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Recurring Nightmares

This section of the Hall contains phobias which occur at night during sleep, including nightmares and, in more extreme cases, night terrors.

Read about general recurring nightmares. Below are the ten most recently added phobias in this category.

When I was six I was attacked by my friends dog. About two and a half years ago the nightmares began. In every nightmare the dog always found me whether it be a moderatly cheerful setting or a dperessing setting. So when the dog attacked I 'woke up' in the hospital with my mother staring at me. Then the nightmare stoppe and I finally wake up not able to breathe.

Aubreigh
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I have a reoccuring dream, since I was a child...i am in a dark place and everyone starts chasing me, I run and run from county to county country to country and everyone is after me and out to get me...I HATE IT! I wake up sweaty and afraid, I have other scary dreams which are always something I remember and either scary or not, but usually very vivid and i remember every piece and they are so real as if I could touch them and reality and dreams become a blur...I wake up screaming, boyfriends have left me because I kick them in my sleep and people think I'm weird and it effects me psychologically. my dreams are so real I hate to sleep unless I can just wake up and forget them like everyone else, I just want to be normal, on top of all me other fears...I posted them all on here too, I think it all goes back to my fear that everything will only eventually hurt me in the end, especially people who say they love me, everyone who has ever told me they love me has left me or hurt me in some way...ouch.

Lil Lisa Love, Lisa Fowler, Lisa Clontz
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I posted a previous dream but I also have another one that involves a natural disaster. I'm just driving and or running away from something in the country. When I look in front of me, I see nothing but cornfields. In the midst of the cornfields, I see a large tornado appear on such a beautiful day. Then I start running from the tornado and end up at an old tree house that I built when I was a kid. Its just really eerie.

Jess Marie
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My dream starts out a my college and then the college suddenly turns into a hotel on the ocean. I'm having a good time with my boyfriend until he starts acting funny. I start to think he's cheating in my dream and then I actually catch him. After I catch him, I run away all by myself under this shelter and watch as this HUGE tsunami just rolls on the shore. Once it gets to me though, it turns into a regular wave you would see in the gulf. After the wave comes, I'm suddenly standing on a rock in the middle of a lake that is flooding. Suddenly the lake turns into the ocean and I'm standing on this rock trying not to get sucked in under the water.

Jess Marie
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Hi. My name is Nini and I'm a High schooler. Lately, [exactly for 3 days in a row, including yesterday, the day before and the day before that] I have been experiencing this recurring nightmares and now I'm afraid to go to sleep tonight thinking whether or not I would get it again. Sorry about all the babbling, so here it goes. In my dream: I was sleeping in my room. I suddenly woke up to find a really pale.. like dead color skin person in all white with really long hair- a female staring me. She was floating right above me, about 5-10 inches away from face. [I have never seen her or even know her]. I was terrified so then I looked over to the dressing mirror in my room, the person above me also did the same action- look at the mirror. I saw the face of the person in the mirror... the reflection wasn't the face I saw floating above me, she has no eyes, like a dark hollow eye socket. and then she started choking me, I tried to move and scream but I couldn't do neither of them. And that's the end of my dream. I would wake up to find myself horrified. ): Can you please help me if you know what it means or how to stop the recurring nightmares? Even though I tried to look up the strategies. I tried but it's still happening ):

Nini Nguyen
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I've Been having a recurring nightmare for over two years now, happening every 4-5 nights (sometimes it will happened every night or 2nd night for a week or two though).

In the dream, everything starts out normal. I'm with a handful of my friends just haning out, talking and enjoying ourselves (normally 5-7 people there, the actually people change amongst friends I have, but my best mate and girlfriend are always in it).

We're all chatting and laughing but slowly we're talking less and less, and we're approached by another, he's about the same height as me, usually wearing black clothes and a hood that obscures his face (sometimes his face is just blurred).

As he gets closer he starts running towards us, usually smiling or chuckling, and when he gets up to us he just starts rapidly killing everyone. sometimes with a knife, often usually just with his hands (punching through chests etc, he's abnormally strong), he's even had a sword once or twice.

he normally gets to me first, btu never kills me, only knocks me down to the ground and for some reason I can't move myself, I can only watch as he kills off the rest of my friends in front of me. Theres alot of blood and screaming. When he's done he walks back to where I am, pulls me back to my feet, and his face becomes clear for me to see, and It's me. He looks exactly like me in every way, he laughs and says I can't save them, and that's when I wake up.

This has been happening since late 2007 and I'm it's really starting to affect me mentally as time goes on.

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I have a nightmare that I've experienced for the past month, and wihout fail I remember it. I wake up in a cold sweat, I shake, I lose sleep. In the nightmare, there's nothing; no sound, no light, I can't feel anything.

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