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I don’t usually dream, so the nightmare i had last night was…a surprise to say the least. It’s so stuck in my head that I need to try and get it out somehow. TW for explosions, blood

I was in my old high school, and while I was walking somewhere, I overhead a rumor that some of the staff were going to try and burn oats(???) and use the smoke to make students get to class faster instead of standing around talking during passing periods. I can’t remember if I thought this, or if someone said it, but I just remember hearing the words “It’s not food.”

The dream basically jump cuts to later in the day, and I’m leaving some classroom I’ve never been in early(I guess I finished my work or whatever) and while I’m walking down this hallway(one I’ve also never been in, and frankly a creepy one. There was like. Floor to ceiling paintings on the wall, bright colors. I don’t know. It was weird.) I hear some guy shouting and I can see smoke.

He runs past the doorway at the end of the hall and he’s shouting “It’s not food! It’s not food!” It’s the most desperate screaming I’ve ever heard and it makes me stop. For a moment, I was about to turn back to warn the room I had just left. It takes about a half a second for an explosion to go off, and all hell breaks loose. I cut through a different hallway, and the whole time I can hear students and staff screaming and I just know they’re dying.

I make it to the main hall. My school was kind of weird irl, there was a small hall like right next to the main hall near the front doors, so you could kind of see through, but in my dream, this secondary hall was the entire length of the main hall. Every door I ran past, I could see blood, bodies, body parts, and what I could only assume was leftovers from the ‘oats’.

I got outside and went down the stairs, there were only a few other students and like two teachers, all also covered in blood and ‘oat’. I never saw anyone else leave.

I don’t really remember what happened after that, I think I like. Turned around and was suddenly in like a dark room and it turned into a typical monster dream or something like that but, that first part was so intense that when I woke up, I woke up numb and genuinely couldn’t remember if it had happened or not. Sorry if this went on too long, I just needed to try and put it down somewhere.

Hi I’m 24. Nightmares aren’t new to me. I’ve had a reoccurring nightmare since I was about 5. Last night I had a dream that two men broke into my house, a house that I don’t know, but I knew it was mine and I just bought it and was cleaning and decorating. Once they got in they chased me down in the house and tried to ripe me. I got away and screamed for them to get out of my house. I had my Apple Watch on which I wear all the time (even when I’m sleeping, besides the 30 minutes it takes to charge fully) and was trying to get it to call 911. It wouldn’t. When I got back in the room that they had entered through I just kept screaming for them to get out as I tripped and they came at me with knives. I put my arm up in an attempt to block me from getting hit anywhere to vital, when the knives hit my arm and dug in, I jolted awake from the pain. This genuinely terrifies me has we have known psychics in my family and my mother has had vivid dreams of people unaliving and those unalivings happening the way she dreamt them, and my sister being pregnant which turned out to be true and that she was having a boy, I have a little nephew now.

Be me, currently on the last night of a weekend getaway/ festival at a hotel. Me and my friends leave our room to go check out and enjoy the last day of festivities before driving home. While in the middle of the event, me and my friends end up getting into an argument that ends up with us separating for a bit. Now I’m alone at this event and after realizing that me and my friend group had to regroup eventually, I decide to head to my car and wait there as that’s our rendezvous point. As I look out the window towards my car, I realize that it is not where I left it. Instead on the back of a tow truck with a couple other cars. Now I start to panic. I run down toward the parking lot, and start making my move towards the tow trucks. I see a man on top of one of the tow trucks and decide that I would plead for him to release my for a small “personal” fee. He agrees and lets me know he will do so for $40. Good and bad, good because now he has a price, bad because I only have card. I go to the conveniently placed atm and when I try and get the $40 back, no money comes out. Panic number 2 ensues. I then desperately begin to ask around for someone who has cash that would be willing to accept cashapp for a trade, but not a soul is interested. It takes me panicking and running around the parking lot for a whillle, just begging people to help me with this situation. Finally some nice people were willing to do the trade, and I got the $40. When returning to the guy with the $40, he received the cash and then asks me to grab its keys. I say alright as me and him walk to my room (I know, dream inconsistencies) in order to grab it. As we are there, I look out the window again to see a dude entering the tow truck and beginning to move the cars. I turn to the guy behind me and let him know that his truck is being taken and he tells me we need to run back down. I do so, but as I get to the doors and swing em open. I see that the tow vehicle with my car has already, I turn around to see the man I gave $40 to has also disappeared. Leaving me standing in the parking lot. I check my phone and have 4% battery left, bad because now I understand that I need to call the cops to locate my car, navigate towards the tow company, pay the tow company, and contact the people who are relying for me for a ride, all while only on 4%. Panic number 3 happens here. I move to start finding the police non-emergency, but no matter what I look up, I’m unable to find it. I run to ask someone and they say that it’s under some super hard to spell name and every time I tried to spell it was incorrect. I eventually resign myself to fate, stressed and at the edge of my sanity, and decide to go sit in a lounge area to collect myself. While there, someone asks me what was wrong. As I’m telling them my situation, a crowd begins to form, half way through my explanation the tone of the crowd shifts from trying to make me feel better, to laughing at my misfortune. As everyone laughs at me and some look at me with pity, I do my best to sink into my chair. I then thrash awake, almost going back, but not wanting to spend another second dreaming tonight.

