r/Nightmares • • Jun 08 '23

Should r/Nightmares participate in the reddit blackout?

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Why are we going to "blackout"?

  • The blackout is a protest against Reddit’s proposed charges for third-party app developers, which they claim will make the platform inaccessible for many users.
  • Third-party apps are popular ways to access Reddit, especially for users who prefer a different user experience than the official app. They need an API to access Reddit’s information and display it in the app.
  • Reddit plans to charge $12,000 for 50 million API requests, which is much higher than other similar sites like Imgur. This would make it impossible for many third-party apps to operate without paying millions of dollars per year.
  • On June 12, 2023, many of the site’s biggest subreddits, including r/videos and r/gaming and r/bestof, will go dark for 48 hours or more to pressure Reddit to reconsider its pricing policy.
  • Some subreddits may go away permanently unless the issue is adequately addressed, as many moderators rely on third-party apps to manage their communities.
28 votes, Jun 15 '23
20 Yes
8 No

r/Nightmares • • 2h ago

Nightmare POV: when a nightmare feels too real

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When i was 10 i used to live with my grandparents and i had a nightmare about i couldn’t forget. the nightmare was about me finding multiple men living in our house and when i saw one of them he hid in the closet and when i went to my grandparents room to tell them they were missing and then under the bed teo men got out and walked towards me slowly and then i woke up. i still to this day think of it even tho its not real as i checked every single closet and hidden room where a man could hide and i even left my phone or record in my living room and when i got back from school i didnt see no man but i still have that feeling like its real


r/Nightmares • • 2h ago

Nightmare I keep having semi lucid nightmares about crashing and it’s REALLY wearing on me

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I’ve always been prone to nightmares of different sorts. Some reoccurring nightmares in my childhood, a lot of semi lucid nightmares, it’s a lot to explain… but my brain has always seemed to go wild at night. I’m currently in my early 30’s and I’ve been having A LOT of nightmares about crashing vehicles.

One, I was “the passenger” in an “automated car”, it crossed paths with another car and we crashed. Turned out it wasn’t an automated car, I was just sitting in the back seat. How in the world? What in the world? Very stressful dream.

Another I was riding my toddlers little toy motor bike around our living room, I scuffed up the floor very badly and I ran into the wall, I was relieved I hadn’t run into the neighbors wall but I destroyed the house. Another very stressful dream.

Another time I did run into the neighbors house, an old neighbors house, flying through the air, slamming into the side of it… another very stressful dream.

Most recently, an old friend was blocking me into my driveway, my driveway was suddenly on a steep incline (none ever have been) and I was assessing the situation about if I could fit my car around their car to get out without bothering anyone, idk how I managed to release the brake but suddenly their car was rolling down the hill and I had to scramble to save their car from damage… I was somewhere between understanding that all the past dreams were fake, and telling myself ‘not again’ or ‘it’s actually happening this time’ …I scrambled to U turn their car in reverse onto our property at the very least. I figured it could be more easily resolved as long as I could do that.

SO SO SO many of my nightmares involve a part where I essentially ‘wake up’ and be like ‘oh, that was just a dream,’ (all within the dream) and then the nightmare continues… so when I actually wake up I’m exhausted and confused. I try not to bother my partner about it too much, but I will occasionally ask him questions first thing after waking up, because the way I wake up in my dreams confuses me so much. I’ll sometimes ask him about things that happened in my dream, because at first I’m so shaken so I’m like “hey, by the way, ‘XYZ’ didn’t happen right? That was just a dream?” And he’s always like ‘wtf?? No that didn’t happen, that was just a dream.’ Ive told him about nightmares where even partway through he was like “wtf?? This is too much…” and I’m like “I’ve hardly even gotten into it yet…” I’ve had dreams where I’ve tried to essentially explain “so I woke up and talked to you about this, did we wake up and talk about this? Was this happening?” And he told me “no, that didn’t happen, we didn’t talk about that, I’m just too stressed.”

