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#1
Doesn't happen very often that I have nightmares, like once every 5-6 months, but it is ALWAYS the exact same one, never anything else. Looking out the window, sky is dark orange, seeing a mushroom cloud from a nuclear explosion. And then, the 2 minutes that passes with the notion of being powerless, knowing what's coming, and still trying to scurry for protection for nothing. >< Big oof.
Final score:
71points
Cory Watts 4 years ago
I've had very similar reoccurring nightmares. It's always a disaster that begins and then I'm forced to wait for it to reach me.
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#2
Trump 2024
Final score:
32points
Elisabeth Chai 4 years ago
The idea makes me wish flat-earthers are right: at least I could jump off!
#3
Not to be a downer, but; the idea that life is fickle and can be taken away from you in an instant periodically scares me deeply. Several people within my social circle, including my mom, have had pretty awful news recently that severely shortens their life expectancy. Some of them are way too young for cr*p like this. It's unfair. Make the most of as many days as you can, kids.
Final score:
28points
Thorfin Wolfsbane 4 years ago
No need to cling unhealthily to life. From every single blade of grass to the biggest stars in the universe, everything will die. How can it be a bad thing?
Sandra Boyd 4 years ago
I guess it's the idea of having it taken from them when they aren't ready.
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#4
I rarely remember my dreams. But the ones I do remember are horrible. I find myself doing things in my dreams that I have Never even thought about or would never consider doing in my waking life. Thankfully they have been few and far between. Only one of these nightmares had any root in my life. But the circumstances were that I had a cat that required sub cutaneous fluids. Twice daily , every day. Long term. I dreamt that I was trying to stab him with a knitting needle, ( something I don't even own). He passed away years ago, but now I'm crying again from the memory of that nightmare! I will say, he had kidney failure. But he ended up surviving for over 3 years after his 2nd kidney started to fail. I can tell you he felt good for most of that time and was happy. I know this because he would nip me in the morning to wake me up. Something that he started doing as a kitten. Little bugger had a sense of humor.
Final score:
27points
DUN DUN 4 years ago (edited)
I had a nightmare where I killed my aunt and four children and erased the evidence. I felt no guilt in the dream. Reason for the murder? Just trying my new sword. Effect of listening to creepy podcasts.
Chloe *Leah* Pheonix 4 years ago
I'm hanging out with my aunt right now for game night actually o.0
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PixxelDust 4 years ago
I had a nightmare that I killed my own dog. it was so vivid and way more realistic than my other dreams. i was terrified and distraught when I woke up.
#5
Less of a scary answer- but I dream about tornadoes all the time. Either my family and I know that they’re coming soon, or it’s already here and we’re just trying to not die. Every once in a while, the tornado/es will pick up my cats and take them away. It’s more of an impending doom feeling than anything else. They don’t scare me much anymore, in fact, I think tornadoes are fascinating. But yeah, that’s a recurring nightmare for me.
Final score:
21points
Steve Barnett 4 years ago (edited)
UK here. I always wondered why Americans would want to live in an area that was susceptible to tornadoes, then I did my research. Yep, roughly ½ of the USA is prone to tornadoes. That shut me up.
Autumn Artemis (Submission author) 4 years ago
Haha yeah. Indiana is pretty popular with the tornadoes. The place where I live isn’t too bad, but I have friends in other towns that get some serious problems with em.
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#6
When I read/watch about hate crimes. Some of them are so horrible.
Final score:
19points
Jono 4 years ago
Spiders - many a night leaping out of bed convinced it was real. Not happy until husband awake and checking. Another odd one I’ve had many times - deep water about to cut me off from safety. I’ve put that one down to times when I feel overwhelmed in life.
SentimentAndBadJokes 4 years ago
Well, it's really good that you're able to evaluate where these are coming from, and figure out what exactly about your nightmares are scaring you
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Being left behind, being abandoned. When I was 5ish, my older brother, who was supposed to be watching me deserted me in the middle of this town. He told me to sit on a bench and don't move. He went out drinking/getting high (getting high in those days was a 5 yrs in the county jail). He never came back. Anyway, there I sat, on a cold November afternoon with no money and 12 miles from home. I wasn't a stupid kid so finally I went into this old fashioned drug store and told the lady what happened. She called our neighbors who came to get me. But that feeling of abandonment never really went away. Oh, what happened to my brother? He ran away and some how joined the navy at 16. It was a good thing he did, because if my Father had got a hold of him... To this day, I have not spoken to him.
