Your scariest dream?

[BlackJacker]

I tend to have bad dreams frequently, but never once did i wake up feeling scared (feeling scared to get out of bed, not wanting to go to the bathroom, jumping to every little noise) for about 15 minutes until today. So lately, the images in my dreams are becoming more "solid". I don't know how to explain it, but when I dream, dreams are usually blurry but nowadays when i dream, everything is clear and I could remember my dreams for hours.

So my dream started with me at being in some sort of shopping mall and for some reason, there were naked models there and i decided to tickle one of them. I got caught by security and was forced to sign a sheet with my name and the reason why I was forced to leave. When i got out of the building, i was going to go back to the train station, until i saw a group of people together looking up at two buildings. I went to see what was going on and that's when i zoomed in (like in dreams when you switch locations and scenes). There was 2 people who died, 1 brother and 1 sister. The ghost of the brother was on the right side of the building was walking up and down the floors looking for his sister, who was on the other building on the left so his ghost wasn't able to move on and now he's stuck in the building. There was a person being interviewed and he was saying how he kept hearing sounds and seeing strange things happening. There was another zoom in moment and it switched to a few people including myself was watching the brother sitting in a couch in a dark room. It felt like we were watching a movie. The brother's body and ghost kept splitting and coming back together until the sister somehow came out in the front of the patio dressed up like the girl with long black hair covering her face in a white dress (forgot the name) and the brother saw her and kept zapping her with some sort of beam. She kept screaming and screaming and finally i woke up shivering like crazy.

I know it may not seem scary because of my lack of imagery in the story, but believe me, if you had the same dream i had, you would be scared too. So what are your guys scariest dreams?

 

[TTT for joy]

I used to have quite a lot of bad dreams when I was a kid... unfortunately now I don't dream at all. :-(
It's hard to pick the most scary story, but I'll go with this one.
I dreamed about going back to my apartment, when I saw stairs going down that were never there. I was curious about them so I descended to some sort of bizzare restaurant. I actually was pretty hungry, so I went in it, when sudendly I realised, that for whatever reason, people are getting electroshocks there. I panicked and tried to run upstairs, but somehow couldn't the stairs were moving with me, so I ran on the same place... then I woke up. Very short, but at that time, it scared the hell out of me.

I used to be however scared a lot with dreams where I was getting tickled... perhaps that's where my obsession that drove me to this forum came from. Some food for thought, that Sigmund Freud would most likely appreciate.

 

[myth77]

I used to have nightmares on a regular basis when I was young (pretty much nightly after a lengthy hospital stay when I was 5 yrs old). Similar to what you mentioned, most of my dreams are very vivid, and I can remember most details after I wake up. As I've gotten older, I have figured out a way to control them quite a bit when I become the most fearful (I'm not really able to control them until I am panicked in the dream). The last scary dream I had was about 2 nights ago. A violent person from my past showed up at my doorstep in the dream, and was attempting to push his way in. His words and emotional state were unsettling, fluctuating from sorrow to anger to threatening, and sad again. I knew his expressions of sorrow were meant to get me to loosen my grip on the door out of sympathy, but he was unable to maintain that 'sad' persona the whole time, and anger and threats were mixed in. I was unable to keep him from pushing the door in, and he slowly advanced on me, saying all kinds of things, and the thought occurred to me that he was likely to kill me this time if he could grab me. He kept trying to soothe me in this crazy way, and convince me to let him hold me, but I knew that would be it for me. I took off running and he began to chase me throughout my house. At some moment, the thought occurred to me inside the dream that it was, in fact, a dream, and I could stop him. I told myself to run outside and cross a large street, and knew that would end the problem. So I managed to get around him, and ran out of my house, and down the street to an intersection. He was still chasing me of course, which I knew would happen, and I knew I needed him to do in order to end it, even though I was still terrified as shit that he was chasing me. I waited to cross the intersection until I saw a truck coming, and ran for it. The person chasing me was so intent on catching me (which I knew he would be), that he did not notice the truck, and...well...that ended the situation entirely. I walked back to my house, still pretty shaken, and made myself somehow wake up.

