Nightmares

[LongStepMantis]

Last night was a record for me. I've been sick lately, so I don't know if that somehow factored into this, but I had 4 separate nightmares in one night. I would wake up sweating, go back to sleep, and have another one.

So my question to you all is do you have occasional/frequent nightmares?

Last night I:

Was chased by a tornado while I had that "you're running in slo-mo" thing going on. Looked behind me amidst the other people running and screaming to see it was about 30 feet behind me and closing.

Wife and I moved into a secluded country house...that was attacked by the KKK in the night.

While shopping with my family a gang of hoodlums with baseball bats kidnapped my nephew and attacked my parents.

Discovered that a zombie-hag was living in my basement (think Evil Dead "I'll swallow your soul") and she ate my dog.

So...I didn't sleep very well. :(

[Bad Buddha]

Whenever I had a really bad fever as a kid I would have the same nightmare: Sitting/strapped in a dental/medical chair, unable to move, and hearing time being ticked down; knowing that something terrible was going to happen when the time ran out!

'Tick... Tick... Tick... .... ....."

Then I'd wake up totally freaked out.

[shunoshi]

I have a nightmare maybe once a year. I tend to have no memorable dreams. When a nightmare does hit it is usually damn scary and usually deals with zombies, psychotic killers, my family turning into psychotic killers, my wife cheating on me and/or murdering me, or any combination of those.

I've had a nightmare as simple as driving on a very foggy night a hitting a zombie in the road. I immeditately woke up and was scared shitless and sweating.

[National Kato]

I used to have the exact same nightmare every time I had the flu as a child - like a fever dream.

I'd always be lying in the same bed (usually, my parents' bed) just as I would if I were awake and a giant, Raiders of the Lost Ark-type ball of rock would be slowly rolling back and forth across the room, set to crush the bottom third of the bed. I could never pull my feet up towards me and the ball never quite reached my toes - but the fear and suspense always scared the crap out of me.

[Khrymsyn]

Last night (this AM actually) I had a really bizarre one.
Can't remember the whole thing but eventually I was playing some sort of video game that looked like a cross between GTA4, Saints Row, and a Friday the 13th movie. At some point an explosion happend at a "circle" style intersection, which lit on fire a really freaking creepy statue that was the centerpiece of the circle. After the explosion, 5 red glowing circles formed around the statue, and so I walked towards one and was prompted to hit the "A" button... so I did, and began to paint some sort of white random pattern in and around the circle.
I noticed that there were some places the paint gathered more than others, so figured I was supposed to paint inside that pattern... I finished the first one, and went to the second one... somehow during that movement the scene changed from computer 1st person graphics, to real life visuals. I still had the glowing red circles to paint in, so I started painting the 2nd one, and as I was painting in it, I knew I was screwing up, so took out a wet paper towel (from?! haha) and started cleaning up the excess paint, when I realized that by doing so I was forming a face in the asphalt. A oddly realistic face that when I changed the angle I was looking at it, noticed it actually had depth and looked like it went INTO the asphalt. But the moment I changed angle, I noticed a white circle to my left which looked like another paint spot surrounded by a bunch of distressed metal (from perhaps a car exploding?). So I got closer to it, and started cleaning it and realized it was an infant's face... as I was cleaning it off the eye moved and freaked me the F out. I moved the metal away from the bottom of the face to reveal the spine and meat chunks of a body... I remember screaming pretty badly and I woke up.


That wasn't my strangest dream (that would be one I had for about 5 years from 16-21), but it definitely was the most horrific in recent memory.

[Scaryfaced]

I rarely remember my dreams and even more rarely have nightmares, but they happen. I've never actually had a scary dream, though. Perhaps as a child, but my nightmares are strangely realistic now. No psycho killers or monsters, just real life situations that I never would expect myself to get in to. That's usually how i wake up, disbelief of the situation I'm in. At a certain point in my dream, i reflect back and think "how the hell did i get myself into this?" and then reality sets in and I know I'm dreaming.

The last one I can remember involved a buddy of mine convincing me it was a good idea to try and rob a business building of some sort. We were loading computers out the back door when SWAT team rolls up on us out of no where. Next thing you know, I'm in a high speed chase OJ style. After a few minutes of contemplating life in prison, I remembered that I'd never be that stupid in the first place and BAM, I'm awake.
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[roboninja]

Whenever zombies, psychotic killers and the like attack me in my dreams, I beat the shit out of them. I have even taken down bears. Apparently I am quite the ass-kicker in my subconscious.