Final score:
18points
#8
Low blood sugar. Really. I recently got mine under control for the first time, then started having hypoglycemic episodes, shakes and all. Which I handled properly. Then I started waking up from horrible nightmares and on waking found I had those shakes. Sure enough hypo. After several episodes, I started to worry what if I don't wake up in time, so I did some research (yes, it was online, hush), and found this is one of the body's defense mechanisms for just this purpose. I have since reduced my insulin (very carefully, very slowly) and gotten everything back on track. Nightmares? Yep.
Final score:
17points
#9
Bears. I have a completely unfounded and irrational fear of bears. Ever since I was a kid, I have random nightmares of them being in the house and I can’t escape. In my 40’s now and I still have the occasional nightmare about them.
Final score:
15points
Amy Jo Buchanan 4 years ago
That's wild because I've had a few nightmares about bears breaking into my house. I always try to hid behind doors,but they always break the doors down. I'm 41 and that's my only recurring nightmare! It's the WORST feeling ever to wake up from that and have that irrational fear that it is going to happen or is happening in reality.
#10
Watching scary movies before bed, a nightmare guaranteed!
Final score:
14points
Sadia Timmermans 4 years ago
I can't watch scary movies, once I saw the trailer of the ring (original film) and I s**t you not, I didn't sleep for 2 days!!!
Jo Johannsen 4 years ago
My "awakening" was a slightly corny sci fi movie called The H-man. Being only six at the time may have been a contributing factor.
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#11
The song "another brick in the wall" by Pink Floyd. When I was 7 my elder asked me if I wanted to watch a film with him. It was "The wall". I don't recall much of it, but as soon as the song starts it makes me shiver, and I get a little paranoid seeing the masked kids everywhere. I really gets me all the time, even 22 years later.
Final score:
14points
Pink Floydian Panda 4 years ago
I feel the same way about Post-Roger Waters Pink Floyd. The Division Bell and Delicate Sound of Thunder just give me the creeps!
#12
Clowns! They are not cute nor are they funny. They are scary! I blame Stephen King! :)
Final score:
14points
Happi doggi 4 years ago
When I was 4 I was deathly afraid of clowns. Then I got over it because I thought I saw one and my overactive imagination made him a fun clown.
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HammerzToe 4 years ago
What is the clown incident of 2016? Do I REALLY want to google it? MMM... this merits some serious thought. Ok, I thought about it for full 3 nanoseconds. Nope, not gonna google it. I do not NEED ANYTHING fueling my clown phobia. Thanks.
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Bettie-Jean Neal 4 years ago
Clowns are the worst. I have nightmares about them at least once a year.
#13
Birds. I absolutely hate them. Feathers disgust me, their beaks are scary, their jerky movements are monstrous. I have nightmares about gigantic birds, they don't even have to attack me, their simple presence revolts me. Oh and the fact that every day bring me and my loved ones clother to death. But mostly birds.
Final score:
13points
Alice (Submission author) 4 years ago
Thank you for you compassion. Yes they are EVERYWHERE. I can control myself most of the time but when they are close to me it's difficult. I have a few stories... And it's ridiculous, like you said, almost no one is afraid of them so some people find it laughable :( But strangely enough we are 3 persons at my work with this phobia, maybe we attract each others. I remember when I 6 that I was "attacked" by a seagull (it was probably just after my sandwich), so maybe this event is my "root". I sympathize with your fear of "ELB" they are also everywhere. One of my best friend has this phobia and it's distressing to see him in the countryside.
H.L.Lewis 4 years ago
I'm so sorry you hate/ fear birds. Especially since they are everywhere. Did something happen to you as a young child to set this off? I'm sure you are not alone in this, but I also have never heard or read of anyone else afraid of them. Mine is what I call ELB's. I can't even say the word or look at pictures of them. ( Eight Legged Bastards) just the ones that build the webs. But I hate all arachnids!
HammerzToe 4 years ago
It's not laughable. It's sad. To be so stricken with a fear of anything must be debilitating.
Steve Barnett 4 years ago
I know. Being able to edit comments but not posts is frustrating.
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kingstork1 4 years ago (edited)
I had a nightmare a couple of weeks ago where two giant thunderbird/condors with bare pink vulpine heads were circling around overhead. They grabbed me by the shoulders and tried to carry me off to their eyrie. But then they lost their grip and dropped me over a large body of water. As the water surface rushed toward me, I thought, "This is it, this is how I die". Then a merciful breeze picked me up and carried me gently to the shore. This nightmare managed to include not one but two of my fears-- giant birds, and falling. Fun Bird Facts: Every traditional society has some myth or legend of a giant bird of prey. When travelers from Arabia went to Africa for the first time and saw ostriches, they assumed it must be a chick or hatchling, because it was flightless. So if this is the baby of the species, imagine what the full-grown flying adult would be like! This helped to feed the Arabian legend of the Roc. Also, bald eagles have actually been documented carrying off little mule deer fawn Bambis.
