Nightmares

[Darkknight512]

Am I the only person that enjoys a scary nightmare? Classifying a nightmare as anything that causes fear?

 

[Nintendo]

Maybe?...because I most certainly don't enjoy nightmares, as I always wake up in a cold sweat after having had one.


I once had a Pandora console nightmare in which I actually dropped my Panda from a 20 storey building only to fine my self falling off the building too. As per usual of all falling dreams...I wake up before any hitting the ground impact.

 

[kuru]

A "good" nightmare isn't a pleasure. What intrigues me often though is the situations/creatures or whatever your brain can come up with.


Interested in dreaming? Go see the movie Waking Life.

 

[MarioPandio]

^Awesome movie A Scanner Darkly too. Shame that Fast Food Nation wasn't quite there.

 

[craigix]

Without doubt the scariest nightmare I ever had was one where I was suicidal and planning to cut my wrists in the bath, I can't remember


why I had to do it, but in the dream it was vitally important for some reason.


The scary part was, when I woke up, I still had an overwhelming urge to go and do it, it took a good ten minutes to convince my brain that


it was all a dream.


Very, very odd and very very scary.

 

[mjohansson]

I once dreamed my father surprisingly had gotten me a SNES, I was so happy, then I woke up and I couldnt remember were I had put it, slowly it dawned on me that it had just been a dream and that I hadnt actually gotten one... Now thats what I call waking up into a nightmare, I was so sad and chocked


Some nightmares Ive had I have enjoyed a lot, like a horror film, but some others have been so unpleasant that it felt like my life had been ruined by the experience that I would never forget.

 

[Nintendo]

For a second there I was reading your story a little slow, whilst picturing/imagining it all in my head and I actually thought that you were going to say that you woke up with actual cut marks on your wrists.

 

[notaz]

I used to have a repeatedly recurring cold-sweat dream or being crushed in some cog-like things, totally weird stuff, no idea where that was coming from. Nowadays I can hardly remember what I dream, only the fact that I am dreaming something.

 

[Nintendo]

Fair dinkum here...I've had a dream within a dream within a dream quite a few times now...just like that movie Leonardo DiCaprio starred in...Inception.

Spoiler

 

[mjohansson]

I wish there was a way to record dreams!

 

[Asmo]

I've had more than my fair share of zombie holocaust nightmares, though it's almost always the fault of a fellow survivor that things get hairy in them, you know, stuff like "Nooo! I said DON'T open that door........."


One memorable one was waking up in a bare prefab room, around 20ft square, in one corner a stairway down, windows all round about 4ft from the floor. When I stood up I could see that this was the top floor in a very flimsy structure hundreds of levels high, and moving made it begin to sway worryingly, especially towards the edges - where the stairway down on each floor was. Not sure how it all panned out, I probably just gave up and fell asleep in the middle of the top floor.


Lucid dreams are incredible though, that's another topic.

 

[Pickle]

During college days I had to relieve myself late at night, I was also sick at the time, somehow I passed out while i was at the urinal. As i was coming to I was starting to feel the hard floor wondering where in the world I was and realize that i was on the floor in the bathroom and the dread feeling as to how i could have ended up there in that situation. And then I remember what i was doing before, lucky it was late and no one found me laid out on the floor ;-)

 

[Jourdy288]

You know, I haven't had a nightmare in about 3-4 years. I usually just dream about... Well, life. Just sitting around, talking to people.


Although it's funny that this thread came up, because I had a rather exciting dream last night: I was playing Halo in real life somehow, aliens and plasma grenades and all :lol:

 

[diligentcircle]

I only really remember one bizarre, short nightmare I once had... fucking scary, though. I think it was sometime in middle school, 6th grade maybe.


Anyway, it started off with me being on a school bus, having no clothes on for some reason. Then some guys, who kind of looked like zombies, came in for some reason (I knew what it was right after I woke up... I think it was to enforce some rule or something). Well, I knew what that reason was and I knew I would get in trouble with them if they saw me without my clothes on, so I hid, but they found me, and they started slashing up my balls with their claws. Then I woke up.


Like I said, short, but scary as hell.

