Extremely Disturbing Nightmares (Page 1)

I'm 23 and married. I am a severe sleepwalker. Do you ever walk around or act out your dreams?
Sometimes my dreams are very very frightening! You should talk to your doctor if they continue, maybe he/she could give you something to relax.

Hope that helps some :d

I have found that disturbing dreams are usually a result of some internal fear that you have not yet realized. Before going to bed - think of only positive things - think of something that would reinforce the idea that the dreams you might have or just that - dreams that you can overcome.
Because in your dreams - you are the creator.

I don't know if you believe in reincarnation, but I recently read a book on dreams whose author does. She researched her book by inviting anyone with access to her website, address, etc. To send her examples of their dreams, along with any questions they had. The type of dream you describe could be remnants of a past life in which you experienced traumatic events (either as a bystander or as a participant) and are now reliving them while asleep (especially interesting since you have not had exposure to the types of images about which you dream).
I'm sure if you sought the help of a doctor who is also a certified hypnotist, he or she could help either make the dreams end or at least relieve the stress caused by the dreams, whatever their cause. In the meantime, if you can try to become aware that you are dreaming while you are in the middle of the dream (lucid dreaming), you will have the opportunity to confront the "players" in the dream; demand that they identify themselves, ask them what they want. This worked for me when I was young, and the horrible images melted away, the whole tone of my nightmare changed from dark, scary, and dangerous to bright, sunny, and happy, and my "attacker" changed right before my eyes to a friendly entity. I was never troubled by those dreams again. That doesn't mean that I never have negative dreams, just not those horrible, recurring ones.
Think about it this way: if our dreams are the chemical/electrical productions of our brains, then we are ultimately in control of them, and we choose whether or not to recognize that power and use it on our dream images, to work within our dreams and learn about ourselves. :d

I'm a 34 year old working as maintenance incharge, since last month I having extremely disturbing, bloody, vivid, and terrifying nightmares. There is no basis for this...I don't watch movies, and I don't gorge on food late at night. What could cause these? Sometimes I wonder if there's something wrong with my brain...Or do other people have such disturbing dreams as well?

But if I take sleeping tablet, I get relief next day
since last month stopped taking sleeping pills
i don't get sleep properly
wat could be the reason
please help me
any such dieses is there that can be cured

3 years back I had tuberclousis( tb )
now its cured

any specific reason for getting such horrifying dreams

I used to have very disturbing dreams ( bloody, scary, and weird ) Then I went for a sleep test and was diagnosed with sleep apnea. The sleep technician told me a person needs a certain amount of REM sleep, ands when your "tank" is low; you have disturbing dreams. I am now on the CPAP machine and having very pleasant dreams.

I usually have very informative dreams, some of which wake me up and I wrote down what i've dreamt about.

Many of these have resulted in the creation of a lot of my work, in which I work for myself and feel my brain ticks over every second of the day.

However, these dreams have stopped being so informative regards to my work, but are now very very in detail of stories.

I now wake up and have the vision, and idea of a full true story in one nights sleep.

These are not, sunny, friendly stories but stuff of Nightmares, things I can and cannot seem to cope with.

I am aware these are part of my mind, and not real but I fear for people who dont have that understanding..

I dont know what I believe in, re-incarnation wise but I truly believe these are more than a dream, a calling perhaps.

Hello I am a dream interpreter, and most of my clients will have disturbing dreams about death, gore or extremely disturbing circumstances.
Your brain when asleep can dream two polaritys, extreme happiness and extreme disturbia.
I believe there is nothing wrong with you having these dreams.
Your subconscience brain could be telling you something about your life that you may need to address or think about.
Can you share the details of your dream?

i am only in middle school, but i have horrifying nightmares at night about my friends and family dead or dying, sometimes it's even me. i rarely get any good sleep and when i wake up and go to school, i keep seeing it over and over again and it scares me too much to ignore any longer. i told my parents and they got me a therapist, but after 3 visits, they never made another appointment. i tried reminding them over and over, but it seems like they've forgotten. now mostly they are just visions of the nightmares, but i have at least 5 nightmares a week. what should i do? i've even been thinking of suicide and running away just to get away from it all. it's also made me stop believing in god. i used to be christian, but now i always think, "why would he put me through all this pain and torture. i thought he was supposed to love me."

Don't worry about your personality; you become your actions not your thoughts.

Give an example i bet i could top it

Yeah i bet you are.. please before speaking with this person carefully read what they wrote...ffs

HI, Not sure how to describe my dream because it was so out there compared to who I am and my life, my experiences and my morals.

I don't understand why I have had such a sick dream.. I'd be way too embarrassed to even share the contents because it was just appalling! Let s just say that it involved other adults and children, then I woke up.

The idea that my sleep bank is at a low kind of is the only thing that I can see as being a reason for this. I have had no experience of any as disgusting as my dream so it makes no sense to me.

Any ideas?

I just had a very disturbing dream as well.

It was very specific and violent, images I never have seen in real life not even on television or movies or the internet.

I am wondering why a 20 year old would have these dreams?

I slept for only 3 hours, probably not very deep of a sleep either.. and i remembered the dream which is very unusual for me i never remember dreams

i keep having very disturbing dreams.. i mean yes i have seen things kinda like this in movies but not this graphic. and i don't ever eat before i go to bed. its kinda getting bad. i have at least one of this terrors everynight.

I am Also haveing disturbing dreams, last night I had a dream about walking down a street and I seen at the base of a tree there was spider webs, there were no spiders around but the webs had Dead fish in them that were rotting. as i turned away i felt like there was something stuck in my throat like if you ever choked on a peice of steak or something. I gaged and one of the fish bodys was sticking out of my mouth, I pulled at it with my hands and it just broke in half. I physically felt my self about to throw up and I woke up gaging and actually spit up on my pillow, this has happend a few times but different things everytime. Ive also had a few dreams that came true like they were warrning me before hand.