#14
Drowning. I love swimming and I am really good at it but this is like drowning I feel powerless like I am nothing and no one
Final score:
13points
The 0roburos 4 years ago
My fear for years.. Almost did once but was spit back up on the shore.. with a lung full of sand.
Amy Jo Buchanan 4 years ago
I've read that drowning is a very painful way to die. Quite terrifying.
#15
What really gives me nightmares is the thought, that one day, at some point I will die. The lights will go out and it's over. My heart races by writing these lines.
Final score:
12points
Evie Grove 4 years ago
I think about how bad the pollution is getting and the fire and melting icebergs and sometimes I question whether it will be a few thousand years before the world ends.
Amy Jo Buchanan 4 years ago
I truly hope that when it's my time to go, it'll happen in my sleep. Like, I'll just quietly and peacefully slip away. And I'd be none the wiser. The thought of dying any other way is quite scary.
#16
I’m a social worker and work with a lot of people from the underbelly of society. I say a lot of things they don’t like, like you should stop using drugs or how they shouldn’t slap their kids when they are angry. I have a recurring dream that one of my clients hurts my child (2 years old). Or they kidnap him and sell him. It’s awfull and I always wake up crying. Then I have to go check if my son is still sleeping in his bed and nobody took him during the night.
Final score:
12points
H.L.Lewis 4 years ago
That is probably the most logical fear/ nightmare posted! I know to most of us that other peoples fears seem illogical, while our own feels perfectly logical. But working with people the way you do, yes I get why you would have that fear! In the long run, people are the most dangerous animals.
#17
Snakes. I know this isn't true, but I feel like they exist because I'm afraid of them.
Final score:
11points
Bettie-Jean Neal 4 years ago
I agree!. I have an irrational fear that they're under the sofa and under my car seat. Must keep my feet up at all times.
Evie Grove 4 years ago
I was never really scared of snakes, and now I love them, but I can understand why some people could feel like that. If I’m ever afraid of some other animal, I just think that the only reason it would hurt me, is because it is afraid of me.
#18
Anti-vaxers, anti-maskers and Covid deniers.
Final score:
11points
#19
My students. I've had more twisted carnage-filled panic dreams about or because of teaching than anything else in my life so far.
Final score:
10points
Cold Contagious 4 years ago
Maybe therapy or a self defense or martial arts program would help you feel more confident about yourself and help you sleep better at night.
#20
Tomato horn worms. Feared them since I was a child and our grandmom had us pick them off of her tomato plants. They have this wicked looking horn and when provoked that stand up on their rear legs (are they called legs?) and wave their upper bodies back and forth clacking their mandibles. Ugh! I'm still afraid of them!
Final score:
9points
#21
I will probably look like a wimp for saying this, but I’ve been having a recurring nightmare of being in a room, the colors of the bi flag. No, I’m not a homophone, I’m a bi girl in the closet (except on bp cuz nobody knows who I am here). I’m also a lucid dreamer (can control my dream) so I use that to get past the room. Even though Im a lucid dreamer, I’m not very good. Too weak. I’m still trying to get past all the rooms. It’s been 6 months pls help.
Final score:
9points
Tiffany G.W. 4 years ago
I'm not an expert, but it sounds to me that your nightmares are because you're still in the closet and your subconscious is struggling with that. When you are ready to come out to your friends and family, those nightmares may go away.
H.L.Lewis 4 years ago
This makes a lot of sense. Hope things get better for you OP!
Load More Replies... Sportsgal 4 years ago (edited)
Be who you are. Real friends and family will love you regardless. Those who don't might be toxic anyway. Best of luck-who you love doesn't define you. ❤
Happi doggi (Submission author) 4 years ago
I’m told this all the time on here, but nobody understands I’m not ready. I know my parents will be fine with it but I want more time to prepare myself for the world of being out. I have nightmares because I am told by people who DO know to come out. I know you mean well but please don’t tell closeted people to come out unless they want to.
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I have to pee, but all the toilets I find are backed up and full of crap, or they're out in the open in the middle of a room, or both.
