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Posted: 27th Jan 2011 20:21
I had a dream last night, one of the most scary I have had in nearly 10 years.

so the dream went like this:
I was on a flight to Turkey and I remember walking down the aisle when I spotted a bag which had been left on one of the seats. there was no one sitting in that row so I informed an air steward, who then had a look in the bag and pulled out what looked like some kind of circuit-board assembly. I first remembered thinking curiously about what it was and then an extremely overwhelming fear came over me when I realised that it was the end, at which point I started to dash to the other side of the plane in fear. I felt like I knew the instant it was starting to explode despite not feeling anything but that additional burst of fear when I was running was the point at which I awoke.

I don't think I will ever forget this nightmare and being someone who is usually quite calm and relaxed when it comes to flying I now feel as though things will be completely different the next time I board a plane.

Has anyone else here had a dream which has had such a profound emotional impact on them and what was it?

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Posted: 27th Jan 2011 20:37
Nothing negative, I do lucid dream though and fly and stuff, but then again I sometimes have over-the-top nightmares.

I don't like anything giant and with an exoskeleton.

THIS freaks me out:




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Posted: 27th Jan 2011 21:21
My nightmares are always goofy - I dreamt last night I was being chased by a giant orange dwarf. When I woke up I thought "That's the stupidest thing I have ever seen" but it was genuinely terrifying at the time

"Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me." That's a bit like saying Hey bullies! So yeah, this words thing isn't working, but I'll tell you what will
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Posted: 27th Jan 2011 21:32
im in the woods being chased by cougar-like body with members of people i know heads sewn on to where the head should be. I cant remember how i got the gun when i wake up, but i end up waking up at around 3 or 4 in the morning.

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Posted: 27th Jan 2011 21:50 Edited at: 27th Jan 2011 21:52
I love nightmares, because they are always so unique and interesting. One I remember having went something like this:

First I found a bag of eyeballs, all looking at me, in my elementary school which was completely empty. Then I transported to some place like the Rocky mountains and I was riding up and down the mountains on a bike (cartoon style). As a finale I jumped off a mountain using a ramp and into a mountain that was shaped like Abe Lincoln's head.

Pretty intense.

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Posted: 27th Jan 2011 21:57
Heyufool, thats not dreaming, thats called drugs xD.. nice one.

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Posted: 27th Jan 2011 22:01 Edited at: 27th Jan 2011 22:02
Quote: "Heyufool, thats not dreaming, thats called drugs xD.. nice one."

Nahhhh

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Posted: 27th Jan 2011 22:03
Last night I had a dream I was eating a giant marshmallow. When I woke up, I couldn't find my pillow.

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Posted: 27th Jan 2011 22:15
I don't think I've had nightmares since I was a little kid. The scarier the dream gets, the more bad-ass I get in the dream to make up for it. Although, I've had several dreams in my life about falling endlessly, but one time I actually hit the ground. I woke up immediately out of a dead sleep, freaked me out a little bit, but I disproved the myth about dying in dreams kills you in real life.

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Posted: 27th Jan 2011 22:26
Quote: "I don't think I've had nightmares since I was a little kid. The scarier the dream gets, the more bad-ass I get in the dream to make up for it. Although, I've had several dreams in my life about falling endlessly, but one time I actually hit the ground. I woke up immediately out of a dead sleep, freaked me out a little bit, but I disproved the myth about dying in dreams kills you in real life."


Real life?Hmm. I think I remember it, my name was Julius there. I think I ruled some place called Rome . Lol.
I've never had a nightmare .


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Posted: 27th Jan 2011 22:30
Phaelax, thats not exactly the myth. Ive seen myself (my body) die before in a nightmare, sort of 3rd person, and ive gotten injured of what would eventually be fatal in real life. ive also come to within fractions of seconds before i wouldve died, but then woken up.

They say if you actually experience death and its just you (not third person-ish) then thats how you know if youve died.

Although it doesnt quite make sense unless scientists did it in a controlled environment and resuscitated

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Posted: 27th Jan 2011 23:02 Edited at: 27th Jan 2011 23:03
Quote: "They say if you actually experience death and its just you (not third person-ish) then thats how you know if youve died."

