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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 ):
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I have recurring nightmares involving train tracks. They dreams aren't very similar, just that one element--the train tracks is. The worst one I've had so far began with me walking down the side of the tracks, and it was midday in a desert, with a very bright, cloudless blue sky. I was a kid in this dream, and I was barefoot, I could feel the sand very hot under my feet. I looked at the ground as I walked, to find soft places in the baked sand to place my feet down. After a while, I came upon some roots of a white tree. The roots looked like chalk, dead and bleached from the sun. As my gaze continued upwards, I found someone had carved bound feet into the tree. The feet extended upwards until I realized that it was an entire figure of a man, hands bound behind his back as well. To get a better view of the carving, I changed my position so I was looking directly at it. Out of the top of the neck of the carved man was a real mans head, shaved. When he saw me, he started crying, and just said "please" over and over. Some small twigs grew out of a nearby branch and continued until they grew into his mouth and eyes. Blood streamed down the twigs, and his crying continued, muffled. I was backing away terrified as all this happened, and a man with a black mask on leans a ladder against the tree, and chops the man's head off. I look to the top of the tree, and see all the tips of the branches and twigs are stained with blood.
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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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okay, my phobia is that in my nightmares all my friends leave me and i go back to all of my old issues.. i'm so scared to sleep and i'm usually crying all night .. i love my friends and i would never be able to live without them.
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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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I just turned 18, and right now it's January. I had a nightmare that there was a thunderstorm, and I'm so afraid of thunderstorms that I was afraid to go back to sleep because I was so sure there was a storm. I've had a fear of thunderstorms for my entire life; but it didn't become a crippling nightmare-inducing phobia until I was 14. I frequently have nightmares about getting struck by lightning or being close to something that gets hit, and whenever a real storm comes I have a panic attack.
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Okay, I have this incredibly insane fear of faceless people. Every time I got to use the bathroom I always check the cupboards, vent and lock my door in case the faceless man is watching me. I think its related to a nightmare I had about three years ago and...Yea...
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Sometimes I am afraid to go to sleep because I think I will die before I wake up. I don't know why I begin to think about it, but once I do it keeps me up for hours. Obviously it hasn't happened yet, as I am typing this, but it doesn't stop me from being paranoid.
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I have had this nightmare 3 or 4 times before, that is very difficult to describe. It seems like I've only been asleep for about half an hour or less. I'll hear a noise, the noise has been always different in each of the dreams, like the sound of a train or most recently just the sound of a creaking door. A few seconds after the sound, something is holding me down so i cannot move or even talk. I've never seen exactly what is holding me down because im too afraid to open my eyes. It seems as if it lasts forever before it is over. I wish i knew what it was that was doing this to me in my nightmares.
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my phobia is about a man and a woman that have a baby but the woman doesnt know about the baby and the baby looks like me and my boyfriend but okay here it goes my boyfriend and our class take a field trip to the mall and the movies he moves away from me in the movie theater to get closer to the screen and during the movie the baby is constantly killing somebody and after the movie is over my boyfriend would leave me for his ex best friend after the movie and then i wake up and just start to cry
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I have a phobia of hypnogogic paralysis and mainly falling asleep. I've experienced it a few times, and all have left me in a panic, but one experience had scarred me: Lying in bed, I thought I had recieved a text, read it, then suddenly realize my phone wasn't with me. This happened a few times. Then, someone was running around me. Behind me, then over me across the bed, through the wall, and back again. Then he landed on my chest. He were not smothering me, but it hurt. I could somewhat make out a face, but I will never know who it belonged to. Then, an image appeared in my left vision. It was a polaroid photo of some sort, coming down towards me, and I was able to hear my heart beating. A ringing came into my ears, and perisisted for a long time. Afraid, I attempted to get out of bed, but I could not move my legs, and lied helpless until it was done: the ringing in my ears, and the body on my chest, the face staring down at me. After it was over, I fell asleep right away, but woke up crying afraid of what had happened.
Thinking about it makes me very scared, and I fear that it will happen again, even though I know those chances are slim. As much as I am afraid of it, there are times when I wish it would happen again just so I can maybe make out the face...
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A have a nightmare that comes in strange patterns. Sometimes it won't come for weeks then it suddenly comes back and it can repeat every night for about a week sometimes more.
In the nightmare I'm walking through the streets of Glasgow (in Scotland, very near to where I live). I'm on my way home from a night club so I'm always dressed up in a nice dress looking gorgeous.
I come across a dark alley with a only a flickering broken street lamp to provide light.
I lean against the wall about a metre into the alley waiting for my friends to catch up.
A large musclular-looking man hiden mostly by shadows stands at the entrance of the alley looking at me with a sinister look in his eyes. As he slowly strolls into the alley towards me, I casually lean off the wall and head down into the alley feeling very uneasy. He begins to speed up and so do I. He ends up chasing me down the alley with a knife glinting in his hand. I trip over a pipe on the ground and fall skidding on the ground. I try my hardest to get up and keep running. I whip my head around to see where he is and he's right above me knife raised ready to strike.
