I was curious to see what everyone is truly terrified of in Nightmares, sometimes the answers can be very comical and interesting. If you want, share a crazy dream you have had Even better, lets talk Lucid Dreaming.

Dreams are half my life, I remember just about every one I have, and have been LD'ing naturally since I was little. I interpret them if I see opportunity, but in a way where dreams are just projections of my waking emotions and problems. They manifest in interesting ways. Normally, even though LD'ing is fun, i enjoy it more when my brain takes me on a ride, wherever it wants to go. I especially love it when i go back to places ive been before in dreams, and i get to relive a fun one. I dont know if its coincidence but i experience more lucid dreams when I lay on my stomach.

On the subject of nightmares, the ones that scare me the most, are anytime I have to go underground, in a crypt or something, and there is mummies. I just cant do mummies. And dolls, porcelain dolls that move on their own, and invisible threatening entities, dead eyed ghouls and corpses. And then, I have dreams where infestations of spiders, giant ones, webs everywhere.. im scared of spiders, deathly. The ones that terrify me most, is when a celestial apocalypse happens, where stars align and then explode, and we get wiped out and die.

And then there is annoying weird dreams, the ones especially about Zombies, black ops style. Im always playing/ in the game, and its always round one, but hordes and hordes keep coming and they never stop, and i never get to round 2, and i usually just give in and let them kill me. Hate those dreams. And the ones where i dream of secret, hidden, brand new levels of video games that dont actually exist but would make a great level if they did.

I remember when i went to Florida for the first time last winter, i knew that after being in the ocean i would have lots of ocean dreams, and indeed i did. It was amazing, i kept having dreams of saving bio-luminescent squid and octopus, carrying them out to sea.

But the best dreams, are when im flying.

I don't lucid dream as far as I know, and I don't know how to start doing it. I've read that gamers are able to lucid dream, but I've played video games since I was a child and I've never had control over my dreams.

I rarely have what I call a nightmare but if it happens it's mostly realistic dreams and my family members are dead, dying or in danger. That, or there is a war with air-raid alarm, bunkers and everything else I fear. I hate it... I also dreamt about zombies in a cellar, the last hours of mankind before an alien invasion or even some scary clown in an underground tunnel staring at me in the past but this didn't affect me much, found it more funny than anything the next day. XD

Once in my life I had a lucid dream tied to a surreal nightmare though. The whole scenario was just horrible, everything was dark, extremely loud and crowded with people, strangers and familiar faces. There were monstrous moving stairways leading to literally nowhere and everwhere on the way up I saw rusty rotating knives, saw blades and so on. The people around me nevertheless entered the stairways and got killed of course but no one but me seemed to even notice it. When everything became unbearable to me I said to myself "This can't be, you have to get out of here!" so I stood still and just began to scream, like a banshee you can say, and by doing that I woke myself up. No idea if I screamed irl as well at least my neighbors didn't mention anything...

Not everyone can, its either a natural thing or I guess people practice methods to be able to do it. Surely you remember some of your dreams? Id love to hear some

That sounds like a terrifying nightmare, I would have interpreted it in a societal brainwashing way. Where, most people are not conscious of the truths and awake enough to stop being a "zombie", and will blindly follow orders, even if its a stairway to death because they are blind and refuse to become conscious. You are the only one that sees past the chaos and the lies to know better, to see what is wrong. But, as with most societies, no one will listen to you and they will brush you off. Since you cant take that, and cant unsee what you have seen, the last thing to do is escape it all and scream, thus waking you up. Since I am not you, i can not pinpoint what the staircases and the knives specifically symbolize, i dont know your beliefs. Really only you can interpret your dreams. You must have been feeling like people had their minds closed to something important, and only you could see what was wrong, so your brain projected those feelings once asleep. I also read a lot of dystopian novels so my brain kind of goes there, in instances like this haha.

I did once have an odd dream about aliens that wasnt exactly scary, it was just weird. I was in my house, it was night, and i knew aliens were outside shining lights trying to break into the house. I kept trying to warn my family, they didnt care, so I grabbed my cat and escaped out the bathroom window, only to see walking pine trees in the dark. Not Tree ents like from LOTR, i literally mean a pine tree, with shoes, walking. Once I woke it was so comical that i started doodling them on my assignments in high school. Given that was 6 years ago, I still laugh.

