Scariest nightmare you've ever had?

[The Vault Dweller]

I used to practice Astral Projection, but I had some bad experiences with that...

Bad experiences? How? I'm always curious about the "paranormal" if anything at least in an analytic way. Those things that cannot be explained by "conventional" means and the such.

Sometimes I think I'll end up being like Mulder once in the federal police

I became obsessed with it, and started to encounter very bad entities. They were pretty scary. I became more focused on the dream world than the real world. I almost became a "space cadet"....A very dangerous path to take.

You might want to visit the 4Chan /x/ board. I browsed that wicked and wild place a whole month and although I can't decide if it was worth it I will say that "Lucid Dreaming" is a daily topic there.

I've had sleep paralysis multiple times. The scariest thing is that once my bodily control is regained I immediately flail out for a moment like I had been strung tight.

Sincerely,
The Vault Dweller

 

[TorontoReign]

I actually had another vivid dream last night. It was one of those dreams where you are in someone else's body. The funny thing is I think I was a girl! Weird shit.

 

[Mutoes]

I only remember one really bad nightmare so its propably my worst. I had it couple of years back.

In it my sister and me were playing this old psx game, we were both young children ( maybe 14 or so). She told me it was really rare, only few were ever released and she had found one from some second hand shop or something. I booted the game up and was immediatly engaged in some sort of battle, everything was grey and pixelated, cheerful battle theme was playing on the backround.
For some reason i felt there was something really weird about the game and looked for my sister who was sitting to my left and she was gone, i also noticed how the room started to darken and walls fading to obscurity, the cheerfull battle music started to sound twisted and sick and i was suddenly struck by really strong sensation of loneliness. I felt like if i were to lose in this game i would never see any of my friends family or loved ones ever again, i tried to cry but i couldnt as i was more sucked into the sick and twisted world of that game. I remember that i kept repeating in my voice that i should not have made this choice ever, i started to hear my own screaming voice and finally woke up.

Holy shit i still get shivers from that one, propably doesnt sound like much but it was the overwhelming feeling of loneliness and sadness that shook me up real good.

 

[TorontoReign]

Those are the scariest kinds of nightmares. Maybe your subconscious was telling you to quit playing so many video games?

 

[Mutoes]

Those are the scariest kinds of nightmares. Maybe your subconscious was telling you to quit playing so many video games?

Haha, maybe, or telling me that the carefree and fun age of childhood is in past now and all i have left now are responsabilities and worries. Or maybe i should play more games? Or that im totally going nuts.

 

[TorontoReign]

Those are the scariest kinds of nightmares. Maybe your subconscious was telling you to quit playing so many video games?

Haha, maybe, or telling me that the carefree and fun age of childhood is in past now and all i have left now are responsabilities and worries. Or maybe i should play more games? Or that im totally going nuts.

Could be a combination of all the above!

I had a dream last night were I saw my Dad. He passed away a few years ago. He didn't look very happy, and when I saw him he was a little withdrawn. I flew up to him and asked him what was wrong. He said he "Didn't do things right..." and that is all I remember. It bums me out when I think about it. Every other time I have seen him in my dreams, it has been pretty upbeat. I wanted to immediately jump back in and talk to him when I woke up, but alas it was not meant to be- I had a dream about something unrelated.

In more upbeat news I have managed to remember at least 1 dream a night for the past few months.

 

[Gonzalez]

Yesterday I was listening to a radio show where they were talking about (guess what) sleep paralysis and night terrors. And according to scientists who are specialist on the field the truth is that no one is really sure about why we even need to sleep, that for the purposes of saving energies there are more effective ways of doing it.

 

[TorontoReign]

Yesterday I was listening to a radio show where they were talking about (guess what) sleep paralysis and night terrors. And according to scientists who are specialist on the field the truth is that no one is really sure about why we even need to sleep, that for the purposes of saving energies there are more effective ways of doing it.

We know so little about the dreamworld, sleep, and OBE's. The more we learn, the more we find out how little we know, and I love it. Has anyone ever tried the Lucid Dream Goggles? They flash a light into your eyes when you hit REM sleep, so that you will recognize that you are dreaming, and take control of it. Pretty interesting stuff.

 

[darby70]

I have some creepy dreams, but I usually realize I'm in a dream cause of crazy junk that happens. The scariest ones I have are ones that I can't move my muscles from exhaustion, and something horrible is happening. It might be me drowning or a murderer killing someone, but I can't do anything about it.