I do still tend to have frequent 'beginnings' of nightmares, generally being pursued by someone, or being forced to witness something that is extremely emotionally stressful, but again, I've somehow learned to become aware during the most fearful moment in the dream that I am actually dreaming. At that point I can find or even create an escape route, or find an object to turn the tables on the situation, or communicate that I need help, and help comes. Sometimes I still have to wake myself up and try to do something to change my mindstate if I fail to resolve the nightmare issue while I'm still in the dream (a fair amount of my dreams continue where they leave off whenever I go back to sleep, so if I wake up without the nightmare issue being resolved by me, it may continue when I go back to sleep).

I probably shouldn't have answered this thread before bed

 

[BlackJacker]

I used to be however scared a lot with dreams where I was getting tickled... perhaps that's where my obsession that drove me to this forum came from. Some food for thought, that Sigmund Freud would most likely appreciate.[/QUOTE]

I heard if you get tickled in you dreams, that's a sign of where you should laugh more

 

[BlackJacker]

Yeah, I try to create things with my mind when I'm dreaming, because it's really hard to focus. I remember carrying a wand in my dream and it took forever trying to create a spell and hold that spell

 

[TTT for joy]

I heard if you get tickled in you dreams, that's a sign of where you should laugh more

I don't know. As a kid I used to have lot of nightmares. Being tickled was just one of them and I feared that a lot.
Now If I'm dreaming of tickling it's not a nightmare, but a wet dream and I'm the one doing it. ^^

 

[Dialon]

The most vivid dream recently was also the scariest dream I have ever had. Note: I have a fear of owls.
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I was walking to work late at night for some reason, but I woke up late and only had 5 minutes to get there (it is about a 30 minute walk) so I was freaking out about being late and left in a hurry. Suddenly this dude appeared saying "if ya wanna get to wok, ya gunna hafta take dis rod right here!" He points down this creepy ass back alley with trees overhanging fences of people's backyards. I looked at him and asked if it was dangerous but he said "nah." Then we just stared at each other awkwardly for a few minutes, then he said "yah, very dangerous, dat rod is."

I just kind of rolled my eyes and started walking. It was eerily quiet, despite the cool breeze rustling the trees. The shadows of them danced underneath the low-light of the full moon. The only sound was the hooting of a distant owl, every now and then breaking the silence. As I was approaching the end of the alleyway, a large shadow blocked the light of the moon and stars, I was afraid to look up. I kept looking down at my feet and kept on walking forward, but curiosity got the best of me and I finally glanced up to see two, bulbous yellow eyes staring down at me. An owl, with the wingspan of a school bus hovered over me, gnashing its beak hungrily at me. I froze in pure terror, trying to rationalize this situation, because it felt so real. I realized that owls hunt down rodents as prey, but I am no rodent. It was then I noticed I was in a mouse costume. It shrieked and spun its head around several times like something out of the Exorcist. I ran for my life, unable to hear myself think over the deafening flapping of its wings. I slid down into a sewer narrowly escaping its eager claws.

Suddenly I was at Walmart, covered in sewage and smelling of filth, when I saw my brother with my cat Patches, walking alongside him into the electronics section. I went up to talk to my brother, then my cat freaked out and started running around in an insane fit. I told my brother to go get him to stop him from making a scene. As I said that, I felt this unbearable, searing pain all throughout my body. It felt as if my whole body was burning and sizzling. I started screaming in agony, fell to the floor and was yelling for someone to call an ambulance. I closed my eyes due to the pain for a second, opened them and noticed I was in this shallow pool of burning acid, the walls fleshy and red. I looked down to see I was horribly mangled and torn apart, missing my legs and lower torso. It was the most gruesomely realistic dream I have ever had. I assumed that I was eaten by the owl, and everything I thought I was doing (escaping into the sewer and being at Walmart) was just a dream within my dream.

 

[bandisforgeeks]

I have bad dreams all the time. Most about paranormal activity, some about murder.
It gets pretty creepy!

 

[MrChippiesTMF]

Mine was receiving a call from someone who had taken my mother-in-law hostage and demanded £500,000 in 3 hours or he would let her go again. AAAAAAAAARGH!