Final score:
9points
H.L.Lewis 4 years ago
Or covered with piss. And you have to wipe everything down first. And it is just so gross. Nice to know I'm not alone in having that kind of dream! Lol
Birgit M 4 years ago
…or the door cannot be closed. No, you are not alone with that kind of dream.
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God.
Final score:
8points
#24
Aliens! I don’t know why, but the thought of them scares me so much, I can’t go outside at night! I also have to sleep with a night light on (and I am a grown woman).
Final score:
7points
PixxelDust 4 years ago
poor thing! I understand why. just try to picture them like scp 999 (search it up its wholesome i swear)
#25
I don't think you want an honest answer to this question Personal experiences of brutality
Final score:
6points
#26
Tigers. I don't know why. Insane fear of tigers, yet love reading about them.
Final score:
6points
#27
God damn mannequins. I hate them. Too human looking. They watch me... I know it!
Final score:
6points
#28
Dolls. Any type, any size. I have nightmares about them, hate walking past them, hate them as a child even. This is totally due to watching that movie, "Trilogy of Terror," when I was only 4 years old.
Final score:
6points
#29
An obscure 1995 psychological thriller film called 'Safe'. The movie revolves around the mysterious illness plaguing a woman, never knowing whether it's medical or psychological, real or imagined, environmental or internal. None of the movie is scary, until she ends up at a wellness retreat and there's an extremely detached and isolated individual named Lester. He is only in the movie for a matter of seconds, only from a far distance, doesn't communicate, is completely covered head to toe....BUT he has the most terrifying walk. It's an uneven, lanky sort of tiptoeing motion, more insect than man. That gait haunts me.
Final score:
6points
Troux (Submission author) 4 years ago
If you insist on seeing him... it's at 1:26:32 & again at 1:43:12 https://putlockers.fm/watch/kvYakWvb-safe-1995.html
#30
Umm I was playing with a ouji board online and I asked what my na!e was and it said Alex My name is alex
Final score:
5points
J. F. 4 years ago (edited)
It was using previously installed tracking cookies from other websites probably. The same stuff Google uses for personalized ads
Alex (Submission author) 4 years ago
Oh makes sense but still then how did it know that my cousin was having a baby girl though
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It came from a movie in which a woman was molested, it showed the corpse. I was not a big fan of gore and it was extremely gory(parts of flesh cutted out, gutted on the head by a bat REAL brutally etc) still sends shivers down my spine
Final score:
5points
#32
Zombie movies. My mom's side of the family loves to watch horror movies, and occasionally when I see them I'll watch some with them. That being said, my little sister lives for zombie movies, but I cannot watch zombie movies without having nightmares. Something about the chance of zombies being real just scares me too bad, and it has for my whole life.
Final score:
5points
#33
I had this nightmare one night and nearly 25 years later I still remember it clearly. I was standing in the woods with speckled daylight coming down and far in the distance was a man with hunched shoulders and glaring at me menacingly without moving. I felt the pure evilness of this being. When I woke up I still felt the evilness of this being. It was a heavy and terror inducing, heart pounding uncomfortableness. I starting praying (which I never do) and an imagine of a giant raven flapping it’s wings came to mind and the heaviness instantly disappeared. The kicker is I told my dad about having a nightmare with a terrifying entity and he described my dream to a t. He was my age when he had the same experience. It will haunt me forever.
Final score:
5points
#34
The only nightmare I have ever had was after the movie "Jaws" came out. I dreamed I was swimming under water, there was a huge wooden floor or deck or something over the water. I couldn't come up. I see a square of light just up ahead. I swim to it, underwater, and I reach it and pull myself up and just as I start to get out, the shark grabs me by the feet. Doesn't sound so scary now, but it did then.
Final score:
4points
#35
So basically, every time I have a nightmare, I'm going to be sick. Every time I'm sick, I know I'm going to have a nightmare. It's a vicious circle. :-( ToT
Final score:
4points
#36
I had severe anxiety and panic disorder ( still do, just not so severe ). Two things were giving me nightmares , to the point that I was aftaid to look to the sky for months: 1. The moon crashing into the Earth. I know it's impossible, didn't stop me from having a vivid nightmare about it. 2. A stray black hole. The most terrifying thing in the universe. Doesn't give me nightmares , but definitely keeps me on edge, knowing we are living on a tiny pebble among monsters. P.S. I should probably cut down on the science documentaries.
Final score:
4points
#37
I’m so constantly terrified of the fact that you can have an aneurism at any given time, no matter your health or age. I just constantly hope that my brain will make it through until the end of the day, with no promises until I’m there.