 

[zegh8578]

my worst nightmares are usually marked by quiet lonelyness drowned in a very dark and sombre feeling, more than scary events.

the worst must be one where i found myself in an underground city, very clean, 1 story, meaning the ceiling was right above my head, like a basement city.

it felt very artificial, everything was very clean, buildings lacked windows, and were all made of clean red brick. i wasnt very afraid at this point, more puzzled.

i saw the only corner with windows, a bakery, but empty. despite being empty it was strongly lit, and very clean. empty desks inside, empty showcases.

in a "trashy" alley i found clean cardboard boxes, as if made to look messy, but still tidy and orderly, and a green exit sign by a metal door. i exited, came into a broad dark stairway, with a single stair up, and saw an old classmate at the top of the stairs.
at this point he screams out at me, something like "please tell me you were NOT down there!"
and i am filled with fear and worry, simply overwhelming
he cries out for me to run over to him, escape from there immediately, and i cant even make a step, before i am weighed down, stuck to the floor, and i hear childrens voices... behind me... calling my name, eerily...
i can see them coming toward me, right out from a horror movie, dressed in white light clothes, smiling, not evil, but peaceful

they repeat my name, its all they say, so i scream out my classmates name - and it works. they begin to call his name, i am unlocked, and manage to escape, while he begins to walk towards the spooky kids.

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as a "bonus" i woke up from this, looked above, and saw a man sleeping in a hammock above my bed. i pressed my face against my pillow, groaning "wake up wake uuuuup!" and finally woke up for real...


i think its one of the curses of being a creative person - your dreams follow suit, and sometimes just baffle the shit out of you...

Those are the scariest kinds of nightmares. Maybe your subconscious was telling you to quit playing so many video games?

Haha, maybe, or telling me that the carefree and fun age of childhood is in past now and all i have left now are responsabilities and worries. Or maybe i should play more games? Or that im totally going nuts.

Could be a combination of all the above!

I had a dream last night were I saw my Dad. He passed away a few years ago. He didn't look very happy, and when I saw him he was a little withdrawn. I flew up to him and asked him what was wrong. He said he "Didn't do things right..." and that is all I remember. It bums me out when I think about it. Every other time I have seen him in my dreams, it has been pretty upbeat. I wanted to immediately jump back in and talk to him when I woke up, but alas it was not meant to be- I had a dream about something unrelated.

In more upbeat news I have managed to remember at least 1 dream a night for the past few months.

idunno you, but that really sounds like your subconcious messing with you.

i never thought dreams have "a meaning", or "mean to tell you something", rather they are visualizations of what your carrying around in your mind lately.
evolutionary, i suspect they are merely a "side effect" of the complexity of what the brain is.
i notice that often - people i know in dreams behave as if caricatures of how i percieve them.

I have some creepy dreams, but I usually realize I'm in a dream cause of crazy junk that happens. The scariest ones I have are ones that I can't move my muscles from exhaustion, and something horrible is happening. It might be me drowning or a murderer killing someone, but I can't do anything about it.

i get a lot of not being able to walk properly. not nightmares per se, but annoying as hell, i have to drag my feet along the ground, sometimes i have to lay down on the ground, and haul myself after my fingertips. this happens very often in fact, but now that i think about it, it hasnt happened in a while. i also had periods where my teeth would push out of their sockets, but this i suspect is related to a few tooth-incidents i had as a kid (one VERY late milk tooth, that really spooked me), that has gotten itself buried deep into my subconcious.

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i do get a lot of spooky dreams i wouldnt class as nightmares per se, but that jolt me.
one recently i had aquired a log cabin in the mountains, and i had invited friends and family (as if i would..)
while showing it off, a gestapo-type man with two guards barged in, and asked me for "papers",
i laughed in his face, acting very cocky, and without any warning at all he pulled a pistol, and shot me straight in the face, complete with the sound of my skull cracking and all.
in a moment, my vision turned sky-blue, almost like a computer monitor fucking up, and i thought "WHAT THE HELL HE SHOT ME IN THE FACE!?" and woke up :I

 

[Walpknut]

Last night I dreamt that a space Ghost bit my hand and my genitals swollened so much that they started to fall off, then everything got too trippy and for some reason I started watching an episode of FRIENDS with the dialogue recontextualized to rpetty disturbign shit.
I fell asleep with both the pc and tv on, maybe that had somethign to do with it? and I am serious, I dreamt that last night.