Me and my daughter are visiting my dad's house out of state. I usually use a THC/cbd tincture 6/7 days a week. First T break in a while. It's only been 48 or so hours. On top of that, drinking instead. Dude.. I never dream let alone have nightmares. I do remember a big T break I did 2 years ago that had me stressed with nightmares for weeks.

Random scene from my nightmare: I'm not sure where in the world it was but My father has a glass a-frame and I see, not water, but a huge ship like cruise size in the air and about to hit his home above us. No warning, I just see it for a split second before he does. In my dream I couldn't hear anything from it, maybe the A-frames were noise proof lol. Even though I know it will hit us, I see him, take his hand and run in the opposite direction. The nightmare cuts to my dad having his right forearm amputated and my daughter has her right leg from the knee down amputated. My daughter is young rn but in the dream she very clearly knew that it would cost "20K to get a prosthetic leg?" I remember saying "She's going to have crutches. Lol. I don't think anything happened to me in that nightmare but I'm surprised I didn't wake anyone else bc in my dream I was crying hysterically.

It felt apocalyptic, like the flood.

The first nightmare was in a school, a old classmate i havent seen in years was actively chaseing me down and trying to kill me in my dream , i kept on asking him why but never got an answer, he'd just stare at me and chase me , i saw lots of blood and corpses of other students in that dream , at some point another guy that i didnt know started helping the classmate that had the machete, i was running, hideing , crying, panicing the whole dream over , it was terrible. In the end i escaped tho and i was safe as i got out of the school and colapsed on the ground.

Edit: in the first nightmare i also kept asking for help but even when they said they would people never really did anything to help , except for someone trying to call the police or doing so i think?

that was like a week ago

the secund nightmare was just today , a guy i didnt know had kidnapped me and one of my best friends , he was chaseing us and didnt have a visable wepon for the most part but i often felt like or saw as if he had a knife , he chased us through a IKEA with very narrow passages to walk between , often my best friend and i would run and try to hide together but sometimes we were apart , in those moments the guy chaseing us was allways almost directly behind me and i was paniced , however at the end of this dream he had managed to corner us and let us send goodbye texts to our family and friends , i think i put the police on speaker secretyl as last action but turned the volume down so only they could hear what was going on and could find the location of my phone or sth but then i woke up

i did some research and it said something about a unresolved conflict , fear of betrayal and actively wanting to avoid it but my mind wanting me to face it? I didnt fully understand so i thought maybe this subreddit can help tho the thing about there being a majour conflict in my live right now that i am trying to avoid is true, the website also said that the nightmares may be reaccureing if i dont solve the conflict so its quite the bad situation

01:31 am here in paris cant sleep due to nightmare.

I'm currently next to my gf and the dream goes likes this:

Im sleeping next to my girlfriend, she wakes me up and says that she heard something, I look up and see this huge fat naked bald man with a dead look in his eyes, my gf screams and is scared, I feel terrified and very weak, but I lunge at this man to try take him down to protect my gf. I'm very weak so I don't manage to do much besides take him down on the ground.

Everything's is foggy and I feel so weak and not sure what to do so i start biting at his wrist and basically eating away at it. Then I wake up from the dream next to my gf, but I'm actually still dreaming but don't know it, then all of a sudden my gf sits up, holding a naked baby and I ask, who is this baby?" My gf says its Simon's, I ask, is it yours and Simons baby? She says yes. Sadness and scared feeling overcome me.

After this I hear a stressed and sad woman argumenting with a man, this man has a very strong mad and aggressive tone, then I start heading stomping coming closer and closer to the door, I get up and try to hurry to close the door and right when I'm about to close the door the big man is there and immediately punches me down and I wake up next to my girlfriend.

But I am infact still dreaming. But now I'm in bed and slowly start to kinda fall down the bed, I'm wrapped and tangled within the cover and can't really move my girlfriend helps me out and I feel bit better and think that the dream is over even though I am still dreaming. And then I realized that I am infact still dreaming and I get a bit irritated over this annoying dream loop thingy.