Final score:
4points
GenericPanda09 4 years ago
Don't want to trigger you, but a mate of mine in the forces stood up one day and said 'i don't feel too good'...... and then keeled over dead. The good news is though, it wasn't an aneurism...... just a virus that had reached his brain. sorry pretty flippant... but it'd have made him laugh........ and slightly off topic i'd say if you were the type of person who's focused on their own mortality under 50yrs of age..... stay away from drugs (including booze) - they can really multiply that feeling of impending doom and fragility if you're not in the right head space.
LingLing 40 Hours (Submission author) 4 years ago
Yeah. I’ve luckily never drank or done any drugs, nevertheless I’m just a rather paranoid person.
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Birds... any bird....they scare the s**t out of me. They fly around any and everywhere. Thier feather, their beaks and OMG thier feet. Its disgusting and creepy. If our neighbors chickens are in my yard during the day, and they are a lot, well used to be, I wouldn't even pull in my driveway. I'd leave till they were back in their coops for the night. I get physically sick around birds and avoid them at all cost. I turn my TV up loud enough that I cant even hear them chirping outside. I have no trees left in my yard for them to land on. When I developed the land my home is on, I had the option of underground power lines which I also accepted so they couldn't sit on the lines. They just totally freak me out!!! Sad part is that I dont know why.
Final score:
3points
#39
I have reoccuring nightmare and fear of not being able to scream. well it's not exactly reoccuring because there are different scenarios but most of the time if I have a nighgtmare, I won't be able to scream in it
Final score:
3points
#40
sleeping ok but seriously, listening to true crime yt after like 5 pm, lord I couldn’t even walk in to a dark room without imagining what could be in there
Final score:
3points
Sure, Sher (Submission author) 4 years ago
I also remember one time I dreamt of being in a mall with my mom and a cannibal killing her? I think? I was also on the ground, my vision was blurry in the nightmare, so honestly idk
Ben Dreyer 4 years ago
I read a comment the other day that said: You're not afraid of being alone in the dark. You're afraid of NOT being alone ! Never thought of it like that before.
#41
I typically have very lucid nightmares. They're usually based on some of my worst fears and one just happens to be getting mauled. I remember being fully aware in a dream where I was teaching a young boy how to hunt for wolves (disclaimer: I don't know how to do this, it still boggles me now) and while we were looking on this fine snowy day, I was met with an ambushing pack of wolves who began to maul me to death and tear me apart. I felt everything and it truly sucked, woke up trying to get over the shock and feeling of the pain :(
Final score:
3points
#42
A recurring nightmare I have. It's very stupid, but gives me a dark and heavy feeling whenever I wake up after having it. It makes more sense if I explain it in a book sort of way. If you didnt know, I have very severe Arachnophobia, Megalaphobia, and Thallasiphobia. I call this one night of phobias. Me and my childhood friend Naiyana are having a sleepover at my house. It's night and the dream starts by us hiding under a bed. With each step, the house shakes with the force of the giant spider's weight. All the sudden, the door slams open, and me and Naiyana hold each each other close. We know we're gonna die. It had already taken the dog, the cat, and my parents, and it was our turn. I grabbed a rather convenient baseball bat and inched my way out from under the bed on the other side. I jumped on the spider and started hitting it with the bat before it reached the underside of the bed just in time for Naiyana to escape. We jumped onto the top of the bed and it grabbed my foot. They say in dreams you cant feel pain, but this was pure, true, PAIN. It was like putting your foot through a meat grinder. What's the thalassophobia part? Well that's when the floor became a deep ocean, and I could feel the pain of drowning. I wake up at the exact moment every time. And every time I wake up, I'm all sweaty and hot.
Final score:
3points
#43
I have really vivid dreams about waking up, while actually not waking and that is followed by m
Final score:
3points
Ivana S. (Submission author) 4 years ago
Couldn't post a full answer for some reason... So here is the full story:I have really vivid dreams about waking up, while actually not waking and that is followed by multiple other dreams where i think im awake, but in the middle of the dream realize i haven't woken up. These dreams are followed by extreme panic and screaming and crying. Yet i never seem to wake up on the first try... Some clues i realize im dreaming are that my hands and legs are really heavy, almost imposible to lift and a few more clues such as clicking on my phone for it to unlock, but it just never lights up, besides that i will randomly see a clock with waky time, and it is always night or extreme fog in my dreams...
#44
any bad sickness / truamatizing expierence, i had a traumatizing apreirence today so itl be a long night
Final score:
2points
tail_bite (Submission author) 4 years ago
for the sickness, mostly bad fevers but also covid or anything else where i'm just kinda have to sit there and to nothing
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Whenever I try to sleep in on the weekend, I often have dreams about being late for work. Usually for a really weird reason. Not really a nightmare, but still sort of a panic kind of thing.
