Worst Nightmares

[Ascared]

Okay, lets do this.....craziest nightmares, give 'em up.

I still dream about the thing under my bed, but I have always been bothered by the dream of the dark man standing at the foot of my bed watching me sleep.

[crazycrashink]

I've had 2 that I still recall to this day. They are very awkward, and probably no one else would find them disturbing. First, I had this when I was pregnant: A gnome (of the garden variety) was chasing me (pregnant in the dream too) and I had to climb a ladder in a completely white space to a little hole carved in the white space. Second: my father lives in an old farmhouse and collects antiques. In his living room, he has an old baby carriage and a rocking chair. I dreamt one night that I was in the family room and could vaguely see a man in the rocking chair and it just kept rocking and rocking. For some reason, this scared the absolute poo out of me!

[titansfan]

LOL ya i got one, not so much as a nightmare but just a really creepy dream

About 7 years ago me and my best friend had a paper route in the middle of a fairly nice neighbor hood.. But there was one street that always creeped me out (never knew why just always did) and to make it worse there were 2 houses side by side that were elderly people so we had to get out and put the paper on their porch.

So with that said after about a week of the job i started having this reoccurring dream that when we got out to put the paper on the porches (which i always left my door open and truck running) that a creepy guy dressed as George of the jungle would jump down out of the big elm tree across the street and steal my truck and go flying through the neighbor hood hitting several cars ect. and wrecking my truck (which i loved my truck)

So every night we got to those houses i would always look up in the tree before walking up to the house. and i had that dream every night for the 1 yr i had that route.

[Stacey B]

I watched the film Hard Candy and then about a week later I dreamt that I was locked in a room with 2 people that had had their guts pulled out of them and then shoved back in and the belly sewn back up. Then someone else turned up and was trying to get one of them to jump out of the window to commit suicide.

I dreamt this nearly a year ago and I'll still never forget it. And I don't think I'll ever be able to watch Hard Candy again as it disturbed me so much.

[jenboxer77]

I don't know if you are ready for some of these, but here goes...

I had hot dogs tied around my waist (no idea) being chased by a Kangaroo! They are so deadly and scary big claws and HUGE feet. It grabbed me and scratched me and kicked me with its feet!

In a castle asleep. I wake up to a floating medusa-like woman hovering over my body pushing her energy into my body! I was paralyzed with fear, but curious and in no pain. She was telepathically telling me everything would be okay.

When I was 5 and in a bed ridden fever with chicken pox I had a nightmare about a tar monster coming to smother me. I also had this dream of everything being black and railroad tracks with a yellow house on them. There was a chimpanzee in the window. (King's, The Monkey creeps me out!)

I walked into a house full of dead bodies.

Warehouses full of people who hanged themselves.

I have been trapped in contraption houses not being able to get out.

I gave birth to a cat once and was horrified that I had to go through all of the regular pregnancy stuff, only to give birth to a cat!

Flying dreams, dragon dreams, end of the world dreams. You name it, I have probably dreamt some form of it! I keep dream journals to look back on. Crazy stuff!

Seriously, my list could go on forever. I have a twisted messed up subconscious.

[MeLeesa Swann]

I was caught in the middle of five different tornadoes coming towards me. Every time I tried to run they would chase me.:eek2:

[hemingway2z]

Worst nighmare!I use to dream when I was young that I would be flying.My Mother would be yelling at me to come down, because she was angry that the neighbors would find out and we would have to move again!Then I am sleeping and feel someone me holding down very tight to the ground not letting up at all. Until I would have break free to stop from being killed. This would awaken me.Finally I threw many old clothes away and they dreams stopped.:eek2:

[E Blitz]

I can't remember any specific nightmares, but they usually involve something happening to my kids or my new wife. :( Those are the ones that usually have me waking up in a cold sweat and out of breath.

[tracie]

my scariest dream was when i was about seven i dreamt that my whole family house and all was attached onto a big i mean huge balloon and i was standing on the path underneath them in a state of shock looking at them while they were all waving to me very happily.i have never in my life felt so alone!