So I stand up and just start running through all the doors to find the first scary thing I can find and I end up in this hospital looking room with a pale vampire looking guy and I just puff my chest up and run and lunge myself on him.

Then I think that I have woken up next to my girlfriend but I am infact still dreaming. This time I'm paralyzed in bed, can't move but still feel like there's someone hovering over me ready to do something bad. Since I can't move and kinda realize that I am dreaming i try to start trying to breathe weird in hopes that my girlfriend will see/hear this irl and wake me up.

But first when I start trying to break weird I start choking and doing some type of moaning noise and then my girlfriend actually wakes me up and I finally manage to not be dreaming anymore.

End of dream.

I've never had a loop type of dream like this, it was very intense and scary. And for some reason when I have nightmares it usually is about some big scary man.

You guys had anything like this happen?

Sweet dreams to you all

Hi, so is it just me, but I get flashes of images and feelings just as I'm falling asleep that jolt me awake, and make me so scared. Like literally 5 mins ago ( STOP READING IF SQUEEMISH VIVID DESCRIPTION OF PRACTICALY TORTURE) well literal torture I was suddently being tied, my arms above my head and I was like balancing on a little stool as ppl whipped me and cut into my arms, and like, I can FEEL it, I can still feel like blood running down my arm and my back being cut open like WHAT THE FUCK. And I have A things to do in the morning. How am I meant to say, sorry I'm so tired I couldnt sleep bc my brain decided to feel what it would be like to be tortured???????

I've been diagnosed with a nightmare disorder and I have nightmares multiple times a night every day or every other day. It's caused me so much mental stress. Whenever I get stabbed or shot or just hurt in a dream, I can actually feel it going into my skin. I don't feel any pain, but I feel a numbness or tingling sensation in the spot where I was hurt. I honestly don't know what to do anymore and any advice would be greatly appreciated as well. In one nightmare, part of my tongue was swollen, torn apart/shredded, and barely hanging from the rest of my tongue. Rarely do I get a normal dream. It's either a nightmare, a really weird dream that gets terrifying, or I don't remember/don't have a dream.

It's kind of ridiculous actually. I hadn't even gotten to any frightening parts of the Shining yet I still had a nightmare I can only attribute to it. I've never read the book before. I read the 1st chapter and my brain came up with one of the most horrifying experiences in a dream I've had in a long time. So much so that I've decided to write about it. It's 3:30 in the morning of course. I have such a long day ahead of me tomorrow but I'm scared to go back into this dream. I think I won't sleep. There are strange clicking noises I've never heard in the house happening, they give me chills and make my hairs rise.

It began in a shooting gallery. I was practicing a sport of some sort where I shot these small plates and would alternate in some fashion around these plates, at some points in a dangerous way, it was treacherous. This was all normal and fine though. It was bright with light and other people for company like the groundskeeper and my girlfriend. It was pleasant, in fact, in between dreams and sleep I woke up once. But when I went back in, things became scary. I was in a large room, a gallery, alone. It was normal though, and bright. I placed my duffel bag down, it had various items of clothing, other belongings, and a pistol. I enjoyed watching tv and exploring the area. It was a large space, fancy in all manner with silver and cream themed paint and furniture. It was both modern and old. Old walls but modern accommodations like flat-screens and new furniture. I then looked at a display shelf, and recalled a story of how a baby fell off the shelf and died due to neglect. Not that before this moment I was told it or anything. I felt sad for the child, that this tragedy had to happen.

Then it all went to shit. I turned off the lights in order to sleep in the dream. But as I lay something stirred me. I looked over at seemingly nothing and disregarded it. But as I was interested at some point I went to investigate whatever stirred me. I eventually saw that display shelf move to face towards me. Other awful things like that happened, outwardly strange and supernatural but more spooky than anything. Stuff moving, rattling, warping in shape.

But then the horror began. I started hearing whispering in my own head, my thoughts became invaded. I went to turn on the lights but none would work. I systematically went to each switch knowing deep down there was nothing wrong electrically but I needed to prove this in the reality I was set in. As I dashed around the room an apparition sitting but moving around the room danced upon my vision bouncing around my periphery like a windows screen saver. A blue silver figure in a sitting position smiling gruesomely at me with malcontent. At some point I grabbed my pistol knowing it would do nothing, but any small comfort was nice at this point. I was semi lucid, as I remembered waking up during the shooting gallery. The voice grew louder in my head as I ran to try all the switches futilely. It became so loud it overpowered my own thoughts like a bad acid trip. It became so loud that it was both in my head and next to me. I had to yell to block out its words but it only grew louder, to a deafening yelling cacophony. It then said that the dead terrify you awake. In a half scream to overpower the voice I woke up in horror knowing it was only a dream.

