What is the most terrifying dream you’ve ever had?

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aWes0MeNeSs · Accepted Answer

I had a dream recently where I looked outside my window at night because the motion detector light had gone off, and there was a guy and a truck in my backyard next to my shed. He saw me look out the window and gave the most evil glare and pointed a gun at me. I remember being able to feel the look of horror on my face (I'm sure I probably made that face in my sleep as well) and dropped to the floor, afraid bullets were going to come through my window at any moment. I remember looking up and realizing my phone was on top of my dresser, and wanted to grab it to call 911, but was afraid he'd see my arm and shoot it. Then, I woke up.

I also had a few dreams involving scary car accidents (I don't remember a lot of details on those, as my dreams get fuzzy in my memory after about a few hours of waking up anymore for some reason), as well as a few dreams of things that are precious to me being destroyed (mostly things that I baby like crazy in order to prevent anything from happening to them, most of which are old, have sentimental value, and are irreplaceable).

I had a bad dream last night that someone painted my wood paneling gray. 🤣 I am possibly one of the only people left that still loves wood paneling and was thrilled my house had it when I bought it (and that it was not painted over), and was planning to install it if the house I ended up with didn't have it already, because I love it so much. The majority of this paneling is the real stuff, by the way, not veneer, so it's very pretty. On the other hand, I HATE gray with a passion and refuse to paint any wall in my house that color, and had I ended up with a house with gray walls anywhere, was planning to paint those (or install paneling over the top of them) first thing. I have had numerous people suggest I paint over my paneling, to my horror, lol! I just tell them I really like it the way it is, but the thought of painting it makes me cringe! It was one of those people in my dream who took it upon themselves to paint it while I was asleep as a "surprise" because they were "just sure I'd end up loving it". 🤣 I woke up, relieved that it was just a dream!

Rachelspiks · Accepted Answer

Well, I was in this world where people are actually afraid of one another, and as a way to distract themselves from the miserable and pointless existence their lives have become, spend all or most of their time staring at little hand-held screens. They would do things like "tweet" (which apparently was a way to leave childish, inane messages for those around the world to see).
They also had no problem whatsoever with being constantly monitored. You know, like in Orwell's '1984', with cameras on every street corner. They also had no issue with their government imposing odious and completely unnecessary restrictions upon their basic freedoms, like freedom of speech and movement.
The music - ugh! Let me tell you about it. It was AWFUL. Synth-pop, one could call it, or better still, just white noise. It would often go like this - doof, doof, doof, doof... doof, doof, doof. Honestly, I would rather listen to cats in heat screwing each other.
They would also do really stupid things like refer to each other as "zhe", "they" and "bloop", and try to deny reality to an extent that wasn't just self-destructively extreme, but without any sense or purpose whatsoever. In this bizarre world - now get this - there were more than two genders! Can you believe it? Hilarious!
Anyway, thankfully I woke up from this nightmare, and am now in a much saner reality. Hang on, wait just one damn minute...

KasonBader · Accepted Answer

Ok so, It was a normal day right then space robota come to kill me and they kill more than half the population to kill me then in my dream i lived 5 years total, yet irl time it was 8 minutes, but after the 5 years of gathering survivors and training, I went and fought the robota who didn't care about dpace anymore and were all on earth I lost all the survivors in the fight but I found the guy who sent the rbots to kill me and, it was my self from 20 years in the future and if he didn't kill me I was going to somehow set of a goddamn nuke and kill more than half the population including my daughter and wife, but I still killed my future/past future self and I rebuilt the world with the very well hidden reat of the population i didn't know were alive until I killed my future/ past future self and that set of an alarm across the whole world and that meant I and any survivors had to rebuild the earth and it's population. (by the way In my dream it didn't skip those 5 years i literally lived those 5 years day by day yet it inly was 8 minute long irl.)

ChrisMaster69 · Accepted Answer

I have suffered from nightmares for years and have a dream journal.

i have nightmares inside nightmares, which are just another level of fucked up scary.

the real bad ones are where it’s like being sliced open, or skin peeled off me.

Having bones broken such as fingers and feeling it is bit naff.

Replays of people you know dying, blown up etc and seeing limbs come off in slow motion.

The really terrifying ones are the voices.

my inner voice has a conversation with another voice and often more than one.

i first had one of these age 8, my voice is talking to another voice on the stairs

‘ how is he, we are watching him, I can see him and you ‘ or words to that effect.

it was a longer dialogue and there is usually a nightmare after it, of course I wake up after the dialogue but know I will have a nightmare and wake up screaming lol.

now that’s a challenge trying to get back to sleep lol

ShaTTeredMasterpeace · Answer

I had a nightmare that my mother died, and then my sister. I woke up in full panic attack mode. The only other nightmare that had me that up in arms that bad was one where I'd fallen down some stairs and on my way back up them, a black shadowy figure appeared and tried to attack me.