[Q'smum]

I was caught in the middle of five different tornadoes coming towards me. Every time I tried to run they would chase me.:eek2:

Okay that is just too weird. I don't live in tornado area (mid-atlantic), when I was little I kept having recurring nightmares about tornados. There was one big one and then it would turn into five as I stood there looking out the window. About 5 years later (note-in real life, not a dream), I was on my way home from a job interview and a tornado touched down in a field and went across the road not 50 ft. in front of me. Tore the back end off the tractor trailer in front of me but left me unharmed. It all still haunts me to this day!:eek2:

[ladyraven]

My worst nightmare was the fairy king (not a small guy) came to take me away to be one of his slaves in fairy land. Not the cute little pixie people of Disney but really mean nasties:eek2:

[tillyn]

I actually have had dreams thru out my life of drowning in a car. Weird, i'm afraid of water maybe that is where that comes from. But the car part? Usually going off a bridge and being stuck in the vehicle.:eek:

[Q'smum]

I actually have had dreams thru out my life of drowning in a car. Weird, i'm afraid of water maybe that is where that comes from. But the car part? Usually going off a bridge and being stuck in the vehicle.:eek:

I can add to that. I used to have the same dream, in a black ford car, on the passenger side, the driver would be different, sometime mom, dad, or my sister. We would go off the side of the road at the entry to a little bridge, go down the embankment and land in the water with the waterlilies. As we were sinking the driver would just keep driving....
That was all my life until I turned 35. The twist is I was named after a young lady in my neighborhood and church. She went missing just a couple months after I was born. It was always thought she had runaway with her boss who came to get her and take her to work the last time either of them was seen. The family had a private eye for years looking for her. I told her sister about my dream one day when we were discussing recurrent nightmares.
The spring after my 35th birthday, they began fully draining a local river due to high algae population that was killing the fish. When they drained it they found a black ford engulfed deep in the mud just under the side of one of the highway bridges. It contained my namesake and her boss. My namesake was on the driver's side.
When my sister called to tell me, she started by asking me when was the last time I had the dream. I told her about a week before my 35th birthday. Then she told me what had happened. When I attended the memorial service, her mother and sister both grabbed me and told me, if we only knew years ago when you had those dreams, we could have laid her to rest long ago.

[Jax]

I actually have had dreams thru out my life of drowning in a car. Weird, i'm afraid of water maybe that is where that comes from. But the car part? Usually going off a bridge and being stuck in the vehicle.:eek:

That is one of my worst fears, going off a bridge in a vehicle and being trapped under water. Makes my palms sweat just thinking about it. :eek2:

I have a dream that I'm being shot probably 1-2 times a month for about the last 10 years or so. I find that really strange, because I've never been shot nor have I known anyone that's been shot. The weird thing is when I wake up the area that I got shot in the dream is actually tender. In each dream it's always a different area that I get shot in. Very strange.:eek: Dreams are crazy!

[Greasemonkey]

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[Greasemonkey]

That last picture is exactly how my worst nightmare usually goes.

[Laura666]

Strangely when I was a kid I had the scariest dream..to this day i have never had a scarier dream..A turtle with no shell was chasing me...and he was fast..I do not remember what he he looked like..I just "knew" he had no shell..have no idea what that means

[JRLauer]

I was floating out in deep space. I wasn't sure how I got there but eventually I saw a ship in the distance and I was floating right to it. When I got close enough, I realized that if I could grab on to it and work my way to the airlock, I'd be fine. As the ship got nearer, I saw that there were handholds and grips all over the hull, but as I floated passed, every one of them eluded my grasp. Before I knew it, I was tumbling out into the vastness of space and I could see people in the windows staring back at me as I got further away. It was then that a feeling a lonliness and dread came over me as I realized that I'd be floating in space all alone for eternity. I woke up with a feeling of sorrow, emptiness, and depression.

[kingfanalaska09]

I was making a horror movie and the effects were coming to life my dreams can be strange sometimes I'll remember them

[Susanne]

I mostly dream of vampires when I have a nightmare. After watching Nightmare on Elmstreet when I was 12 years old I dreamed of Freddie Krueger chasing after me.
Oh and I once dreamed of Chucky from Child´s Play.

[thymeoperator]

not to sound totally screwed up, but i'd say 99.99% of every dream i've ever had in my life has been a nightmare - although maybe 8 years ago i deciphered a sort of meaning / pattern to them and after that they stopped scaring me and started developing into weird things i've written down in journals to use for the stories i write. i'm also really lucid and rewind/pause/change events in dreams. anyone else do that? i once read you can't do it naturally, that you have to train yourself to do it, but i've been doing it for a long long time and i never tried to. surely there are others!

but the weird thing is that, despite how many numerous violent terrifying nightmares i have had over the years, the dreams that have managed to scare me the most, that i would definitely rate as my 'worst nightmares' are all the ones where i've lost or broken my glasses! and in reality when i read books or see movies or tv shows where someone's being attacked or something, i can watch the fighting but then when their glasses get knocked off and smashed i just can't take it! i feel like i'm going to cry!