Yet I find that I am unable to sleep again. The fact that I was so helpless was scary, also the fact it was supernatural is also scary. That it was related to the shining, being constructed out of my knowledge from seeing the movie, hearing small things about the book over the years was also scary. Just awful all around. I still don't want to sleep again. I lay next to my girlfriend, and two pets. Thank god none of them stirred when the clicking was going on while I was writing. I sit here in terror with chills all about my sickly body. I need rest to heal but I refuse to go back there, there are few places I have been worse than there.

Hi, y’all. I’ve been having these unsettling and… Honestly? Disturbing- dreams. I don’t remember the details because it changes every night and the plot is different. The overall theme remains the same. I’ll be traveling or trying to accomplish things and, suddenly, I’ll be with a group of people. In this group, we usually end up fighting against the sky. It’s not fighting, it’s more like trying to frantically prevent the inevitable. In all of these nightmares I’m trying to escape the chaos of my environments, yet I can’t. I end up going back to my family, friends, and other people. I end up going back to them and facing the problems head on, despite how it makes me feel or how it affects me. Recently, I had a few of them in which I confronted structures outside of the atmosphere. The strange thing is that I don’t recognize them. They’re huge and incomprehensible. It’s hard to explain. It’s like walking up to a gigantic skyscraper that never ends, just lying horizontally- in space. I don’t really remember anything other than that, honestly. It’s a bit overwhelming. I would try to write it all down but this as detailed as it gets, honestly. It’s hard for me to even comprehend what happened because of how detailed my dreams/nightmares are.

Last night was very terrifying for me I saw a nightmare that continued even I was woken up from it

Nightmare: I was in my bestie Home she was sick and lying on bed I was sitting next to her and suddenly she dramatically opened her eyes said something I didn't remember and she smiled and my chair started moving and spinning and I woke up from the nightmare but I felt like my body is still moving and had the effect after waking up and after I woke up I was unable to move and but the dream didn't Stop I was hearing some voices and things were started happening in reality I felt like someone is sitting next to me and taking somthing I got chils 2 or 3 times and was so scared that what is happening I was confused that it's a dream or its reality then I started chanting hnuman chalisa and Buddha Vandana to stop these things and then I don't knew I fall asleep

This happened last night and I still can't get it it was a dream or it was happening in reality

I am having a hard time sleeping after an intense nightmare which was more despair than terror. But there was plenty of terror. Here is all I remember. I wish I didn't remember any of it...

I was in a building with several people I had familiarity with. We'd taken refuge here for some reason and were discussing what we should do next in our situation. There were bad people trying to track us down and kill us. The next thing I remember is some men dressed as soldiers approached our structure and waved. They wore our side's uniforms so we thought the good guys were coming to help us.

These were not the good guys.

These men had found our army's uniforms and donned them to trick people. They came into the building and started shooting wildly. What I did next repulses me. Here were people I considered friends. But at this moment they were nothing more than a potential shield and a delay. I just happened to be in the back so my mind just flashed that I had a chance. I needed to take that chance. I ducked into a room and ran towards a window. I unlatched it faster than should have been possible, opened the window and made the four foot drop or so to the ground. Then I just ran. I ran and ran somebody must have shot at me because I felt the air whizz past me a few times. The last thing I remember before waking up is the worst part of it all. That robotic instinct to keep going dissipated and I realized what I had done. Later I'd found out that there had been initial survivors but the aggressors bound them and set the building ablaze to burn them to death. A death I should have shared with them.

The weirdest thing is that I study nightmares and how to prevent/stop them, and lately I have been having the weirdest and vivid dreams every night. Now I don’t pay too much attention as they are neither scary, nor hang around after waking. In fact like most people, I have forgotten them by the time I get in the shower!  But I know there are lots of very scary nightmares people are describing here.

It’s important to realise that we spend a total of around 2 hrs dreaming every night, across several episodes of REM sleep. And for the most part, it happens out of our awareness, unless the content is really scary in which case it can wake us up. My understanding of dreaming is that it is our psychological healing mechanism, for helping the mind 'defrag' and clear up the upsetting material of the day or further back. Nightmares, when we get woken up, is just a sign that our dreaming mind has 'blown a fuse', usually because the material was too scary. And of course this can perpetuate for years, and also trauma can play a big part in all of this.

Why do dreams feel so real? If you imagine biting into a lemon right now, you will probably experience a feeling of yuck in your mouth. But there is no lemon….. Just because it feels real, doesn’t make it real!

