Disturbing Dreams/Nightmares

[Tenka]

I like to hear about them and, sometimes, tell about them. I don't want to start though.

[Arlekino]

oh i got so often nightmares, and why do I so dream so much? when I wake up uh I am so happy is only dream not real. Can you image if real.

[PC LOAD LETTER]

Oh jeez. First off, I don't "dream" in the happy-fun-time sense, I always have nightmares. But I don't often remember much about them. I'll try and remember more, but these are the ones I remember off-hand ... the first one I've dreamed a couple of times, sometimes with more or less detail. This is the most recent rendition ...

One, I parked my car in the parking lot of some public park, but it was kind of in the woods already. It was overcast and probably early evening, but still light outside. Maybe late autumn. It was also completely empty of people and cars and, really, all signs of humans - even the grass was overgrown. I walked through a main clearing-soccer-field-thing and into the woods. Eventually I happened upon another clearing, circular and about 1/8 mi in diameter. There's a wooden bench on the other side with a man sitting in it, dressed in a 40s-style charcoal suit and reading a newspaper. He's wearing glasses and looks to be in his late 50s. The foliage moves behind him and out steps what appears to be a woman in a wedding dress with the veil over her face. I can't tell what she looks like or how old she is. She quietly reaches up, covers the man's mouth, and slices his throat open. She stands there holding him with the knife lying across his chest as he bleeds out and tries to scream for help. Then she looks up at me. Within a second, she's standing in front of me. I turn to run, but she grabs me, holds my mouth with her hand and holds me against her, only to cut my throat in the same way. But instead of continuing to hold me, she lets me fall to the forest floor and keeps walking in the direction I was going.

Another dream, this one was two weeks ago I think ... I was in an empty one-room apartment somewhere in the city. Just a mattress lay in the room. Blood was splattered across the walls. I get up from some kind of daze, grab a knife from the floor, and immediately begin frantically slicing and pulling off bits of my flesh, until my skin is gone off of my legs. I wake up pretty early into this one, so that's it.

Umm ... there was another one a while back. I was in the forest, building myself a single-room cabin. I think I was supposed to be a frontiersman in the late 1800s, because I was rockin "lumberjack plaid" and a mountain-man beard. I was working on the fence outside when something comes running out of the woods - a kind of bigfoot-looking thing. It jumps over my fence, breaks down the door to my cabin and begins eating me alive.

[Ele'ill]

Being hunted by a grizzly bear or lions is a reoccurring dream with the setting changing frequently. Sometimes it's almost terrifyingly fun. Along the lines of terrifying but not disturbing would be another reoccurring dream where I'm in a car either driving or in the passenger seat and going up a hill and the hill just gets steeper and steeper until it's going straight up then the car loses contact with the pavement and falls backward all the way down to the ground and sometimes I feel the impact with the glass breaking and everything getting obliterated. Sometimes this dream will simply involve driving off a bridge accidentally although the most recent dream like this I was driving on the road which suddenly turned into the edge of a skyscraper.

[Hermes]

I have pretty odd dreams, when I remember them. Sometimes they're in recurring settings, or a dream 'world' that is so expansive that I haven't completely explored it yet (but there's a touch of familiarity to every dream occurring there). I also used to have recurring nightmares every so often, but while in them I know that they've happened before. I actually used to think that they happened because I told people about them, and that they were intentionally trying to do me harm.

But anyway, the weirdest dream I've probably ever had that was more disturbing than frightening is probably this, though I had it a long time ago.

So, it starts with me leaving a house (I have no idea if it's my house, I never turned around) and there's a guy dressed as a waiter. He tells me that I need to go into another house and get something for him. He then shows me this weird thing with two fireballs rotating in a sphere, in the air above his hand. It was supposed to threaten me into complying.

Once I got to the house, I opened the door and there were two people there. One was meditating, and the other was watching me. I knew both of them from my waking life. I somehow got away by saying I needed to borrow some milk (apparently the fridge was in the other room) so I then went upstairs and it suddenly cuts black.

Now I have no idea if that is part of the dream, end of the dream, or something in the middle that I've forgotten, but it continues on from there without a crease or stretch in my mind.

I'm now sitting at the side of a really long dinner table, made out of some kind of stone. To the left of me, is a man sitting there, no plate in front of him, but at the back of the chair (the place where you rest your back) I can see two hands sewn together there. They're in a sort of wing shape, and have no blood or gore on them. You can tell they're real hands, though.

Directly across from me is another man, who has a hand on his plate in front of him, with the implication that he's going to eat it.

To my right, sits a man in what looks like casual fishing gear (with the hat, and the clothes, etc) but he has blood pouring down his entire face, completely obscuring it. It may or may not have been covering the hat as well.

And then, a person to my left that I hadn't noticed before (also known in the waking world) leans sideways and whispers into my ear that this is because it's alive. He doesn't mention what, all he says is its name, which I can't remember.

(I know, it sounds stupid, but to me at least it was creepy as hell)

[Os Cangaceiros]

I had a dream last night that I saved some random woman's life...I saw her car fly off the road into the ocean, and swam down to the bottom, smashed her windows out with a hammer and pulled her to the surface. That's pretty much all I remember, though.