[deluxe]

Lets see...... I had one where i swallowed seven battries. Scary as hell.

[c13tex]

Had a dream in my early 20's, was walking through a darkened bombed out city. We're talking post-nuclear Mad Max type of stuff. Didn't know if it was nighttime or the sun was just blotted out by all the dust in the air. I saw a girl/woman (late teens, early twenties) in a filthy farmer girl type dress and albino white hair all frizzy and sticking up, walking bare foot (feet and legs were as filthy as the rest of her) amongst the ruins and jabbering like a lunatic, making no sense at all. She's dragging a doll by the arm, and she turns and sees me, runs up to me jabbering even more crazily, and I see that the doll she's dragging isn't a doll at all, but a dead baby. I remember telling myself to scream myself awake, and I thought I could "hear" myself screaming out in my sleep, but very muffled, like it was a few rooms over, or like my ears were completely plugged, but I guess the muted screams were still part of the dream cuz if I really did scream the way I thought I "heard" myself screaming I would've scared my then first wife, who was sleeping beside me, half out of her mind. Thankfully I've never had that dream again....:eek2:

[MartinEden]

This isn't a dream I had, but one I recall my father telling me he experienced years ago. He said he was driving at night and was lost--I can't remember where he said he was trying get to. While driving he came up on a school bus which had over-turned, and lay on its side blocking most of the road. No one else was there, no responders or other passers-by, he said it was just himself. He said he got out and walked over to the school bus and climbed inside. Everyone inside was dead. He described it with very graphic details. He said he could see blood everywhere--caked on the seats, splattered on the windows. It was so bad he said he could even smell the blood.

Now, that gave me the chills.

[tillyn]

Holy cow Q'sum That would give me the heebie geebies, I still get that damn dream every now and again, been thinking about getting the little hammer you can buy to smash out a window for both of our vehicles, it might put me at rest a little? I was almost drowned by a neighbour, he thought he was playing by pushing my head down under water (we were by a dock and i couldn't get up) and i was about to go under when my sister came up the beach and dove in and got me out. (i think i was around 10) she beat the crap out of the guy. So the drowning part i get, but now the car part.

Jax that's something about getting shot. Hopefully that doesn't come true. I had a gun pointed at my head by a kid i was babysitting when i was 17, her dad left it out, and she got pissed at me for something, thankfully it wasn't loaded. She got **** from me royally and i cussed out her dad too. I'm really scared of guns now. (My husband and i use to hunt partridge here in Can. but we stopped because we decided we didn't like to eat them and killing them was horrible.)

[King Jacob]

I've had dreams where I was ripping myself apart because I had been possessed by a demon or something. Just before I rip out my own sternum, I wake up in a cold sweat. I normally feel my tummy to make sure all is where it should be. I've also had dreams where I'm being covered by insects and swarms of maggots (do maggots travel in swarms? :umm:). As much as the former dreams scare me, the latter dreams are even worse.

[Crystalized]

I had an intense dream once where I was flying in a plane that crashed into the side of a snow caped mountain. I was sitting on the floor of the plane as I witnessed my own death ... it was if the whole thing happened in slow motion. As the plane crushed itself against the mountain ... I wasn't afraid ... I saw my legs begin to reach impact and felt an intense pressure all around me ... no pain ... what so ever. All of a sudden I was released from the hold the universe had placed on me ... only to realize that I was floating in it ... with brilliant stars encompassing me entirely ... and then there was the sound of my heart beat ... distant at first ... then louder ... and louder until I began to feel it in my chest like I'd been running in a marathon. Then I awoke.

[dsurrett]

I'm not sure if I'd call it a nightmare, but a few years ago I watched 2 or 3 Clint Eastwood movies one night and then dreamed he was chasing me with gun drawn. I think it was Dirty Harry Clint as opposed to Josie Wells Clint. Wouldn't want either one after me though.

[danie]

not to sound totally screwed up, but i'd say 99.99% of every dream i've ever had in my life has been a nightmare - although maybe 8 years ago i deciphered a sort of meaning / pattern to them and after that they stopped scaring me and started developing into weird things i've written down in journals to use for the stories i write. i'm also really lucid and rewind/pause/change events in dreams. anyone else do that? i once read you can't do it naturally, that you have to train yourself to do it, but i've been doing it for a long long time and i never tried to. surely there are others!

but the weird thing is that, despite how many numerous violent terrifying nightmares i have had over the years, the dreams that have managed to scare me the most, that i would definitely rate as my 'worst nightmares' are all the ones where i've lost or broken my glasses! and in reality when i read books or see movies or tv shows where someone's being attacked or something, i can watch the fighting but then when their glasses get knocked off and smashed i just can't take it! i feel like i'm going to cry!