[biosc1]

Hmm...beats my dreams of gigantic dinosaurs coming from the other side of the coastal mountains...I think I was 5 or 6...I really don't have many nightmares anymore...

ps...obligatory...remember, don't spook the horse and then ride it...

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[Doctor Setebos]

I've had a nightmare as simple as driving on a very foggy night a hitting a zombie in the road. I immeditately woke up and was scared shitless and sweating.Oddly enough, I had roughly the same sort of nightmare just last week.

I was driving with my family down a country road at night, and zombies started appearing on the road. We started plowing them all down, gaining speed, and trying to outpace some nebulous zombie apocalypse that had apparently occurred. We eventually ended up in some remote forest survivor hideout, where I lost track of my family. Outside, the zombie forces took all of the nearby farm equipment - tractors, combines, backhoes, etc. - and launched a full-on assault on the hideout. I was panicking, running around trying to locate my family. Just as the zombies hit the hideout, I woke up.

I didn't sleep after that. :(

[Young Al Capone]

I almost never remember my dreams, and haven't had a traditional nightmare in years.

The last dream that I woke up from and was super relieved to see that it wasn't real was about me shooting down a helicopter with a chaingun, by accident. All sorts of people, not just cops, were trying to find me and it sucked.

When I was a kid I would have nightmares about being in a sewer system like from TMNT and being chased by giant alligators or just being at a and super creepy carnival/fair and not being able to find anyone else normal, everyone was all fucked up like in Jacob's Ladder or like they had Heaven's Smile or something.

[shunoshi]

I almost never remember my dreams, and haven't had a traditional nightmare in years.

The last dream that I woke up from and was super relieved to see that it wasn't real was about me shooting down a helicopter with a chaingun, by accident. All sorts of people, not just cops, were trying to find me and it sucked.

When I was a kid I would have nightmares about being in a sewer system like from TMNT and being chased by giant alligators or just being at a and super creepy carnival/fair and not being able to find anyone else normal, everyone was all fucked up like in Jacob's Ladder or like they had Heaven's Smile or something.

How the fuck do you "accidentally" shoot down a helicopter with a chaingun??? :eek:

[Young Al Capone]

How the fuck do you "accidentally" shoot down a helicopter with a chaingun??? :eek:

Well, I saw a chaingun in the backyard of my current place, I decided I would shoot it. In retrospect it wasn't a very good idea as I was in the city limits anyway. Well, about the instant I fired it I noticed that a helicopter was going down. I guess now that you mention it I am really not sure that it was an accident, dreams are wierd like that.

[shunoshi]

Well, I saw a chaingun in the backyard of my current place, I decided I would shoot it. In retrospect it wasn't a very good idea as I was in the city limits anyway. Well, about the instant I fired it I noticed that a helicopter was going down. I guess now that you mention it I am really not sure that it was an accident, dreams are wierd like that.

Hehehe, I know what you're saying. Just sounds funny. Dreams usually are just that though.

[Bone]

Just pray that none of you gets sleep paralysis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis)- also known as night terrors and historically as the "old hag (http://www.whatwasthen.com/old_hag.html)"- a condition that many have blamed for reports of possession, out of body experiences, and alien abduction. I had these constantly but it's now been about 5 years (knock on wood) and I never ever want them again.

Basically, your body stays in the conditions of REM sleep but your mind and senses wake up. You can see the room you're in, hear normal sounds like your clock ticking. Your body is unable to move at all while your mind is still coming out of dream state and overlays hallucinations on top of your real surroundings (like waking dreams). For some reason, this helpless condition often triggers the brain to create the sensation of someone sitting on your chest or standing just behind you or over you. It also instills an unwavering feeling that whatever is in the room with you is pure evil, intent on your soul's destruction.

I experienced one of these back when BK and I were just dating, and I was trying to scream out. My lips were not letting me. All she heard was a moan that she said made the hairs on her neck stand up (as it's doing to me now). Man, fuck sleep paralysis!

[National Kato]

I once drowned in my sleep and, upon waking, couldn't draw a breath for a good 5-8 seconds. It was pretty damned frightening.

[Backseat Killer]

All my nightmares take place in the same few settings. Always have. There are like 4 settings that I now know if I start going to in my dreams to WAKE THE F**K UP!! Normal places too (a hotel, the UT swim center, Legoland (stop laughing) and a cross between a high school and a college).

And Bone's sleep paralysis is scary shit. At least I usually wake up and can wake him up too. But I try to do it gently - he looks terrified...

