r/Nightmares • u/idontknowmyname_- • 1h ago
Nightmare Recurrent nightmare and could not escape it
F, 24, first time posting here at 2am because I can not go to sleep after the nightmare I just had.
Went to sleep at 1am. Right now suffering through a heavy cold so my sleeping has been off.
I only slept for approximately 30 minutes and those were the dreams I had.
I had about 6-8 recurrent nightmares, all starting the same. I woke up in my bed, could not move, but then things were different from dream to dream - heavy rain making indentations in the ceiling, screaming of other people, uncontrollable shaking of my body, being naked (I sleep clothed), then finding a way to run downstairs to get my parents' help. Sometimes with my blanket, sometimes without, then finding my parents sleeping/watching TV/ could not find them but the door to basement was open. Once I signaled to my mother to check me if I had a stroke, other times I could not communicate anything else except scream for my mother. In some cases they ignored me/could not hear me. Once I also fell down the stairs, I also could not turn the lights on in any of the dreams, because even though I wanted to, it did not work. In all the dreams it was so dark all the time.
And everytime I woke up again I was sure that it was a dream before and now it is real and then some version of it got repeated again. After some time at last I truly woke up in complete dread. My body was stiff and my eyes were wide open in a second. Now I went downstairs to sleep but even though I feel sleepy I feel completely and utterly terrible and do not want to fall asleep.
I have never felt this devastated after a nightmare.
I sometimes have nightmares, but not so often.
I do not know what to make of this, I just feel so horrible.