Your Nightmares

[cyanide]

Does anyone have any weird, scary or screwed up dreams that they'd like to share? I just had one yesterday that might be one of my most fucked up ones:

I was at my parents house and I was downstairs with Adolf Hitler. For some reason he was lying on the floor in full uniform, and I made my move by sticking an open screwdriver down his throat and pushing until it went through the back of his skull, killing him. He didn't make a sound. Upstairs, Hermann Goring was in my old bedroom and my mom was sleeping in her bedroom. He went to the washroom then came down to check on us and I got caught red-handed.

I should've grabbed that kitchen knife when I had the chance.

[shadowgrin]

You want to be Tom Cruise.

That or you're watching too much History Channel.

[JaoSming]

Last night was all about a old buddy of mine who has the death penalty (in my dream, not RL) and had to mix his own chemicals to knock him out before they burn him to death. And if he messed up he would feel everything. Woke up before anything bad happened.

Had one where my boss was an ax murder and was coming after me and no one in my dream would help. Just running into different stores/police station/main street, etc etc away from him. That was a fun one.....

[cyanide]

You want to be Tom Cruise.

That or you're watching too much History Channel.

I haven't seen Valkyrie and I cancelled my cable for a while.

I think I can explain it, though. I enjoy reading up on WWII and I recently put an Ikea drawer chest (screwdriver). Probably fuelled by some late night food.

[Lamrock]

It seems the more apathetic I get, the less nightmares I have. Can't say I remember the last one. Yay?

[Patr1ck]

The dreams that scare me the most are the ones that come true. They have absolutely no meaning at all, but when they occur later in real life it's a mind fuck.

Worst nightmare was about Halloween. Ended up getting cornered in some alley with nowhere to go and got shot up with people who had brown bags over their heads. I even felt part of my head getting blown off and really thought I was dead. My head was throbbing like crazy where they shot me. When I woke up I was so relieved to be alive.

[Fresh8]

I keep having recurring dreams of hanging onto an escalator, or hanging onto the edge of a railing and dangling in the air. If I fall, I wake up with a jolt as I hit the floor in my dream. I guess it's not really a nightmare but it's unpleasant and I get this sense of fear while I'm in the dream. Nothing too intense and easily attributed to my fear of heights.

And then I have these random dreams where they don't make sense but I am nonetheless scared shitless. When I was really young, every time I had a fever, I would dream of being at a racetrack. It was always loud and I would wake up crying... and for no good reason either as it's not scary at all.

[Patr1ck]

Reminds me of a dream when I was sick and had an Indiana Jones type dream where a huge concrete ball was chasing me everywhere. More like uhf since it could turn corners, but even after I woke up I was looking behind me, feeling like it was coming to get me.

[Fresh8]

PDub, I agree with you. Deja Vu is a full mind trip!

I've had deja vu before where when it happens in real life, I just freeze and feel like a retard.

[Andrew]

It seems the more apathetic I get, the less nightmares I have. Can't say I remember the last one. Yay?

I can't recall having any nightmares recently either, though apparently they become less frequent as you get older. Suits me fine, I'd prefer to get a good night's sleep than wake up with a jolt.

Mind you, I did have a rather vivid dream the other night where I realised it was a dream but rather than waking up, started using it to my advantage.

[Oznogrd]

Ive had the falling dream once. I woke as i was falling out of the bed onto the floor.

As a kid most of my dreams were mixes of nightmares/stories or tv shows i watched. For instance one i remember specifically was I was spiderman and the sentinels from X-Men were trying to catch me.

As I got older though my "bad" dreams (they're not terrifying nor wake me so i wouldnt call them nightmares) tend to involve some kind of crisis that i have to save my family or significant other from.

[Lean]

Most of my bad dreams had me ending up to be awake yet I can't move and I feel that my head's gonna blow.

[Patr1ck]

Ive had the falling dream once. I woke as i was falling out of the bed onto the floor.

As a kid most of my dreams were mixes of nightmares/stories or tv shows i watched. For instance one i remember specifically was I was spiderman and the sentinels from X-Men were trying to catch me.

As I got older though my "bad" dreams (they're not terrifying nor wake me so i wouldnt call them nightmares) tend to involve some kind of crisis that i have to save my family or significant other from.

Just wondering...do you have legs in your dreams? Like the paraplegic in Elm Street 3 who can walk in his dreams?

