Post your most common nightmares when you sleep.

[deadpixel]

1) Going back to school and not being able to keep up with schedules and schoolwork/sucking at school. No different than what it was like IRL really, just re-living it in nightmares.

2) Tornadoes

3) Alligators

4) Falling

5) Drowning

6) Not being able to move fast enough in life threatning situations.

 

[Variform]

I find myself back in school, in class, not having done my homework or in some way feeling very uncomfortable for some reason. Anxiety.

 

[BigApplePi]

The setting varies, but I have this repeating:

I'm traveling, often on a bus, on my way home, but I'm taken to some place either away from New York City or along the ocean where I'm lost and can't get home. The feeling is one of being lost unable to get home. Often I can't find my stuff or whatever I had with me ... like my bike or car or wallet. Lately this dream has been diminishing but time will tell.

You know what this means, don't you?

 

[Spocksleftball]

I will wake up and go to the same job, doing the same thing, well below my ability, every day for the rest of my working life.....OH DAMN! It is reality

 

[Pyropyro]

A variant of not being prepared for a test/report/thesis/project. This distresses me so much that I have to check if it's true when I wake up since I'm studying for a Masters.

I also tend to have monster dreams but instead of understanding what my unconscious mind is telling me my gaming experience tells me BOSS FIGHT!

 

[Base groove]

Fighting for my life and behaving violently. Being physically restrained and desperate but then lashing out.

 

[Base groove]

oh I mean, kitties

 

[Cherry Cola]

Most are some sort of false awakening. I wake up but I can't move and can barely produce any sound, I always try to scream for help but I can at most make some weird noises. After a while I manage to regain control of over my body at which point I try to find the closest person who can help me, where I live now it's my dad. So I drag myself towards his room -walking is slow and difficult- noticing that the apartment looks weird. There's always some visual noise and perceptual mishaps in my field of vision even when I'm awake for real. But during these dreams it goes haywire and I start seeing a bunch of insidious fucked up shit. At some point -when I am getting close to my dad rooms to ask him for help, because I know something must be seriously wrong with me- I awake in my bed yet again and things seem normal at first. Then the whole process repeats. Yesterday this process repeated thrice when I was taking a nap and then four times when I was going to sleep. Fourth time there was a shadowy figure blocking my path which hadn't been there before but I punched it and threw it to the ground and kept on going.

These dreams rarely reach the point where I panic but they drag on. Luckily they don't happen all that often : )

 

[deadpixel]

Most are some sort of false awakening. I wake up but I can't move and can barely produce any sound, I always try to scream for help but I can at most make some weird noises. After a while I manage to regain control of over my body at which point I try to find the closest person who can help me, where I live now it's my dad. So I drag myself towards his room -walking is slow and difficult- noticing that the apartment looks weird. There's always some visual noise and perceptual mishaps in my field of vision even when I'm awake for real. But during these dreams it goes haywire and I start seeing a bunch of insidious fucked up shit. At some point -when I am getting close to my dad rooms to ask him for help, because I know something must be seriously wrong with me- I awake in my bed yet again and things seem normal at first. Then the whole process repeats. Yesterday this process repeated thrice when I was taking a nap and then four times when I was going to sleep. Fourth time there was a shadowy figure blocking my path which hadn't been there before but I punched it and threw it to the ground and kept on going.

These dreams rarely reach the point where I panic but they drag on. Luckily they don't happen all that often : )

This sounds a lot like sleep paralysis but just in the form of a dream, I hate sleep paralysis its terrifying and sucks ass.

These are all interesting replies, especially the ones with school and being lost, an intp thing?

 

[Pyropyro]

Most are some sort of false awakening. I wake up but I can't move and can barely produce any sound, I always try to scream for help but I can at most make some weird noises. After a while I manage to regain control of over my body at which point I try to find the closest person who can help me, where I live now it's my dad. So I drag myself towards his room -walking is slow and difficult- noticing that the apartment looks weird. There's always some visual noise and perceptual mishaps in my field of vision even when I'm awake for real. But during these dreams it goes haywire and I start seeing a bunch of insidious fucked up shit. At some point -when I am getting close to my dad rooms to ask him for help, because I know something must be seriously wrong with me- I awake in my bed yet again and things seem normal at first. Then the whole process repeats. Yesterday this process repeated thrice when I was taking a nap and then four times when I was going to sleep. Fourth time there was a shadowy figure blocking my path which hadn't been there before but I punched it and threw it to the ground and kept on going.