So a dream is just a dream, even though it feels real, and the solution to stop being woken up (if you are), is to bend the dreams in a different direction. That can be challening when its really scary stuff, but the important part is to change ones perspective on it. It isnt real, it isnt happening, there might be no logical reason why you are dreaming it, and you dont have to buy into it or work it out.

Well how do we do that? Ideas get into dreams off the back of emotion (watch a horror film and you will agree, although I don’t recommend it). Therefore we can create new ideas for dreams that are positively charged - literally bending the dreams in a new direction. If you want to find out more, I have put lots of resources into a website called www.stopnightmares.org . There is also a quiz which takes 60seconds and will give you an assessment of how bad your sleep is. This is based on a scientifically validated measure called the Nightmare Assessment Scale.

Good luck - and remember you don’t have to put up with nightmares if you don’t want to.

Always happy to answer questions.

So, I plan on describing my dreams in other posts I’ll be making but I wanted to say that I’m new to the group. I haven’t ever really talked about my dreams with anyone, not in depth anyhow, because for as far back as I can remember (and that’s a very long time), I’ve only ever had nightmares. Nightmares or just… uncomfortably bizarre dreams. Never happy ones. The happiest one was only once and something like, a moment where I was dreaming I could fly. Then, transition to horror. Is there anybody else like that? Is it normal to only ever have nightmares?

A baby, a car crash and looking down at a mangled body. It was the baby. I felt a different kind of sadness. It was a strangers baby. I dont know what to make of it.

Edit: Accidentally dropped my phone, which submitted this before I finished. Sorry to anyone who may have been reading this before I completed it. lol

This is a short little nightmare I just woke up from this morning.

It’s still a few years off, but my friend group is planning a trip to Japan. Or rather, I’M planning the trip, as I’m the detail-oriented one in the group. So, needless to say, I have travel on the mind right now.

That being said, in the dream, I was riding in a car, having just come back from the airport. As most of my airport experiences have been going between my current state and the state I was born in, it was the usual scenario of a family member picking me up - in this case, my aunt. That in itself was a bit of nightmare, as I’m currently no contact with most of my family.

At one point in the dream, my aunt stopped at a gas station to buy some drinks, leaving me in the car. Then I start hearing a motorized hum, the revving of a small engine. I think nothing of it, until I suddenly see these two guys show up near the car with mini chainsaws. Like, small enough to wield one-handed. They’re walking around, vandalizing trash cans by cutting huge holes in the sides and trimming off parts of the wheels so that they won’t turn properly.

Just as dream-me was thinking how weird (not to mention rude) that was, and that I should probably call the police, one of them suddenly locks eyes with me, nudges his friend, and they both rush over. Mind you, this was in broad daylight, so I don’t know why they weren’t worried about witnesses until they saw me. But, hey, that’s dream logic, right?

So, they both rush toward the vehicle, one to my door, the other to the back of the car. And they jab their mini chainsaws into the gaps to… break the locks? Not sure if that would even be possible, but again, dream logic. The one at my door then brandished the chainsaw like a gun and told me to hand over my wallet.

I guess since I was now directly interacting with the dream, my brain decided to start using real logic. I had my backpack (which I usually use as a carryon during flights) on the seat next to me, but had angled my body to where the guy couldn’t see it. I was also wearing some baggier shorts, so my wallet wasn’t immediately visible in my pocket. Dream-me also knew that there was nothing in my suitcase that couldn’t be replaced, so I quickly told the guy I didn’t have my wallet on me, that I just got back from traveling and had put it in my luggage after leaving the airport. The other guy then pulled my suitcase out of the trunk, and the two of them ran off.

I then woke up with my heart racing as if I had actually just been held up at… chainsaw-point? And then I heard the revving of the chainsaw motors in real life, which did not help with the racing heart. Turns out, there was someone in the neighborhood doing yard work, using what sounded like either a weed whacker or a leaf blower. That must have inserted itself into my dream and gotten interpreted as mini chainsaws.

Hi, so I’m going half crazy, last year during the summer I went on my first cruise with my family. I had a blast. After that I started to have dreams about being on a boat. More recently in the last few months it’s more like a nightmare because the ship is always possibly capsizing or on the verge of. I attribute a part of it to me starting Seroquel around January, but still this is getting old. If it’s not a boat dream, it’s something like speeding on a highway with dead ends.

If anyone’s had boat dreams specifically and can relate?

I don’t really ever get nightmares, and the rare times that I do it’s never terrible, I can move on from it very quickly and go back to sleep. But I had one last night that was so horrifically violent and felt so so real and I woke up in a panic, shaking all over and full on crying. It’s really shaken me up, to the point where I’ve been fearful of going back to sleep. I think it’s past trauma mixed with anxieties.