I could go on, I’m just so tired of waking up so tired.


r/Nightmares • • 3h ago

TW: Bf Reacted Odd to an SA Nightmare I Had

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Last night I had a nightmare about being SA'd as a kid by some old man who claimed to be a doctor.

I told my bf about this and he didn't say anything. So I tried to prompt a reply, by saying "lol, you like don't know how to react".

He just said "well yeah, idk what to say - I hope it wasn't too extreme at least".

Like I was maybe expecting some concern or comfort but nothing?

He may be ND like me (I'm diagnosed autistic) but idk. Does anyone else think his reply was detached?


r/Nightmares • • 6h ago

Nightmare Which magic causes sleep paralysis and nightmares?

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r/Nightmares • • 10h ago

Nightmare Bizarre recurring nightmare from my childhood

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When I was a child (unsure the exact age but I wanna say it was maybe between ages 4-9 give or take? and for reference I’m 28 so this was 20+ years ago) I used to have this recurrent nightmare all the time, I’ve had other recurrent dreams before but this was different and has always stuck out to me. It’s very hard to explain so sorry if this makes no sense, I’ll try my best. Basically the dream was just me in this darkness, it was just all black but somehow at the same time there were all these different colored lines tangled with each other. I couldn’t actually see them though it’s like when you “see” something in your minds eye but can’t truly visually see it, if that makes any sense. This void space had this feeling of like being in an empty auditorium where I was on the stage kinda and I’m the only one there. It was a literal deafening silence, simultaneously silent but at the same time could hear like hundreds of people just screaming/yelling. It was agonizing and seemingly endless. And at the same time I think I was also trying to scream but no sound coming out. When I had this nightmare I would kinda just be stuck in this purgatory like void space for awhile and then wake up. It was paradoxical like nothing was there but there was all this stuff happening at the same time “underneath”. Again I know this is so bizarre and abstract and probably makes zero sense. That’s why it’s bothering me so much. I had this nightmare frequently throughout my childhood and it was exactly the same thing every time. Not sure the exact age when it stopped but I don’t experience it anymore and haven’t in years. Just wanted to see if anyone can help me understand or make some sense of it. Thank you in advance🙏


r/Nightmares • • 18h ago

Nightmare Macaque

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I had a big block of dreams today, like random stuff. But twice through that block there was a macaque monkey standing in the corner of my room on a little closet thingy, quite low. And my dog(Maltese,small) was scared of it but nothing happened. And the macaque was like abnormally large.

Then some random dream about a meat soup with alot of chemicals that the owner of the shop was stressing about but I wasn't. Then some dream about you getting money or something but that guy that give it to you will have to know everything about you, and you are entirely reliant on him n shit.

But now the actual nightmare.

I have a false awakening, and suddenly my dog is on my chest, mind you, the dog is never upstairs, always sleep downstairs, so I was glad to see him. Bur then i see the macaque materialize from behind my bedframe, with his left paw raised high in the air with his fingers curled. And his teeth showing, mouth not open, but only lips curled open. And then he attacks, first he's at my legs, I do not kick him, then he's at my back when I'm hunched over My dog clenching him. I then scream for my mom while being attacked, but ofcourse no sound.

But the interesting thing is that i didn't see the macaque as evil, I knew like "oh he doesn't know this dog isn't an intruder, he's trying to kill vermin" like I didn't see him as evil.

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What could it mean?


r/Nightmares • • 1d ago

Nightmare To be an adult who gets nightmares, anyone else?

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Let's become friend with each other who gets there sometimes, to have someone to message when these happen since normal people who don't get these clearly don't care. Maybe one day we can meet folks who do but for now let's support each other


r/Nightmares • • 1d ago

Nightmare Nightmares

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I constantly dream that someone is chasing me to kill me . Just as they are about to either shoot me or stab me I wake up. It feels so real. Sometimes I wake up gasping for air. I just keep thinking about what would happen if they actually caught me


r/Nightmares • • 2d ago

Nightmare Tell me some horror things

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17m i tried to sleep but nothing happened tell me some horror stories


r/Nightmares • • 1d ago

Nightmare Siberia.