These dreams rarely reach the point where I panic but they drag on. Luckily they don't happen all that often : )

I hate false awakenings but, fortunately, they're indeed rare. They usually repeat themselves for 6-7 times before I truly wake up.

 

[Pyropyro]

These are all interesting replies, especially the ones with school and being lost, an intp thing?

They're common dreams which are usually brought about by stresses during the waking life.

 

[Ex-User (9062)]

1) being eaten alive
2) being chopped into tiny little pieces
3) being beheaded
4) being left as a stump of a man

enjoy.

 

[Polaris]

Being stalked by a Polar Bear.

Getting swamped by an enormous tidal wave, or something related to boats or water. I have weird fish dreams too.

Missing a flight because I forgot to book the ticket, or left my luggage at home.

Being left to do my job on the street or in some impossible scenario where I have no access to everything I need to do my job effectively.

My mother doing something to humiliate me, me getting angry at her and then feeling guilty for the rest of the dream.

 

[Analyzer]

Falling through a hole in a frozen lake.

 

[SpaceYeti]

My most common nightmares involve being at work and all the responsibility falling on me, but not enough people/time (unreasonably low amounts) to actually do the work-load. Or running late... in the wrong clothes, and making someone else late because I'm their ride.

Which is odd, because I don't worry about stuff like that when I'm awake.

 

[Duxwing]

I almost never dream anymore. My psyche is a well-oiled machine.

 

[Cherry Cola]

^ That's naive, you probably just don't remember your dreams, imo! Not entirely sure though, haven't looked the matter up.

 

[Pyropyro]

Dux might probably just have poor dream recall. I don't think it hampers or improves the mind though.

 

[DaDaMan]

1. Finding myself back at University the day before a big exam and being totally unprepared for it.
2. Going to work and suddenly realising that I am naked.
3. Falling off a very high bridge
4. Being in a situation where someone in my family is in a dangerous situation and I am unable to do anything about it or being in a situation where either I save myself or I save them at the expense of my own life.

 

[Rook]

1. When I was seven, I dreamt about a white wolf standing in my room, with weird text above it's head
2. I was chased through a psychedelic garden by a pack of hyenas
3. There has been three instances where I have dreamt about a shark pulling me into a pool of cement.
4. When I was 14, I dreamt about a mandarill in my room, bearing it's teeth. I woke up screaming.

 

[Cavallier]

Being stalked by a Polar Bear.

Getting swamped by an enormous tidal wave, or something related to boats or water. I have weird fish dreams too.

Missing a flight because I forgot to book the ticket, or left my luggage at home.

Being left to do my job on the street or in some impossible scenario where I have no access to everything I need to do my job effectively.

My mother doing something to humiliate me, me getting angry at her and then feeling guilty for the rest of the dream.

Dreams are fascinating. Yours about the polar bear struck me as odd until I remembered your background. You may have been closer to nature as a child though maybe not polar bears specifically. I spent my childhood in Alaska. I had a recurring nightmare about moose with legs so long they were taller than my house. I was scared they would invade my home. Weird I wasn't scared of them hurting me but rather I feared for my personal space.

The one about doing something out of anger that I then feel guilty about is a recurring one for me as well.

I had the "normal day with sudden realization of nudity" a couple of times. In the last one my dream self realized that if up till then no one has noticed the nudity why should they now and I just went with it. The dream dissolved and I haven't had another one in years.

My most common and pervasive dream involves me feeling as though I'm in a complicated trap with a group of other people. I never feel as if any of them are trustworthy. These people are not my friends though they may be friendly towards me. More often than not they turn antagonistic as the dream progresses. The setting changes dream to dream though I'm usually in some sort of semi limited space such as a very large house or building. The key being I can hide for certain lengths of time but not forever. I often develop an attachment to a person who I then feel the need to protect and assist in escaping the trap or who I feel the need to convince to leave with me. Sometimes I'm successful and sometimes I'm not. Usually I escape without violence but sometimes I have to fight my way out. In one I was trying to escape my father who was trying to kill me a la The Shining. I kept running because I did not want to hurt my father. Then I realized that if he was in control of himself he would not hurt me and if he ever found out that I did not defend myself from an attacker (even if it was him attacking) he'd be deeply disappointed in me. I beat him to death with a tire iron after that.

My escaping in those sort of dreams are determined by my making some sort of puzzle solving realization.

The Shining and Labyrinth resonate with me: "You have no power over me!".

 

[Base groove]

 

[deadpixel]

I've always been intrigued by dreams and why we have them, Its your unconscious brain thinking up these thoughts on its own.

 

[Anktark]

1) Having forgotten something (usually not clothes). Be it work assignment or meeting (which means I am late).