I bet you can't watch Scooby Doo without crying--Velma is always losing her glasses when the monsters are around!:biggrin2:

[DelvianBlue]

Some of my weirdest nightmares are also recurring. One of the worst I had when I was a kid of about 5 or 6 started out as an ordinary dream. Then for no particular reason I would scream. Immediately some kind of telekinetic force grabbed me by my ankles and threw me to the ground. The background changed and I was in the second floor of my house, and the telekinetic force dragged me across the hallway and into my brother's room. Inside it was dark and black, and full of short monsters with pure yellow eyes that glowed in the dark. The force threw me into the middle of the room where there was a mirror all clouded over as if there was a thunderstorm on the other side. The mirror was set into this huge wooden dresser set covered in weird symbols. Then a tall figure hidden in black shrouds would come out of the mirror and point a curved knife at me. It threatened to kill me with the knife, but I always managed to beg and plead it not to, and it told me telepathically that it would leave me alone this time, but if I ever spoke another word for as long as I lived, it would bring me back and tear out my soul with its knife.

The weird part is I'm a very quiet person, and most people say I'm the quietest person they've ever met. Thankfully I stopped having that dream after a while.

[Prince of Darkness]

Hi,

Discovering a UFO.

I'm serious! I swear I am! :eek2:

It's either that or some other interstellar mystery (black holes, supernovae, etc.) that scares the living sh*t out of me. Other than that it is pretty much stuff like being the last man on Earth stuck in a large city, walking to the backyard and peeking over the wall to see a barren wasteland filled with mutants, or editing novels and short stories that are my main focus at the time.

The latter is tiring, although not so horrible unless I have to do something the next day. In them I have to edit my stories to perfection (and I do find that they are perfect in my dreams) and then I wake up and can't remember a single change I made.

But really, UFO's and Aliens scare the living be-jeepers out of me 'cause they are more plausible (even if not so much) compared to zombies and werewolves.

Oh yeah, and I have had my own experiences with UFO's -- maybe, or it could have been the bad chicken popkin I had that day -- which kind of doesn't help. :biggrin2:

Long days and pleasant nights

[titansfan]

I haven't thought about this in a long time (maybe 8 - 10 years) but i had this one last night and scared myself to death... I feel my insomnia coming back full swing after this one... and I haven't seen anyone say this... but I used to see myself die.. or be dead... Usually when diving into a swimming pool that was empty. Thank god I haven't had this one in awhile but had this one a few times too. My dream car 1969 Dodge Charger (Midnight Blue) crashing into a brick wall in the middle of the desert at the end of a 1/4 mile race, and exploding into a fireball.

To much stress at work maybe i should stop working 12hr days 5 days a week

[JimmyPrice1015]

trapped inside some sort of crazy tomb, but I could see a populated street, hmmm, oh, salems lot backlash as a kid.

[Soil of a Man's Heart]

I hate the nightmares when you think you are awake as you are in your own house and then something like a murder happens and you think it is real.

[tillyn]

I've been here before but looking back, i remember one where my dad and brother died in it, Not the content of the dream but that they distinctly died. My husband shook me because i was crying in my sleep. Weird and disturbing . That was several years ago and thank fully they are here and alive. Dad's 83 .

[Bryan James]

The recurring one involves missing an entire semester of either (both) a high school or law school class. I did that a few times in college, so it's wierd how that never pops up. Finished high school just fine, and law school in two years.

Just the standard 'Risky Business' type things...unless you really want me to dig deep.

Even the really "bad" ones don't shake me any more. REALLY bad. I wake up and think, "Ok, that was a bit off," and I roll over or prop up for my back pain and go deep again.

BJS

[Agincourt Concierge]

I don't know if you are ready for some of these, but here goes...

I had hot dogs tied around my waist (no idea) being chased by a Kangaroo! They are so deadly and scary big claws and HUGE feet. It grabbed me and scratched me and kicked me with its feet!

In a castle asleep. I wake up to a floating medusa-like woman hovering over my body pushing her energy into my body! I was paralyzed with fear, but curious and in no pain. She was telepathically telling me everything would be okay.