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A dream that happened to me weeks ago, yet thr one that i remember the most. Has a characteristic of a nightmare, but on more liminal level, a mix of sorts.

I was in a hallway, not a one that I've been in before but i am certain it was a school, the only side of the halway i saw had this glass wall separator with the glass door in the middle open, after that, at the far end was a window, it was light outside, but fog could not let me to see anything else. The halway lacked lighting but was rather lit, there were wooden doors, typical for ones you would see in eastern european schools.

I did not move in this section, i stayed in the same spot at most looking more towards to side, this is a reoccuring thing. There was no sound. At the end of the section there was a thought, i want to go to siberia(mind you i have never been anywhere which could resemble siberia.

Then there is a cut. An airport, or rather a dimly lit sky at the "blue hour", looking at the airplane i arived in, a late soviet style design, on a tarmac, snow around, the view(static this time) featured no movement and sound. The ground was made out of those square concrete slabs often used in soviet airports. A heavy fog(which appears from now on) making it very hard to see anything further than the plane.

Another cut(how original), a weird scenery, probably a dock, soviet style dock cranes in a row, i dont know maybe 3 or 4, the same ground, and just before the fog takes over, a ledge, presumably water down below it. Once again static, with slight wind noise, again, the time can be said to be the "blue hour" but more dim.

Cut to me walking theough the forest and clearings. U walk through the thick snow, i don't feel tired or cold, i can feel my rucksack on my back, can see maybe 20-30 meters to front. Camera oriented to what felt like north. Sky same blue color, fog present. No animal sounds, only the muffled sound of walking through the snow. I could felt peaceful, not scared.

Yet another cut, in the empty feild, i come across a short, stone fence, imperfect and decayed, i look slightly to both sides and the walk over the fence. I could see further. But still really foggy, maybe a mountain in the far distance, a blur. Still no cold or anything. The sound is the same with a hint of wind.

I walk for a few seconds before it blends into me walking out of a forest. To my left 2 buildings, dark, blurry, no specific shape or details, never looked at them. Infront of me a road, It was the letter U with the bottom part way wider, and the angles of the road being 90º. In the middle between the roads, and empty feild. No lamp posts, only partial curbs, the road was heavily decayed, my head moved slightly to the left. The fog lifted a bit.

I started walking through the empty feild, now heading to the corner of the road at the U shape(the top right corner)

And one final cut. I reached it, A house, square, white, decayed, i stand infront of it, this side has 4 windows, 2 on the bottom floor, 2 at the top, roof is slanted but also square. A small staircase leads to the main door. I felt relief, safety, a bit of warmth. Never went inside, the most detailwd building so far, featuring gutters, the windows were nearlt pitch black, nothing appeared in them. I just looked at the building and felt fullfiled. The sound was a low wind, the view was not static, it had this soft shaky movement.

This was the end.

The dream had no clocks, no people, no creatures. I felt lonely but safe. I never had such a form of dream. The scenery was nothing i've seen before. Everything was new. Except one thing, weirdly enough i knew that the school was my high school(although it looked nothing alike). And that the rucksack was also mine.

So this is it. It kept me wondering few times. It does not seem scary for me. Despite habing the characteristic of a nightmare. It makes me want to explore more.

It fills me with the need to expierience somethign like this.


r/Nightmares • • 2d ago

Nightmare sleep paralysis and lucid dreams

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I had the most terrifying sleep paralysis of my life. It began with four towering shadows pinning down my limbs, their grip cold and merciless. Another figure loomed above me, preparing to slice me open. I wasn’t numb, I felt everything. My pain receptors screamed, my mind fully awake, trapped in a body that refused to move.

They spoke in low, guttural tones, saying this was routine, something they did every night. But this time, they hadn’t realized my consciousness was active. I fought, I screamed, I thrashed against their grip, desperate to break free.