Nah, I have died in dreams from the first person and once I died and saw some light then skipped to another dream. I remember one instance where I was murdered by a knife and took a few seconds of death to move on to another dream. I have to say those are the most exciting dreams, I actually very much enjoy those. Now that I think about it I don't remember ever having a dream from the 3rd person where I'm looking at me, and yes I do remember at least 2 or 3 dreams every night.

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Posted: 27th Jan 2011 23:23
I've only died once in a dream, where my blood was sucked out through the hand by a seal. I love have you guys all have fairly rational dreams, it makes me think I may have issues

"Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me." That's a bit like saying Hey bullies! So yeah, this words thing isn't working, but I'll tell you what will
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Posted: 28th Jan 2011 00:39
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I love have you guys all have fairly rational dreams, it makes me think I may have issues"

What???
Quote: "being chased by cougar-like body with members of people i know heads sewn on to where the head should be."


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Posted: 28th Jan 2011 00:49
Yeah, apart from that one.

"Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me." That's a bit like saying Hey bullies! So yeah, this words thing isn't working, but I'll tell you what will
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Posted: 28th Jan 2011 01:09
For some reason I was in the Empire State Building and a nuclear bomb went off, but we were safe, though it meant the beginnings of something post-apocalypic and we were surviving all right because the remaining survivors were good willed, but soon came in the zombie mutant bikers terrorising the place (but they only come out at night), so we took barricade in the Empire State Building, but then for some reason they were coming in through the parking lot (does the Empire State Building have a parking lot? *shrugs*), unfortunately, my alarm went off at that point, which is a shame because I was actually enjoying it and . I was beginning to see that it would be a great plotline for a story - it was enough for me to scribble down a load of notes.

So I wouldn't call it a nightmare.

There have been two particular nightmares I do remember and they were pretty horrific, not anything where I'm dying, but those closest to me instead, but not in bizarre ways.

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Posted: 28th Jan 2011 03:42
Hahaha, Metro 2033 shouldve had that as an intro.

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Posted: 28th Jan 2011 03:48
My friends turned into vampires and tried to kill my girl friend and I. Then the devil made rain fall sideways and break through giant pane glass windows and flooded my house. I had to retreat to the attick which turned into a giant mountain top where I saw that everything in the world except my mountain top had been submerged. Not exactly scary, but VERY LUCID.

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Posted: 28th Jan 2011 03:52
lol, what are people smoking on this forum.

oh and flashing snail, your girlfriend forced you to watch twilight did she not? xD

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Posted: 28th Jan 2011 04:08 Edited at: 28th Jan 2011 04:17
I've had some pretty messed up ones.

One(when was 6 or 7) that happened at least 6 times is a nightmare of the Wheel on "the price is right" spinning and me hearing terrible screaming. I think twice i woke up with me doing the screaming.

(early teens)I've had this a few where I'll be swimming or in a room filling with water and have to hold my breath. During my dream I can't get a breath and I soon wake up really out of breath.

(few days ago)I don't know what I was dreaming about but I wake up(so I think) and say that was a weird dream. Then weird things start happening and I "wake up" again in bed thinking "Hey a dream in a dream" but was still dreaming. I don't remember much after that but I remembered these dreams when I was getting ready(actually awake this time) for school that morning. I've woke up twice before but I think that was my first time waking up 3 times.

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Posted: 28th Jan 2011 20:27
i had a lot of nightmares where i got killed in varios gruesome ways. eaten by dinasaus, shot stabbed, fell to my death, got my limbs hacked off stuff like that. i cant really pick which one is the worst

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Posted: 29th Jan 2011 02:03
Quote: "actually experience death and its just you (not third person-ish) then thats how you know if youve died. "

It was in first-person, I think it made my whole body flinch.

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Posted: 29th Jan 2011 02:11 Edited at: 29th Jan 2011 02:16
Quote: "Quote: "actually experience death and its just you (not third person-ish) then thats how you know if youve died. "
It was in first-person, I think it made my whole body flinch.
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Maybe you got extremely close to death... idk.
Anyway I remember I was on the back of a four wheeler and this girl stopped at a cliff and I flung over the front over the cliff.... Well atleast she was hot.

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Posted: 29th Jan 2011 02:12
shouldn't the girl have been on the back with you driving? Guess we know who wore the pants in that dream!

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Posted: 29th Jan 2011 02:17
Well, I got to straddle her in the dream so that's a plus for me.

