Nightmares...On Elm Street!

**Scarlett O'Hara** · 11-23-2013, 07:18 AM

I have a thread about dreams but I'm on my phone and think it can be separate unless someone is desperately bothered by it.

Do you get nightmares? How often? Describe them if you're comfortable.

I went two years with constant sweat soaking terror. I had one last night that I went to a college dance that I organised and a group of people started bullying me, following me home while my parents were there who threatend them to stop. In the same night I had a nightmare that dad was learning to fly a small plane (one very like the plane in the English Patient). He crashed it and survived but he was paralyzed from the waist down and had to be pushed around in a wheelchair for the rest of his life. I bawled my eyes out to mom when she told me the news, dad is the kind of outdoor person who loves hiking, botanical gardens and gardening so the thought of dad being miserable made me so sad.

I've had ones way worse than that (like losing loved ones, one of which I predicted a month before my granddad died unexpectedly).

Do you notice a trend in them? Is there something that triggers them? Have you woken up from literally crying during sleeping? I've bolted up in bed after nightmare before. Do you think medications cause them?

**Janszoon** · 11-23-2013, 07:29 AM

I've never figured out a reason for it but I've had a lot of nightmares about fire in my life, the scariest one being the last one. In it, I was standing in the small beach town I used to live in in California and the entire Pacific Ocean was on fire as far as I could see. The flames were getting closer and closer to the town and the streets were total chaos as everyone was trying to escape. I had my wife with me, but looked away for a minute and she was suddenly gone. I remember running around trying to find her as the flames got closer and closer before I suddenly woke up.

**Scarlett O'Hara** · 11-23-2013, 07:37 AM

That's awful! I have reoccuring dreams about tidal waves hitting my city and trying to get to high ground. So many times yet it upsets me consistently. I don't usually have them about fire but have run like crazy from a volcano erupting lava and ash.

The most awful ones I've had is being sting by bees, having spiders crawl and bit me and this: I had a reoccuring dream about four white kittens who kept getting murdered in front of me. Later on I dreamed of them again, this time I was walking them with leads over a noisy road. Somehow I'm across the street and realise the leads and kittens are gone, only one survives after 3 were run over. So ****ing awful.

**Janszoon** · 11-23-2013, 07:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Vanilla

That's awful! I have reoccuring dreams about tidal waves hitting my city and trying to get to high ground. So many times yet it upsets me consistently. I don't usually have them about fire but have run like crazy from a volcano erupting lava and ash.

One of my earliest fire dreams involved a volcano forming under my house. It's goofy to describe now, but while I was in the dream it was pretty scary.

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Originally Posted by Vanilla

The most awful ones I've had is being sting by bees, having spiders crawl and bit me and this: I had a reoccuring dream about four white kittens who kept getting murdered in front of me. Later on I dreamed of them again, this time I was walking them with leads over a noisy road. Somehow I'm across the street and realise the leads and kittens are gone, only one survives after 3 were run over. So ****ing awful.

That's horrible!

djchameleon · 11-23-2013, 07:58 AM

Most of my re-occurring nightmares are chase related. I'm usually running away from something but the thing that is chasing me changes from nightmare to nightmare.

I know what I can do if I willingly want to trigger some nightmares. I can eat spicy food right before going to bed and I know I will have nightmares. Works like a charm every single time.

**Exo** · 11-23-2013, 10:53 AM

I have nightmares all the time but I forget them about ten seconds after I wake up. All except one. I still don't know what it means. People who like dogs shouldn't read this.

I was with my friends. We were younger, like 15 or 16. We were for some reason all hanging out in front of the local 7-11 when I man and his dog walked past us and headed towards the mans car. The dog was one of those curly hair terriers and must have been at least 15 years old. Nobody else was paying attention but I noticed something was off and then the man got in his car. He shut his driver side door on the leash so that his dog was on the outside of the car but still attached to the leash which was inside. I thought the man would notice but then I saw the reverse lights go on.