Folks, tonight did me in.

For my entire life, I've experienced nightmares and sleep paralysis. I sort of narrowed it down to when I sleep on my back by accident, I get paralyzed. I exclusively sleep on my side now so that I don't have to deal with it anymore, but tonight couldn't help me.

I fell asleep on my side. I started having nightmares that I can only describe as basically a speedrun of every horrible nightmare I could have. Like rapid nightmares with minutes between. Apparently I was only asleep for an hour total. Here's a few:

• was that my ex's house. Their dog came up to me and bit down on my hand. It was excruciating. I felt the pain radiate throughout my entire hand and arm. I have never felt pain like that in my life.

-I was with my friends and partner at the beach when suddenly we were underground beneath the sand, and, water started pouring in and I drowned.

• I was at a stranger's house for a party, and someone locked me in the bathroom. A man came in and started to attack and SA me.

In between this nightmare and the next is crazy;

• I woke up in my house with my partner next to me asking if I'm okay, I told him I was okay but just had some nightmares and told him about the dog and my hand. We got a knock at the door and I asked him to take a look. As he turned away from me to go get the door and walk up, I realized that I'm still dreaming because there was a bloody wound on my hand from the dog dream. He turned around into a monster and tried to kill me the moment I noticed. I once again woke up paralyzed trying to scream.

After each of these nightmares got to their peak, my eyes would open but my body was paralyzed. I was trying everything to wake up. Eventually I would get out of it but I'd fall right back asleep and it would start over again. Each time, paralyzed. At one point I woke up with my mouth open yelling and whimpering. I had also thrashed in my sleep and all the blankets fell off. I felt my eyes rolling back.

I feel like this is becoming so common that I should look into getting professional help. I've tried diet changes, meditation, putting my phone down. The one common denominator is that when I sleep on my back, I am guaranteed to get paralyzed. I tested it with my partner, I had him watch me fall asleep on my back. I also think this may be coming back to a PTSD related symptom , since I do have PTSD dreams.

I just want this to stop so I can sleep like a normal person. What is going on with me??

The worst nightmares I'll have are when I think k I've woken up but I'm still dreaming. Yesterday I had my worst one yet and it started off with me having a pleasant dream about some random park, then I woke up (still dreaming). What threw me off was how realistic everytime felt when I "woke up" it was normal to the point of me thinking I wasn't dreaming.

I went to use the bathroom and fully went and everything in the dream and I went back to go to sleep. When I put the cover over my head there was a girl having an awful seizure next to me, foaming mouth everything. It wasn't just me sleeping in that room and I yelled and looked over to see if I woke the two up then looked back after and she wasn't there. As I'd move around, in the corner of my eye isee that same person was just being horrifically killed in what seemed like the peripheral of my vision, things like hung and she'd swing, being shot, gulliotine, suicide, etc My mom was downstairs and i start talking to her and I'm getting even more freaked out cause she's not even reaching to what I can see like it's not there at all yet it was so clear in my vision. I start panicking due to everything nd ran out the door. It was dark and I'd see more and more and would get more and more anxious till I basically stressed myself awake. I find this weird because I don't find it correlating to anything happening in my life nor from real stress.

I, 26 F, just had my first ever "teeth falling out" dream: I was driving through an unknown city when I pushed my tongue against my teeth and one popped out. I panicked and lost control of my car. No idea what I crashed into. As my mind cleared, I realized I was choking on my tooth. I climbed out of the car, bent over trying to cough or throw up, and thankfully my tooth popped out. I grabbed it off the street and started running up and down the blocks looking for a hospital or dentist. A few more teeth dislodged along the way and I spit them into my hand. I end up in this run down little building that seems to be a clinic for the lower-class. The place is filled with all sorts of sick and hurt and mostly filthy people. Multiple people get in my face yelling about nothing or begging for my help. My hand is dripping with blood and holds multiple full teeth to the roots and some that are just pieces. I push my way to the front desk. As I'm answering the receptionist's questions, I'm losing teeth rapidly and she just seems annoyed or bored. It gets to the point my mouth is down to just a few random teeth, there's swelling, and it's full of blood. I can no longer speak, so in a panic I push my way into the back toward exam rooms. Only there aren't any rooms. It's one long, dark hallway with rows of curtains separating small areas that each contain a chair and old medical tools. The floor is sticky with blood and other fluids. A lady takes my arm and leads me to sit in one of the exam chairs. She makes me shove all the teeth I'm holding into my mouth. Then she straps my arms onto the chair. A man that looks horribly ill comes around from behind me and I start to choke on the horror that's in my mouth. My mind flashed to all these terrible ideas of what could happen to me next and that's all I remember.