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Used to have a recurring dream when I was younger, about my dog eating me in some fashion. The dreams stopped when my dog died...

I did have a few other dreams about huge lone wolves tracking me down and trying to eat me.

I've grew out of being afraid of dreams and pretty much any thing now. Not had a decent dream in ages though, or a nightmare. I might eat some cheddar before bed

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You didn't kill the dog in your sleep did you?
Where you bitten by a dog as a kid or something?

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I had a nightmare that i was in the Fallout world and i was Mr. House. that was weird, i then got the game the next day and relised that the dream i had was about a game that i never even heard of at the time

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Posted: 29th Jan 2011 10:29
Quote: "You didn't kill the dog in your sleep did you?
Where you bitten by a dog as a kid or something?"


She died from cancer, and no, I never got bitten by a dog when I was little. She was a lovely dog, which is why its odd I had weird dreams about her trying to and most of the time, killing me and then eating me :\

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It wasn't just that dream that made me think that, as you also mentioned being attacked by wolves too.

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I had some strange dreams last night. In one of them there were dogs entering the room (black ops, zombies mode) and I was getting ready to kill them with my fire axe (killing floor) but for some reason they were all friendly. A little later cars and huge mechanical dogs attacked the city (transformers no doubt, but I don't live in a city ) and I had to transform myself into something to absorb them or... something. Later on some highly-scaled 3D models started flooding through a portal and invading us. We all ran in different directions and I followed someone into a house and up the stairs, and we both went down a laundry chute. We ran around the house a bit more and went down the same laundry chute. In the end I decided not to follow this person, and I can't remember what happened after that.
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I don't have many nightmare, and if I have them I don't remember them, but I think that last night I just had the worst dream I ever had. I was in a minecraft world, and a pig pushed me of a cliff, but instead of hitting floor, I kept falling and the world generated new stuff as I was falling ( I saw the most awesome building spot ever ). And when I woke up I couldn't get out of bed because I still felt like falling and I was tired the entire day

Guess I shouldn't play minecraft till 4 am
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Posted: 29th Jan 2011 13:38
Quote: "I woke up immediately out of a dead sleep, freaked me out a little bit, but I disproved the myth about dying in dreams kills you in real life."


I once dreamt I got hit by a semi and died. What threw me off was that I got up and walked around. I was like, wtf, am I dead or not.

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A semi? ouch! I hate them dreams when you get by uncarfull drivers.

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I had a dream last night about going bald! I have no signs of balding, I'm a good few years away from that anyway but I heard that you get the "balding gene" from your mum's side and both my mum's brothers are going bald.

I sometimes have really short dreams that come true, maybe they are just my brain working in my sleep or maybe I sub-consciously make them fit into what actually happens. I don't know but it's a bit odd.

I had a string of dreams where I was in someone else's body, each time in a really detailed place that I'd never seen before, and each time the person I was "possessing" committed a murder! Sounds like a film lol


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Hello

I once dreamt that I was walking through an apocalyptic wasteland where there were loads of mutants just insanely running around smashing things up, grunting and screaming incoherently and fighting, it was very unnerving ..... no, hang on a minute, that was when I went out for a pint in town the other weekend.

No, my worst nightmare was a lucid one. I'd lost a bet or something and as a forfeit I had to compete in Gladiators! I felt every knock and bump, my lungs were burning from all the running, my body and muscles ached - it was awful. I think I actually woke up battered and bruised.
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I am still in limbo with my counselors and therapists in the matter of deciding if my situation should be classified as Nightmares or flash backs lol... of course they used some other politically correct medical terms.. lol

But...
Has to do with .50 Cal, vehicles, people, convoys, good friends and a lot of rocks and dirt.... oh the joyous memories lol
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I've had some really bizarre dreams in my life, but the scariest has to have been the one I had last night.

I was a caveman. Me and a cave-buddy of mine (he was my best friend or my brother, I don't remember which but I know I knew in the dream) were out hunting and picking berries to take back to the cave we lived in. It was a bright, beautiful sunny day and nothing could have possibly gone wrong.

Well, it did.