LaureenVO · Answer

I have a few nightmares that really stayed with me. Fun fact: All of these happened before the age of 10. Because since I was 10, I haven't had a single nightmare anymore. I did have creppy dreams, but I learned to control my dreams even better than before the age of 10, so I could always adjust my dreams if they got scary.

1.
I woke up in a red room. It was like 4x4 meters. There was one red door, one red window with red curtains and one dark brown/red box on the ground. It felt very real but I knew it was a dream, still it was very weird. I saw the box and wanted to open it. I opened the box and a clown doll jumped out. I screamed because it was scary (I was like 9-10). Especially because I normally can control my dreams if they get scary (lucid dreaming), not this time. This was unexpected. I crawled back, against the window. Looking at this doll staring at me. Then the box faded away. I started to hear laughter, very hard laughter. The door opened and the same clown, but then in real life, starting walking through the door. Laughing and looking at me. Saying stuff I couldn't understand. He was completely red and slowly walked towards me. I started screaming and then woke up.

2.
This dream actually was after the age of 10 (the only one) It wasn't really a nightmare, but it just felt so real and terryfying. I was in my home, making myself something to drink. I actually couldn't tell this was a dream, which I had never had before. So it was very scary. I heard something small move on the couch. I turned around, to see my brother ipad. I was like "What was that sound?" So I kept going to make my drink. Then I heard something move again, the same sound but longer. I turned around very quickly and saw how the ipad had moved but quickly stopped. I was like "This can't be happening, this is not real" I felt a very weird vibe and started to notice that it was a dream, but with a negative vibe. I honestly think some kind of demon/ghost was controlling me, because it was at a time where i felt like other spirits lived in my room (good ones for most of them though). I kept staring at the ipad. Out of nowhere it started to move very quickly towards me. Looking at me with the screen. I wanted to scream and run away, but I couldn't. When the ipad touched me I started flying off the ground. I had no control over my body and it felt so real and weird, like as if I honesly was getting possesed or smt. Then I woke up.

nice-girl · Answer

I have had two most terrifying dreams and both of them had one thing in common: I lost control of my body and I started to make uncontrollable movements (in the dream).
The first one was like some kind of a ritual in which I was on the floor on my knees and moving around in cycles. I was at my grandparent's house. My body seemed like it was moving in an uncontrollable way and I couldn't control it. It doesn't seem so scary and I've seem scarier things in my dreams but judging from the fear I felt this is the scariest.
The second dream has the same detail: I couldn't control my movements. I was at my grandparents apartment and I was going out of it in the stairs. There I saw a monk whom I which I passed. When I arrived the the bottom of the stairs on the ground floor, I was a brunette girl. She started following me. I was running. I turned my head and started to do some uncontrollable movements like a crazy person. I took my tounge out and started to mock her laughing but was so afraid and running. This was terrifying too. And I still can't explain why. Later when I was doing a meditation to remember my previous life I started to see images from these two dreams.
What was scary in these two dreams was that my body would seem so light and I couldn't control it like I was forced to do those movements. I don't know.

Arcreactor81 · Answer

I dreamt that I was a member of Blackpink, ya know, the "How You Like That?" girls. And two of the members were plotting against me. Sounds very cliche, but I somehow knew.
When it was time to perform, we went on, but those two made me embarrass myself and I ran out of there sobbing. (Wailing would be a better word tho)
Here's where it gets weird.
So when I was running out of the gates, I felt someone behind me. It was a man for sure. I ran faster, and he picked up his pace. He kept yelling at me to stop, but I couldn't. I could feel our arms brushing and me feeling weird goosebumps. Then I just collapsed on the ground crying.
I swear to god that man held me and I kept crying and then I woke up and I COULD FEEL SOMEONE HUGGING ME!
There was no one there tho.
It was scary, I am traumatized, and this post represents how much I love rambling. Enjoy.

Minnie97 · Answer

I had a recurring nightmare a couple years ago, a couple months before my father passed.
I was grocery shopping in the store and my dad called me, he'd been shot in the stomach and was on the phone with me telling me he loved me and it was all going to be okay and he'd be leaving now. I was hysterically crying and begging him to call for help and telling him I needed to know where he was so I could call for help. He never told me where he was and never called for help, the dream always ended with me visiting his grave.

