Post by Rictras Shard on Jun 4, 2015 21:28:39 GMT -4
Have you had any particularly disturbing dreams? The kind that wake you up and make you dread going back to sleep? Here are three of mine.
The first is one I had a long, long time ago, when I was about four years old. Therefore my memory of it is a bit sketchy. I'm in the back seat of a car driven by my mother. We are speeding down the street, because there is a ghost following us. Everyone the ghost passes dies. Unfortunately, other than the fact that it terrified me, that is all I can remember of it.
The second is about my grandparent's house, which you may remember if you read my thread 'Old House in the Woods'. I have recurring nightmares about this place. In many of them, one or both of my grandparents are somehow alive, even though on some level I'm aware they are supposed to be dead. This one differed from the norm, though. I'm at the house with my sister and my niece, back when she was still a little girl. A number of scary things have happened, and we flee the home. As we get in the front yard, I look up at the window of my grandparent's bedroom, and see my niece standing there looking out. I race back in and up the stairs. Just as I get to the top, which ends at a tiny hallway with the open doorways of both bedrooms, I realize that my niece left the house before I did, and it couldn't possibly have been her I saw. That's when I woke up.
The last was no doubt inspired by one of my greatest fears when I was a teenager. I had it just a few years ago. I'm in my bedroom at my last apartment. I hear a lot of shouting and noise coming from outside, so I look in the window. There are panic-stricken people running all over the place, although none of them seem to know which way to go. I look up, and in the distance I see a mushroom cloud. I think to myself 'No way. This has to be a dream." However, in the dream I somehow felt the floor under my feet. I could feel myself breathing. My next thought is "Oh my god, this is real! This is really happening!" That's when I woke up, and I don't think I slept again that night.
So, your turn, dear reader. Share some of your fear-inducing slumbers.
The first is one I had a long, long time ago, when I was about four years old. Therefore my memory of it is a bit sketchy. I'm in the back seat of a car driven by my mother. We are speeding down the street, because there is a ghost following us. Everyone the ghost passes dies. Unfortunately, other than the fact that it terrified me, that is all I can remember of it.
The second is about my grandparent's house, which you may remember if you read my thread 'Old House in the Woods'. I have recurring nightmares about this place. In many of them, one or both of my grandparents are somehow alive, even though on some level I'm aware they are supposed to be dead. This one differed from the norm, though. I'm at the house with my sister and my niece, back when she was still a little girl. A number of scary things have happened, and we flee the home. As we get in the front yard, I look up at the window of my grandparent's bedroom, and see my niece standing there looking out. I race back in and up the stairs. Just as I get to the top, which ends at a tiny hallway with the open doorways of both bedrooms, I realize that my niece left the house before I did, and it couldn't possibly have been her I saw. That's when I woke up.
The last was no doubt inspired by one of my greatest fears when I was a teenager. I had it just a few years ago. I'm in my bedroom at my last apartment. I hear a lot of shouting and noise coming from outside, so I look in the window. There are panic-stricken people running all over the place, although none of them seem to know which way to go. I look up, and in the distance I see a mushroom cloud. I think to myself 'No way. This has to be a dream." However, in the dream I somehow felt the floor under my feet. I could feel myself breathing. My next thought is "Oh my god, this is real! This is really happening!" That's when I woke up, and I don't think I slept again that night.
So, your turn, dear reader. Share some of your fear-inducing slumbers.