 

[El Pagano Loco]

I've dreamt I was sitting on my couch, which is pushed to my computer and the rest of the room is to my back. I'm watching TV and jacking off when I hear this really menacing cackle from behind me. I am way to scared to sit up and look behind me, so I just slowly moved my head to the left, where I saw my cat. It was staring either blankly or terrified, at the space right behind the couch, and perfectly frozen in a position I don't normally see it in. I just watched it, imagining what kind of evil it saw right behind me, but then I noticed something. It started stretching and contracting its spine. It was taking a shit, and the cackle was just the sound of gushing diarrhea. It was staring because it was focusing. I nearly threw up trying to clean it up. God dammit. Then a skeleton popped out.

 

[Wry]

It's easy to train yourself to do it. You basically condition yourself to do a reality-check to determine if you are dreaming.

Lucid dreaming is pretty awesome, right? For those that are interested, there are some great guides out there on the internet. It's like tripping, only it's free and you (probably) won't wake up in a field of nettles by accident afterwards.

I had a lucid dream recently where I realised that I was standing at the top of the stairs at my parents' old house. When I realised I was dreaming I decided it would be super fun to do a backwards somersault. Gravity was distorted and I floated back to the ground slowly. I woke up before I could get started on a killing spree.

So, scary dreams, huh? Well, this one was ... interesting:

My dream opened in an old wooden barn or shed that I observed as a viewer. I'm not sure why, but most of my dreams are presented in a kind of movie like format, complete with editing. Handy, huh? A butchered carcass of some sort hung from hooks. It was perhaps a redneck abattoir or butchers. It sorta looked and feeled like a southern US state. The shed was old with corrugated steel walls. It was dirty, cheap and run down. A man and a woman were working in it, presumably husband and wife. If you've ever heard or read the story of Ed Gein, I imagine that it looked a lot like part of his farm. In fact, I'm almost certain that this dream was spawned from the horrific murders of Plainsfield, Wisconsin.

My dream cut to a visit from a real life friend of mine who will remain nameless. He told me that he had planned on committing suicide again. This didn't strike me as odd because my friend had actually been suicidal for many years in real life. Instead of comforting him and trying to lift his spirits as I normally would, I accepted his plan as though he were doing nothing more serious than taking up veganism.

My friend told me that he would be donating his body to a secret black market butcher that specialised in butchering human carcasses. For some bizarre reason, he wanted his friends and family to take part in eating his flesh. From this I can see a direct link between this dream and the story of Armin Meiwes, the German that killed and ate his lover. There also seems to be some Christian theme here with the eating of flesh, not that I am even a little bit Christian and nor is my friend. I readily accepted his offer like a ghoul.

In the next section of my dream, the butcher had delivered to me a parcel of meat products: my buddy burgers, sausages and schnitzels. I immediately threw them in a pan and began frying them up with great delight. I love food. I could even smell the hot oil, browning meats and rendering fats. I couldn't wait. I ate my friend with relish. Both kinds. He tasted like ordinary pork, but I was happy to have tried something so unusual, even if it tasted like an everyday supermarket product.

My dream then changed. I was no longer myself. I was again observing the abattoir from the beginning of my dream, but this time from a low point from the ground, in a corner. I felt as though I was a small animal such as a cat, dog or mouse. I did not feel safe. I watched as screaming and snivelling people, covered in dried blood were executed by the man and woman in a pit and then hung from their ankles like cows or pigs. I did not trust that I would be spared, but it seems that I went completely unnoticed.

I began to wander around the abattoir in horror, following these people until I settled back down in a dark corner again. There was a sudden piercing bang that came from outside and light began to shine through what was obviously a bullethole in the wall. Before I had a chance to really panic, a hail of bullets began to cascade through the walls around me. I could hear voices from outside, it was an ambush. I bolted out of the nearest door of the shed, running through the long grass which I could barely see above. Looking back, I saw figures in black closing in and securing the abattoir.

 

[zegh8578]

sometimes i have lucid, or semi-lucid dreams.
i just get sceptical

sometimes ill dream, and realize im in a dream, and take advantage of it (try to rape everything)
but moments later, i will believe the dream-world im in.
sometimes i wonder if i am merely dreaming that i know that im dreaming. like... as if the lucidness is simply the "story" of that dream, and not true awareness

 

[Punkyrooster]

I could never explain why This dream scared me when i was little but it went like this. This anchorman was talking about something but then the ham burgler comes out of no where and i was so scared.

