The Stuff of Nightmares...

[rosemystica]

The Slender Man.

Yeah, I know he was completely made up by the SA goons, but his general concept does terrify me, and I've had an unusual amount of nightmares where he shows up. (I usually only have one or two nightmares every few years, but I've had tons this year... dunno why.)

That's just recently, though.

There's one nightmare that's stuck with me for nearly twenty years. I was three when I had it, and it's one of my earliest memories.

I was an astronaut repairing a satellite near the moon, when someone shoved me off of the platform and cut the cables securing me to it. I just tumbled through black and empty space for what seemed like a long time; it wasn't like most falling nightmares, where you wake up suddenly. It... lingered for several minutes (or so it seemed). It's sort of hard to describe, I guess.

But it still sort of creeps me out to this day.

 

[Sonic Doctor]

Back in the time when i still had nightmares, last one should be about 12 years ago, one interesting reocurring motive was sunfishs. Mostly , strange enough, in a river i fell in.
They dont do nothing and are afaik totally harmless. But they scare the shit out of me. Huge freaks of the oceans

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Lol, thought it strange when you said Sun Fish. Until I saw the picture you showed, I thought you were talking about these little fresh water Sun Fish:

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[Snor]

I never have nightmares...am I weird?

bad dreams sure but never nightmares

 

[Wolfwind]

I'm pretty lucky in that I don't have many bad dreams, and a lot of the times when I do, I tend to develop some ability within the dream to deal with it, so it becomes a pretty awesome dream.

However, I've had a few nightmares where I couldn't do anything but run, and I remember one where I actually did "die".

My girlfriend at the time lived in this townhouse neighborhood. It was a bright day in the dream, and I was going to visit her, but for some reason, there were these guys with guns everywhere. It was weird, because they were like the kind of mercenaries you'd expect in a game like Far Cry 2 or something, driving around in jeeps and armed with AK-47's. They were looking for me and this other guy who I didn't know in real life, but seemed to know in the dream. We were pretty much just using the terrain to hide from them, and we'd work together to take these guys out when we encountered them directly.

But then part way through the dream, he goes missing. I can't find him, and start looking around, when I'm spotted by the mercs. They start chasing me, shooting to kill. I manage to avoid their fire long enough to duck into this large, out of place building. It's like a huge barn, or a hanger, and it's pitch black inside. However, I've lost my pursuers, and can see light on the opposite side of the building where there's an exit. As I walk towards it, I suddenly have trouble moving. It's as if some invisible force is holding my limbs. Suddenly, I realize that my wrists and ankles have been bound by a barely visible thread, and I'm being lifted. Slowly, I start to raise to the ceiling. I struggle, but it's like fighting water. As my legs are brought up so that I'm being lifted laying flat, I start to see the faces in the darkness of the ceiling. They're blurry and hard to make out, but I think they're smiling. Then, as the darkness starts to envelop me, a pure white face with pitch black eyes, almost like a dolls face, emerges from the shadows. I struggle, but can't do anything to fight it, my face is almost touching it. And as it opens its mouth, I wake up with a gasp, as if I had been holding my breath.

That's probably the only time I've ever felt completely powerless in a dream. For a while after that, I suffered from sleep paralysis too, so that was pretty freaky until I learned what it actually was.

 

[ThreeWords]

Usually, physics breaks in my nightmares.

I'll be somewhere familiar, my room for example, and it'll be so vivid that I'll think I'm awake. Then, the perspective shifts. Distance warps, things are both near and close, huge and tiny at the same time. The bed becomes so small I'm afraid I'll fall out, while the duvet over me forms an intimidatingly huge cavern. The posters on the far wall leer at me as if they're ten feet tall, while the room stretches almost to infinity. All I can do is quake as the world around me dissolves into total chaos

My dreams are messed up...

 

[Duckslayer]

I remember someone (in my dream) asking me what time it was, and I answered out loud "7:30". Then I checked my watch ( my real, not dreamy one) and it was like 7:30:01. Freaky stuff.

 

[CharrHearted]

An interesting thread. Honestly I cant remember the last time I had a nightmare. Though I warn you with that story, Don't play Red Dead Redemption. If anything I have daymares.

 

[The_ModeRazor]

In one of my more recent dreams, I was sitting in a car, someone I don't know (or remember their face) is driving. We speed up, a lot, and then crash right into a wall.
Here's the creepy part: I don't wake up yet. There is nothing. Literally. But I can feel it.
A few seconds later, I wake up covered in sweat.

 

[noble cookie]

I don't usually have nightmares, but when i do they're very strange...

and fun,

usually because they aren't that scary. Although one time there was one with the scary maze game face in it.

...sad (and very scared) face.