Final score:
2points
#46
Falling. I have a recurring nightmare that I've been having ever since I was a kid. I don't have it as much anymore though. In the dream, I start out standing on the edge of a very tall building, looking down at a busy road. Then all of a sudden I'm falling. When I get near the bottom the road morphs into an ocean and then I fall in and drown. I also have nightmares about murderers killing me and my entire family, which probably comes from watching too many true crime documentaries as a kid.
Final score:
2points
#47
Tiger escapes zoo ( quite near to my home) overnight, hides in our garden and attacks my mom when she opens the gate to bring newspaper.
Final score:
2points
#48
One reoccurring nightmare that I have quite often is that there is an emergency (the type differs) and I need to call for help but there are so many apps and functions on my phone that I never find the actual call function in time
Final score:
2points
#49
I have a few: Desintegration: In movies like "Mars Attacks", "The first Avenger" or X-Men: Last Stand" when people get hit by something that turns them instantly into ash, that's something that makes uncomfortable and sometimes finds the way into my dreams. Driving a car and suck at it: Sometimes I dream of driving a vehicle but totally mess up, like completely breaking any traffic rules or destroying the car. Don't know why. And the classical zombie/monster dream: I actually like those, I'm a fan of horror games and movies. ____ I usually have lucid dreams, and I can wake up on command if the dream gets too extreme. But the first two types still can be very scary. The monster stuff on the other hand often turns out great, like a personal crafted horror survival story
Final score:
2points
Evie Grove 4 years ago
I have nightmares where my mom gets out of the car and leaves me in it alone, but the the car starts driving and I go up to the front seat to try to stop it or keep it on the road but I can’t remember how. I will always go of the road and right before I crash into a building I wake up and remember how to stop a car. I never want to learn to drive. (I’m to young to right now)
#50
Anything to do with 9/11. I STILL can’t watch, hear about or read anything to do with it. I wasn’t personally affected, but it occurred on my second day back to work after my maternity leave. I think being postpartum hormonal just amplified it. I saw a picture about a year ago of a man falling from one of the buildings and had to walk away. I get severe anxiety on the anniversary of 9/11.
Final score:
2points
#51
grimus
Final score:
2points
ArmyDog07 4 years ago
A science fiction novel by Salman Rushdie, something about an eagle.
Load More Replies... #52
I sometimes have sleep paralysis. What that feels like is "waking up", but not really. You cannot move any part of your body except for your eyes. You feel like there is something sitting on your chest, but nothing is there. You are also surrounded by shadow people you can never really see, because when you truly turn your eye to look at them, move back to the corners of your vision. You can just feel the evil rolling off of them, suffocating you along with what ever invisible evil sitting ontop of you. All you want to do is scream, to call out for someone to help you wake up! But no matter how hard you try no sound will come. And you can feel the tears just rolling down your cheeks, as you lie there in horror not knowing why thus is happening. It happened once when I was in the hospital and I could see the nurse just outside my door. I needed her, but she had no idea of the terror I was experiencing. After about 5 minuets of this I watched her get up, and walk away (She was never supposed to do that because I was on suicide watch). A couple of minutes later. I fell back asleep somehow. Then REALLY woke up I don't-know-how-long to a pillow drenched in tears, and an empty chair. That's how I knew that was something different than my regularly scheduled trauma-induced nightmares. BTW the nurse did get relieved of her post that night.when I woke up shaking and crying looking just to be close someone. When you are on suicide watch it is precisely that, watching someone constantly so they don't commit suicide.
Final score:
2points
Zak Rasten 4 years ago
I've had the night hag several times, enough to know it's a hypnogogic illusion and found the best way to break out and wake up is to challenge and insult it. Don't let the fear overpower you, you know it's just a dream, no matter how creepy it is or evil it seems
#53
The only thing that is giving me nightmares is not ever dreaming again. Even if it’s only nightmares. I have very vivid dreams. My dreams are always about the same person. A young lady. They kept building a storyline. So I started writing her story down. It became a whole book. A novel and i am going to publish soon!
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#55
Unrestricted Capitalism when democracy is a mirage of personal billionaire and corporate greed.
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#56
needing to get somewhere quickly but only being able to walk extremely slowly, even as i try to sprint. it’s always a different setting, and i always end up getting lost along the way
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#57
I have a few things that scare me in my dreams: 1. Asteroids hitting the earth and causing the apocalypse 2. nukes. i always fear them. I dont know why, I doubt thats whats gonna kill me.