 

[the_cpl]

A week ago I had a zombie dream. There was a black dirty rotting zombie dog, I kicked the dog down to the ground and opened and crashed his head with a steel pipe.

It was really disgusting and disturbing. I don't know if I had that dream because the Walking Dead show, or it was only a side effect of watching too many Dead Island gameplays on Youtube.

I have nightmares almost every night. 15 years ago I had dreams about topless women, always. I miss those times. Now I have dreams only about monsters, blood and other crap. Where are the women, dammit?!

 

[Gonzalez]

Just had sleep paralysis again. I remained calm and experimented with it for a bit. Funny thing is that if you don't try to fight it it wont go away.

I even knew I was going to have sleep paralysis before I did. My attitude this time, being able to anticipate it, was more like "bring it on, what are you going to show me" and tried to analyse it as it happened.

Another thing that has me a bit confused is this ringing in both my ears. That was the most unpleasant part. Is that part of the sleep process? It was really strong and not just sound, it was like it was coming from inside my ears, like something was buzzing there, even making things shake a bit when it did.

It was intermittent, like it happened for a few seconds, then stopped, then started again.

It was like one of those surreal dreams in some parts. Like I remember looking at the floor of my living room, realizing I was dreaming and having this feeling I was going to have sleep paralysis. Then I returned to my bed and it was here where the buzzing started. It all looked like if I was a machine powering up, doing starting procedures, trying to tune in to the controls. Like if I was somewhere else, not physically, but in my mind, and then tried to re-stablish link with my body. Kind like the terminator in Terminator 2 when he deactivates for a bit and then re-starts.

 

[zegh8578]

sleep paralysis is so freaky. i have yet to "accept" one, i am cought unawares by them, and really freaked out. the last one i was aware of what was going on, but nah, it was extremely uncomfortable.

tonight i dreamt, again, that my feet wouldnt work correctly. i had to pull myself ahead, grabbing onto picket fences and stuff. very frustrating

then the weather changed, and the blackest most god-awful clouds covered the sky. its amazing how creepy weathers your mind can create. in the distance there were heavy-duty lightnings, covering the horizon. it was very ominous, and i was very worried that this weather was not gonna fuck around, but ready to bring absolute destruction. i woke up before it got worse

 

[Wry]

Not scary but weird...

In my dream I got off a bus in the middle of the night. You know those nights that are black and the street lamps radiate that sodium light, bathing everything in hues of yellow, reflecting in little black puddles that look like oil? I love those nights, they remind me of home. It was a long, main road with no traffic. A long, stone wall ran along the left side of the road where I was standing on the pavement. A river or lake or maybe even the sea was on the other side of the wall. I could see the a little dock in the mist across the water.

I started to walk along the road, watching the water when I noticed animals, sheep, laying down next to the wall. Ewes with tiny, baby lambs. There were three or so of these families just laying there in the cold night, next to the water and no one obviously taking care of them. The first group of sheep had reasonably sized lambs, they looked fine so I walked on by the second group. The lambs were smaller and I worried, so I touched one lamb's neck, it was warm and it was lively so I was happy with that and moved onto the third ewe and her lambs; they were tiny and lifeless. I quickly got onto my knees and felt the coldness of their bodies. I didn't know if they were still alive, but not wanting to waste time finding out, I quickly took two up and put them inside my coat to warm them up while I went looking for their owner. As I went to pick up the third and final lamb, the mother grabbed my hand with her teeth and sunk them in deep. It hurt. I couldn't pull away. I woke up.

I know people talk about never being able to eat or feel things in their dreams. I do. Wouldn't change it for the world. Sometimes I wake up with music in my head that I've never heard before which dissipates within a few minutes of waking up. Anyone else have that?

The weirdest thing about this dream was my compassion towards the sheep. I would have done the same had it been real, I think... but usually, I'm considerably more aggressive and confrontational in my dreams than in reality. Hell, sometimes I wake up angry at people I've been arguing with in my dreams and have to avoid them in real life for at least a few hours!

 

[El Pagano Loco]

Not scary but weird...

In my dream I got off a bus in the middle of the night. You know those nights that are black and the street lamps radiate that sodium light, bathing everything in hues of yellow, reflecting in little black puddles that look like oil? I love those nights, they remind me of home. It was a long, main road with no traffic. A long, stone wall ran along the left side of the road where I was standing on the pavement. A river or lake or maybe even the sea was on the other side of the wall. I could see the a little dock in the mist across the water.

Abismo Negro, is this you?