Thread: That One Nightmare You Had At A Young Age

Mine was when a donkey was chasing me. It was scary at the time. I think it was brought on by "Bugs Bunny." Actually... only about two years ago I had a different reoccurring nightmare. It was a loud screaming sound. I had it two nights ago. First time in well... two years.

At about 6-8 years old i always used to have this freaky nightmare. IN it my bedroom door would swing open in front of me while i was cowering in bed beneath my sheets and a tall dark figure would would walk slowly over the corridoor to my room. I am glad I always woke up before i could see him. Anyway used to scare the shiz out of me.

I've never had a recurring nightmare, or dream of any kind, really, that I recall. The few nightmares I have had were, however, generally pervaded with an intense sense of inevitability, and usually ended with me waking myself up deliberately, just before something unpleasant was about to occur. They were consistently distinct, though.

hmmm...

one i remember was where a huge owl came into our house and started flapping a round the kitchen and dining room hooting really loud and we couldn't get it out of the house.

I had become ruler of the world, had decided to play at the playground of my day-care center/summer school whenevr I wanted. I had a huge pile of toys, two other people (typically family), and a pet camel that I didn't like. It went behind the pile of toys, came back into view as a rat king (not the kind with tied together by the tails, but the kind from The Nutcracker). One of the other people is petrified, literally, and the other wasn't jhere in the first place, they were a cardboard cutout the whole time,, I styart screaming for help, but befor I can try to run it rushes at me and stabs me through the heart with a sabre. Much pain in the instant before it reaches my heart and I wake up.

I had dreams revolving around a guy I named 'Monkey John.' Monkey John was a painting of a man with a rectangular head and a monkey on his shoulder that would always pop out of the frame and attack me. Gradually he transformed from a demon to more of a bully and then I stopped dreaming about him altogether. Dreams with him were pretty trippy though, haha.

I've had this one recurring nightmare since I was about 2 years old. I haven't had it in about a year though.
I used to have night terrors about everynight where I would wake up screaming or scream in my sleep, and one of the things my mother told me to do was close my eyes really hard and open them again and I would either wake up or be in a different dream.
The first time I tried that was the first time I had the recurring nightmare.
Dream:
I would be in one dream that I either wanted to wake up from or wanted to change (usually a nightmare) and so I would close my eyes really hard, and when I would open them I'd find myself (first person) lying on my right side on a large gray stone slab (like those stone coffins you see in those like tomb type gravethings...like a large stone bed about 2 feet high or higher maybe) and laying infront/across/next to me directly would be a dead old woman. I remember that she was thin, had very wrinkly skin, but her skin had a decent amount of color to it, very white hair that seemed to be done up somehow and piercing blue eyes. Her eyes would be level/staring right into mine. But I knew she was dead. Both of us would be naked but with a pale cloth covering us both. I couldn't move. She was probably about 5 or 6 inches away from my face. I remember that the background was dark, like we were in a tomb or somehting, and the stone walls had carvings engraved ALL over them, like the walls were totally covered in like random engraved little designs. I would get freaked out and close my eyes, trying to wake up, then open them again and the old woman would be suddenly replaced by a dead goat. One of those one's with really long horns that curl back into spirals and stuff. It was a white goat. I don't remember what it's eyes looked like though I know they would be staring at mine. I think I was too distracted by the horns. (the horns were black with horizontal ridges/rings around them basically like a real ram's horns.) I would wake up right after that. That dream probably lasted about 20 seconds to a minute, depending on how long it would take to get me to blink and try to make the old woman go away.


I'm still afraid of old women with blue eyes and rams.
They both just generally make me wary and make me feel a bit off if I see either.

Mine was teeth falling out. I used to (and still often do) grind my teeth very badly when I sleep so I guess that pressure would fix itself in my dreams and I would have awful ones where all my teeth would shatter in my mouth and I would spend the rest of the dream trying to spit the pieces of tooth out.

im not actually sure if this was a nightmare, or hypnogogia or what... but i would always have a nightmare and wake up and see the shadow of what looked like a small girl in my room.. it scared me so bad i wouldnt take my head out from under the covers... i didnt like the ideas of some otherworldly being watching me all the time so when i stopped going to church those dreams stopped. (if they even were dreams...)

I saw a robot on TV that for the majority of the dreams involving it, I tried not to look on it because it looked scary. One day, I punched in the episode that this robot was in on google image search and it came up...first time i saw it outside the dream since i first saw it on TV...after facing it, I hardly heard from it again.

Oh it was a recurring nightmare at the start, later it became a fun trip and then a challenge...

The dream started in a place with nothing in it... apparently the only thing in there was me, I dunno about the size, I was just floating around, then, from my breathing, some "humans" started to form, first with a extremly thin and small form, then they started to get bigger really, really fast and then small again, it wasn't that bad to that point, but then, all those little things started to attack me while increasing/decreasing their bodies, that momment the attack started I would fall endlesly during a long time and being attacked at the same time, really scared me, I suppose the fear is the reason why it was my only non-lucid nightmare, since it was really illogic <.<

After the 4th time, it became so much fun to be in there, I liked to have the dream, was semi-lucid in it always, but had no control.

