Nightmares

[AngeloMichael]

Been plagued by them lately.

The other night I dreamt I was in an airlplane that crashed into the sea. The cabin began filling up with water and none of us could get out. I felt my chest constrict as I lost the ability to breathe and finally came to realization that this was it and let the water come painfully into my lungs.

But the most disturbing one...I dreamt I was in a hotel room with a friend, for some reason we got the idea the place was haunted so we started taking pictures. We got the film developed at night in this eerie town. We had been having torrential rain and now it was beginning to sleet. Everywhere was flooded. Anyhow we got the pictures back and they were of children, babies really, no older than 2 some less than a year. They were all dead, grotesque pale faces and pupiless eyes, and all with sinister grins.

I woke up and almost screamed. The worst part of this for me, is that some part of my mind actually created this horror, it really shook me up. *Shudders*

 

[Selena_Kitt]

I have them all the time...

But the most disturbing one...I dreamt I was in a hotel room with a friend, for some reason we got the idea the place was haunted so we started taking pictures. We got the film developed at night in this eerie town. We had been having torrential rain and now it was beginning to sleet. Everywhere was flooded. Anyhow we got the pictures back and they were of children, babies really, no older than 2 some less than a year. They were all dead, grotesque pale faces and pupiless eyes, and all with sinister grins.

WOW this one is REALLY creepy... *shivers*

 

[Recidiva]

I get horrendous nightmares. Very graphic, very disturbing, and I can die in them too, and I have, lots of times. My mind also comes up with all the pain signals, which isn't fun either.

I take enough stuff to knock out a horse in order to rest well. If I don't, I don't want to go to sleep and when I wake from one of those nightmares, I never want to go back to sleep. And mine spill into real life, so when I wake up as an example, the walls in my room might still appear to me to be covered with whatever nasty black ick was in my dream...

Mine's a severe case, but I have sympathy for anyone suffering them.

 

[Selena_Kitt]

I just end up making them into stories...

 

[Darkniciad]

Write some erotic horror, or something that ends horribly.

Peronelle's death scene in my latest, Ebon Genesis, is exactly that. Had a dream about a buddy of mine getting slowly crushed to death in a compactor. It helps to bleed some of the stuff out of your system.

I've reached a point, after years of self sleep therapy and radio shack parts rigged up into a timed blinker bulb, where I can more or less control my dreams. Every once in a while one will slip out of my grasp and get ugly on me, but most of the time I'm able to nudge them off into some less disturbing tangent. I had them nightly for close to a decade before I got a handle on it.

Oddly enough the key turned out to be the less than spectacular Nightmare on Elm Street: Dream Warriors. I have to be the only person on the planet that has to watch a string of horror flicks to *get rid* of an upsurge in nightmares.

 

[carsonshepherd]

I've had them all my life. Used to wake up screaming and frozen in the dark, unable to move even to turn the light on. Still do sometimes, but they've gotten less frequent as I've gotten older and learned to deal with some of my fear and anxiety while I'm awake instead of letting them invade my subconscious. I can't watch graphic movies or TV, the images are too intense and I just can't filter them out.

 

[Recidiva]

Mine are just pretty much in a constant state.

Horror films I can watch, but it doesn't stop nightmares, I just get new ideas from them, usually.

For me I just think I have an incredibly active imagination that finds it easy to slip into dream states and not question what's going on.

I don't think it means much. I've had some dreams that mean something, they're different.

But random horror and awful and imaginitive evil is just part of my brain. I don't exercise it during the day, so it keeps in shape at night, I guess.

 

[AngeloMichael]

I get horrendous nightmares. Very graphic, very disturbing, and I can die in them too, and I have, lots of times. My mind also comes up with all the pain signals, which isn't fun either.

I take enough stuff to knock out a horse in order to rest well. If I don't, I don't want to go to sleep and when I wake from one of those nightmares, I never want to go back to sleep. And mine spill into real life, so when I wake up as an example, the walls in my room might still appear to me to be covered with whatever nasty black ick was in my dream...

Mine's a severe case, but I have sympathy for anyone suffering them.

I'm sorry you have to suffer with these, no one should have to go through that.

I've died quite a few times in my dreams as well. I've been hanged, had my head shot off, fell off a cliff and broke my neck, but the worst if a recurring dream of a nuclear missle hitting the area. I can actually feel the heat blast before I wake up.

I don't know if I could ever write out the most distrurbing ones, I really just want to forget them completely.

 

[Recidiva]

I'm sorry you have to suffer with these, no one should have to go through that.

I've died quite a few times in my dreams as well. I've been hanged, had my head shot off, fell off a cliff and broke my neck, but the worst if a recurring dream of a nuclear missle hitting the area. I can actually feel the heat blast before I wake up.