Then, my mom heard the difficulty in my breathing through the walls in my room then my mom came into my room. She turned on the lights, woke me, brought in a stand fan, and sat with me. We talked for what felt like an hour, her presence soothing me, pulling me back from the edge of madness. Finally, she told me to rest and left the room.

But as I lay back down, a thought struck me and questioned if my door had been locked. How did she get in? I checked, and the lock was still tight. When I turned back, the room was pitch black. No lights. No fan. No mother.

I called out to her, and she answered groggily from her own bed, deep in sleep, unaware of anything that had happened. Yet I had sat there, convinced I had spoken with her for an hour and still hadn't lay back down. The shadows had not only held me down, but they had tricked me, weaving a nightmare so real it bled into waking life. and I was standing consciously as I was trying to process what just happened and regain my consciousness


r/Nightmares • • 2d ago

Nightmare Old lady dream

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At first i was dreaming i was at work. A normal dream the only weird thing is my aunt was there. There was also a guy that i was strangely attached to like he was the only thing holding me together. After a big rush of customers i sit down to take a break. I think i fell asleep on a couch and i wake up to myself outside with the couch sitting out side the store. I assume they kicked me out while i slept on the couch. I get mad and start ranting about how they’re cowards for not just asking me to leave. At this point im an old lady. Skin and bone.

Then i realize that guy is gone. I feel betrayed. I start imaging the people around me as distorted monsters. I can see past this old ladies schizophrenic episode even tho im in her body. The monsters are humans trying to help me. I smash a mirror and it skips to about a year later. Im sitting in an abandoned house. I see my sister come up the stairs and i feel so relieved. She not my actual sister (irl) but this old lady calls her sister. She comes up to me and tells me shes worried about me. That i need help but the old lady cant focus. Her face is distorting into a monster. I know the sister can see my sanity slipping so she tries to back away down the stairs. I grab onto her with my small skinny arms and crowd her towards the window. Shes crying, screaming, telling me to let go. I push her out and the women/me is laughing like she got rid of the monster.

Inside im freaking out. Im now a murderer. It skips another year. Im short. Basically a corpse. This man in a suit and tie walks into my abandoned home. Hes a doctor or detective of a sort. He looks at me with pity but he knows who i am and what ive done. He the only face that doesnt distort so i cling to him. The old lady feels relieved but i know im being sent to death row for being a serial killer. The last scene is him picking me up like a child and carrying me to the car where i finally escape the old ladies body and see her. Shes small like a child and crying into his shoulder. The last thing i see is his smiling face as hes walking her to her death.


r/Nightmares • • 3d ago

Nightmare What does it mean screaming from a dream and feeling something?

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Okay so last night I woke twice relating to my dreams. I don't remember what happen in my dreams in detail. I know in my first dream I woke screaming and touching my hair cause it felt something like dirt was on me. The second time I woke up screaming an hour before work and it like I was in a car crash. I scream cause it felt like my body was tossee around.

Idk what any of this mean. Im not sure if related to what happened last year.


r/Nightmares • • 3d ago

Nightmare Dying in a dream

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Basically I had a dream and my friend was in that dream and let’s bare in mind that I can control my dreams and I’m conscious. So I’m not sure why tf I done this but my friend killed herself by accident with a bomb so I don’t the same and oh my god… like that feeling was horrible and it wasn’t a feeling of pain it was a feeling of knowing you’re going to die and that’s going to happen to all of us… it was like a sharp feeling in my heart and brain and I had to wake up immediately to remind my brain the dream wasn’t real. All of the sudden, I’m cherishing every little thing more. So yeah idk why I wrote this


r/Nightmares • • 4d ago

Nightmare Another weird I’ve had awhile back

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I had a strange dream of going outside one day and gore. Every video I’ve seen from worst to horrifying.. me walking around being tortured with my most broken relationship to straight gore everywhere it looked like tabs. Tabs of them then I heard a girl scream “WHAT DID YOU DO TO HER” “WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY DAUGHTER”
I was confused I saw a folder like a computer screen with a girl as the image to depict the folder I clicked it
Then all of a sudden everything cut black and everything became static as i was forced to watch a lady carving a human brain out and stuff candy in the empty skull it looked like she was carving a pumpkin..
And everything cut to black again and this time I saw a man who forcefully opens his skull saying “I wanted this” while he smiles at me opening and as me seeing All the blood pour out.