I never really analyzed my dreams but now that you said this I googled the moving stairways and was told they usually stand for your job life which would match my situation at that time. Like, to succeed you have to endure pain?

Anyway, your dream about aliens sounds really scary but the part with the pine tree wearing shoes made me chuckle, very nice. XD My alien dream had no actual aliens in it, it was just clear that the aliens would invade our planet the next day. Everyone sat outside, staring into the sky. People were talking but in a quiet manner and everything just felt hopeless, gloomy and bizarre. It was evening already but in summer so it was warm, the sunset was just beautiful and yeah - very weird, lol

I might've had lucid dreams a couple times but honestly don't remember them. I occasionally have "nightmares" where they could very well be one but then they take a really silly turn and have a happy ending. As in, I vividly remember a tornado striking when we were on the highway. All cars turned off while the tornado went past, and then everyone got out of their cars and had a giant picnic right on the highway xD

Truthfully, if I either buy a new video game and play it nonstop or get really into one of my games and play it all the time, I start to dream about it for a few days at least. Gosh I remember when I kept dreaming about Pokemon Go and then I'd literally wake up in the middle of the night to pull up the app to catch whatever it was in my dream (but then sadly realize I was dreaming ahaha wasn't fully awake yet). I've also had dreams about Minecraft, Destiny, Mass Effect, etc. ahaha.

If anything, the sucky thing that happens to me is sleep paralysis. It doesn't happen frequently but it is most likely to happen if I'm lying down on my stomach. I used to love sleeping on my stomach because of how comfortable I was, but now I try to avoid it at all costs because sleep paralysis sucks. Course, that may not be relevant to this topic but I still decided to bring it up.

Ive had what people describe as sleep paralysis but I think its something else because I can move around. Ive messed with some dark stuff in my past and I still believe im followed by demonic entities that attack me when im half awake. Its always in my room, on my bed, I think im awake, and then i get attacked by something i cant see but i can feel it. Truly terrifying, until i fully wake up and it "gets off of me".

dreams about flying are the best!! i haven't had any in a couple years but i remember them being amazing q __ q

i have nightmares v often unfortunately actually so often and they can get so bad i literally wake up every 20 minutes and then don't get any sleep for days :v the really bad ones are all about the same-ish topics which i'm not comfortable sharing, but aside from those missing trains/buses/planes or coming late/forgetting appointments are also common i'm so used to them by now i can usually wake myself up before things get too bad haha

i love dreams in general!! they're super interesting i remember just about all of mine (except nightmares but i usually try to forget those) and also write them down |D when i was a pre-teen i could lucid dream at will and i would use this to live out all my dumb pokemon and digimon stories lmao.......... i used to daydream all day so i think that's why i was able to ld too, but i don't really miss it that much tbh? i'm satisfied with regular dreams~

I always experience extremely vivid night terrors :( I actually write down every one of them because one day I'd like to write a short story horror book. I've had a dream where I watch from a fixed ceiling view in an old wooden house by candlelight as a woman in a white and tan colonial dress holds my lifeless body on her lap and pours cement down my throat. Like wtf does that even mean. I've had dreams about organ trees, all kinds of weird crap.

I also have insanely beautiful vivid dreams- I had one where I was standing on the shore and I could smell the salt air and the wind was whipping around me and the sun came up over the horizon and it was intense as HELL and I couldn't stop looking at it and it was the most intense feeling of happiness I think I've ever experienced. I was 100% sure I had died in my sleep and I was 100% okay with it. Has anyone else ever experienced something like that?!

I thankfully don't have nightmares very often, or if I do they're incredibly short. I do dream quite often though, and they're always quite vivid and realistic. I used to write them down all the time, but now not so much (unless I have one I really enjoyed and want to recall on). I've only been able to lucid dream a handful of times, and it's usually not under full control, but enough for me to get away or avoid something my dream is creating.

I don't dream at all. I believe its due to being medicated, a drugged brain shuts down. Before the meds, I had only nightmares.

I probably dream but I forget most of it to the point where I don't feel like I dream often enough? :l When I do remember, it's usually a nightmare or something close to it in strangeness.

Lucid dreaming... I sometimes try to go to sleep actively dreaming of something but I'm usually so tired it really doesn't get anywhere by the time I am asleep.

Gore and/or babies in dreams terrify me. The babies are usually evil and/or deformed and it's just freaky. D: Recent nightmare involved an evil deformed baby who was like the smartest person on the planet. It was weird.