I ran over and just started yelling at the guy.

"Mister! Mister! Your dog man! Your dog is caught in the door!"

The guy literally just looked at me and said "I know."

At that point he pinned the pedal to the floor and reversed aggressively to the pint of nearly running me over. I started chasing him and he took off down the road dragging the dog behind him to the dogs death.

It's the most ****ed up dream I've ever had and I still don't know what it means. I'll remember it forever.

**Frownland** · 11-23-2013, 01:03 PM

I don't get nightmares often, or maybe I do since I don't remember most of my dreams. However, about a week ago I had a nightmare that I accidentally drove my family off of a cliff when we were being chased by some force that only I could see. Me only seeing it made it worse since my family didn't understand what I was going on about and were sipping on their tea nonchalantly (that's right, it was a car tea party). Anyway, we fell all the way to the bottom of the cliff (which is odd because I've never completed a fall in a dream before) and I woke up. When I was awake, I had a bloody nose and was sweating profusely even though I had my blankets thrown off and my windows wide open.

Good thing it doesn't happen to me often.

ladyislingering · 11-23-2013, 01:57 PM

I usually don't have nightmares, but when I do it seems they're directly related to existing trauma - the worst nightmares I've ever had didn't include blood, gore, being chased, or anything like that. They've always been about being completely abandoned, lied to, cheated, or otherwise emotionally hurt.

Though I've had a few weird dreams where my teeth are falling out (and I can actually feel them busting in my mouth, as if I had a bunch of little blocks in there) or I'm stuck in a room/house and I can't turn the lights on no matter how many times I flip the switches.

Mr. Charlie · 11-23-2013, 07:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

I don't get nightmares often, or maybe I do since I don't remember most of my dreams. However, about a week ago I had a nightmare that I accidentally drove my family off of a cliff when we were being chased by some force that only I could see. Me only seeing it made it worse since my family didn't understand what I was going on about and were sipping on their tea nonchalantly (that's right, it was a car tea party). Anyway, we fell all the way to the bottom of the cliff (which is odd because I've never completed a fall in a dream before) and I woke up. When I was awake, I had a bloody nose and was sweating profusely even though I had my blankets thrown off and my windows wide open.

Good thing it doesn't happen to me often.

The bloody nose bit is very weird.

Dulce · 11-30-2013, 12:46 AM

Mines are Dark and Evil.

11-23-2013, 07:18 AM	#1 (permalink)
Scarlett O'Hara Make it so Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 6,181	Nightmares...On Elm Street! I have a thread about dreams but I'm on my phone and think it can be separate unless someone is desperately bothered by it. Do you get nightmares? How often? Describe them if you're comfortable. I went two years with constant sweat soaking terror. I had one last night that I went to a college dance that I organised and a group of people started bullying me, following me home while my parents were there who threatend them to stop. In the same night I had a nightmare that dad was learning to fly a small plane (one very like the plane in the English Patient). He crashed it and survived but he was paralyzed from the waist down and had to be pushed around in a wheelchair for the rest of his life. I bawled my eyes out to mom when she told me the news, dad is the kind of outdoor person who loves hiking, botanical gardens and gardening so the thought of dad being miserable made me so sad. I've had ones way worse than that (like losing loved ones, one of which I predicted a month before my granddad died unexpectedly). Do you notice a trend in them? Is there something that triggers them? Have you woken up from literally crying during sleeping? I've bolted up in bed after nightmare before. Do you think medications cause them? __________________ "Elph is truly an enfant terrible of the forum, bless and curse him" - Marie, Queen of Thots