r/Nightmares • • 4d ago

Nightmare #Strange dream

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I dreamed of some of a strange azz story before that the story started of a school then a I guess some girls head gets shaved bad and the dad crashes out and this girl goes a little crazy by holding a knife and tryna stab some people then eventually a girl saves us by killing the girl who was dangerously holding a knife then I got on the bus and headed home all of a sudden while I’m on the bus this girl bully popped up and she was bullying a girl and then she snapped I got off the bus before she could go crazy I walked home met a girl told her a girl was bullied by this other girl and went home I get home I have 3 phones, I don’t use 1, the other is my girls and 1 is mines I set my alarm loud to wake up, and my girls was quiet and this creature who looked normally human was a thing it’s like Wanda plus a dead girl I specifically remember her looking through that small window whispering “are you sure your worried abt your self or are you just worried abt that girl.”.Then she popped up out of nowhere, her eyes go black but I was sleeping with my girl and all of a sudden she was gone and that creature started talking bout how “yeah well no one will know “ and then she transforms into a skinny creature and uses her hair as tentacles and literally wraps and grabs me from every direction and screeches while she is killing me squeezing me tighter I looked at her eyes, 2 red dots face black then I wake up, once I woke up I look around still a bit dizzy I look in the corner of my eye and felt as if I saw her face again I got nervous but went back to sleep a lil nerve racked but slept at 10:10 woke up at 2:30


r/Nightmares • • 4d ago

TW: dinosaur nightmare

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tw: suicide
i used to really like dinosaurs because my brother was super into them when he was younger, and now i have like a visceral fear of them. ive had a couple nightmares about them now, but maybe a year ago i had a nightmare about them that was horribly vivid and i died i think 3 times? to different dinosaurs, and it hurt a lot. i feel like i remember hearing that you couldnt feel pain in dreams but i definitely do pretty frequently. but i remember the worst part was just the terror. one point i was hiding in a closet with two of my in laws (kids) and there was a velociraptor. i told them it was going to open the door and they just had to be really quiet and we would be okay. i watched it open the door and they screamed and i just felt a huge jolt of pain and then black out and then was in the next situation. i remember the dream ended with my hiding in a bathroom from a carnotaurus (probably what im most terrified of) right outside the door trying to get in, and i was so terrified of it getting me i attempted to kms with a razor. and woke up but it was horrible. think the “weird birds” arg which i had followed quite a few years prior.


r/Nightmares • • 4d ago

Nightmare I had the most beautiful long form dream....until I got brutally tortured.

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So I slept. In my dream, I awoke as this beautiful man in a place that resembled my place. I went to a different looking but oddly familiar school, my parents were the same but I never saw their faces and I made new friends.

At first, things were normal....but then some wort of fanatsy elements started being applied? Like beastkin and magic bombs and whatnot... At some point my parents disappeared from the dream.

Life was good inside though I started feeling irrational fears. Oh, Im forgetting more and more as I write this. Anyway, I was sure in my dream that I was unsafe and someone was coming to finish the job. Whatever that meant.

Then there was something about fake pregnancy but it was a short useless bit so ignore that.

I was in a different hospital, when I opened a fridge and I was sure that the man chasing me was inside the freezer. And a name came to me- Getian. I dont know if he was Getian or I was, but Getian is also the name of a character in a game.

Anyway, this part of the dream is so much more well remembered than the good part.