When I was 5 and in a bed ridden fever with chicken pox I had a nightmare about a tar monster coming to smother me. I also had this dream of everything being black and railroad tracks with a yellow house on them. There was a chimpanzee in the window. (King's, The Monkey creeps me out!)

I walked into a house full of dead bodies.

Warehouses full of people who hanged themselves.

I have been trapped in contraption houses not being able to get out.

I gave birth to a cat once and was horrified that I had to go through all of the regular pregnancy stuff, only to give birth to a cat!

Flying dreams, dragon dreams, end of the world dreams. You name it, I have probably dreamt some form of it! I keep dream journals to look back on. Crazy stuff!

Seriously, my list could go on forever. I have a twisted messed up subconscious.


Damn...what ARE you eating before bed....:biggrin2:

[Sarah Smiles]

I Have Some Pretty Bad Dreams.
Soil I Know Exactly What Your Talkin About, It s Happened Too Me A Few Times.

[smooth operator]

The worst nightmare I ever remember having - the one that I woke up bawling my head off from - was not even really about me. The worst nightmare I ever had was about harm coming to my children (they were toddlers then) and I was powerless to stop it and to save them. I still get a horrible, fearful feeling just thinking about it, and I really don't remember many details of the dream.
I think that is part of the reason that I worry about them so much when they are out of my sight. I am afraid something will happen to them and that I will not be there to stop it and to save them.

[Damaris]

I've had tons of really bad dreams, woke up crying and/or yelling more times than I can remember, but the worst was when I was 15. It may not sound like much but it effected me deeply. I was on a school trip, in a hotel room with four other girls, and I slept on the floor against a wall because I had trouble sleeping in a strange bed. Sometime in the early morning I dreamt that, as I lay there, someone whispered in my ear. But it wasn't just anyone, it was an angel, come to tell me secrets of when the world would end and how and about the fate of my soul. But it was a fallen angel, its evil emanating in palpable waves, and the words were like ice in my ear. I remember clutching my pillow with my eyes squeezed shut and praying for it to leave as the murmuring seemed to go on forever. I don't know anything it supposedly said but it terrified me like nothing else before or after. (Just thinking about it gives me chills, even now.)

[Sundrop]

My worst nightmares are too scary to talk about. Most of the time, I just try to lock them away, and hope they don't come true.

[michal]

I really don't get nightmares - as in ever. To quote Stephen King himself: "We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones” and personally I always believed that nothing that lurks under my bed can be as dangerous as the monsters that live within other people's minds. And mine.

[marie96]

when I was 5 or 6 yrs old I dreamed that I was sleeping in my bed and then I suddenly woke up and there was tentacles full of blood coming from under my bed and then they just killed me slowly.. I've had this dream many times when I was a kid and it was very disturbing:eek2:

[BlackThorn]

Well, I didn't really have one before. I rarely remember my dreams, and even less rarely do I have dreams that are nasty. But a few days ago, I had one that was extremely horrible.

There was this guy I used to know, that was a complete *****. You know, scratch that, he was worse. I've encountered dildos before I took less offence to than this guy. For some reason he charmed and dominated this girl I kinda liked, and moreso than I actually wanted her at all, did it bother me that he just snuck in like a tick and embedded himself into her. I actually walked this girl through Stephen King's story, 'I Have What You Need', one night after we had just finished a good bedroom workout. It sounded exactly like the guy. He had icecream and tutoring skills, and a wife that was into threesomes she was attracted too...

Okay, enough of that train of thought, I despise getting personal at all on online situations, but then, she was just another girl, and one I wasn't horrible attracted too either. Hell, she might be a doctor by now with the highest honors, just cause of that tick. Props to you girl, if you did make it anywhere with that stain.

Anyway, on to the dream. I dreamed that somehow this creepy balding guy got stuck in my life, the same way as her. Only, I didn't like him being a permanent part of my life in the least. He did something in the dream, like marry my sister or something like that. 'Mr. Woodcock' all over again. (Hehe, I loved that joke in that movie, where he was like, "What do I look like, Jesus? Of course I have a father...") But in the dream I saw this character constantly. He was literally like a stain on my favorite shirt. It ruined everything. And this is coming from someone who has a sister that already married and then divorced the biggest idiot on the planet. When I mentioned the dream to a friend of mine, his response was, "oh, just like your ex brother in law...". I was like, "nooooooo... this dream made my sisters ex idiot pale in comparison. Big time.