11-23-2013, 07:29 AM	#2 (permalink)
Janszoon Mate, Spawn & Die Join Date: May 2007 Location: The Rapping Community Posts: 24,593	I've never figured out a reason for it but I've had a lot of nightmares about fire in my life, the scariest one being the last one. In it, I was standing in the small beach town I used to live in in California and the entire Pacific Ocean was on fire as far as I could see. The flames were getting closer and closer to the town and the streets were total chaos as everyone was trying to escape. I had my wife with me, but looked away for a minute and she was suddenly gone. I remember running around trying to find her as the flames got closer and closer before I suddenly woke up. __________________ A Night in the Life of the Invisible Man Time & Place 25 Albums You Should Hear Before the Moon Crashes into the Earth and We All Die last.fm

11-23-2013, 07:37 AM	#3 (permalink)
Scarlett O'Hara Make it so Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 6,181	That's awful! I have reoccuring dreams about tidal waves hitting my city and trying to get to high ground. So many times yet it upsets me consistently. I don't usually have them about fire but have run like crazy from a volcano erupting lava and ash. The most awful ones I've had is being sting by bees, having spiders crawl and bit me and this: I had a reoccuring dream about four white kittens who kept getting murdered in front of me. Later on I dreamed of them again, this time I was walking them with leads over a noisy road. Somehow I'm across the street and realise the leads and kittens are gone, only one survives after 3 were run over. So ****ing awful. __________________ "Elph is truly an enfant terrible of the forum, bless and curse him" - Marie, Queen of Thots

11-23-2013, 10:53 AM	#6 (permalink)
Exo All day jazz and biscuits Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: NJ Posts: 7,359	I have nightmares all the time but I forget them about ten seconds after I wake up. All except one. I still don't know what it means. People who like dogs shouldn't read this. I was with my friends. We were younger, like 15 or 16. We were for some reason all hanging out in front of the local 7-11 when I man and his dog walked past us and headed towards the mans car. The dog was one of those curly hair terriers and must have been at least 15 years old. Nobody else was paying attention but I noticed something was off and then the man got in his car. He shut his driver side door on the leash so that his dog was on the outside of the car but still attached to the leash which was inside. I thought the man would notice but then I saw the reverse lights go on. I ran over and just started yelling at the guy. "Mister! Mister! Your dog man! Your dog is caught in the door!" The guy literally just looked at me and said "I know." At that point he pinned the pedal to the floor and reversed aggressively to the pint of nearly running me over. I started chasing him and he took off down the road dragging the dog behind him to the dogs death. It's the most **ed up dream I've ever had and I still don't know what it means. I'll remember it forever. __________________ LastFM SUPREME POO BAH MODERATOR EXTRAORDINAIRE**

11-23-2013, 01:03 PM	#7 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,548	I don't get nightmares often, or maybe I do since I don't remember most of my dreams. However, about a week ago I had a nightmare that I accidentally drove my family off of a cliff when we were being chased by some force that only I could see. Me only seeing it made it worse since my family didn't understand what I was going on about and were sipping on their tea nonchalantly (that's right, it was a car tea party). Anyway, we fell all the way to the bottom of the cliff (which is odd because I've never completed a fall in a dream before) and I woke up. When I was awake, I had a bloody nose and was sweating profusely even though I had my blankets thrown off and my windows wide open. Good thing it doesn't happen to me often. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

11-23-2013, 01:57 PM	#8 (permalink)
ladyislingering Maelian Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Seattle Posts: 695	I usually don't have nightmares, but when I do it seems they're directly related to existing trauma - the worst nightmares I've ever had didn't include blood, gore, being chased, or anything like that. They've always been about being completely abandoned, lied to, cheated, or otherwise emotionally hurt. Though I've had a few weird dreams where my teeth are falling out (and I can actually feel them busting in my mouth, as if I had a bunch of little blocks in there) or I'm stuck in a room/house and I can't turn the lights on no matter how many times I flip the switches. __________________ You and I, We were born to die.

11-30-2013, 12:46 AM	#10 (permalink)
Dulce WILDFIRE Join Date: Jul 2013 Posts: 232	Mines are Dark and Evil.