My s/o had a nightmare of someone trying to hurt me, and in his dream punched him. While we were sleeping he punched me in the chin. I am not doing well. I just really needed to vent that, he stresses me out and has never hit m until today, on accident. Can't even right now. If this ain't appropriate for here I will remove the post.

Hey everyone. I’ve been having nightmares a lot the past few months; specifically about school shootings. It isn’t a fear that is well grounded I feel, since I’m in college, but I know it’s still possible.

I haven’t been involved in anything of the sort but I’ve been having nightmares about being shot since I was a child. I woke up this morning clutching my stomach and panicking, (trying to stop the supposed bleeding), regardless of the fact I know I had multiple dreams after that nightmare occurred.

I reached out to one of my friends who might be able to help and they believe it’s a trauma response to the constant news coverage.

I’m considering going back to therapy, but these nightmares seem to be the only reason I would want to go back.

If anyone can confirm or deny my friends claims, that would be appreciated. I’m unsure why these would be happening otherwise and I’d like them to stop. They happen about 1-2 times a week now.

Edit: This isn’t the first time I have woken up and been in physical discomfort or pain from these dreams. I had a similar one recently in which afterwards my back was uncomfortable and I was anxious all day.

Tl;dr: having nightmares about being shot and thinking it’s media exposure related. I’d prefer not to have them, thank you in advance.

 have just added the Nightmare Assessment quiz, which takes 60s to complete, to my website www.stopnightmares.org. It is based on a scale I created for my PhD research, and has now been validated by the Mississippi State University in the US and Swansea University in the UK.

It will tell you how bad your nightmares and sleep disturbances are.

I have been involved in research about the causes and resolution of nightmares for a while, and have written a blog Blog - Stop Nightmares and created a free 5 minute animation on Youtube that some of you might find helpful https://youtu.be/q6oeg15KVAk

Let me know what you think. I firmly believe that nightmares are not something that people need to suffer endlessly with, and that resolving them is possible.

I have just added the Nightmare Assessment quiz, which takes 60s to complete, to my website www.stopnightmares.org. It is based on a scale I created for my PhD research, and has now been validated by the Mississippi State University in the US and Swansea University in the UK.

It will tell you how bad your nightmares and sleep disturbances are.

Justin

i'm at the end of my rope with nightmares. i've been diagnosed with nightmare disorder, but said diagnosis doesn't do much as there are barely any treatments (or at least ones that have worked or me and my type of nightmares). i've tried medication; i've tried waking myself up; i've tried re-scripting and dream journaling, all to no avail. going to sleep feels like riding into battle and i wake up exhausted and, quite frankly, traumatized most mornings. it's not just the content of the dreams, but their intensity, content, and frequency (it feels like i'm dreaming the majority of the night, i know it's only possible to dream during REM cycles but i wonder if either my brain has found a way around that or if the dreams are happening much faster in reality than they feel like they are, giving me the impression i'm dreaming all night). they're so intense, vivid, and treatment resistant i've honestly started to wonder if there's some kind of supernatural element to them: maybe some kind of astral projection? i know that sounds ridiculous but quite frankly that's the only explanation that makes sense to me at this point. i don't necessarily know what i'm asking of you all, maybe advice that's helped you mentally deal with or prepare for nightmares, how to tell if there's some kind of spiritual element to them, or just knowing i'm not alone in this. it's been going on since i was roughly 14 and i'm 20 now, so i'm starting to accept this may just be the way my brain works. thank you all for listening <3

So lastnight I had a really fucked up nightmare, it started out normal, I ordered pizza in my dream, then there was this skip and I was in this auditorium with people I haven’t spoken to in years (classmates, former coworkers, past friendships etc) and we were talking amongst ourselves, there was also this weird skip thing, I was now in a basement with this demon, it was a female with long sharp nails and it was slightly hunched over, I couldn’t make the face out, but they had long black hair and a child was wondering outside the basement door and the demon said “go get me that child” I was like “are you just gonna play with them?” (Because at this point I didn’t know it was a demon) And the demon was like “no I’ll fucking rip it limb by limb” and I was like “okay no stay away from that child” and the child literally came close and the demon was coming quickly towards this child and I was like “what the fuck no” and like grabbed onto this demon and it was scratching and biting me in my dream to get to the child, it never did, just as I was about to wake up the demon said “I’m coming back, but for your first new born when you give birth!” I’m not pregnant or I don’t think I am

TW: Mentions of shootings.

I'm kinda used to having very violent nightmares, and I thought this was another one, but this one was extremely personal and it left me feeling awful.