 

[BlackJacker]

I'm on my phone so i don't know how to put your comments in my reply so I'll just tag your usernames

@TTT for joy, i guess i shouldn't believe everything on the internet but i asked the question about tickling in dreams and they all replied with that i needed to laugh more.

@Dialon, that's scary, being able to feel pain on your body. Usually i would just get the feeling of being scared but i remember feeling pain in one of my "dreams". I wasn't in sleep paralysis or anything. Like i was awake, but my eyes were closed and i was still dreaming but my mind was returning to my body. Apparently, i was stretching my legs and feet, like pushing it forward when i suddenly heard a snap from my ankles. The pain was immense, but i was too sleepy to get up and trend it. Lol

@bandisforgeeks, first off, my phone is slow, so when i was reading your comment, i noticed your picture, and when it changed, it scared the hell out of me lol. And i always have those types of dreams. It's either a murderer, or me in a haunted place. And it's usually a hide and seek dream, where i always always get caught no matter how good my hiding spot is.

@MrChippiesTMF that's unique. Never had a dream where i was demanded something, though i did have dreams where people were kidnapped and i had to follow the kidnapper to rescue them.

 

[Aphion]

I often have dreams where I'm either falling to a certain death from a great height, or drowning in the ocean, and I always wake up just before the end comes. That's always more than enough to frighten me!

 

[Sodahead]

My worst dream was that I was floating down the river on a raft I had made. I actually had pretty good craftsmanship in this dream as the raft floated well and even had a flag I made. But as I progressed down the river I began to feel increasingly anxious and wanted to leave the river for dry ground. But every time I made my way to the banks I could see snakes all around so I stayed on my raft where it was safe and continued my journey down the river. Again, I tried to go to the shore but snakes at the bank scared me off. Even if I didn't see snakes, I feared that they were behind rocks near the shore, which is where you typically find them in rivers. Finally as I made my way to the middle of the river again, a GIANT snake emerged and tried to eat me. I awoke before I was eaten, but it was a frightening dream.

 

[cloudgazer2k]

Not the scariest, but it's been one that has haunted me a few years:
I'm in a large house. It's furnished and decorated. Seems large to my perceptions.
I'm with a woman. Small. Lithe. Exotic with dark skin and hair. She's full of erotic energy, and I can tell she's with me.
We're chasing each other through the house. When I catch her I tickle and nibble on her and she responds enthusiastically.

Fast forward. Outside. The sky is hazy, like it's raining, been raining, or about to rain.
My good friend and ally, a man that's had my back more than once, kills the girl and tells me it had to be done.
That's it nothing personal and I can't have her. There's two other guys with him.
Neither the girl nor the two other assailants are familiar to me but I know them.
I rush forward to save her, protect her, and I think I'm killed, too.

The weirdest part? Prior to this nightmare, I had never seen a woman who fit the description of who was in my dream. However, I did see her a few weeks later at a coffee shop I used to frequent. I was so stunned and disoriented that I never said word to her.

 

[TTT for joy]

The weirdest part? Prior to this nightmare, I had never seen a woman who fit the description of who was in my dream. However, I did see her a few weeks later at a coffee shop I used to frequent. I was so stunned and disoriented that I never said word to her.

I believe you simply experienced a deja vu. From what I've read it can be explained as a momentary defect of your brain, that stores some short term memory as a long term one and then you get the sensation, that you have already seen something. As dreams tend to be quite blur, you might have simply believed that the woman you saw at the coffee shop was the same one, that was in your dreams. I hope this crude "scientific" speculation of mine helps a little bit in explaining it.
Anyway when I personally experience a deja vu I usually associate it to some dream of mine and I believe you somehow did the same.

 

[cloudgazer2k]

I see your point. However, I've a mind for faces. It's a talent I sharpened at the insistence of my father (who used to be a cop, PI, bounty hunter, security guard, etc.). He told me that observation is a key component in any investigation, and it's something I've used many times since.

With that being said, the woman in my dream was a total stranger to me. When I saw someone that looked exactly like her (right down to the pixie haircut and bedroom eyes), I did everything I could not to panic.