Most of my bad dreams had me ending up to be awake yet I can't move and I feel that my head's gonna blow.

That's called sleep paralysis. It can be freaky as fuck because your brain wakes up slightly before your body does and you can't move at all. You end up finally jolting yourself to a wake state. It's not fun.

Mind you, I did have a rather vivid dream the other night where I realised it was a dream but rather than waking up, started using it to my advantage.

Bastard. I've been wanting to have the control in my dreams for the longest time. A lot of the ones with "potential" end...prematurely.

[benji]

Me on my deathbed with someone informing me that I was always secretly A CANADIAN!

Sleep tight NLSC.

[Oznogrd]

Ive had the falling dream once. I woke as i was falling out of the bed onto the floor.

As a kid most of my dreams were mixes of nightmares/stories or tv shows i watched. For instance one i remember specifically was I was spiderman and the sentinels from X-Men were trying to catch me.

As I got older though my "bad" dreams (they're not terrifying nor wake me so i wouldnt call them nightmares) tend to involve some kind of crisis that i have to save my family or significant other from.

Just wondering...do you have legs in your dreams? Like the paraplegic in Elm Street 3 who can walk in his dreams?

If I'm someone else, i usually have legs but i dont really notice using them or not. If i'm me: i don't have legs and usually am using my chair.

[Andrew]

Bastard. I've been wanting to have the control in my dreams for the longest time. A lot of the ones with "potential" end...prematurely.

I know what you mean. I usually don't have control, that particular dream just kind of went B-grade science fiction as a couple of my friends and I found ourselves in a predicament and realised that as we were stuck in a dream, we could simply imagine the things we needed to help ourselves out. Oddly enough, I haven't recently watched the Imaginationland episodes of South Park, the kind of thing that might float around in my subconscious and influence a dream like that.

[shadowgrin]

That's called sleep paralysis. It can be freaky as fuck because your brain wakes up slightly before your body does and you can't move at all. You end up finally jolting yourself to a wake state. It's not fun.

Yep. That happens to me rarely but when it happens it's always multiple times in a single day/night. After I wake up and sleep again, it happens again, and again, until I realize it's already morning and I didn't have a decent sleep at all.

The nightmare that I always remember is my first realization of me in a dream being in a dream. I can't recall the previous 2-3 dream scenes but the last two scenes stand out.
I was being chased by a mob (mutants, demons, vampires can't remember exactly) and all of a sudden Dracula (with the old school movie look, dressed like The Count in Sesame Street) swooped down and slashed my neck. I lay there in my own pool of blood (dream in color people! sweet) thinking that this isn't happening and thought maybe this is a dream and if I try to sleep I might wake up and escape this death. I closed my eyes and tried to sleep and it worked.
I realized that previous scene was a dream when I woke up in a bathtub. I was standing on the bathtub and someone was knocking on door who wants to use the bathroom. I told him to come in because I wasn't using the bathroom anyway. The door opened and Dracula appeared and tried to attack me. I still remember thinking "you again" but before he can grab me I stabbed his neck with something (stake, toothbrush, can't remember) and said "how you like that in your neck" (seriously) and laughed. Before anything can happen again I lay down in the bathtub to sleep and wake myself up again for real this time, all the while smiling. I did wake up for real and obviously happy, a nightmare that ended well.

And that nightmare was years before Inception, I am Legend, and 28 Days Later were even shown in theaters, so I had no idea about dreaming in a dream or why being chased by a mob of freaks. I don't know why Dracula, persistent fuck that he is.

I find my dream self using the same 'technique' to wake up from nightmares. Every time I would have my legs/arms cutoff, have a giant hole carved in my stomach, or any other scenes where I am trapped, I would try to sleep as fast as I can in my dream with the intent of waking up in real life, and I do wake up after that.

[Andrew]

As an aside, it's been suggested that sleep paralysis may be a logical explanation for stories of alien abductions and ghostly visitations, with the inability to move ascribed to the process of being abducted or other-worldly energy and the possibility of seemingly seeing shadowy figures in the room with you.

[Lean]

Still recalling a nightmare from recent weeks.

The nightmare that I always remember is my first realization of me in a dream being in a dream. I can't recall the previous 2-3 dream scenes but the last two scenes stand out.

Speaking of which, I had a dream like that. In my dream I was off to a friend's house riding a public utility vehicle (or a jeep, to Pinoys) and then I received a text message from that friend of mine saying "Dude it's okay. Don't bother coming here." Then I said "Alright, I think I should just wake up then."