CrazyGirl2 · Answer

I was in elementary school and a girl was bothering me, one night I dreamed that we were at the top of the bleachers, and I punched her in her mouth, and her head came right off and bounced down every step of the bleachers! It was terrifying to a 6 or 7 year old girl!

loves2learn · Answer

One where I was in a plane that was going down. My body thought I was dying. I woke up right before it would have crashed. My heart was beating so hard I could feel it in my ear drums. I shot out of bed. It was during a nap in college. My roommate was worried about me.

dustybiker · Answer

Someone was trying to take my love from me. That was the base.
I had woken up in a warehouse, tightly strapped to a chair. The door slamming behind a group of Russians was what woke me.
They informed me I had a bomb detonation device taped to my hand, and asked me not to move until they could figure it out.
I have movie type dreams. Remembering great details of smells and temperatures.
That whole concept of telling yourself you are dreaming, and to wake up, doesn’t work for me.

Andres77 · Answer

After seeing all the homosexual protesters when I was like 8... and hearing about my cousin getting gangraped by men and my brother being kidnapped by gay men and then me being molested a couple times and then being propositioned by a neighbor (40+ years old still living with his mom... I was 10)... my only nightmares were of being chased by gay men.

So... as I grew up I prepared myself to deal with one of my greatest fears... and after visiting Key West, P-Town and San Francisco... it's not been an issue for a while.

Screenwriter · Answer

Two of them: Teeth falling out and falling and never hitting bottom. Woke up sweating from the latter and shaking from the former. However, haven't had either of those dreams in ages. They supposed to be indicative of something.

However, I have ALL my teeth and have never fallen from a precipitous height. ... I was always falling off the side of a mountain... I think both of them have something to do with change in your life...

call_me_scar · Answer

So me my nephew and some girl were camping in a grassy valley surrounded by woods with a abandoned 2 storey house at the other end of the valley so me and my nephew who's 8 go to the house and we see a face in the window so we run back. As we get to the camp site the girl gets stabbed by a demon girl as I realise this the girl Is dead the demon slashes my throat wide open, I fall to ground holding my lacerated neck as the demon grabbed my nephew and disappeared as I died. So yeah that was a fun dream

MelaninQueen21 · Answer

That my mother had died in a car crash. I've had this dream more than once. Also had a dream that she was killed by a train 🚆 😳

Another dream I had was of one of my friends who had died in a fire. I remember waking up crying 😢 Relieved it was a dream, but still emotional.

Justneedtokno · Answer

My father was preparing me and said everything with be alright. Then I walked into this room. It had one of my father in a casket. Everyone was there some lady what just crying over him. I went down the aisle and it was him.

I woke up crying

I called my daddy immediately and he was fine. He stayed on the phone until I stopped. He called every hour to make sure I was ok.

SafiyaHearts · Answer

I had two creepy ones in the same month. One when my face was in the mirror then my eyes popped out. I clawed are my eyes... it was dark and maybe bloody.
Another where it’s pitch black but I could see, a weird small black glob. It stuck itself everywhere. I can’t stand that thing sticking.

Jonny59 · Answer

my dream was something like that I don't really remember it well
so I was out with friends enjoying the night then some random number called me and said your parents have died I was shocked tried to call them they didn't answer so I went home to see if they're there but some 2 random people pretending to be my parents opened the door and said who are you? I asked where are my parents this is not your home etc and then they said they have bought it an year ago then I was left alone without anything on the street
then I woke up and said thank god its not real
I saw my parents they're healthy and well thats all matter to me !

Noelnoel17 · Answer

It wasn’t exactly a dream, more like a sleep paralysis. I was feeling my body go up and I could not move a muscle, just my eyes. I knew where I was, and I knew that my cousin was in the other room but I could not talk or ask for help. I was feeling like someone was keeping me down and like my soul was leaving my body. It was a terrible feeling

Apulu_3 · Answer

When I lost my rabbits and unfortunately it came true. And when something bad happened to my friend who left me in middle at texting saying "The delivery guy have came. I will reply in 5 mins" never came back till today.

Some_Goof · Answer

I had a dream of being chased by a crocodile in a dark jungle then it jumped to me standing in a bus stop and a dog comes running and bites off the penis of a man standing next to me.

reea23 · Answer

The guy I hate it most for his activity. I am having sex with him.
Reason is I was angry on him so thinking about him too. Also because of whole days angry mood tried me so much so I sleep it.
That was nightmare for me.

menina · Answer

I was living in the 1800's, in an old house and I saw an old lady dressed in black walking slowly towards me. It felt so real and I could feel my legs shaking and my heart beating faster. Fortunately I was able to wake up before she got close to me.

t-8900 · Answer

I was crucified in Paris around innocent people being burned alive. I had no way to stop it and I was suffering yet unable to die. I was like crucified for eternity. I could hear the screams of women and children, I could see soldiers with flame throwers and tanks rolling through, the Eiffel Tower was destroyed too. My dreams are usually about getting lots of sex or dying horribly with rarely anything in between. No happy mediums for me lol smh

Cherry234 · Answer

I don't remember the most terrifying dream I've had but I remember dreaming once or a few times that I was falling asleep and then when I thought I was going to fall I woke up. It's pretty scary

SphynxUK · Answer

I can't say any have been terrifying. Not much scares me, and I do like a nightmare. I’ve only had a couple anyway. What is more unsettling, is sleep paralysis. I find this more disturbing.

cth2188 · Answer

Something happened to my kids where they died especially my son ( worst thought of dream a parent can have ) .. I woke up to make sure he was ok. In the dream , he ran out in the road and car hit hit him.

