donno the smirfs before going to sleep... and thinking happy thoughts... or meditating before sleep to relieve your self of stress?

Yeah...Sometimes I get lucky and have a cool happy dream..but 9 out of 10 times I pretty much just get nightmares...I don't they have anything to do with stress because I'm not really stressed about anything.

thats really weird... well hopefully this friday we can simply switch dreams! and you will get a break!

That'd be awesome

I have been googleing what causes nightmares and can't get a strieght answer... thats kind of crazy... you would think with all the years of studing dreaming someone would have figured it out by now.

haha...I guess it's a hard subject

Geez, good question. How do you induce a nightmare? Especially if you don't know what scares you. I don't have a lot of nightmares. The ones I do have are normally not that frightening.

Scary movies don't do it for you? What about ghost stories or a book of horror stories? Do you have any weird phobias like clowns, spiders, sharks, or heights?

my only known fears are crowds of people and blood....

seeing someone getting hacked apart would tramatize me so i'm not going that route...
and crowds really thats not going to cause me to wake up out of fear... i'm hoping to be chased down at night by a creepy stalker who means to kill me... that way we get the apect of blood in there but i don't don't need to sit and watch.

i have heard if you eat a lot of chocolate right before you fall asleep it causes nightmares.some good scary movies are the shining,bones, and dead silence oh ,and silent hill.watch all in a row with lights off and alone in a creeky old house in the woods on the same road as a graveyard (preferably dead end dirt road)and the morning before you do this move something in your room so the shadow freaks you out.if that don't work i can't help you.i can't believe you've never had a nightmare......i just can't grasp it....

Originally Posted by ray

i have heard if you eat a lot of chocolate right before you fall asleep it causes nightmares.some good scary movies are the shining,bones, and dead silence oh ,and silent hill.watch all in a row with lights off and alone in a creeky old house in the woods on the same road as a graveyard (preferably dead end dirt road)and the morning before you do this move something in your room so the shadow freaks you out.if that don't work i can't help you.i can't believe you've never had a nightmare......i just can't grasp it....

I use to get them as a kid... but all kids do durring the ages of 2-3 and three and 7-8 it a devlopment thing but after that i havn't got them....

I'm scared already!

Its Friday! Time to start studying.

Maybe this will help:
http://lerr.info/bizarre/sea-monsters.html

ha ha ha thanks! i have been trying to scar my self all day but now that i am at work it's kinda hard

Actually......you should take some B6. I'm inclined to believe that Horror movies before bed combined with a large dose of B6 will very likely lead to nightmares

Originally Posted by thisismylogin

my only known fears are crowds of people and blood....

seeing someone getting hacked apart would tramatize me so i'm not going that route...
and crowds really thats not going to cause me to wake up out of fear... i'm hoping to be chased down at night by a creepy stalker who means to kill me... that way we get the apect of blood in there but i don't don't need to sit and watch.

Sorry to be so rude, but that sounds a bit like taking the easy route. The whole idea of nightmares is that you don't want them. You're supposed to be affraid of them. Real authentic nightmares ARE traumatizing. I know it sounds scary now to invoke a dream of someone ripped apart, but that's exactly what you're looking for. Do you suppose StillComposed thinks his nightmares are fun? Of course not! They're probably the worst things he can imagine!

I don't want to provoke any flaming, anger, or other forms of ruthness and anger, but this is what crossed my mind when I read your post.

Nonetheless, good luck with your nightmare! I sure hope you do succeed (given the fact that I never have nightmares myself too)

/ Stenny

Nightmares come naturally from the things you see during the day.
These might not particullarlly be scary to you if that is what makes a nightmare but your dreams will be filled with things that aren't 'nice' I guess.

Probably watching gory horror movies will work even though you might not be scared of them.
One time I was on a bebo band that supports various types of piercings. Becuase I am a bit of a guy when it comes to blood and violence I decided to look through the album or piercings that had gone wrong and the risks

The pictures had people with their tongue bleeding with blood dribbling down their chin and people cutting parts of their ear off with scalpols due to infection.
I think there was one picture that stuck in my mind because it was pretty amazing how the ear could bleed so much! It was a picture of a girl who had a scafolding piercing... anyways it went wrong and it was a photo of her ear. There was blood all in the inside of her ear and clotted in her hair.

Anyways, gettting to the point. Because of the pictures and the horror movie I watched I had a 'nightmare' that night



You could always think of your weaknesses and things that scare you and dream them up when you are lucid... I doubt that would work though.

Or eat cheese!! If that helps atall :S

Originally Posted by stenny

Sorry to be so rude, but that sounds a bit like taking the easy route. The whole idea of nightmares is that you don't want them. You're supposed to be affraid of them. Real authentic nightmares ARE traumatizing. I know it sounds scary now to invoke a dream of someone ripped apart, but that's exactly what you're looking for. Do you suppose StillComposed thinks his nightmares are fun? Of course not! They're probably the worst things he can imagine!

I don't want to provoke any flaming, anger, or other forms of ruthness and anger, but this is what crossed my mind when I read your post.

Nonetheless, good luck with your nightmare! I sure hope you do succeed (given the fact that I never have nightmares myself too)

/ Stenny

I understand what your saying.... it's not that i want them all the time i just want one... it hard when people are showing an emotion that you don't understand... it makes you feel inhuman almost... at least even if i get a simutated one I will be able to understand it bit.

Originally Posted by The White Rabbit

Nightmares come naturally from the things you see during the day.
These might not particullarlly be scary to you if that is what makes a nightmare but your dreams will be filled with things that aren't 'nice' I guess.

Probably watching gory horror movies will work even though you might not be scared of them.
One time I was on a bebo band that supports various types of piercings. Becuase I am a bit of a guy when it comes to blood and violence I decided to look through the album or piercings that had gone wrong and the risks

The pictures had people with their tongue bleeding with blood dribbling down their chin and people cutting parts of their ear off with scalpols due to infection.
I think there was one picture that stuck in my mind because it was pretty amazing how the ear could bleed so much! It was a picture of a girl who had a scafolding piercing... anyways it went wrong and it was a photo of her ear. There was blood all in the inside of her ear and clotted in her hair.

Anyways, gettting to the point. Because of the pictures and the horror movie I watched I had a 'nightmare' that night



You could always think of your weaknesses and things that scare you and dream them up when you are lucid... I doubt that would work though.

Or eat cheese!! If that helps atall :S

i have been keeping my slef parinoid all day to keep my mind on it... I have this ability to stay clam in situations where moast would be scared. I think thats why I don't get nightmares

Originally Posted by The White Rabbit

You could always think of your weaknesses and things that scare you.

do this right before you fall asleep after the movies of if you wake up in the middle of the night.

This is quite interesting. I wonder it it's possible. I'd say I'll try inducing nightmares too (since I also don't have them) but I might be too lazy . . . well we'll see . . .