[Spacetronaut]

I don't really have nightmares, generally I don't dream or at least don't remember them. Once though I went like 2 weeks where I had dreams every night and remembered them all. It was like being awake 24 hours a day. I'm glad that shit stopped.

[shunoshi]

Legoland (stop laughing)

Elaborate please. :D

[rinichanraar]

Just pray that none of you gets sleep paralysis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis)- also known as night terrors and historically as the "old hag (http://www.whatwasthen.com/old_hag.html)"- a condition that many have blamed for reports of possession, out of body experiences, and alien abduction. I had these constantly but it's now been about 5 years (knock on wood) and I never ever want them again.

Basically, your body stays in the conditions of REM sleep but your mind and senses wake up. You can see the room you're in, hear normal sounds like your clock ticking. Your body is unable to move at all while your mind is still coming out of dream state and overlays hallucinations on top of your real surroundings (like waking dreams). For some reason, this helpless condition often triggers the brain to create the sensation of someone sitting on your chest or standing just behind you or over you. It also instills an unwavering feeling that whatever is in the room with you is pure evil, intent on your soul's destruction.

I experienced one of these back when BK and I were just dating, and I was trying to scream out. My lips were not letting me. All she heard was a moan that she said made the hairs on her neck stand up (as it's doing to me now). Man, fuck sleep paralysis!

I actually came into this thread to talk about this! I used to get it about once a month or so, but it hasn't happened in about a year. It's really very, very frightening. I used to imagine myself banging my head on the wall in order to wake myself up (because I was conscious that I needed to wake myself up, but not that the images weren't real). I read that abnormal sleep schedules can cause it, so I stopped taking naps for a long time, and I haven't had any since then.

After a year or so of having them on and off, I had one a few years ago when Joey stayed over at my dorm. I kept trying to yell to get him to wake me up, but I couldn't. I guess he did wake up though (I can't remember if it's because I was shaking or something), and he saw that my eyes were blinking, so he woke me up. It was at that point that I realized that the reason all my surroundings were exactly as I remembered them is that my eyes were open. Apparently, it was really creepy.

Anyway, it sounds like you and I have had very similar experiences with this!

[Spacetronaut]

Just pray that none of you gets sleep paralysis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis)- also known as night terrors and historically as the "old hag (http://www.whatwasthen.com/old_hag.html)"- a condition that many have blamed for reports of possession, out of body experiences, and alien abduction. I had these constantly but it's now been about 5 years (knock on wood) and I never ever want them again.

Basically, your body stays in the conditions of REM sleep but your mind and senses wake up. You can see the room you're in, hear normal sounds like your clock ticking. Your body is unable to move at all while your mind is still coming out of dream state and overlays hallucinations on top of your real surroundings (like waking dreams). For some reason, this helpless condition often triggers the brain to create the sensation of someone sitting on your chest or standing just behind you or over you. It also instills an unwavering feeling that whatever is in the room with you is pure evil, intent on your soul's destruction.

I experienced one of these back when BK and I were just dating, and I was trying to scream out. My lips were not letting me. All she heard was a moan that she said made the hairs on her neck stand up (as it's doing to me now). Man, fuck sleep paralysis!

I saw a discovery channel documentary on this when I was 15 and have lived in fear of it happening to me ever since. On the show they said it happens to most people at least once, so I suppose it's only a matter of time.

[LongStepMantis]

I saw a discovery channel documentary on this when I was 15 and have lived in fear of it happening to me ever since. On the show they said it happens to most people at least once, so I suppose it's only a matter of time.

I think that happened to me earlier this year. I woke up in the middle of the night screaming, with no idea why I was screaming. I had a hard time getting back to sleep because I felt like there was something watching me.

I envy my wife. She sleeps like she's in a coma. I didn't even wake her up. :p

[Widgetcraft]

Last night I dreamed that I was on an oil rig-like structure, near by another (smaller one). I needed to get to the smaller one, but the one way was to jump into the water, swim over to it, and climb up this thick cable that connected the two (but dipped down into the water.)

The water was dark, a deep navy blue, almost black. Once I got into the water, I suddenly felt like there was something in the water; something big. I couldn't see it, even a little, but it was just a feeling. I panicked, and frantically tried to climb my way back up the cable, but it was too slick.

My dream then kind of switched, to where I was back on the large structure, and shopping for a Neo-Geo.