 

[mjohansson]

Jourdy288 that reminds me of involuntery videogame visions while going to bed phenomena. Like if you havent played Quake and you play a hole day for the first time, when you go to bed and close your eyes all you see is yourself running down corridors throwing grenades in enemy heads, apparently there is a tetris effect to were if you play enough Tetris you see falling blocks when you close your eyes, how annoying that must be to have to shift blocks all evening when all you wanna do is fall asleep LOL!


When I came to a new gameplay in Quake for the first time I watched a guy play a map a couple of times, I hadnt seen that map before so I didnt know it, then when I slept that night I dreamed of him running through the map, all the moves and such that I had seen him do. When I woke up I realised I knew that map now, and I did! I learned it in my sleep.


Also remembered I once dreamed the future, I dreamed I was at my parents place standing in the doorway and seeing my dad fiddle with a camera, then he said a number and made some move as he turned around. A couple of days later I was at my parents place standing in that doorway, and then I recognized it, and I thaught calmly now hes gonna say this number and then make that move, and he did! It was an exact replica of my dream, and I have come to realize in a Deja-Vu you cant predict ahead whats gonna happen next, you only recognize things as they happen, but here I had no problem predicting ahead and I knew the exact number wich was totally random and there was no way I could have known it before especially not days ahead, and that unique move.

 

[PokeParadox]

Dreamt I woke up on an operating table with all my intestines hanging out, that I fell off the table and somehow started to choke on my own intestines, with all my guts falling out... then I obviously woke up gasping for breath... that one really shook me up.


I also once woke up before my body did... I couldn't move anything and my eyes were only partially open. I tried to call for help and I couldn't. So I just concentrated intensely on moving and shouting, which seemed to take all my energy and then all of a sudden I got up normally. I don't know if I really did wake up before my body did, or I just dreamt it... weird.

 

[Jourdy288]

Jourdy288 that reminds me of involuntery videogame visions while going to bed phenomena. Like if you havent played Quake and you play a hole day for the first time, when you go to bed and close your eyes all you see is yourself running down corridors throwing grenades in enemy heads, apparently there is a tetris effect to were if you play enough Tetris you see falling blocks when you close your eyes, how annoying that must be to have to shift blocks all evening when all you wanna do is fall asleep LOL!


When I came to a new gameplay in Quake for the first time I watched a guy play a map a couple of times, I hadnt seen that map before so I didnt know it, then when I slept that night I dreamed of him running through the map, all the moves and such that I had seen him do. When I woke up I realised I knew that map now, and I did! I learned it in my sleep.

Actually, this happened to me once on my favorite Quake Live map too... I played the map so much, I played it in a dream.


But yeah, if I do something all day, I see it when I close my eyes.


@


PokeParadox Sleep paralysis. Happens sometimes, no need to panic. I hate that....

 

[DaMummy]

I also once woke up before my body did... I couldn't move anything and my eyes were only partially open. I tried to call for help and I couldn't. So I just concentrated intensely on moving and shouting, which seemed to take all my energy and then all of a sudden I got up normally. I don't know if I really did wake up before my body did, or I just dreamt it... weird.

i've had that once. also heard old wives tales about this specific thing, something about witches taking over your body, and youre supposed to look at a picture of a woman when youre in that state........yeah. it's weird though, youre just laying there, you know youre awake, but you cant say anything, or move anything. its even worse when theres people around you and youre trying to get their attention to wake you up, but it's point less

 

[craigix]

I also once woke up before my body did... I couldn't move anything and my eyes were only partially open. I tried to call for help and I couldn't. So I just concentrated intensely on moving and shouting, which seemed to take all my energy and then all of a sudden I got up normally. I don't know if I really did wake up before my body did, or I just dreamt it... weird.

I had that happen once, most people will experience it at some point, some multiple times.


Because I had read about it and spoken to people who had had it happen I knew what it was and didn't panic too much. I fell back asleep and woke up about 2 minutes later normally.


Apparently it is what leads to many of those alien/possession tales which were popular in the 80s/90s.

 

[SoulFire9001]

I may have had some when I was a little child, but I don't remember them. Nowadays I just have weird dreams, some of which continued from where another dream left off. While being weird, I still find it interesting what my brain comes up with while I'm asleep.