Scariest nightmare you've ever had?

It was about two weeks ago actually. I was trying to sleep in a pulled over car. The world outside looked like "the road" and there obviously was some kind of apocalypse/break down of civil order. I had a son (no husband though, weird) and was looking outside the window when to my dismay was a band of very monstrous and savage looking barbarians. I pointed a revolver at myself and pulled the trigger, then I woke up.

It was perhaps only the third nightmare I have ever woken up from. I never get them often, except if I am really stressed or it is really, really cold where I am.
 
I never remember my nightmares, or dreams in general, i have woken up pretty scared to instantly forget what I was scared of during my dream.
 
Hah. Strange nightmares.

I've had one last night. Supposedly it was an attraction where you go speeding inside a car, jump off a huge rift, then the car magically turns back to the road and you end up on it again, then you speed to the other end of the road, jump off the rift etc.

So I was sitting there in the car. I told my mom 'when I grow up, I'm gonna go on all the attractions I want and you won't stop me' because I felt like a little adrenaline rush or something. So basically, we did one jump, then speeded off the road, there was this turn... and we flied off the road. I remember I started realizing we're going to fall down and crash, and then I woke up.

Kind of funny, first wanting to go on every attraction out there, then crashing on one of them. That was really hardcore. After that I was just lying there in my bed with a strong heartbeat. Also, I started thinking of Satan and shit (I'm an atheist, but quite a few of the visual stories scare me) so I don't know how I fell asleep. Really troblesome night.

The other one I remember when there was this ghost that came after a woman who was taking a shower (my age, a future wife or something? ;)), but I murdered the ghost and all was well. I was still a kid though.

Sabirah said:
I pointed a revolver at myself and pulled the trigger, then I woke up.
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Huh. Whenever there's a situation like that, I just get in a state of shock and start screaming, really loud, sometimes I can barely hear myself even if I'm screaming at the top of my voice. Never really dreamed of killing myself though. Always start screaming until that demon guy comes near me and tears me apart or something.
 
Though technically not a nightmare, when I was younger, I sleepwalked to my parent's bedroom on the third floor of our house, and I attempted to jump out of the window. It was lucky my mother was right there to stop me otherwise I would of done it and I'd be as dead as motherfucking fried chicken!
 
Scariest I would not say but definitely very disturbed.

I remember this dream in which the world seemed to be in various shades of gray, black, brown and sickly yellow, I was entering this barn and I saw an old style sowing machine on a table next to a pile of something, automatically something together.
As I got closer I saw that it was sowing skin, flesh, and nerve tissue into some kind of quilt.

Following up was this imagine of a reptilian like humanoid (serious) that was chewing on something, at some point it opened its mouth and I saw it was chewing on eye balls (not sure if it was a human eye ball).

And last before I woke up was this image of a like spider like creature biting off some man's head with an enveloping mouth.

I hate it when Giger sends me his dreams.
 
The Reptilians are among us!

I have had too many nightmares to list, but a couple are more memorable than others. I had a dream after I had a bad car wreck one time. It was a couple months after the wreck, and I had a dream that I was looking in the mirror, and then my face suddenly became terribly burned and scarred. Then I came to the realization that I had died months ago and I was living in a dream. Slowly I realized what this meant and I fell down on the ground, almost in slow motion, as all light and existence completely disappeared from around me. Only Nothingness remained.
 
TorontRayne said:
I have had too many nightmares to list, but a couple are more memorable than others. I had a dream after I had a bad car wreck one time. It was a couple months after the wreck, and I had a dream that I was looking in the mirror, and then my face suddenly became terribly burned and scarred. Then I came to the realization that I had died months ago and I was living in a dream. Slowly I realized what this meant and I fell down on the ground, almost in slow motion, as all light and existence completely disappeared from around me. Only Nothingness remained.
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:shock:

Now that's scary.

As for me:

I was running as fast as I could through randomly designed corridors. It was very dark and the paths were narrow and led nowhere except to other junctions. The walls were nothing, but pipework and machinery joined in bizarre patterns. Something humanoid with large jaws and an alien outline caught up to me and munched down on my head with a terrible crunch.

Sincerely,
The Vault Dweller
 
Sub-Human said:
I got kind of inspired by this thread here.

So, what's the scariest nightmare you've ever had? Like, with all women dying and crap.
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I was affraid a GBS thread would pop out. But then i woke up.
 
I had many nightmares inspired by the games I played. Particularly "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" and "Amnesia: The Dark Descent". I always dream from first-person (unlike some other people who dream in third-person) so it's even worse when you're face to face with it
 
Fallout1FTW said:
I had many nightmares inspired by the games I played. Particularly "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" and "Amnesia: The Dark Descent". I always dream from first-person (unlike some other people who dream in third-person) so it's even worse when you're face to face with it
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I have dreamt about Resident Evil, Fallout, and Zombies Ate My Neigbors. Video game dreams are fun as long as you realize it is a dream, but if you don't they can suck.
 
I have had quite a lot of disturbing dreams. I wouldn't mark them as scary (there have been such), but highly disturbing.

Some of my latest exploits...

...pregnant woman running wildly through the canyons, while simultaneously giving birth to whisky bottles.

...peace of bread falls in front of my, and splits to pieces. From one piece comes out some sort of an organic tube, from which the baby comes out. I give birth to the baby, which is rather small, and of sickly green color. It's a girl.