Suddenly, out of the distance there came this large-but-small dinosaur. Immediately I felt a sense of panic and utter dread and knew that something was terribly wrong. My cave-buddy was ahead of where I was and was standing just beside the dinosaur. The next thing I knew, I heard screaming. Not just any screaming, but real, genuine oh-my-God-I'm-getting-ripped-to-shreds screaming, the worst death scream that I could ever have imagined in my life. I knew it was over for my buddy. I began to feel completely sick as the screaming continued, and then the dream turned really graphic and blood was everywhere. My friend's head was gone but I could still hear the screaming, and blood was billowing out of his body like a fountain. The dinosaur finished him up, and at this point I felt an emotion I've never experienced before. I don't really know how to describe it, other than I felt completely sick, saddened, and totally afraid for my life. I knew it was over for me too. I began to ran but then I think I tripped and the next thing I knew my alarm clock was going off. I cannot tell you how relieved I was to discover I wasn't dead.

As simple as that dream sounds, it was truly the scariest dream I've ever had. I don't even know what caused it. I did eat a sandwich before bed last night but I've done that a lot in the past before without any strange side effects. My brain just decided to create a nightmare involving dinosaurs and death I guess. I'm not really afraid of death though, and I'm certainly not afraid of dinosaurs, yet the fear I experienced in that dream will never be forgotten and I'm pretty sure I won't be able to look at a picture of a dinosaur without remembering it for the rest of my life.

Gotta love our subconscious sometimes, eh?

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last night i had a dream that i traveled back in time on a time mashine to 1985. we took a car that seemed to belong to us, went to places, then when we were going back to the time mashine, we ran out of gas. we stopped by the gas station, but the only money we had with us, is the modern series which they didnt have in 1985. so the cashier refused to take that money and because of this, we ended up getting stuck in 1985

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Quote: "picking berries"

Yeah, that's where it all went wrong right there..
If I had a dream I was a cave man, I most likely would have been hunting or already hunted and would have been carrying a carcass back to throw it on a fire.. but picking berries? lol
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Maybe you watched Ice Age three just before bed?

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Quote: "Yeah, that's where it all went wrong right there.."




Quote: "Maybe you watched Ice Age three just before bed?"


Nope. It was just a totally random dream. The only reason I remember it so vividly is because it happened just before my alarm went off, so it was still very fresh in my mind's eye as I woke up. I normally don't remember much about my dreams unless they involve people from my life.

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As an interesting side point, I figured out I can increase my chance of having a nightmare by (a) watching a powerful film before bed (horrors are obviously best) and (b) wrapping up warm in bed, such that I get too hot. I guess you get uncomfortable, and the sensation of getting really hot as you sleep is a form of stress which manifests itself as a bad dream.

I enjoy bad dreams in a weird sort of way. I hated them when I was a kid, but now they're more like watching a horror movie and I get over them the second I wake up.

Worst one I had though was when I got heartburn as I slept. My alarm went off and the beeping manifested itself as a reversing forklift. Meanwhile the heartburn became the spike slowly skewing me. When I woke up it really hurt, and that was a major head screw.

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I was at an inn, when suddenly the lights went out. a woman lit a match so all i could see was her face, she said something about being able to see evil. the lights came back on, and i looked under my bed to see a bag with a mis-shapen corpse inside. at this point i freaked out and woke up. after going back to sleep the dream continued. everyone was at the inn sat around a long table having dinner, when i got shot in the back by a longbow. as i leave my body and look down, i see that someones mutilated my corpse, by sewing random parts of other peoples bodies onto mine.

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That's certainly bizzare.

I often have dreams where I am running away from something, then right before I fall or get caught, I wake up in a panic.

I cannot watch the movie, "The Road" before going to sleep, it's not that it's scary, it's just very disturbing in the fact that you wonder if it could ever happen.

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My only nightmares involve clowns...

...I don't really want to talk about it...

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i seiosly had a terifying dream today. I had a dream that the crysis alien invasion was REAL!

So i am sitting on my 8th floor apartment, most of the city is in smoke and flames, Thee was a large alien structue in the city luckily it was fa away, most of the detruction and explosions, were going on around the large alien structue. I feel safe for now. Then i notice a large alien robot starts goiong towad my apartment, I quickly turn off all the lights and electricity and hide. I was seriosly terrified in the dream, But the funny thing is i felt like i was moe afraid that my computers would get destroyed rather than my own life. because i spent lots of money on them and they had valuabale data

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