I am Also haveing disturbing dreams, last night I had a dream about walking down a street and I seen at the base of a tree there was spider webs, there were no spiders around but the webs had Dead fish in them that were rotting. as i turned away i felt like there was something stuck in my throat like if you ever choked on a peice of steak or something. I gaged and one of the fish bodys was sticking out of my mouth, I pulled at it with my hands and it just broke in half. I physically felt my self about to throw up and I woke up gaging and actually spit up on my pillow, this has happend a few times but different things everytime. Ive also had a few dreams that came true like they were warrning me before hand.

my name is connor and I'm 15 years old. I suffer from terrifying and disturbing dreams of me killing people. I wake up and experience what I have been told is called sleep paralysis. I wake up and I can't move, like Im in a dream and Im frozen, except it's not a dream, I can move my eyes and look around my room. I see this tall disturbing creature, whom I've seen in my dreams ever since I was a small child. Its a tall shadowy figure with the head of a raven. As a child I named him blindness. It's not like he moves however, he just stands there and looks at me, for what feels like hours. I begin to hyperventilate, and eventually jump my self out of it, in a spasm like motion. I can't sleep now because I'm so scared. Im starting to see him now where ever I go, he's always in the corner of my eye. I hear voices too, normally my parents. Telling me Im a failure, that they're ashamed to have me as a son. I've gotten about 14 hours of sleep in the past week. I see a therapist but he hasn't been helping. I don't know what to do, please help me.

sincerely,

Connor

Something very similar to this happened to me as a child and I think you should look into being diagnosed for schizophrenia.

I have been having nightmares my whole life, I am now 23. I think it had something to do with the tv shows and movies I was exposed to. About the past year and a half I have tried very hard to cut out scary movies and disturbing shows and it has honestly worked very well for me, I used to have a nightmare every single night and now its about once a month. I always have very vivid dreams whether scary or happy. Mine are always some sort of story... I always joke that they are movies being played in my head. The happy dreams I do not mind although they are extremely far fetched and make me feel crazy they are nothing like my nightmares. My nightmares are just so disturbing that I don't even want to say them out loud. I usually wake my boyfriend up at night when I have a nightmare so it not only affects my life but his as well. Anyway I know I have a lot of fears in my life mostly because I had a really rough past but I am working on ways that help me. One thing that helps me too is changing the side of bed I sleep on. Sometimes I am scared that someone might walk through the door in our bedroom and sometimes I'm scared that someone might break through our window. Luckily my boyfriend understands that changing sides of the bed really helps me for a while at least.

A ray of hope for nightmare newbies is, you can get used to them. Your heart will stop racing eventually, the cold sweats will (mostly), maybe your head doctor will exorcise them for you, but if not, you can get used to them. It's not that you stop being afraid of them, you just stop caring you are afraid.

For all practical reasons, I only have nightmares and never have pleasant dreams. Here are some common themes:

Nuclear holocaust
Getting raped by men or turned into their slaves
Getting stabbed to death
Falling off very high places and hitting the ground (when I had a mattress, this would be bouncing when I woke up too)
Drowning
Getting *severely* humiliated by women (this one's kind of sexy too, but it's still not pleasant)
Sky collapses, this one often has a martyr component too where I save lots of people but die myself.
Completely paralysed and body moves around on it's own
Fighting with people and all my blows do nothing while theirs tear me to bits
Being in survival situations and eating babies to live
People I know who have died being alive and doing very bizarre things, I know something is wrong with them being there but can't put my finger on it, when I realise they're dead I wake up
Being chased by huge armies

Those are just the most common themes, all my dreams are nightmares and have been since being tiny so I usually aren't even bothered by them, I quickly go back to sleep and forget them. Exception to this though is quite frequently as soon as I fall asleep I will drop immediately into a nightmare. Again I forget what they are all about but I can remember the feeling of extreme terror, I know I'm asleep though, sometimes I force myself to wake up, sometimes I just think screw it and stay asleep, don't remember nothing about it after either way.

Oh, and I feel what seems like physical pain in dreams too. I read that's not supposed to happen, but it does.

For me its quite similar. Nuclear fallout. Natural disasters esp earthquakes. Desperation of trying to warn people of impending doom but no one believing me. I often dream of places that feel real but I''ve never seen before. Once I was walking down a street after being out and some guy had fallen down a very deep manhole on the street. I had to go down and drag his mangled body back up. I''ve had so many vivid dreams like coming across a dead child at a train track. Ive had many apocalyptic ones too like seeing a bridge like the one in California Just snap in 2 and people being badly injured. I see horrible gore all the time and its very vivid. These dreams are constant.

I just now woke up from one (which is why I am on here)... and I too get very graphic disturbing dreams all of the time. In this one I was put in charge (instructed) to cut the heads off of the people in my group, each one had to say yes or no to having it done... for some reason everyone would say yes... I couldn''t stand it so I told my supervisor (boss?) that I couldn''t do it... but then I was no longer the ''cutter'' as it was named... and had to say yes or no to having my head cut off.... but then they started doing these competitions and the loser would have to have their head cut off... I then snuck away and the last thing in my dream was me running (in high heels) to my car... I too do not watch horror movies or television at all for that matter. I am 29 and am an instructor / educator (which made this dream even more ridiculous). I have been working for 15 days straight between two jobs so I think it is stress and lack of good sleep.... These nightmares are very graphic all the time like the one above... with death of people / animals (I am vegetarian and care a lot about animal rights)... cults... killing and being chased / hunted by killers.... It sucks and always leaves me feeling very unsettled for a time afterwards.