Nightmares!

[Baron Doune]

My worst...

Was a child in the nightmare.

Construction workers were taking down the clouds.  Many cranes and much noise and scaffolds.

I let go of my moms had for just a second, and she was gone.

And I was alone.

Your worst nightmares, please.

[CatAshtrophy]

My worst ones always involve falling. The first one I had was when I was little and I was falling off a very tall bridge into a river. Now, the falling ones always involve broken elevators. But the elevators don't just fall straight down. Instead they topple and spin you upside down and all sorts of things. It's kinda like Tower of Terror ride at Disney World, but lacking the fun.

[Capt Gabriela Fullpepper]

The worst one I had was seeing my sone fall through the ice and drowned. It woke me up and everytime I went back to sleep I dreamed different variances of it where I drowned with him as I tried to save him. That dream even though two years ago is still vivid in my mind.

[Zoë]

I have nightmares about my father dying, and it terrifies me.  They're worse than the dreams where I can't run away fast enough from things crashing down on me, or other "scary" things like that.  I feel awful all day after I have one. 

[eloquentXI]

The worst dreams I've had since I was a kid, were very very abstract. Involved the display of a frequency, you know? And certain characters terrifying me, including horribly scary music, which, as a kid, that really just got under my skin. It all sounds really dramatic now.

The recent nightmares, have been apart of a repetitive series, always including things burning. And not in a, the whole house is up in flames, as in a, that plastaic cup over there is slowly smoldering, and it's smoldering the desk beneath it, and which is catching other things on fire. It's not really scary but it's just the fact that the fires won't go out and that I can't get them to stop and they start appearing everywhere, and start getting on me, burning everything slowly.

[renren]

Mine were..strange (yeah whatta shock, I know!)..
I knew ,when I was little, that I was having the same nightmare,but yet, I never remembered anything about it , other than a heavy sense of foreboding, and great danger. It is also the same nightmare I would have when I sleepwalked, including down a flight of stairs(twice), and (once at a run, at least out of the room. My sister saw me get up ,quickly shove my face towards the mirror like I was looking into it, and run out of the room!

Told ya, it was weird.. but not done yet!


Years later, as a volunteer firefighter, in a training fire, I got the exact same feeling,watching the smoke build and come down towards me! No, nobody got hurt, nothing blew up..But I knew.

[Morgan Dreadlocke]

Not as much a nightmare as a recurring foreboding theme. It involves bein' recalled to active service and gettin' sent back to England for 2 more years sans family, finances, warm clothes Oddly the same people I served with back then is still there now.

The second borders on just plain agravatin'. When in jr high school years ago, I was the little kid who got the snot beat out of 'em by the bully crew. In the dream its the same crew makin' trouble, but bein'"now" I ain't havin' no part of bein' a victim. The fight be on. Now in this dream I's holdin' me own against several others. Their not hurtin' me and I'm NOT enjoyin' knockin' them down but they just won't go away.

I'll bet theres some armchair shrinks out there just eatin' this thread up

[Element of Air]

The only nightmares that I had was when I was about 5. I was being chased through the snow by a pack of wolves and then came up on me and started ripping me apart. The entire time I was crying for my mom and I woke up kicking the wall and screaming for my mother.

The other I was in a parking lot of a store and my mom went inside the store and for some reason I was trapped in a old 1920's jail car with the bars over the back window. The last thing I can recall in the dream is my mom walking with her back to me into the store and the car taking me away as I am yelling for her to come back.

[Drake Starsong]

I've always had a re-occurring dream since I was young that I was driving a truck, but I couldn't drive at all and I'd end up swerving into a large pond. The truck would sink to the bottom and I'd get out but some weeds on the bottom would tangle my foot. Eventually I'd get loose and I'd be swimming to the surface as fast as I can, thrashing my arms, not able to hold my breath and finally I'd wake up violently in my bed gasping for breath...haven't had that bugger in a while thank goodness...

[Charlotte Rowan]

I frequently dream that I am being chased, and I am always relieved to wake up and realize that wasn't real. I have also had a few dreams where someone close to me has died, which obviously are always horrible.