I woke up, felt like puking for the rest of the day, and eventually dragged myself together, realizing my own body and mind and values and morals put me on a pedestal that guy I can't stand can't even imagine. Sure, it looks like he's light incarnate, but I would have opened a lot more wondrous doors for all of my loved ones than he could ever compete with.

I'm a hermit already, so I don't need to worry about social situations with idiots, cause I just torture them with my voice that just won't stop, and wits that know how to playfully badger, and then I go my own way and don't even have to deal with them on the phone.

But that dream, really left a disgusting taste in my mouth. And that's pretty savage, considering I was with the girl he crushed on to the heavens and back, the instant I wanted to be with her. He had to wait for what was left after I was done. (and honestly, I can't imagine why I'm obsessed. cold and issue-ridden really shouldn't be such a turn on for me. huh, maybe it's a fettish thing... ;))

NASTY dream though. I remember how defeated I was waking up, knowing there was no escape from that idiot forever. I remember how after I woke up, it was resonating in my mind about how I couldn't just kill him, and how horrible that cut me.

If you ever read this 'Dork Tyranus', then know I'll thank the maker I never had to put up with a moment of you I didn't want too, every day I'm alive. =0D

[Medeann]

After my grandmother's funeral, I had a dream where it was pitch dark in the living room of our house and I was sitting on top of the entertainment center trying to get the lights to work and there were these creatures flying around the room trying to grab me and knock me to the floor where there were other creatures waiting to kill me.


I always dream of darkness after a funeral.

[BlackThorn]

Ugh, I just woke up from another. This one wasn't as nasty, as it just pissed me off.

There is this guy who came to my house once, in my house, wanting to fight me. He waned me to fix his ancient computer, and I wouldn't even talk on the phone to him about fixing it. I explained to the proxy on the phone that time, that "it would be a waste of my time" Yeah, like that cat had $55 an hour for me, when his computer was worth about ten dollars, and was over ten years.

Well, the dream had him in it. I like to refer to him IRL, as "double digit" or "double digit Dou**", because of a combination of his last name and his very low IQ. So, in the dream, I was in some sort of class thing, and I had to leave. I had just bought a 2 dollar scratch ticket, and left it on my desk. Later that night, I was at a party. He was there, and we were in the kitchen together instead of outside, where the entire place was partying. He came up to me, and showed me the ticket stub for his 65 dollar scratch ticket winner. (I know, you don't get stubs for those, but it made sense in the dream) He made a point to get in my face about it. When I confronted him about stealing it later, after it really sunk in to my head what he had done, he went to a corner window, placed his head against it, and started saying like, "oh well, you know..." type stuff, admitting to someone else that he did it too.

I had been trying to banish him from my life already anyway, and after he said that, I told him infuriated, that if he ever came near ANY of my property again, I'd call the police, and then start shooting at him. I told him I might jump off my roof while swinging a pipe wrench AND shooting too. He was following me out at this point, and I swear his head was so low it was dragging on the ground, when he said, "yeah, okay..."

I left the party, and strangely enough, my home was a stones throw from it. As I was walking around the corner, there was a maybe 10 year old boy who got a chain hanging from his wrist caught on a short wrought iron railing. I figured it was a perfect chance to not only help a kid, but to get people at the party to know I wasn't just a jerk, after that scene I just left. I reached down and began trying to get him loose, and instead he reached up and pulled it loose himself, and took off.

When I got home, I noticed that one of the houses we have was wide open, the lights were all on, and a lot of the stuff was out on the lawn. When I went in, the house was nearly empty. It had been looted. I'm not exactly sure how, I'm pretty sure it involved me violently killing someone involved and getting the answers from the guy next to him, but I then found out someone was looking for some sort of deed or treasure map or something that our family had.

I found two people, although the car they had earlier was gone, when I climbed the side of the roof to sneak up on them. They were in the process of cleaning the place out further. Keep in mind, I was so goddamn angry at this point. I managed to throw a shoulder check into them low, and they both fell off the rooftop, and snapped necks or spines and died less than 20 feet from where I'm typing now. The woman and the man with the Lincoln town car showed back up, and we had a little discussion on what was going on, and they tried to say the home was really theirs or something, it belonged to their family first. I told them this 87 year old house has been owned by my family since the day it was carved from the ancient oak timbers that are too petrified to even pound a nail into, and there's no way it could belong to them.

They ended up bringing everything back, although right before I woke up it pissed me off even further how disheveled everything was in the house, after it had been returned. And then I woke up pissed off even further.