[n3rdXcore]

I had a really odd nightmare last week where someone broke my external hard drive. It stores all of my Amazon MP3 purchases, which are non-redownloadable. In the dream I got so angry and started screaming for five straight minutes.

What the hell is wrong with me, haha.

[ShivaX]

I just have super vivid dreams when I'm sick. It hasn't happened in years. I recall something involving a unicorn and rainbows.

When I was taking a medication I used to have extremely vivid dreams, but they were typically "normal" in that nothing wierd happened. The sex was pretty good, but thats all I remember. :p

[Adam Blue]

Just pray that none of you gets sleep paralysis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis)- also known as night terrors and historically as the "old hag (http://www.whatwasthen.com/old_hag.html)"- a condition that many have blamed for reports of possession, out of body experiences, and alien abduction. I had these constantly but it's now been about 5 years (knock on wood) and I never ever want them again.

Basically, your body stays in the conditions of REM sleep but your mind and senses wake up. You can see the room you're in, hear normal sounds like your clock ticking. Your body is unable to move at all while your mind is still coming out of dream state and overlays hallucinations on top of your real surroundings (like waking dreams). For some reason, this helpless condition often triggers the brain to create the sensation of someone sitting on your chest or standing just behind you or over you. It also instills an unwavering feeling that whatever is in the room with you is pure evil, intent on your soul's destruction.

I experienced one of these back when BK and I were just dating, and I was trying to scream out. My lips were not letting me. All she heard was a moan that she said made the hairs on her neck stand up (as it's doing to me now). Man, fuck sleep paralysis!

Interesting...I get this every so often, but figured it was my mind and body not communicating about me being awake/asleep.

[Inspector Fowler]

I LOVE scary dreams, even the upsetting ones. I had one the other night that I hit and killed another officer with my car. But he wasn't normal, he was some kind of crazy infected type. I could see it in his eyes, but I knew nobody would believe me, and even though the wreck was an accident, I felt relieved that he couldn't infect anybody else.

I woke up. Unbeknownst to me, my larger dog had evicted the small one from her kennel, and had crammed herself in there. She didn't fit, and was trying to make room. So I woke up from this really scary nightmare (you had to see this cop's eyes as I ran him over!) to hear....THUMP.....THUMP....in my room.

Glasses on, flashlight and gun in hand, up to investigate. It didn't take long to figure out what was happening, but it got my heart rate WAY up.

[neutralism]

So my question to you all is do you have occasional/frequent nightmares?

I seem to have these 4 particular nightmares at least once a month each:

1. All my teeth falling out for no reason. :confused:

2. Realizing I am not wearing any clothes in a crowded place. :mad:

Occasionally, though, I "wake up" in the middle of this particular nightmare and then realize it is no problem and then I go on to do what every guy does when they realize they are lucid dreaming. :)

3. "Busy work" such as a never ending term paper I have to write, rearranging thousands of books in order, or working on an assembly line. This nightmare leaves me exhausted when I wake up even if I had 8 hours of sleep. :mad:

4. Being in a firefight from an ambush or whatnot and having the weapon trigger be extremely hard to pull back. This one scares me the most as it always winds up with me usually getting "killed" and then waking up in a sweat. :mad:

[Ondo]

1. All my teeth falling out for no reason. :confused:
I've had that one several times before; I've heard its a fairly common nightmare.

[Widgetcraft]

1. All my teeth falling out for no reason. :confused:

Had that one before; it fucks with me. I've also lost my hair in my dreams, but that was back when I cared. After I shaved it bald for a while, I actually came to prefer that. Grew my hair back in though, as it was a bit too much maintenance (for now).

2. Realizing I am not wearing any clothes in a crowded place. :mad:

I've never had this one, though I have had nightmares where I'm naked and wrapped in a blanket, wandering around. I don't know why.

[Typical Michael]

I had a dream last night where I was Green Arrow and I was totally partnered up with Batman and we were fighting Deathstroke and Solomon Grundy, it was awesome.

I really dont have nightmares, because even my nightmares are awesome, with zombies and vampires and stuff.

[Generation ABXY]

I seem to have these 4 particular nightmares at least once a month each:

1. All my teeth falling out for no reason. :confused:

I've had this one for years, but this is because I have a cousin who has like nothing but rotten teeth left and, what's worse, doesn't care at all. I dare say he is the shame of the family...though that may just be my opinion. Either way, I think it very much helped shape that particular fear.