The one nightmare I remember most vividly, though, was when I was about 12. It had been years since I'd woe up screaming, but this time I did. The dream was very strange. It was just this big strawberry. Not big like the monster ones you can find at Cub; big like a house. nothing in my dream but blackness and the existence of this big strawberry. It sounds silly, I know, and I can laugh about it now, but something about it terrified me at the time. My theory is that I was feeling horribly overwhelmed by something in my life at the time.

[Lady Christina de Pond]

i don't have nightmares very often most i dream is some freaky wierd stuff.
the scariest one i've ever had was the one right after 9-11 happened it was probley 6 months afterward but i remember dreaming that me and some of my friends were on a mission team and for some reason we were taken bye terrorist well we hatch a plan to escape well i remember we had to abort the plan because we supected that they knew well we wait and hatch another plan and it works we escape well once outside someones like they have these two kids who need rescuing so i go back in for them. i finally make it back out with the kids in tow. we get to our base home and then i find out they have my brother captured so here i go like i'm a super hero or something it's my brother i got to go get him type thing. i arrive an i start searching i got in way to easy and well lets just say they let me in. well i find my brother and he's tied up and bound i go in the room and behind the door is the lead terrorist. he's waiting for me. Well he points the gun at my brother and well i see a gun on the ground where they have my brother so i pick it up and my brothers like no he knows whats going on I'm Like you shoot him i'll shoot you. He shoots my brother so i pull the trigger on the gun in my hands and it's nothing but paint ball. well i run i know he's going to kill me if i don't get away. So i start down the stairs i'm nearly home free i can hear him running after me. then i trip and fall i hear him come out the screne door and i know i'm going to die he points the gun at me and i know he pulled the trigger i honestly expected to wake up in Heaven.

[DonaCatalina]

The most vivid one for me was one I had several years ago, but still remember clearly.
I was sitting on a wooden dock watching a a river flow past. Something dark like a log was floating towards me from the left.
When it came up to where I was sitting, it rolled over in the water and it was my brother who had died some years before from cancer.
I woke up shaking from that one.

[SirRichardBear]

Mine is always the same Dying alone with not one around and no one know or cares who the dead old man was.

[Hoowil]

Most  recent one I've had, and really the only one I can remember really getting me upset. It was maybe a month ago.

My wife, my daughter and I were driving in the car, thru a long dark tunnel. We were in a hurry, at risk of missing something undefined. The road, even in the tunnel was wet, and the car was a little difficult to control. But thats not the bad part.
We finally clear the tunnel, and outside it is gloomy and wet. To the left I can see what looks like hills in the distance, but they keep moving, and are getting closer. Its a wall of water rushing towards the road, towering at least 40 feet over the car. I can still almost feel the impact as the water hits the car, and snds it spinning up and over in the flow like a rag doll. Water does not get inot the car, and I can see all kinds of debris swirling about in the water around us. My wife and I are in shocked silence, but my daughter is screaming. Suddenly the screaming stops, and I see my daughter, still strapped into her car seat, being swirled about in the water, even theough there is still no water in the car. As I watch, she floats around the car, struggling against the straps, trying to get out of the seat. The car gives a lurch, and I loose sight of her for a moment. When I see her again, she's still, hers arms waving limply in the water. I woke up as I watched her get carried away out of sight into the water.

[Blue66669]

About 3 years ago, when my son was just about 18 months old, I had a nightmare that we were going to visit a fashion designer. We had to walk across a metal catwalk to get to the door, and he slipped through a hole in the floor. I was able to catch him by the hood of his grey hoodie, which I held onto until he fell out of it. He fell to his death, which I still remember as being very vivid and gruesome. I woke up crying that night, for about 3 hours. I went through all of his clothes and picked up every single grey hoodie that he owned and tossed it in the trash. I think the dream is tied to the fear that my children will put themselves into a danger that I can't save them from. Like, falling off of a large boat or off of a pier into murky water. Or falling. It's always the falling that gets me.