I don't know if I could ever write out the most distrurbing ones, I really just want to forget them completely.

I wouldn't attempt to write them. I wouldn't attempt to write a migraine, either.

I think it's just a sign of a very good imagination.

I hate medication but ultimately started taking them because I will often wake in a panic and make no sense at all, about something in the house or something in the yard or something inexplicable and I'm not making any sense. Fortunately my husband has figured out how to agree with me in my sleep and tell me he understands and he'll take care of it. I trust him.

But if he tells me I'm dreaming, I don't trust him and think he's in on it.

I've been found wandering with a bowl of water looking for a pet we don't have because I think it's died from neglect, or looking for my son's twin brother, who I think I put down somewhere and forgot...only my son's not a twin.

It's not really negotiable in that state.

 

[Aurora Black]

I write down my nightmares so I can use them for stories.

 

[Selena_Kitt]

I've been found wandering with a bowl of water looking for a pet we don't have because I think it's died from neglect, or looking for my son's twin brother, who I think I put down somewhere and forgot...only my son's not a twin.

yep me too... different scenarios, but similar... looking for a baby that only I can hear crying... or a puppy buried in the yard... stuff like that... used to sleepwalk a lot more than I do now... now it's mostly the nightmares, and I sleep like the dead...

 

[Recidiva]

yep me too... different scenarios, but similar... looking for a baby that only I can hear crying... or a puppy buried in the yard... stuff like that... used to sleepwalk a lot more than I do now... now it's mostly the nightmares, and I sleep like the dead...

It's a lot better now, but I've just got one of those brains that needs to be pretty much pried off reality or I'll be awake constantly.

I think I just have a shortage of whatever chemical it is that promotes sleep, so I use melatonin and magnesium and Benadryl.

The weird thing also is that I dream in perfect color and detail, whereas when I'm awake, I can't visualize a thing. So maybe my brain just explodes in pictures at night since it can't during the day.

 

[scheherazade_79]

The only time I've ever had nightmares like that was a few weeks into a job that was a living hell. They were real out of control dreams - like watching my entire family getting shot in a concentration camp. I ignored the dreams and ploughed on with the job... and it ended up making me very, very sick. I haven't been able to work for the past months, and am unlikely to for several more months to come.

Take a look at your life. Is there anything that's really stressing you out? Hope you get some sweet ones soon

 

[Aurora Black]

The weird thing also is that I dream in perfect color and detail...

Me too! It's like watching a movie.

 

[Antfarmer77]

I always dream I'm at work * sigh* I wouldn't mind it so much if I got OT

 

[Darkniciad]

I always dream I'm at work * sigh* I wouldn't mind it so much if I got OT

Ugh... there is little that is more depressing than working a long shift, and then waking up to the alarm going off and realizing you've got to go do it *again* for real this time.

 

[kendo1]

Been plagued by them lately.

The other night I dreamt I was in an airlplane that crashed into the sea. The cabin began filling up with water and none of us could get out. I felt my chest constrict as I lost the ability to breathe and finally came to realization that this was it and let the water come painfully into my lungs.

But the most disturbing one...I dreamt I was in a hotel room with a friend, for some reason we got the idea the place was haunted so we started taking pictures. We got the film developed at night in this eerie town. We had been having torrential rain and now it was beginning to sleet. Everywhere was flooded. Anyhow we got the pictures back and they were of children, babies really, no older than 2 some less than a year. They were all dead, grotesque pale faces and pupiless eyes, and all with sinister grins.

I woke up and almost screamed. The worst part of this for me, is that some part of my mind actually created this horror, it really shook me up. *Shudders*

Keep a pen and paper handy so that when you wake up you can write what took place.
It'll help you think things through, maybe find inconsistinces in the dream.
You may get the germ of an idea for a story...

 

[KaosMom]

I wouldn't attempt to write them. I wouldn't attempt to write a migraine, either.

I don't write them for fun - or to keep - but I often write down my nightmares.

I type them out -word for word - print one copy - delete the document off my computer and burn the copy

That the only thing I've found that will get rid of some of them - it's like I have to acknowledge it first - and then destroy it.

Don't know if it'll work for anyone else - but it works for me.

 

[Aurora Black]

I dreamt that I was in my parents' house again and my father found out about my writing erotica and flipped the fuck out. He tried to burn my writing notebooks, pouring gasoline on them (and me) and flicking a Zippo. I grabbed the notebooks to my chest and this scary-ass voice that sounded like a demon from Hell exploded from my throat, "You wouldn't fucking dare, old man."

I forced myself to wake up from that one because I knew what was coming, and I've had a really bad headache all day since then.

 

[Selena_Kitt]

I had one last night, but don't remember what itwas... I woke up and said something... "I knew it!" I think... heart pounding, eyes wide, typical nightmare response... but dunno what I was so scared of!