This dream made me want to go out and buy a gun, so I can "SHOOT FIRST, ASK QUESTIONS NEVER" if it ever comes up. And I just might.

[Diggerpsticks]

The worst nightmare I have had was when I was about 7 or 8. In the dream I woke up and heard my mom crying in the bathroom. I would then go into the bathroom and she would be sitting on the side of the tub crying into her hands. She would then look right at me and grab the skin on the side of her forehead. She would start to scream and then rip the skin off of her forehead. That is when I would wake up.

It was always a short dream, but it scared the crap out of me.

[poisonbat]

My son and I both suffer from "Dark Dreams" This is a name that we have given them because nothing else fits. We dream that we are awake in a completely dark place and no lights will come on. I have personally had dreams where I have been 'awake' in my bed unable to move hearing my son screaming for me to help him. It is pitch dark and I can not move. It usually takes several attempts at trying to really wake up to get out of a dark dream. They are terrifying. I have many about my childhood bedroom. I am stuck in there in the dark, can not get the lights to come on and there is always something lurking in the shadows. :eek2: My son had a dark dream the other night that he, of course, was in the dark, but a red face appeared on the wall behind his bed and it kept ripping him out of bed and in to alternate realities where he saw horrors beyond description. This happened over and over and he kept 'yelling' for me to wake him up. Of course he was making no sounds at all. He finally willed himself really awake and got up. Needless to say he moved his room around and no longer sleeps next to that wall. :eyebrow::bat:

[LadyPain]

The worst nightmares I used to have were family dreams. I kept on dreaming for years that my family was trying to get to me, to touch me, and it reviled me beyond what would be a normal response. I'd always wake up shaking and totally freaked out. It made no sense, because I could have dreams that would rival stuff Uncle Stephen writes and I would wake up fine and go 'Wow, that was wild.'

The dreams stopped last fall, finally, when I started to remember parts of my childhood and teen years that had contained physical abuse. I never forgot the emotional/verbal abuse that I took, but I had blocked the molestation.

Those dreams always freaked me out.

[staropeace]

Cripes! The political correct crowd are haunting me in my dreams :eek2:

Last night,I dreamt I lived in this place that was a toss between a highrise and a mall. Had an apartment there and also offices in the front. Anyway,my friend,Regina,also lived there. We were all having a buffet type affair in a downstairs banquet room to mingle with the new neighbours. Regina,very excited,showed me a picture of a new neighbour as I was whipping up some potato salad. She said it was a sin that others avoided this lady cause she was handicapped and challenged physcially. Then she shows me a picture of a woman who carried her head in her left hand,by her side. Did I mention that her head looked like a relative of Freddie Kreuger? That it did. Another striking feature was her neck.....stump. It was oozing a green slime.

I remember being appalled in my dream and mumbled something about having to go up to the apartment. I ran upstairs and locked myself in. I was terrified and I decided to phone my friend and plead a major headache. At the same time,I was sorta feeling guilty for not wanting to eat with this challenged woman.....lol...
I woke up when I picked up the phone......yowza...

[Bryan James]

I woke up Wednesday a.m. after dreaming every detail of a perfect short story. It wasn't scary, but it was THE perfect short story. I was actually crying.

I do the writer thing with the pad of paper on my bedside table...but I didn't even get that far. I rolled over and went back to sleep.

The next morning all I remembered was waking up crying. Nothing about the story, Damnit!

BJS

[LadyPain]

I woke up Wednesday a.m. after dreaming every detail of a perfect short story. It wasn't scary, but it was THE perfect short story. I was actually crying.

I do the writer thing with the pad of paper on my bedside table...but I didn't even get that far. I rolled over and went back to sleep.

The next morning all I remembered was waking up crying. Nothing about the story, Damnit!

BJS

How about keeping a digital voice recorder by the bed. Grab it, click on a button and talk quickly, then you can go back to sleep. It's faster than writing.