Then I woke up.

EDIT: So that's what it's called. Thanks for the info Pat. I was actually thinking that everytime it happens I was nearing death.

[el badman]

As an aside, it's been suggested that sleep paralysis may be a logical explanation for stories of alien abductions and ghostly visitations, with the inability to move ascribed to the process of being abducted or other-worldly energy and the possibility of seemingly seeing shadowy figures in the room with you.

That's a theme that I'm sort of obsessed with. I've never experienced it myself but I've read a lot about it. Here's more information about it:

Sleep Paralysis: is a natural bodily function that causes us to be paralyzed during sleep. It prevents us from hurting ourselves or others during dreams. It's when it follows us into the waking state that it becomes a disorder. Sleep paralysis, or more properly, sleep paralysis with hypnagogic and hypnopompic hallucinations have been singled out as a particularly likely source of beliefs concerning not only alien abductions, but all manner of beliefs in alternative realities and otherworldly creatures. Sleep paralysis is a condition in which someone, most often lying in a supine position, about to drop off to sleep, or just upon waking from sleep realizes that s/he is unable to move, speak, or cry out. This may last a few seconds or several moments, occasionally longer. People frequently report feeling a 'presence' that is often described as malevolent, threatening, or evil. An intense sense of dread and terror is very common. The presence is likely to be vaguely felt or sensed just out of sight but thought to be watching or monitoring, often with intense interest, sometimes standing by, or sitting on, the bed. On some occasions the presence may attack, strangling and exerting crushing pressure on the chest. People also report auditory, visual, proprioceptive, and tactile hallucinations, as well as floating sensations and out-of-body experiences.

[cyanide]

Bastard. I've been wanting to have the control in my dreams for the longest time. A lot of the ones with "potential" end...prematurely.

Then you should give lucid dreaming a whirl!

[Wall St. Peon]

A guy I used to know could do lucid dreaming...him and his brother would do it. Weird dudes, smoked tons of weed...but I believed them.

I don't really dream at all. I mostly get the sleep paralysis...I only sleep around six hours a night, so I barely get into REM sleep before I wake up. Because of that, I slip into REM and then wake up...so the dream stops but my body still thinks it's in REM...

Kinda weird. I probably have 2-3 dreams a month, usually just weird, random ones. Never nightmares, never negative...usually something that involves me being a hero. What would Freud say?

[shadowgrin]

What would Freud say?

You want to compensate for your small penis by wanting to be the hero.

[Andrew]

As an aside, it's been suggested that sleep paralysis may be a logical explanation for stories of alien abductions and ghostly visitations, with the inability to move ascribed to the process of being abducted or other-worldly energy and the possibility of seemingly seeing shadowy figures in the room with you.

That's a theme that I'm sort of obsessed with. I've never experienced it myself but I've read a lot about it. Here's more information about it:

Sleep Paralysis: is a natural bodily function that causes us to be paralyzed during sleep. It prevents us from hurting ourselves or others during dreams. It's when it follows us into the waking state that it becomes a disorder. Sleep paralysis, or more properly, sleep paralysis with hypnagogic and hypnopompic hallucinations have been singled out as a particularly likely source of beliefs concerning not only alien abductions, but all manner of beliefs in alternative realities and otherworldly creatures. Sleep paralysis is a condition in which someone, most often lying in a supine position, about to drop off to sleep, or just upon waking from sleep realizes that s/he is unable to move, speak, or cry out. This may last a few seconds or several moments, occasionally longer. People frequently report feeling a 'presence' that is often described as malevolent, threatening, or evil. An intense sense of dread and terror is very common. The presence is likely to be vaguely felt or sensed just out of sight but thought to be watching or monitoring, often with intense interest, sometimes standing by, or sitting on, the bed. On some occasions the presence may attack, strangling and exerting crushing pressure on the chest. People also report auditory, visual, proprioceptive, and tactile hallucinations, as well as floating sensations and out-of-body experiences.

I'm hardly an expert on the subject but to me it certainly seems a plausible explanation for those experiences.

[Alpha_]

I experienced a very weird dream! LOL. just few months back..

A man was staring at my ex-gf. The man was looking at her shoulders.I dunno what is he thinking, suddenly he licked and sucked her armpits. and then I slap his face and threw some punches.. looks like he has fetish. kinda weird..