After playing a bunch with it and getting full lucidity, used it to train some lucid powers, after beating it around 3 or 4 years ago, it stopped, I miss the feeling ;.;

The shadow man....

He'd be in all my nightmares.

I wanna meet up with him, and depending on his current attidute, beat him up, or make friends with him.

I always had a dream where Carl Sagan would walk in my room and tell me "the fact of the day" even if the fact of the day was something completely ridiculous. It was scary too because Carl Sagan sounds like kermit the frog.

The very last dream I remember when I was 8, I was in some forest being chased by something. After that I don't remember any other dreams.

LOL @ Special Interests...I'm a huge Carl Sagan fan and the idea of him being in some child's nightmare seems...disturbing to say the least. When you said he sounds like Kermit the Frog I checked out some of his clips on YouTube and am surprised to admit that you're right...he actually DOES sound a bit like Kermit! Now I have that association to live with from now on...

Anyway, my most memorable childhood nightmare involved a humongous giant that would stomp down the street before barging into our front door. At least one time my family was playing ring-around-the-rosie when he showed up in our kitchen and started smashing objects and chasing my brothers and I. I would generally have these dreams when I had an ear infection or headache (which would happen quite often). Whenever I felt that continuous, rhythmic pounding in my ear, I always thought it was the giant stomping down the street towards our house That pounding may have continued into the dream when I was unconscious and manifested itself as those thunderous steps.

I also had a lot of nightmares about dogs or wolves chasing me and frequently biting me. Those were ever scarier than the aforementioned giant dreams.

Mine used to involve Beastly from the cartoon Care Bears.

When I would get sick, I often experienced hypnagogic imagery which would spook me out and typically send me to my parents room to sleep with them.

I had my recurring nightmares between the ages of 4 and 7. It was always of a shadowy figure chasing me down a dark hallway. There was always a brightly lit room up on the left, but whenever I would try to run, it would feel like I was in sleep paralysis (or I could only move extremely slowly and with much difficulty).

Mine was of being attacked by mobs of squirrels in a hotel, and in the middle of it all being kidnapped by Cruella DeVille.

Mine was me being at home, and then suddenly the ground collapsed and I fell into a black hole.

My was in the basement, my mother punished me by locking me up in the basement (IRL she woud put me in the storage closet turn the lights off and lock the door). And when i came there, there was this firething it was burning but then i heard som1 coming of the stairs with heavy footsteps, and i knew it wasnt my mom. So i hided after this firething. The room was big and dark as it had no lights but there was only a huge sofa, som beer bottles bext to it and this fire thing were i was hiding. So this person camed in and layed himself down at the sofa drinking som beer, and then he woud spoke "i know your there". And he woud try to catch and kill me. Doesnt sound scary but it i find it defnitly did. Somtimes my mom woud come in and he woud kill her trowing her around in the room. I woud have this dream almost every night

Me I was at my grandmas and I was being stalked by this freaky guy and he thourgh an orange threw my cousin? And then my grandma dissappeared. . .

I used to have this very odd nightmare all the when I was very little. It started after my Dad died when I was three. I would be running away from something or someone in a never ending gray abyss. I would feel so helpless and frantically try to run faster but it seemed like when I did, I would just get slower. Feeling like I could never go fast enough. Eventually I would get tired and come to a stop. I would feel like there was no hope and I was going to die and I would become very frightened and start screaming and crying. The I would wake up. I never did see what was chasing me.

What dreams y'all have had!!

When I was about 7 years old, I went to my closet and I would swear to this day that a large doll I kept in there, turned her head, looked at me and winked. I was terrified of her. But she was my mothers toy and when my mom was young the doll took batteries and could walk and move some and my mom loved her. I didn't want to tell her. But after several nightmares my mom said she would throw the doll away. I didn't want her to do that because I was certain the doll would be killed in the garbage truck and come back to haunt me. So I hid her in the woods.
The dreams always involved her chasing me through the woods or down a road to kill or possess me.
I still have nightmares about her (about once a year) and I'm now 34 years old!
I used to be deathly afraid of dolls and even my beloved stuffed animals. When I would go without sleep and get paranoid, I'd hide my animals in a closet

Another dream I've frequently had revolves around real life trauma. I had my 4 kids one right after the other for the most part and my teeth suffered dearly. The teeth at the back of my mouth started to crumble. I had intense toothaches. I moved from FL to WV but had no money of my own. I qualified for State assistance and my grams (bless her heart) couldn't afford any repair work despite the assistance. So she found a somewhat shady dentist and over te course of a month, he removed each and every one of my teeth. The medicine didn't work and I felt most of those teeth pulled. It was more horrific than I can describe.
Now I frequently have dreams about my teeth hurting, falling out or being pulled.

I always had one of a headless guy in a wheelchair chasing me through this dark woods. Blood would constantly squirt out of his neck like a fountain.