Rarely am I aware during the actual dream or nightmare for the dream to be vivid though on a few occasions I've felt like I was truly "alive" in the other world aka felt, saw, heard etc what I was doing. One of them involved me running through a deserted forest away from ???? don't know who. It felt like I heard every twig snap and felt my muscles aching from running for so long. It was taxing. Another nightmare involved sleep paralysis where I thought I was being probed by aliens and couldn't move. I felt like hundreds of pins were stuck in my throat. It was a horrible feeling because obviously painful. Another funnily enough was when I was regretting my life choices and contemplated the day before if I had gone back to middle school things could be totally different. So my dream felt more like reality, I was in middle school and it felt like it was FOR THE LONGEST TIME. Then I realized I was dreaming and when I started telling people in my dream that, the dream started to collapse .. but ever so slowly that I wondered if I would ever get back to the real world. That feeling of being stuck was unpleasant even though I technically got what I wanted. xD

edit: My most intense dream is one I can't convince myself IT WAS a dream. :l It was the night of All Soul's Day (and Halloween was uneventful, I was working, I didn't do anything remotely Halloween-y) and I suddenly became aware of dreaming when I saw the window in the room I was sleeping in. I basically get the feeling I am sitting up in my bed looking at my window (also, fun fact : I'm not on the ground floor either irl). The curtains were parted (something I never do irl because I sleep with the curtains closed) and there goes a shadowy figure outside the window. No clue who it is. Not even gender, age, etc. I only see the upper half up to the torso and a side profile of it darting from left to right. Now okay, cool. Whatever, right? NOPE. Because like two seconds later, I experience full on white out of my vision and intense burning all over my body. And if I try to convince myself, I could hear some muffled sounds in the background that mayyyybe sound like a voice. I feel like this spirit is hovering over me and the heat is getting stronger and stronger. So I think (not speak because too terrified yo) aloud to it and say please stop it because you're hurting me and I will burn inside. Then the burning stops. I open my eyes to see I am lying on my side facing an interior wall (aka not facing the wall with the window). Funny enough, with ALL OTHER nightmares, when I do wake up in the middle of the night, my body's on guard aka sweating, fast heart rate, fast breathing, etc. This time, none of that. My body is as calm as ever as if it wasn't in so much pain before. I initially thought someone I knew died but no. Nothing of the sort. Then I thought it was an omen. And who knows. Weeks later I fainted, bumped my head, and I had a similar thought I had died because I had an intense feeling of calm and happiness when I saw myself - basically my legs/knees so not the whole body - walking through a field/meadow with a dog by my side. I've had dreams with happier content, obviously this was kind of like a bare minimum hey I'm walking through a meadow feeling calm sort of realization but the happiness felt was something I never had, not even with seeing my dead dog in dreams. It was surreal. Then I woke up to people crouching over me and I felt like where am I? who am I? why am I here and not there?

I mostly have lucid dreams. I can even move my legs and arms while remaining in the 2nd phase of sleeping. I've also heard I can talk full sentences. I also experience nightmares and night terrors the same way but those are difficult to control. (all proven by getting scanned/checked all night in a medical facility)

I very rarely have lucid dreams and when I do, I feel like I don't have 100% full control. When I actually do, it only lasts for a short while before I wake up. Actually, most of my dreams are nightmares. My mother says it's because I watch too many horror movies and play too many horror games. Which might be true but there are times when I go a long time without associating myself with anything "horror" related and I still have them. However, nightmares have become so common for me that I've actually grown to enjoy them? That probably sounds very strange for most people but I feel like while it is not a lucid dream, I can still tell when something is real or not. Most of the time, anyway. While the nightmares make me experience fear, I enjoy the rush of adrenaline I get in the dream and once I wake up from these types of dreams, I feel mentally tired from all the work my brain had to do.

I tend to have reoccurring dreams that I'm being put into a group of people and we are put into some horrible place, like another dimension. There are always demons that we have to get rid of or at least endure for a while. These dreams tend to be very long and detailed. And sometimes in the dreams, I'm able to sense a presence of really intense evil that the other people in my dreams cannot and I get so frustrated that I start crying and demanding to know why they can't feel the presence. I actually started a dream journal recently for dreams like this so I could keep track of them and maybe turn them into a story at some point. Or at least maybe make sense of them one day.