 

[crunchieman]

I haven't had a nightmare in a while. Even though I have a lot of nightmarey situations in my dreams. But in my dreams I'm a total badass. It's awesome, I mean I go around kicking the *hit out of all these horrible creatures and I actually had a dream were I killed Pyramid Head. That's why it was all the more horrible when I had a dream were I was defenseless and all the people I had fought were coming to torture me. That was the worst nightmare ever. I couldn't believe it when I woke up. I just pulled my knees up to my chest and lied there until morning.

 

[Gudrests]

so this morning I woke up panicked having just escaped from an awful nightmare wherein I was being attacked by two bears and had nothing to fight back with, and so was quickly eaten. When it comes to nightmares that take place on land, I'm always being attacked by bears, cougars, and wolves. But my worst nightmares consist of a reoccurring scenario, I am in a boat on the middle of a lake with pitch black water. Something swims by and capsizes the boat, and I get dumped into the water to come face to face with three or four enormous great white sharks that then quickly devour me, and then I wake up. This dream has been so vivid that once while being bitten (in my dream) I woke up and the skin on my stomach was turning red.

So fellow escapee's what pervades your nightmares? And which to you is scarier, a creature, or, a scenario you can't escape from?

I wish i had your nightmares...an Ex-Gf of mine likes to creep into my head and taunt me all night with things i know ill never get...i normally wake up screaming sweating and breathing extremly heavy...sometimes almost crying...thats what 4 years will do to you..sooo if you wanna trade..ill take the bears

 

[Valkaris]

three twinked paladins...

 

[Prof.Wood]

My mind is skrewed up, all my nightmares turn 'R' rated.
In my nightmares Im always chased by hot emo/goth chicks.

In your good dreams do they catch you?

Thats what I was trying to say but it sounds odd.
They start as nightmare then end R rated I.E very good.

 

[Chronic42]

As for me I think being chased in a non-escapable area. I dream t I was being horribly attacked by zombie/demon creatures who kept gnawing at my back and I couldn't get it off,while running through an endless battlefield, littered with dead bodies everywhere.
Usually I could control my dreams, but for some reason I was just too scared in this one to even realize I was dreaming.

 

[BENZOOKA]

I never really have awful nightmares, like anything awful and/or scary happening to me in a dream. A shark bit my leg off in a dream once. It wasn't horrible. It just happened. And in another dream there was a dam built of tens of thousands dead swans.

The real nightmares I have are the most happy ones. They are so vivid, that I always open my eyes and feel happy, but in a few seconds I realize it was just a dream and my world comes crashing down. It's devastating. I kid you not.

 

[jaketaz]

I always have dreams where I run through town with an unlimited-ammo pistol and kill everyone I see, then I always wake up and feel really shitty... terrible.

 

[Olikunmissile]

Once i had a nightmare where the devil came and blew up a nuke made of babys on fire and then lazered it into the sun with his toe. then i shot him with a gun made of fruit and the whole world expolded and god came and sent his ass into a black hole. the end.

You beautiful little person, have a lollipop.

OT: Sleep paralysis. Scary shit dude. Wiki it for all the details.

 

[Cheesus333]

I haven't had a nightmare since I was about 7. The scariest dream I ever had was...

At the beginning, there was an elegently dressed adolescent girl making an ice sculpture. Then she suddenly got up and left the building, climbing into a limousine. Then it exploded.

Then I was in a library, with loads of friends. Suddenly, everything went red and sirens went off. Everyone began to panic as small, plastic fireworks flew through the windows, destroying bookshelves and killing people as they exploded. I managed to escape, getting into my Mum's car, after which she drove away.

As we arrived home, I got out of the car and hurried into the house. Then there was a loud explosion; the car had been destroyed, along with my Mum and sisters. Then their undead bodies entered the house in varying stages of mutilation.

Then I found a revolver and shot this guy in the face. He had an afro and big glasses. Apparently, he was a serial killer who specialised in plastic fireworks.

It was seriously the freakiest fucking nightmare I have EVER had, but it terrified me for weeks.

 

[badgersprite]

My nightmares usually involve me getting lost in something out of an M.C. Escher painting with an impending sense of danger, or knowing something is about to go horribly wrong and result in someone dying, but nobody will listen to me. I always run out of time or screw something up. Yeah, I have those kinds of nightmares.

 

[NeuroticBabbler]

I don't usually have nightmares. However, one particular nightmare I had has burned itself into my mind:

I'm in a secluded place, much like the Overlook Hotel. Inside the building I hear something behind me. I turn around. I see an odd looking doll stalking its way towards me. This doll has a stiff gait, as if its movements were clockwork. It had a wide mouth, lined with sharp teeth, its face and limbs spattered with blood. As it walked towards me, it screeched: "Play!" I ran away from it, eventually running outside, strong, cold winds restricting my movements, forcing me against the wall of the building. I manage to make it up to the roof. I relax. I made it. I've escaped. Suddenly, I hear I noise behind me. The sound of metal scraping brick. I hear a grating voice say "PLAY!"

And then I woke up.