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#59
Zombies. For some reason I never have anxiety dreams and my only nightmares are ones with zombies in them
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1point
#61
one time i had a nightmare where i got in the car and i felt something in my hand and a spider made a web keep in mind i was 7 when that happened
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#62
#1. I am in high school. Can't find my locker, just like the day before and every other day since school started. Students stand around me laughing. #2. I am an adult, driving alone thru a dark night. Fog. Fear. Am I going in the right direction? No moon. Car begins to sputter, then stops. I am too frightened to move, can only shake, head to toe.
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#63
My Dad still being alive.
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#65
Situations where I'm unsure of my footing. For example, after 35 years of other nursing roles, I'm learning how to be a dialysis nurse. I awakened from nightmares about me messing up the dialysis machine so bad that patients come to harm. This is despite being told yesterday (end of my third week) that I'm picking things up much faster than expected.
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#66
When I turned 14, I had two dreams about sexual crimes. The first one me and my mom got sexually harassed at a cafe, and he tried to follow us home. The second I watched my friend get raped by a teacher. They were both within a week, one on my birthday.
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#67
Im scared of the fact that when we're all dead, ill never see my parents, bf, dogs ect, i ended up having to talk to my bf about this because it literally ended up not making me be able to sleep the night before. but it still didnt really help, it kinda did though i managed to sleep that night, other than that. not much help
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Evie Grove 4 years ago
I like to think that dying is going to an alternative universe where you can hang out with your dead pets and family until your assigned a new body.
#68
reliving the drop on splash mountain lmao, I have a Terrible feeling of falling because I hate not being in control of the situation. sooooo it gives me so much stress and anxiety thinking about it
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#70
I have many many nightmares about snakes. And they're always different snakes, different time and place, but I can never get away from the snake/s and the nightmare ends just before the snake lunges at me...
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#72
HAL He/It absolutely terrifies me, and what especially gets me is that I think he/it is always behind me, even outside. Moths The butterflies of hell. their hairiness is so chilling SCP 096 The Shy Guy. A monster that will attack you if you see it. Even in a photograph or in film. The Bird Lady A monster that I have imagined who has birds and rats swarming around her at all times and will come out of your mirror if you look at a mirror and you can't see your reflection. A mental image of four people spreading a red blanket out in a white room. I don't know why it gives me the chills but it does. A mental image of me but old and dead lying on my coffin in a rainforest. Aame as before, I don't know why it gives me the chills but it does. I'm not even afraid of death. IKEA Partially. This fear is mainly of SCP 3008, which is a neverending IKEA store where the entrance moves so you have slim chances of escape.
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LotusWolff 4 years ago
I love moths! The furriness is just adorable! But their eyes are terrifying. Does no one else find them terrifying?
PixxelDust 4 years ago
finally another person who knows about scp! whenever im scared of something i imagine it as scp 999 c:
Ham Explosion 3 years ago
I dont know much about the whole internet thing, but i have heard some of the stories. Not good
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I am terrified by the thought that over one third women are sexually assaulted I some way during their life. It makes me almost to scared to leave my house sometimes, in fear I might be a victim of it too. If it does happen, chances are the assaulter will get away with it. The country I live in (America) doesn't have a good support system for much of anything. I would almost rather die than have anything of that ilk happen to me, as I know it would leave me helpless and alone.
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Biology muffin (Submission author) 4 years ago
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GenericPanda09 4 years ago
Bit of a dark one, and I don't wanna suck out all of the air in here but since my daughter passed away 3 years ago at age 18 of a liver condition I have bad dreams about not being able to save her most nights.... can be in stupid situations too ... like i'll dream that i'm back in uniform and with my rifle..... but i'm told If i can't load a 30 round mag in 10 seconds then she'll die.... and my dreams are about me knowing what to do... but fumbling around trying to achieve a near impossible task... over and over again.
GenericPanda09 4 years ago (edited)
also, I had cancer in my youth.. I have a few bad dreams bout that every now and again..... and i was in the military and did a couple of tours of Bosnia. Those dreams go along the same lines as the ones bout my daughter...... being given a pretty impossible (but always repetitive) task to save someone and finding my dexterity all gone so I can't do it.
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Carmen Valdez (FKA Sandiego) 4 years ago
Hitting Gray with that Crackle Rod. I never want to see one again in my life.