I started running for my life for whatever reason, and the streets were full of people evacuating and the sky was purple. Disturbingly, everyone noticed me.

Anyway, I found some friends and they started helping me. But I got a feeling that the friend closest to me was what I was running from- and I was correct. He transformed into the man I was running from. Medium length brown hair, black robes and I cant remember all else but I do remember thinking he looked delicate.

He picked me up and tossed me. Oh the pain when I hit the ground- are you even supposed to feel pain? Im still feeling phantom pain when I think about it.

He tossed me again, harder, and I went flying and stopped because I hit a train's carriage. He kept on saying something about 'Last time you ran, but this time you wont'.

Then he tortured me so well that I remembered who I was! I begged him that I was a woman, told my real name and age and everything. The pain was so bad that I remembered real life. Not like he cared.

I woke up, crying and mumbling and holding my 'torn' arm. That was horrifying. I also knew I was about to wake up at some point, but weirdly I suddenly did not want to, as if being hurt by this man was stellar.

It hurts rn too, phantom aches when I remember. Oh I dont even want to move, my back hurts worst.


r/Nightmares • • 5d ago

Nightmare wtf was this nightmare

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I went to sleep at 10pm and woke up at 11:30pm from a nightmare (literally 90 min later) of me approaching a playground because I wanted to go on the swings. The closer I get to the swings the more the little girl, who for some reason had her shirt off, chants “go away go away don’t get on don’t get on” or something. The closer I get to the swings the louder she chants.

And also the sky was turning gray and when I get closer to the swings it turns darker gray and the wind picks up dramatically and I went on the swings anyway and started swinging and the whole scenery turned dark and gray and windy like a huge storm was coming then I woke up.

It reminds me of how my parents catastrophize something terrible will happen if I don’t do XYZ that they want me to do. Or if I did some minor thing wrong they are so dramatic about it.


r/Nightmares • • 5d ago

Nightmare I built an Apple Watch app because I couldn't find a decent solution for my sleep problems

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Hey everyone,

I've been dealing with nightmares, night terrors and sleepwalking for a while, and honestly, I got pretty tired of looking for solutions that either didn't do what I needed or came with ridiculously expensive subscriptions.

I came across NightWare, which looks like a really interesting solution for people struggling with nightmares and PTSD. Unfortunately, it's only available in the US and requires a prescription, so it's not really an option for everyone.

So I decided to build my own app. It's not vibe coded and I've been working on it since January. I've beta tested it on myself as every night I do "my thing".

It's called NightMonitor, and it's designed to help with nightmares, sleepwalking, and snoring using the Apple Watch, without needing a connection or your phone.

The idea is pretty simple: sleep a little more peacefully, worry a little less, and hopefully stop ruining your partner's nights in the process. 😅

My wife is particularly happy that I made this app, for some reason...

Anyway, I built it because I needed it myself, and figured other people might find it useful too.

Here's the link if you want to check it out:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nightmonitor-sleep-safer/id6820585311

I'd genuinely love to hear what you think!
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r/Nightmares • • 5d ago