2) Running from or fighting some incorporeal beings. These dreams are probably one of the main reasons I remember Litany against fear so well.

3) Seeing my hair, skin and eventually bits of flesh fall off. Finding that there is some kind of dark green/grey emptiness underneath. These are rare, but leave me rather disturbed.


All in all, my nightmares are few and far in between. Though possibly I am not remembering all of them. It's kinda sad and nice I probably don't remember my most horrifying, messed up dreams. I don't mean gross (projectile vomiting my internal organs doesn't have an effect it's supposed to have), but nightmares that leave your spirit and mind crushed/violated.

 

[Ex-User (8886)]

my death
killed animals
plague, vermins, dying people
strange human-monsters (mutants)
people who want hurt me
school
my family

 

[Cherry Cola]

These false awakening nightmares have kept on happening since I wrote that post. This is the first time I've had a series of nightmares for days in a row. They still follow the same theme but have developed a bit. I wonder if I need to try to just transcend the scariness of them, I need this sleep ffs : (

 

[Pyropyro]

These false awakening nightmares have kept on happening since I wrote that post. This is the first time I've had a series of nightmares for days in a row. They still follow the same theme but have developed a bit. I wonder if I need to try to just transcend the scariness of them, I need this sleep ffs : (

I don't know if this can help you but it sure helps flood victims. Anyways, perhaps you can paint/draw the nightmares? I think it's a safe means of confronting them during our waking hours.

 

[Cherry Cola]

Perhaps but there's nothing interesting to paint about them as the setting is mundane^^

Gonna go back to sleep now!

 

[birdsnestfern]

I don't have too many nightmares anymore, but often they would used to be:

Tidal Waves and trying to escape them, ie, being in the wave, then near a cliff and getting off on top of the cliff. (water is emotion).
Vigilante dreams, where I literally beat black and blue my captive terrorists and its lucid I'm in another country like London, in the underground rail system beating them up.
Rare, but I've vividly stabbed bad guys crunchy eyes and heard breaking bone sounds. My spirit is vigilante and astral travels around the world at night correcting things.

Seeing black vultures (black and death might be the vast unknown) atop high telephone poles waiting to swoop down and eat me alive and the sense of needing to not go out of the house and to hide.
Giants like the Jolly Green Giant or Mr. Clean in god like form coming in a tornado chasing me, ie, visuals of Mr. Clean tornado coming over a mountain to my back door for me specifically, I don't know what he wanted
but those giants will have their way with little people.

Whenever I fly, all I have to do is jump and its like a super jump that takes me about half a block at a time, then after two jumps, I can hover about 300 feet up.
When I am in water, its slow motion, I can't run fast, but I can breathe in water.
When I'm in an elevator, I tend to get stuck for way too long, then try to pinch myself and realize I'm dreaming, then I can move down.
These days my dreams are always about a loving version of some guy I knew a long time ago, ie, loving gestures that I'm fantasizing about coming from him.
And I think maybe he is really dreaming about me too. Oh well.

These tv commercial guys impressed my subconscious as being big and scarey and always wanting to catch me, but I'd hide under the bed and try to stay silent.

And good dreams about an ENFJ are mainly what I dream about now.

 

[Drvladivostok]

When I was little, I had an occuring nightmare that was so frequent that I nearly was afraid to sleep, when I wake up from this nightmare I was always in a condition of paranoia and panic, what made them strange was how frequent and consistent they were.

I'd Imagine myself in a room, or in a chamber that was so large that it was hard hard to imagine, it was so large that being inside that room was intimidating, I couldn't quite describe it well other than the feeling of cosmic horror dread of bearing witness to something so grand that It makes you sick, it's like being forced to percieve 4D objects in a 3D plane, this room was ever expanding, and there was always a creature or a lump of flest whiich size is so enourmous but tiny compared to the room, both the room and this lump of flesh would alternate in size in a way and to a degree that was outside my comprehension that I began to panic.

There's a Religious Account of Muhammad SAW that when he first saw Gabriel in a Cave, the angel had 1000 wings that we was so awestrucked that he was sick for a week. I kinda imagine it'd feel like that.

I'd wake up and would always be panicing, it's like my sense of perception of size and form would be broken, I'd start thinking that my hand or finger is bigger then they are or even changing size, the fear and intimidation that can't really be described other than of looking at Cthulu and not being scared of the form but the Scale.

Since I enter college these nighmare have only happen once, strangely enough I also had a fear of bell sounds when I was a kid and this fear was also subsided around the same time.