Shane S 4 years ago (edited)
Losing my visible teeth (like my front teeth). And I usually lose them in the dream because of my own fault like I was rocking them back and forth in my mouth as a nervous tick and caused them to loosen and then fall out.
Denise .Russell 4 years ago (edited)
I've had dreams like that, but mine are more horrific. Mine either flake like crazy, then leave jagged flakey stumps or they suddenly just come out or fall out in a bloody, crumbling mess along with my gums and the roof of my mouth. Urgh!! Gives me the creeps.
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Henry Halliday 4 years ago
As a kid, nightmares about car washes. Being trapped outside the car as the big spinning brushes make there way towards me as my parents looked on placidly from within the car. Turns out my dad left me in the car during car wash when I was like 2, thanks for that!!
Della Greymane 4 years ago
Getting covid again. It almost killed me the first time. I work in healthcare and have nightmares about finding holes in my mask or gloves while treating patients. Some days it takes every ounce of will I have just to walk in the door each day.
TheAnimalLady 4 years ago
Being choked out (among other things) by my mother...because she hated me for being born. To this day, I can't wear any shirt/blouse/necklace with a snug collar. And still have dreams of being pursued 😬
LotusWolff 4 years ago
When I watch a scary movie, I DON'T GET NIGHTMARES. But I see a scary picture, and I need the light on for a week. I watched Resident Evil two weeks ago and I had NO NIGHTMARES AT ALL.
Carol Emory 4 years ago
The thought of my husband and I dying and leaving my autistic son alone in this world. I'm afraid of what will happen to him once we're gone. People are mean...People are untrustworthy. I'm afraid of leaving him vulnerable to the vultures of the world.
Judy Steelman 4 years ago
My dreams aren't bad and I like to remember them. They always tell.me something. I hate for these people who have horrible nightmares. They can't really get good sleep.
GenericPanda09 4 years ago
Bit of a dark one, and I don't wanna suck out all of the air in here but since my daughter passed away 3 years ago at age 18 of a liver condition I have bad dreams about not being able to save her most nights.... can be in stupid situations too ... like i'll dream that i'm back in uniform and with my rifle..... but i'm told If i can't load a 30 round mag in 10 seconds then she'll die.... and my dreams are about me knowing what to do... but fumbling around trying to achieve a near impossible task... over and over again.
GenericPanda09 4 years ago (edited)
also, I had cancer in my youth.. I have a few bad dreams bout that every now and again..... and i was in the military and did a couple of tours of Bosnia. Those dreams go along the same lines as the ones bout my daughter...... being given a pretty impossible (but always repetitive) task to save someone and finding my dexterity all gone so I can't do it.
Load More Replies... Carmen Valdez (FKA Sandiego) 4 years ago
Hitting Gray with that Crackle Rod. I never want to see one again in my life.
Shane S 4 years ago (edited)
Losing my visible teeth (like my front teeth). And I usually lose them in the dream because of my own fault like I was rocking them back and forth in my mouth as a nervous tick and caused them to loosen and then fall out.
Denise .Russell 4 years ago (edited)
I've had dreams like that, but mine are more horrific. Mine either flake like crazy, then leave jagged flakey stumps or they suddenly just come out or fall out in a bloody, crumbling mess along with my gums and the roof of my mouth. Urgh!! Gives me the creeps.
Load More Replies... Henry Halliday 4 years ago
As a kid, nightmares about car washes. Being trapped outside the car as the big spinning brushes make there way towards me as my parents looked on placidly from within the car. Turns out my dad left me in the car during car wash when I was like 2, thanks for that!!
Della Greymane 4 years ago
Getting covid again. It almost killed me the first time. I work in healthcare and have nightmares about finding holes in my mask or gloves while treating patients. Some days it takes every ounce of will I have just to walk in the door each day.
TheAnimalLady 4 years ago
Being choked out (among other things) by my mother...because she hated me for being born. To this day, I can't wear any shirt/blouse/necklace with a snug collar. And still have dreams of being pursued 😬
LotusWolff 4 years ago
When I watch a scary movie, I DON'T GET NIGHTMARES. But I see a scary picture, and I need the light on for a week. I watched Resident Evil two weeks ago and I had NO NIGHTMARES AT ALL.
Carol Emory 4 years ago
The thought of my husband and I dying and leaving my autistic son alone in this world. I'm afraid of what will happen to him once we're gone. People are mean...People are untrustworthy. I'm afraid of leaving him vulnerable to the vultures of the world.
Judy Steelman 4 years ago
My dreams aren't bad and I like to remember them. They always tell.me something. I hate for these people who have horrible nightmares. They can't really get good sleep.
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