Those two I can clearly recall. I believe I will post more.

Several days ago I finished The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, late at night, which gave me some interesting dreams. Quite peculiar, considering the plot of this novella, and the fact that although I sometimes have book/film/video game "inspired" dreams, those rarely occur the very night after coming in touch with the object that inspired me, if you know what I mean.
 
I describe a pretty horrific lucid-dream trainwreck in this thread (my last post there), it probably won't make a lot of sense unless you also read my third most recent post in said read, and the original post from years back.

I remember this dream in which the world seemed to be in various shades of gray, black, brown and sickly yellow, I was entering this barn and I saw an old style sowing machine on a table next to a pile of something, automatically something together.
As I got closer I saw that it was sowing skin, flesh, and nerve tissue into some kind of quilt.
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Sounds like something from The Amber Spyglass. As for the reptillian entities, I can relate - they are always the worst to deal with. Callous bastards.
 
I probably don't remember the details of my scariest dreams. I can remember waking up and lying perfectly still for minutes because I was convinced there was a snake beside me in the bed or that the standby lights on my stereo was a camera or robot looking in my direction. You feel reasonably stupid once you figure out what you're actually looking at.

There's one short first person dream I remember pretty well. I find myself in some kind of multi-floored airport lounge with large open spaces and escalators. There are a few people scattered around but no one is moving. I am somehow informed that this is a new graphical engine being demonstrated, so I start to walk around a little, admiring the views. I walk up to a motionless woman and lean in close to look at the textures... whereupon she jerks her horribly torn and deformed face towards me.

I have no idea why my brain would think that's a cool idea. It's like it doesn't only want to let me practice threatening situations in my sleep, it's also a bad horror movie director wannabe. Apparently a hundred thousand years ago it was a survival trait to have a brain that serves you up with, "Find a fruit, eat a fruit, find a fruit, eat a fruit, TIGER RAAAAAHH THINK FAST LOLOLOLOLOLZ U MAD"
 
Per said:
I can remember waking up and lying perfectly still for minutes because I was convinced there was a snake beside me in the bed or that the standby lights on my stereo was a camera or robot looking in my direction. You feel reasonably stupid once you figure out what you're actually looking at.
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I've had this type of crap too. It may be due to my poor vision (obviously, I take my glasses off during sleep, like Harry Potter), but sometimes I'd make out different scary stuff out of clothes lying on a chair. Well, sometimes I'd make some more... good-looking :) stuff out too, but that's a whole different story.

Speaking about nightmares, don't eat meat before sleep. Apparently it makes our brain think as a predator or something and you get those scary nightmares. I know for sure you can turn into a wolf and run around a forest and eat sheep. I haven't seen the dream, but it's probably gory.
 
Per said:
*langouliers*

I have no idea why my brain would think that's a cool idea. It's like it doesn't only want to let me practice threatening situations in my sleep, it's also a bad horror movie director wannabe. Apparently a hundred thousand years ago it was a survival trait to have a brain that serves you up with, "Find a fruit, eat a fruit, find a fruit, eat a fruit, TIGER RAAAAAHH THINK FAST LOLOLOLOLOLZ U MAD"
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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2BgjH_CtIA[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCUWrD74D04&feature=relmfu[/youtube]
 
Sub-Human said:
It's pretty hard to actually realize you're dreaming, I only have one friend that's like that.
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I've done that a few times. It's pretty cool when it happens, especially in a nightmare. It's like being Neo inside the Matrix.

Scariest nightmare...it would have to be a tie. The first one I had that was like the beginning of Terminator, where the world was destroyed by nukes and the terminators were hunting me in my basement. In the second one I'd murdered someone and was trying to evade the police.

I like the occasional nightmare. I always feel good afterwards.
 
It depends on what type of a nightmare, though. If you're being chased by cops (oh, and we all love being chased by cops...), then it's cool. If it's a scary demon with a face full of sharp teeth, blood and guts, that's a completely different story.
 
Sub-Human said:
It's pretty hard to actually realize you're dreaming, I only have one friend that's like that.
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It's easy to train yourself to do it. You basically condition yourself to do a reality-check to determine if you are dreaming. In dreams your thirst and hunger are not satisfied even if you drink and eat, so that in itself can be a trigger. If I drink something in a dream it doesn't taste or feel like it does in real life, thereby triggering my conditioned response, and allowing me to control the dream. I have at least a couple lucid dreams a month with these methods. If I realize I am flying or doing any other superhuman feats while in a dream, I automatically know it is a dream, and then I am able to control it. It is actually a decent defense against nightmares.

Is a Werewolf trying to eat you, but you know Werewolves don't exist?

Create a shotgun out of thin air, and blow it's fucking head off!

Unfortunately this doesn't always work, but it has helped me a few times. I always dream about unseen assailants that can knock me down, but I cannot see them usually. Many times I get afraid of something happening in a dream, and then it actually happens. You can create your own reality, so it can get pretty crazy. Like Yoshi has mentioned before, a dream journal can be helpful if you are in to that kind of thing, but I don't use one anymore. I have found that whatever I think about before bed, I usually dream about anyway. That is usually how I have my Fallout dreams. :)

I have had dreams with creatures so strange that I can hardly describe or remember them: Massive eldritch beasts that would be at home in a H.P Lovecraft novel, Floating Brain creatures that can incapacitate you with mind beams, A 2 foot-tall talking Goat, and the list goes on....
 
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