And, this year, with the rocky road it has been, I've also been having one where all my close family and friends are dead or gone. :(

[JRR006]

When I have nightmares, they're mostly about animals. Bears or dogs trying to get me while I'm inside a small space, like my car or my house, things like that. Also, wasps. A recurring one is that I can't move and there are wasps swarming around me. I wake up from those crying sometimes.

I also have "fun" nightmares, at least, they're enjoyable once I'm awake: I (usually some friends too) am running around buildings, with a Tyrannosaurus Rex as shown in Jurassic Park trying to get us. Sometimes it's buildings on campus, or my old house, or the local mall. All of my nightmares take place in familiar places. I don't mind dinosaur-themed nightmares because they're at least imaginative.


1. All my teeth falling out for no reason. :confused:


Ha! Me too. In my nightmare they never actually fall out, they're just loose and I know if I try to bite anything they'll fall out. Then I wake up and stick my finger in my mouth to reassure myself... What's up with this nightmare, it seems so common?

[Variable Gear]

Luckily, I don't remember most of my nightmares. Although, I must say, it scares me when I think that.

[darkbase]

Mine usually revolve around being alone and having to run away from "infected" (28 Days Later style zombies) in the woods at night, and plenty of times I've dreamed that I'm in a fist fight for my life, but none of my punches really make any damage.

I usually end up twitching (in bed) when I throw my punches or run in my dreams, and it wakes me up and freaks me out. My girlfriend tells me I mumble and groan in my sleep, but never anything comprehensible. I figure it's from me talking in my dreams and it's leaking into my physical actions? Anyone understand this stuff? The twitching and groaning is pretty frequent.

[Generation ABXY]

Luckily, I don't remember most of my nightmares. Although, I must say, it scares me when I think that.

Clearly, that means this is a nightmare. Dreams do seem to get a lot done in a relatively short period of real time, so maybe you're sleeping right now. Or maybe through your whole life - this could be a coma or something.

We'll try a test - I'd say, let us know how it goes, but...well, you know. So, here goes:

WAKE UP, VINCENT! WAKE UP!

:p

[Variable Gear]

Clearly, that means this is a nightmare. Dreams do seem to get a lot done in a relatively short period of real time, so maybe you're sleeping right now. Or maybe through your whole life - this could be a coma or something.

We'll try a test - I'd say, let us know how it goes, but...well, you know. So, here goes:

WAKE UP, VINCENT! WAKE UP!

:p
No, my nightmares were better than this reality...

[Generation ABXY]

No, my nightmares were better than this reality...

Crap, now I'm all sad. :(

[Geddlo]

My fever dreams usually involve pink elephants.

I've been having the night terrors over the past couple months. scares the crap outta me. I was actually on vacation with my friend and it happened in the hotel room one night. the next day he was like, "holy shit dude what the hell was that?"

I had a friday the 13th style dream last week involving some kind of mongoloid creature man that was kinda sick. One part (thats not so bad) i remember was we were able to calm the creature and then the townsfolke came demanding to destroy it and we were like no leave him alone. somehow they had a change of heart and wanted to say hello to the it and my friend and i yelled out NO!!. but of course the townsfolke went off and we turned around, walked quickly into a nearby store. locked everything up and waited. couple minutes later i heard people screaming and then the it screaming and it reached through and broke the glass of the store poking its arms through and people were crying and yelling trying to get into the store but we just sat there not moving.

I love my dreams even the scary ones. i can generally remember them pretty well too.

[BrassGecko]

My worst is soundless and just involves a sense of pressure, more or less unrelated to anything else happening in the dream. The earliest version I remember is from before I started elementary school and has me standing on a boat, with a plane flying overhead, in another one I am just walking through my house. There's no sound, never much happening, and there is a steadily increasing sense of physical pressure pressing down on me to the point of being nearly unbearable. I can remember at least four or five versions, I tend to have the dream once every couple years.

[Wolvie]

I had a nightmare just this morning. I dreamed I went to pick up my wife from work(she is working at a hospital as a nurse in the nightmare, but works in a daycare in real life), and waited awhile for her to come out. I began to get worried and upset when she didn't come out to the car on time.
I call her, no answer. I call her boss, she says she's already left. I call her friend who she works with, and get the run around. I press her for info, and she finally tells me she got pissed at me for being late to pick her up and left with another man!
I ask her who the hell it was(she told me the name in the dream but I forget now), and she says that's all she knows. I demand to know where they were going, and she says she doesn't know. She tells me that the man knows my wife very well, has known her for a long time at work, and they seem to like each other... very much!
I freak and start calling around asking everyone I can think of to see if they know where she might be, and of course no one knows. I call the wife again and get no answer.