[Jimmie Higgins]

This isn't one of the scariest dreams I ever had, but it's one that sticks out because until that point I thought dreams like that were a Hollywood contrivance.

I took a nap on my mattress on the floor one hot afternoon in my one bedroom LA apartment I shared with a roommate. I hate naps, but that day I was totally overcome with drowsiness and I passed out as soon as I hit the bed. A loud repetitive banging woke me up from my sleep and I groggily struggled to figure out what the noise was. I realized it was coming from the front door and was getting louder and more ferocious. As I struggled to get up from bed suddenly there was loud crack and crash - the sound of something busting through.

Then I woke up. I was sweaty in the heat and from panic but I breathed a loud sigh as I came to understand that I had been having a nightmare. I heard a knock on the door and reasoned that that was the sound I heard and misinterpreted in my dream. I sat up with the blankets around me and then I heard the knocking and the sound of my roommate talking to me. He was begging me to let him in and becoming more desperate like there was something or someone after him. I tried to get to the door but he started screaming.

I woke up again. I was under the covers and all wrapped up in them. I heard the knocking still and I understood that I was probably so confused because I got caught up under my sheets on such a hot day. So I tried to pull them off of me but the material kept coming and coming without end. I was trapped under an endless tarp of blankets.

I woke up again. This time for real I think. The knocking had been from a UPS driver (in amplified and time-distorted dream-mode, I think - otherwise a Teamster on some serious roids!) I think because when I got up there was a package at the door.

Anyway, that always stuck with me because I never thought the "dream-within-a-dream" thing was real.

Another nightmare I had that was kinda cool was when a pride of city bus-sized African Lions chased me and my friends through homes in a recently completed suburban housing development. I distinctly remember giant paws coming in through the windows pawing for us. It was frightening during the dream but I immediately woke up and though "that was awesome!"

[Tenka]

Your contributions are all very much appreciated!
Jimmie Higgins:

Anyway, that always stuck with me because I never thought the "dream-within-a-dream" thing was real.

I've gotten those several times in the past, and always with nightmares of some sort.

I seem never to remember my dreams unless they're weird or disturbing. I woke up a few minutes ago but sadly have no new material! Here's an old one:
Years ago I had fallen asleep on a mattress in a dark room (usually I slept with some light on at the time) and dreamt that I had found a big, flat book in that very room. I opened this book over the ironing board: it was full of big glossy photos of deformed and mutilated infants. The pictures themselves wouldn't be frightening in my awake state, but in the dream I became extremely alarmed at the sight of them, as if I feared the things were crawling or walking about, and woke up in the dark feeling... off.

[Small Geezer]

Being chased by a giant anus ranting at me in hungarian.

[Nox]

I had a dream that I was at the WTC on 9/11, detonating a bomb in one of the buildings, but I detonated the wrong one and the building I was in collapsed. Luckily, I woke up before I died!

[bad ideas actualised by alcohol]

I have had some weird dreams about being catched by nazis and ending up in the gas chambers.
Really really weird and scares me to death.

[Deicide]

In my nightmares.. it's me doing most of the killing.

I can recall one where I was trapped in a typical american high school, full of zombies, haha. The scenery in my dreams tends to change instanously.

[#FF0000]

usually my bad dreams are just of normal scenery around my neighborhood except different in some way. e.g. my neighborhood looking abandoned and overgrown on an exceptionally bright and sunny day, with high school being replaced with an exceptionally tall hill. Climbing the hill I find it's a graveyard, with a massive, unnatural looking, perfectly circular hole so deep one couldn't see the bottom. Throughout that dream, the only other person i saw was some tall, bulky white figure that was always in the distance.

I remember feeling feverishly warm during the dream. Not warm like one would be from the sun, you know? I always imagined that what radiation felt like for some reason

[Prometeo liberado]

I always have this one where a cheesebuger is eating me!

[A Revolutionary Tool]

One nightmare I remember clearly was a vampire dream I had. In second grade our P.E. teacher would have us do yoga before what we were going to do that day so in my dream we were doing that. She instructed us to close our eyes and everybody did but me. Then she went around the classroom biting kids before I ran away with her chasing me. But when I went outside most of the townfolk were vampires and it was nighttime. So I was just running away from them the whole time but it freaked me out when it was my dad who was the vampire that finally caught me and killed me.

Another one I vividly remember was one where I was stuck in this one old house. My dad said he needed to go there and fix something in it and my friend and I decided to go see what was taking so long when he didn't get back fast enough. We got there and the place is just full of these flying demon things. It was like a mansion and we were just trying to find my dad and escape. But the terrible thing was every time I died I would just respawn at the entry way at the front door. Usually you wake up when you die but I just kept dieing over and over again and that was terrifying. Never found my dad and got out either...

[Drosophila]

I always have this one where a cheesebuger is eating me!

Wow, Spongebob much?

[Prometeo liberado]

Wow, Spongebob much?

No, Seinfeld. Nice try though.

[Drosophila]

No, Seinfeld. Nice try though.

Damn

[Small Geezer]

I've had lost of wierd Kafkaesque and Munchian dreams but one of my favourite ones was being a FARC militant and wasting about 6 US soldiers who were there for some reason.

[Nox]

I had a very disturbing dream where I saw the prophet Mohammed