Oh! I should probably also mention that I have trouble sleeping even at times when I am extremely tired and sometimes when I am laying in a half-awake state, I see images in my mind of really simple things like every day objects but they scare me really bad? Like, I might see just a toy on the ground or an image of a field or backyard and then I will jerk into full awakeness for a few seconds as whatever it was I saw was frightening to me and felt horrible even though there was no logical reason for it to do so. :c

i've never had a lucid dream in my life, but I'd like to experience one. i'm fairly knowledgeable on how to trigger one, but I've been nervous to. i've heard that certain conditions (like depression, anxiety and etc.) can make lucid dreaming quite risky.

i can't exactly pinpoint any time that I've had sleep paralysis, though. i feel like at one point in my life I did, but it was just the sensation of not being able to move. no scary visions or anything like that. it's weird. i always lay on my side while facing the wall with my blanket covering everything besides my face, just in-case I ever do experience it again. the thought of seeing a dark entity out in front of you while you're not able to move or do anything scares me so bad. i realize they're never REALLY there, but I'd always ask myself "What if... ?". can depression & anxiety affect how often you have it? if so I'm surprised I haven't had it more often.

there was this one weird experience I had while lying in bed. i was half-asleep and I was lying on either my side or my back, I'm not sure, but it felt like some entity grabbed me by the collar of my shirt making me sit up, then pushed me back into the same position as before. i still have no idea what it was, but it freaked the living daylights out of me. i really don't feel like it was sleep paralysis. it felt like I had no control over my body, yet it was as quick as the blink of an eye. it could've been me jolting myself awake fast enough to sit up and then lay back down, but it was too quick to be that. i haven't gotten a clear answer to it since. :/

i have nightmares occasionally. sometimes they relate to topics such as death or otherwise, some really weird stuff that scares me for some reason. a recent one was about a family member dying. (my grandmother to be exact)

i've always had memorable dreams. i've typed down a list of some of the ones I remember most. when I was younger I always had dreams about space. my mother told me that I once had a dream where me & her were out in our front yard at the time (it was night) and then some astronauts (maybe aliens??) came and took her, but I somehow didn't mind. no idea why they did, but apparently I drew a picture of the dream awhile later. another one I had a long time ago involved space as well. in the dream I was floating out in my backyard. i was quite high up. (about 10-14 ft high?) i was looking back on our house and it was dusk at the time but something caught my attention. when I was looking out at the sky, there were tons of large planets out there, very close to earth, and I could see them clearly. it looked like a fantasy video game setting; very cool. another one that I had but don't really remember was where I was actually floating in FRONT of my house, and it was nighttime. i don't believe I was floating as high as in the one mentioned before, but now that I think about it, it seemed like a sequel to the one before. a similar one was where I was, again, out in my backyard. it was daytime when I heard this large BOOM-ing sound. it sort of sounded like a man's voice. when I heard it, the sky instantly turned to night. it mimicked a light switch.

my most recent dream was where I was in my kitchen and all the drawers/cabinets started opening and closing on their own. definitely something paranormal.

agh, sorry for the rambling. that's only a FEW of the ones I've had. i have so many more but when I typed them down, their descriptions were very vague so I don't remember what went down in most of them. and some were a bit inappropriate so I cannot share those.

I do recall a sleep paralysis incident, but it was wrought from an extended insomnia. Well six days will do that, I collapsed after the seventh.

When i was a kid I used to have recurring nightmares every night, but they were due to a bad household, once I moved in with my dad my dreams were silent, and calm.

I cant tell you how many times I have one of my uninterrupted adventure dreams that feel like a lifetime, i wake up and think to myself that wow that would make such a great book or movie, and then just ignore it and store it in my brain as a memory instead haha. Ive never felt true bliss in my dreams, instead I have had dreams of dieing, and they are never fun. Theyre actually pretty awful. And about that lady pouring cement down your throat, interpretation is in the eye of the beholder, but id take that as a way of someone silencing you in real life. Be it an opinion, a goal, your spirit.

You should try just storing them as memory, like I do. However, i do end up having problems since half my memories are waking life and the other half are dreams, i tend to confuses reality sometimes haha.

Yeah most of my friends that take meds dont have dreams anymore, i get that. id feel empty if it were me. Im also sorry you had a extended period of sleep loss. When ive been sleep deprived i start Hallucinating, and i get terrified, things start to "breathe", and twitch, and move. I havnt had that problem since high school though.