The fright I get when I see him ready to kill me always wakes me up with a jolt. I am in a cold sweat, panicking, crying shaking, forcing the breath in and out of my lungs. I am a mess and I don't get to sleep after that.
I'm only 15 and this dream has been coming for over 2 years now. When the dream come I am a mess until I force myself to belive it won't come again and it will never come true.
I was in Glasgow a while ago at night and I walked past the alley in my dreams and panic took over me. I had to watch it until I was sure there was no-one there to jump out on me. The alley is a real place but I had never seen it before my dream then I went outsearching for it in the place I had dreamt it was and as I thought it was there looking the exact same.
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I have an irrational fear of bathrooms. Not just public bathrooms, ALL bathrooms ~ unless I have "gotten to know" the room over time. If I have never been in the bathroom before, my heart will beat fast -my hands gets sweaty - my breathing is labored and I'm literally scared to death. As a child, my father was military and we moved a great deal. When we came to a new home - I would avoid the bathroom like the plague, until I absolutely HAD to go in. And then I just had to face my fear. My heart would begin beating hard again and I would lose my breath. I'm going to be 50 years old in January and I'm tired of being afraid. Walmart bathrooms are the worst because of the filth and the weird sinks they have now. I have 2 different nightmares. One is of a horribly filthy public bathroom - 2 stalls - no sinks - just water dripping from pipes into large drums. The other is the polar opposite. I'm in a huge public bathroom where everything is silver-chrome. I walk into one stall and there is a large toilet and large tub - all silver. I'm terrified. I try to run but the bathroom is so large - all I find are more aisles of stalls - some with showers - some with tubs. I can't escape.
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i always have this dream, but its not like normal dreams where you're doing something, or whatever. i just see a stormy sky, and lightning, for ages. and then suddenly, theres this horrible scream, like someones in real pain, or being killed or something. and then i wake up feeling panic, as though i need to do something right away, but i don't know what. and then i feel guilty, but i don't know why. i'm kind of worried that i might be an insane person to be honest
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From the time I was 4 or 5 all the way until I was a teenager, I was haunted almost every night by the same nightmare involving my mother. These were horrifying dreams and I would often wake up screaming or not able to get back to sleep. Every night, I would dream that I would be in an ordinary, quiet situation at home -- looking in a mirror, looking out a window, watching TV -- the horrible thing was a lot of times I didn't know it was a dream. Then, all of a sudden, I'd get a horrible feeling and see my mom's face, painted absolutely pale white, with a terrifying, deranged smiled on her face. The most terrifying were her eyes which seemed to stare into my soul and looked completely threatening and deranged. Next, what always happened is she would chase after me bloodthirstily and I would desperately try to get away from her, hiding, running, anything. Most of the time, I would think I had gotten away. Once, I had hidden in a closet and felt safe. The next thing I knew, I had a horrible feeling in my stomach and I turned around and she was RIGHT THERE, creepy white face and all and she started screaming and clawing at me. I always woke up before she killed me but I thought at one point I wouldn't be so lucky. What's funny is that when I woke up, I was always REALLY happy to see my mom and didn't at all think my actual mom was scary except sometimes when she got angry with me and something in her eyes freaked me out.
In another terrifying and weird dream, my "white mama" (as I called the woman in my dream when I was little) became so enraged that I was trying to run away from her that she started screaming at the top of her lungs (imagine seeing your own mother maniacally scream at the top of her lungs) and steam started coming out of her. Her face got long and she turned into this weird cross between a pendulum and a locomotive, with her face swinging angrily back and forth until I thought she was going to blow up or kill me.
These dreams lessened in frequency as I got older, but I always had this fear in the back of my mind that the dream could recur at any moment. Sometimes it would. I had two dreams when I was thirteen, for instance. My last dream was when I was about sixteen. I will never forget it. By this time, I was able to realize in my dream that this was a dream (lucid dreaming). White Mama had been chasing me and I was terrified that this was happening. But I made a choice. She was about to pounce on me when I started crying in the dream and pleading for her to stop. I just kept pleading and pleading and crying, "I love you! I love you, Mom!" What's crazy is she finally broke down and started crying too but she was still a monster and it was then that I felt bad for her, that she was some kind of evil manifestation and she would never be human. It was really weird. I hugged her and she cried and I got this weird feeling from her, like, "I wish I was your mother. I wish I was anybody's mother. I always loved you. I am so sorry."
Then I woke up and I have NEVER had those dreams again. My mom still teases me about the "White Mama," and I always giggle about it with her although I don't think my mom will ever comprehend how messed up it was to have those dreams every night.
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I'm not usually scared of gorillas, but whenever they're in my dreams, I wake up crying my eyes out. It all started when I had to horrible nightmares in the same night, one of the mayor from "Eight Crazy Nights" dressed in a gorilla suit, chasing me, and another dream of a gorilla trying to break through my back door. Weird... I know.
Also, on a different note, I CANNOT sleep if there is a chair looking at me. It has to be facing sideways, otherwise, I'm gonna wake up constantly to make sure it didn't move.
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