When we go outside I make sure the kids are close in the yard.

ThoughtfulSoul · Answer

That I was being forced to participate in some weird ritual. My dream mainly consisted of visuals of mutilated bodies. And a whole lot of blood.

Flower7 · Answer

The sleep paralysis ones when I wake up and am unable to move any muscle of my body and I seem to see a stranger walking around in my room.

Breebabe15 · Answer

I dont like dreams where im falling from heights and wake up to that tipping over feeling

Titli1995 · Answer

When I saw I am falling from a high altitude without parachute on one night. I was so terrified that I can't sleep rest of the night.

cosmicallyinclined · Answer

i dreamt a close family member got decapitated and then murdered my whole family. i remember it so well

tee_64 · Answer

The most terrifying dream i recently had which i can recall is i am pregnant with my ex's child and we were getting married

Anonymous · Answer

That a certain political part wins control of everything and makes taxes go so high there isn't enough to live on, so then they pick and choose who gets the hand outs and the rest of us die from exposure and starvation... cause we are privileged and don't need help while starving to death. Especially as a single man, they are pretty low on to help group.

Real world fears are more likely than some monster bursting from my chest, although I did have nightmares of that as a kid.

domo0906 · Answer

I had a dream my boyfriend cheated on me the first few days of his “business trip” and I later find out that he did in fact was with a woman in Vegas for the first 3 days and he never had a business trip

StormyWinter · Answer

I was attacked in my house 🤔 woke up scared shitless

BlacklightShade · Answer

I dreamt I ate a giant marshmallow and when I woke up my pillow was gone.

exitseven · Answer

My son was killed. It seemed so real, my wife and I just held each other and cried. I woke up and it took a few minutes before I realized it didn't really happen.

happycuriousgirl · Answer

I once had a nightmare where my sister got killed by a lion and he dragged her dead body into a dark pit. Scary as heck

MCheetah · Answer

I went on a shooting rampage and then in the end, the police shot me right in the head. And no, this isn't something I'd ever want to do.

Starwitch23 · Answer

For me, my terrifying dream is I am driving a car or I am in a back seat which is out of control.

CapnHawk · Answer

My most terrifying dream was waking up to find a naked Rosie O'Donnell laying next to me.

Babygirl_S · Answer

I was being chased by a giant spider that was the size of an elephant.

collie22 · Answer

i don't want to talk about my bad dreams or even think about them

Confusedblondegirl · Answer

just last night i was shot in the arm by a tiger with a gun

Phoenix98 · Answer

Was being chased through a creepy ass misty forest by Baba Yaga in her giant house with chicken legs on it.

Rozaybonet69 · Answer

Seeing myself sleep 😫😫😫 I will never forget the feeling and how horrifying it was

Anonymous · Answer

I saw a dream that someone ripped off the skin on his face and he placed it on my face it was a disgusting bloody mess

Dinosaursandanime65 · Answer

Dead people trying to kill me, almost being crushed by an armored eyeless rhino thing as a hummingbird, having to cut a yellow Titanoboa in half since they were gonna eat my brother, and Pingas

PuNishant · Answer

Getting married to girl I hate the most. And make babies who make me kill myself

Anonymous · Answer

I had a nightmare when I was younger that I was picked up and raped by a group of Nazis it was horrible!

Uglyphuck · Answer

I don't remember. Dreams don't scare me. I think I had a dream my dick fell off once but not one. hundred. percent sure

kogami · Answer

I was with a few people walkin down a sandy road and I was killed by a zombie...😐

NeicyDOne · Answer

Snake some how get into where I was in this house and began to bite me when I jump up and run

jennifer_Hanmabloom · Answer

Sometimes I dream about events that haven’t happened yet and when I see them in real life it freaks me out

Toldol2 · Answer

Dreaming of past exes

allison368 · Answer

The one where I woke to find that I had a penis.

Anonymous · Answer

I dreamed I had to listen to every speech Trump ever made, over and over, until I went insane.

saffoler · Answer

The one where I died.

Anonymous · Answer

demons ghosts poltergeists vampires but mostly demons

vduong1988 · Answer

Spider and snake

magiusX26 · Answer

reality

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