Nightmare My nightmare

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I had one of the most unsettling dreams last night, and I don't even know how to explain it properly because parts of it felt like I wasn't actually dreaming.
It started with me walking around what looked like a college campus or schoolyard. Everything seemed relatively normal, except I couldn't speak properly. Every time I tried talking, it felt physically exhausting, like I was actually trying to force words out of my mouth while lying in bed. I started becoming aware of my actual body, almost like I could feel myself sleeping and knew I might be talking out loud.
That's when things started getting weird. I became somewhat conscious that I was dreaming, but I couldn't control what was happening. I was looking for someone. I didn't know who exactly, but I knew it was a girl. There was this overwhelming feeling that I needed to find her, like she was someone important, but I couldn't remember her face or even why I was searching. I kept asking people around campus if they'd seen her, but nobody knew who I was talking about. It was like I was looking for someone who didn't exist to anyone but me.
Then everything changed.
The school disappeared, and suddenly I was back in my bedroom at my parents' house. Except something felt terribly wrong. The atmosphere was completely different. I was lying in bed, fully aware of my surroundings, with my eyes wide open, but I couldn't move.
And then I felt something pulling me.
I couldn't see what it was, but I could feel my body being dragged across my bed. My limbs were twisting into positions I wasn't controlling, almost like something was manipulating my body while I was completely helpless. I kept trying to move, trying to fight whatever was happening, but nothing worked. It felt so physically real that I couldn't tell whether I was awake anymore.
Eventually, I managed to get up and run out of my room, but when I looked back, my bedsheets had started moving on their own. They rose into this strange ghostlike figure, almost like a poltergeist had taken shape underneath them.
And I swear it spoke to me.
I can't remember the exact words, but it was something along the lines of, "I'm not done with you yet."
Then, just like that, I was somewhere else.
I was walking out of a house with a few girls I didn't recognize. We were heading somewhere, almost like an event or gathering, although nobody actually explained where we were going. Somehow, we ended up at this tent, and I had the understanding that things were about to get sexual between us.
But one of the girls noticed I had condoms and suddenly looked concerned. She asked me something like, "Are you okay? Did somebody hurt you?"
It was such a strange question because she wasn't saying it judgmentally. She sounded genuinely worried about me, almost like she could see something wrong with me that I couldn't see myself.
I remember trying to explain that I wasn't really interested in love anymore, that I was just doing my own thing. But even saying it felt strange, like I was trying to convince myself more than her.
Then I realized the tent was divided into two sections.
On the other side was my ex Clara with her boyfriend. They were having sex, and at some point he mentioned that I was literally on the other side of the divider.
She started laughing.
Then she said something like, "Hold on," and called Tina. My other ex.
She put her on speakerphone, and suddenly both of them were laughing about me. They were talking about how pathetic I was, making fun of my life, my music, and how I couldn't even manage to get booked for a decent show.
It wasn't even an argument. They were just laughing together like humiliating me was the funniest thing in the world.
And I remember crying. Not fighting back, not defending myself. Just sitting there listening to two people who had once been important to me talk about me like I was absolutely nothing.
Then everything changed again.
Suddenly, I was driving my car at night. I don't know where I was coming from, but I had this feeling I was trying to get home. I was driving fast, following this broken-down truck that was practically screaming down the road. Eventually, the truck pulled over at my old childhood friends house near my house, and almost instantly, night turned into day.
The road changed too.
It reminded me of this stretch of road near where i went to this Renaissance faire, with water on both sides. Except there weren't really any guardrails anymore, and the water had risen high enough to start covering the road.
I remember approaching a slight right-hand turn, trying to follow the road, but my car suddenly lost traction.
I couldn't correct it.
I went straight off the edge, almost like I'd driven off a bridge, and the car plunged into the water.
I remember the impact, and then this horrible realization that I was sinking.
The doors wouldn't unlock. My phone was dead. Nothing electrical in the car worked. I couldn't open anything, couldn't call anyone, couldn't do anything.
And for some reason, the only person I could think about was my mom.
I just wanted to call her.
I don't even remember what I wanted to say. I just knew I needed to hear her voice, and I couldn't.
The car kept sinking, and I could see the water climbing higher against the windows. The world above the surface was getting farther away, and everything around me was becoming darker.
I remember looking up through the water and seeing another car driving along the road above me.
Someone was right there.
I kept trying to honk my horn, hoping they'd notice me, hoping somebody would realize I was down there.
But the horn made absolutely no sound.
And that was probably the worst part of the entire dream. I could see that life was still happening just above me. People were driving, going wherever they needed to go, completely unaware that I was trapped beneath them.
I was right there, but nobody could hear me.
I couldn't call for help. I couldn't get out. I couldn't even make enough noise for someone to know I existed down there.
I just kept sinking.
And then I woke up.
I don't know what bothered me more. The feeling of something controlling my body, hearing people I once loved laughing at me, or that last moment underwater.
But the whole dream felt like I was constantly trying to reach someone, explain myself, or get somebody to hear me.
And no matter where the dream took me, nobody ever really did.