The second part of the nightmare has me imagining my wife having an afair with this man. For some reason I am CERTAIN she is cheating on me. I end up driving to my wife's sister's house... for whatever reason, and I crash out on her couch. I fall asleep, and get awakened by my wife's sister demanding to know what the hell I was doing in her house... and that's it. I woke up for real, and after that I really didn't want to go back to sleep.

[Young Al Capone]

That is a pretty weird and vivid dream, and speaking of recent nightmares I had a pretty crazy awakening this morning.

So, I was out late last night at a show, The Revival Tour, act like you know. I got home around two and went to bed, fully aware that I am getting maybe two and a half hours of sleep tops before I have to wake up for work which starts at six. I woke up at 4:30 when my alarm clock first goes off and I turn it off.

Next thing I know I am with my ex in my old jeep, and we are driving along the local winding road that leads to the top of the local part of the Rockies; the Sandias. I lose control of the jeep and it goes through the guard rail and off a cliff. As it is falling towards the ground and slowly flipping I feel her [my ex] grip my hand tightly and then I spring up in bed as the roof smashes into the ground, very startled.

It was also too late to take a shower before work, but luckily not late enough to make me late to work.

[Bone]

I actually came into this thread to talk about this! I used to get it about once a month or so, but it hasn't happened in about a year. It's really very, very frightening. I used to imagine myself banging my head on the wall in order to wake myself up (because I was conscious that I needed to wake myself up, but not that the images weren't real). Really, it can be terrifying, huh? I would sometimes be disturbed for weeks by just one of these events.


I read that abnormal sleep schedules can cause it, so I stopped taking naps for a long time, and I haven't had any since then.Yep, I used to really struggle with insomnia and other bad sleep patterns, and the lack of "old hag" events correlates with my improvement in sleep. I used to stay up too late every night (like 4 AM), eat and drink (especially caffeine) way too late, and I was getting pretty overweight. Being overweight was also causing snoring and sleep apnea, which was further reducing my overall rest. So I've stopped drinking sodas a few hours before bed, stopped eating large meals within a few hours before bed, reduced my weight and try to get to bed slightly earlier (now 2 AM is my late night). So far so good. Glad you were able to control yours too.

I saw a discovery channel documentary on this when I was 15 and have lived in fear of it happening to me ever since. On the show they said it happens to most people at least once, so I suppose it's only a matter of time.I used to actually believe I had been abducted by aliens when I was much younger (like 11 or 12). I knew how ridiculous it sounded, but if you experience one of these, especially one with extreme hallucinations, there is no other way to describe it.

Interesting...I get this every so often, but figured it was my mind and body not communicating about me being awake/asleep.I think that's the gist of it. It's pretty interesting to consider how your levels of consciousness overlap and how your dreams seem like just a pattern of memories that can intersect with real memories.

[LongStepMantis]

I seem to have these 4 particular nightmares at least once a month each:

1. All my teeth falling out for no reason. :confused:

This is my wife's #1 Nightmare. To the point where if I joke about it she hits me.

As others have said, it seems to be a fairly common one...although it's never happened to me.

My recurring one is zombies. The weird part is that I rarely ever see any of them. It usually involves me and random others in a dilapidated building, talking about trying to keep them out/survive.

One time they broke in and flooded the house...and the best weapon I could fashion was a screwdriver tied to the end of a broomstick. It did not end well.

[LongStepMantis]

I'm still recovering from being sick, and I had another nightmare last night. This one was just...weird.

So I go to this amusement park, where I'm greeted at the gate by Penn & Teller. They tell me that if I sign a contract, I get all my food and beer in the park for free. Evidently it involved me being periodically put in huge accidents as advertising. One of them was a semi-trailer falling over towards me, only to split in half before crushing me and a sign saying "Penn & Teller" would pop up. Halfway in, I realized I was wearing a banana hammock in the packed park. I think that was the most terrifying part. :p

[TheKeck]

My most frequent recurring nightmare is that I'm back in school, and it's the end of the year/semester and for some reason I have totally been blowing off a class the whole time and I realize that I'm going to fail and it just leaves me feeling sick. :(

[TheKeck]

This is my wife's #1 Nightmare. To the point where if I joke about it she hits me.

As others have said, it seems to be a fairly common one...although it's never happened to me.
Ah, chalk this one up for me as well. I have heard that it represents a feeling of not having things in order in your life. Being stressed out and having too much going on, etc. Who knows?