It started like a nice dream (Like most of my nightmares), I was in a mall hanging out with some classmates when suddenly a shooting started. I'm not from USA and this kind of thing isn't that common where I'm from, but it was exactly like a school shooting scenario.

I was trying to hide and help the people that I could but many didn't make it. At some point nearing the end of the situation, the shooter found me and shot me twice with a shotgun, before they finally caught him and paramedics started to treat me.

I was already pretty shaken when I was trying to walk out of the building when I saw my phone and noticed an unknown number in my phone sending me pictures. I opened them and it was pictures of my dad cheating on my mom with another woman. I was completely in shock as I noticed that this photos were taken in the same mall I was in. I managed to walk through the pain to find him.

I found him talking nonchalantly with a very short and elder looking woman (Like in her 60s), and when he noticed me at first he was concerned about why I was covered in bandages and blood. I told him none of that mattered right now and confronted him about who this woman was.

He tried to make excuses but I was having none of it, so I tried to go to my mom's work (She works in a mall) to tell her everything. He tries to stop me and reason with me but I yell at him for betraying our family. I finally get to my mom after losing him in the crowd and tell her, but just when I see that she's tearing up I finally wake up.

That same night I had almost the exact same dream twice, only without the shooting part and finding out about my dad's affair in different ways, always ending in waking up when my mom is in tears for what happened.

I felt miserable next morning and even if it's impossible for my dad to cheat on my mom because of his working schedule and time arrival at home, it just felt too real. Things at home have been rough lately and they are currently ignoring each other for a while, but nothing indicates anything more than that, just a rough patch between them.

I'm not sure if I should worry about it, I wanted to ask for your opinions and thoughts on this.

Oct 27 2024 6:54 AM type:recurring In this dream i was going to indiana with my family we also brought some man of which i had no idea who he was once we were there we settled into this mansion like home but just then i saw this mexican teenager (i’m not a racist) in the window and because it was 9:00 st night in the dream i freaked out he said something along the lines of “get ready” or “We’re coming in” then me and the random guy from earlier panicked we rushed to a window some where in another room i broke it and we climbed out then when we heard nothing we found out they were just joking or faking time skip now we were going into town to get food i think or eat dinner, and the random dude had a flying car so thats what we used to get theres and this was like a futuristic town because these buildings were very big and tall but when we got the there we a lot of gunshots and screams this was cause there were many many many terrorists in the city then after I just started watching porn just looking and after about maybe 5 minutes of watching and looking around the city time skip now i’m sitting at a dinner table in a cellar everything looks old and gross so before they serve the meal they make you hold this statue of this old mans hands in a cup shape like he wanted something, wake up

I was lying in my sofa one night then suddenly I saw these 2 smoke demons standing and they began running towards me so I got up and ram through the door into the hallway I looked and they were still on my tail and almost made me stumble I ran so fast even my arms were like running as my legs they didn't stopped until I yelled Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus then finally they just vanished and I woke up

Another scene I was in a office building with my cousin then my cousin began hearing strange noises and she said she suddenly had chills for no reason so we kept walking through this hallway and there's an open door to a dark room we passed by and she said she saw something move so I work at the office and it's my responsibility to check if there's a hobo in there so ai checked it and my cousin warned me not to but I was like chill probably just a hobo but when I turned on the lights the smoke demons just ran towards me but it just dissappeared and I'm like what I woke up sweaty I can even move

Another scene is I was at home after a huge storm battered the neighborhood and I have to sleep in the kitchen because the rooms were trashed and have to renovate but then I saw this huge smoke demon appear from a mango tree like it's its house and it started banging on the roof that I have to sneek out so it knows I'm inside the house but I already high tailed it out there

Howdy folks. It's my first time posting here, so bear with me, but I'd really like some advice on what this nightmare means and how i get rid of it, because I've had it many times now. I'm not particularly scared of many things, but this nightmare's changed that a bit.

I keep dreaming that I'm an astronaut of sorts, or at least living on some space station super far away. There's always one other person there, sometimes a friend or a family member, and we're trying to get back home. This is where the nightmare part comes in. I get sent outside to drive back home, but the friend/family member flips a wrong switch or something and I get shot into deep space. I might be a pussy for this, but I was genuinely terrified. It wasn't deep space where there were planets and nebulae never seen before, but there was just nothing. Like before the universe was old enough to home stars and galaxies, and it was just the dark. I was choking on the fog around me, and i kept trying to go back home, but everything was too far to see. I was just alone, and I knew i'd be in the middle of nothing forever.

I'd highly appreciate some advice or any possible perspectives on what this could mean, if anything. Thanks.