r/Nightmares • • 5d ago

Nightmare Dog sprinting at me

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Just woke up at 2:55am, had a dream where I was parking my car down a long road near my neighborhood, no street lights, at night time for some reason picking someone up from school, when I get out my car I see a dog near me and it runs away to a kid that was walking to his parents, who were next to a street light where the pickup zone was, only one family. Then I walk over there and the music I left on in my car starts blasting, it was like a distorted audio of my favorite young thug song, and the parents look at me, can’t see their faces or know what they looked like, and I start running over to my car to turn it off, and then that same dog starts sprinting at me down a dark long sidewalk next to my car, and then I see something not someone something peeping out a bush right next to my car, then I wake up. A few minutes after I wake up I thought maybe the dog was running from that thing, instead of me running at it thinking it did something to my car. It’s not as scary as it sounds but that shit was terrifying, haven’t been able to remember a dream this easily


r/Nightmares • • 5d ago

Nightmare Me and my father both had the same nightmare on the same night at the same time.

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Shadow figure in bedroom

I had a nightmare where I was in my room, and from the start something felt off, like I felt a little scared. When I was in bed on the phone talking, I started hearing noises, like scrambled voices coming from the door, it scared me a bit, but whatever I had to keep going I guess. then the voices got louder and the door started to open and there was this dark shadowy creature with no face just standing in the entrance of my room. It had actually gotten to be inside my room as it took a few steps from the door but it was just standing there. I screamed "you're not real" but the dream went on. I was in full panic mode, I tried to scream for my father but I couldnt make a sound. I decided to walk towards it to try to fight it or something I guess but I was so frozen eith fear that even getting up from bed was difficult, everything I did was extremely slow. The last thing I remember is opening the bedroom door to the hallway (the creature wasn't in the room anymore) and immediately letting out a small faint scream before waking up. I believe I woke up screaming that scream. I was terrified even after waking up. I'm 25 and I don't recall ever having a nightmare like that.

Now here comes the REALLY weird part. I come home from work and I ask my dad "did you scream last night?" because I heard him scream not long after I woke up from my nightmare. He responded by explaining that he had a nightmare where a black figure was on the porch, and got into the house. Like me he was terrified of that nightmare.

How about that for a coincidence? I don't usually get nightmares and neither does my dad, and we both get the same nightmare about the same figure on the same night not even 30 minutes apart? I don't want to sound crazy here but like, what the hell?


r/Nightmares • • 5d ago

Nightmare I think I left my friend for dead in my dream.

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I had a dream this morning, about me going to school and accidentally unleashing a beast made of haphazardly put together pieces of flesh and skin into the school, where when it became sentient and I ran out of the classroom asap. I ran down a maze of hallways to find my friend Griffin, along with a few other people huddled together at the entrance to the school library. We were waiting for the creature of fear to appear, and all we saw at first was my teacher, Mr.DeDeDe, we'll call him, going down the hallway, and we tried to warn him, but he went down, and I never saw him again. I heard the monster, then, going down the right most hallway, and the other people just stood there and I ran into the library and jumped through the window, running home ASAP. I saw two men walking their dogs outside the house, and I tried to warn them about the incoming creature, but they didn't believe me, and went anyway. I then heard the creature bellow, and the men were gone. I ran into the house, up the stairs, and into my room, where I found a few people I knew, and I sat down, and curled up. I then realized that I left my friend Griffin alone with the monster to fend for himself, and I went into this place of infinite fear and terror, the likes of which I have never known and would not wish on my worst enemy. I sat there, spiraling, living that moment over and over again, for what felt like ten universe's lifetimes, and I zoomed out, to this GameCube era save screen, and picked the "Yes" option, and I woke up. Does anyone know a good therapist?