When i dream of babies its always very sad. I always end up having a baby, but then i lose it, and i find it later dead. I know what it means in an interpretation sense, but those dreams always kill me. I cant have kids, so it mocks me. Ive been stuck in dreamland before, and i truly thought I had fallen into a coma because of how long it was lasting, and nothing was working that usually does for me to wake up. Turns out i was having an Inception dream, I woke up from a "coma" in a hospital bed, and when i walked out of the hospital bed after what felt like forever, i woke up in my bed. I have inception dreams a lot. I hate false awakening. That halloween nightmare sounds horrifying, gave me chills.

Sometimes im almost sure im moving in my sleep or screaming but my family says otherwise, i guess it cant be the best thing. As long as you are not sleep walking, that can be dangerous!

The things we see in waking life can definitely impact out dreams, but also our mental state and waking problems can to. Our dreams do this very funny thing of projecting our problems in very interesting forms of symbolism. Ive sensed pure evil in my dreams before, its very heavy. Thats the only way to describe it, is heavy and suffocating. And I totally know what yorue talking about with the flashes of imagery, that happens to me normally when my heart rate lowers too rapidly and i become very 'heavy' feeling, im not asleep, but i start seeing flashes of images and locations go across my eyelids. Its actually fun to me, like dreaming but im still awake. I used to experience it a lot when I would smoke pot, but i dont do that anymore.

I have some of the worst types of mental illness and if anything, dreaming and lucid dreaming is like taking a break from my waking emotions and problems, and walking into another problem-free reality. Im jealous, I dont have dreams of space, except for this one I had when i was in a space station, and then watched stars explode which killed us, Ive had plenty of floating dreams, its like flying. This silly one I had was I floated way up high above the pond behind my house and when I looked down their was a giant alien corpse filling up the whole pond underwater, it was silly.

Another random thing is my younger sister used to have weird periods of uh, i dont really know what to call it. Half sleep walking? But without the walking. My little sister used to 'wake up', sit up in bed, eyes half open, glazed dead look, and she would slowly turn her head around the room without a sound, and silently lay back in the bed. Creepiest thing ever, turned out to be a thyroid problem i guess.

can you explain to me the difference of dream and lucid dreaming? because i have a dream almost every night, even when i take naps, and i remember every single one. i swear my dreams put me in psychic state, because i dream about things and they end up coming true, which really intrigues me.

When you dream normally, you are not in control of your dreams rather they take you for a ride, and you are not fully aware you are dreaming, just going with the flow. However, you can still wake up and remember a normal dream

When you are Lucid, you become fully conscious and aware that you are dreaming, and once you are aware you start to break the rules. Common lucid dreams are flying dreams. When you are Lucid you are able to make your dreams into what you want them to be. Control outcomes, morph people, go certain places, fly, etc. Normally the first thought of a lucid dreamer while dreaming, is 'im dreaming' haha.

Flying will always be my favorite, but I also started to take up morphing people. I love mirrors, i can change my face around into silly things and it makes me laugh. I can make things appear, but it takes a lot of focus. Usually, i describe lucidity as a form of complete concentration. If you lose your concentration, things start to fall apart, and you will wake up. It takes practice to be able break certain walls. Once your brain wakes up while dreaming, it will want to wake up fully, so you have to concentrate to stay asleep. It can be hard to explain, but how i know im lucid in my dreams is first, things get really bright, and im "seeing out of my own eyes", im walking like a normal person and i think to myself consciously, "im dreaming, i have to be careful.", and then i bend reality.

Sometimes even in normal dreams i dont have to become extremely lucid, but i acknowledge that im dreaming and just let my normal dreams continue on as normal as they take me for a ride on an adventure.

I have no idea if I can lucid dream or not, maybe I can in certain situations but eh most of the time I have a heck of a time remembering what I've dreamt about.

I seem to have quite a few dreams about wandering large places, huge buildings with lots of rooms, lots of floors... and I always get lost within it. I also seem to have dreams where I am stuck in an elevator that never seems to open the doors when I want off (or goes up/down too darn fast) ..... it kind of developed into my dislike for elevators in general.

As for nightmares? I don't get them often and if I can remember my dreams the things that scare me I usually wake up before anything bad happens... sometimes. Then I get too uneasy to fall back to sleep.... again thankfully it does not happen too often.