[GreenEyes]

My nightmares are very graphic, violent and bloody and I always wake up feeling sickened & shaken after them. The creepiest thing about them is that I'm almost always the perpetrator causing the blood shed! The victims in my dreams are never known to me & I am a very mellow, happy-go-lucky, mild mannered woman in "real life", so these really freak me out. Needless to say my husband always looks at me a little strangely after I share one of these macabre visits from the sandman with him :suspect:

[LadyPain]

My nightmares are very graphic, violent and bloody and I always wake up feeling sickened & shaken after them. The creepiest thing about them is that I'm almost always the perpetrator causing the blood shed! The victims in my dreams are never known to me & I am a very mellow, happy-go-lucky, mild mannered woman in "real life", so these really freak me out. Needless to say my husband always looks at me a little strangely after I share one of these macabre visits from the sandman with him :suspect:

I learned NOT to tell my husband about the violent dreams. Used to freak him out and he'd think he'd have to sleep with protective gear on. I'm the one that gets an elbow in the face or gets a knee someplace in the middle of the night. Perhaps I should be wearing the gear. I found that managing my stress helped with the violent dreams. Lots of exercise to wear myself out helped too.

[Jaedpact]

I used to have nightmares in which giant red aints would storm into my house and all along the walls of my bedroom, then under the bed then on top of the blankets.... it was the worst thing ever! Course I wish i had those kind now... those are nightmares of a child. The ones I have now involve crazy things happening to the family or my 4 year old turning into a giant and exacting her revenge on me for having taken her to the dentist....

[JackTheRipper]

I'm not sure if this qualifies as a nightmare as I didn't get scared, but it is freaky (though it's been so long since I've had it):

My brother and I are driving down a highway (except we're completely different people), when we see this guy coming towards us. We and he swerve out of the way of each other, us just pulling over to the shoulder, him... Well, I think he had a bad heart and we gave him a scare, because he was dead. We knew because he was leaning on the horn. We call the authorities and the body's taken away, but the guy is stalking us. He looks like he's rotting already. I see him on the street, in the supermarket... Finally, I see him at the car wash and I think "This isn't a car wash; it's a car crusher... I'm gonna die." But I manage to get out of the car just as the machine is starting, and the dream ends. Just like that, with no ending. I was jipped by my own mind!

Another I will never forget for as long as I live:

I'm in a bank, about to cash a check, when some guy decides to rob the place. One of the tellers trips the alarm, and minutes later, cops are swarming outside. It's suddenly a hostage situation. I decide to play hero, and I trip the robber and get his gun. I lead him outside to the police, and just as they surround us, he pulls out a gun he was hiding, turns to me, and shoots me point-blank in the chest. I literally had to swim to the surface of reality, and as I awoke, I felt a pain in my chest. Now, when I think of that dream, I think I know how I'm going to die: massive heart attack

[Kim L.]

Worst nightmare was one in which my daughter died. Woke up crying, but very thankful to be awake and know it was just a bad dream.

[Gaizka]

I remember one particular nightmare I had as very young boy.
There was this man. A very old man who was everywhere. It didn't matter where I ran to, he would be there. And don't ask me why, but I just knew that this man wanted to hurt me in some way.
I had that nightmare very frequently.
I remember once I was dreaming of it... And I ran to my mom (still in the dream) screaming "that's him! he wants to hurt me!", and my mom told me that he was her friend... And yet there he was looking at me with an evil smile on his face...

Now I'm a teacher and the stress causes me strange nightmares about my students in the classroom always telling me that I am asleep and I just jump out of the bad at 3 a.m. or so screaming "no i'm not...". But that's not a nightmare... That's just silly...

[davemelnick]

my worst nightmares are: roaches (big & room full) in my bedroom. Another is: 5-6 months scared of Chinese restaurants... after reading Stephen King's novel, IT, for the 1st time.

[gniknehpets]

My nightmares are very graphic, violent and bloody and I always wake up feeling sickened & shaken after them. The creepiest thing about them is that I'm almost always the perpetrator causing the blood shed! The victims in my dreams are never known to me & I am a very mellow, happy-go-lucky, mild mannered woman in "real life", so these really freak me out. Needless to say my husband always looks at me a little strangely after I share one of these macabre visits from the sandman with him :suspect:

Ditto! All of the above. I have been dreaming for years that I murdered someone and I seem to be getting closer to "seeing" the murder. I'm scared to death that I really did murder someone in another time or "when" and I'll pay bigtime for it one of these days. Which all makes me try to be VERY good in the here and now.

[Medeann]

The worst nightmare I have had was when I was about 7 or 8. In the dream I woke up and heard my mom crying in the bathroom. I would then go into the bathroom and she would be sitting on the side of the tub crying into her hands. She would then look right at me and grab the skin on the side of her forehead. She would start to scream and then rip the skin off of her forehead. That is when I would wake up.

It was always a short dream, but it scared the crap out of me.

That scares the crap out of me and I'm 22 and it wasn't even my dream! That's horrible for a 7-8 yr old to have to see :(