Worst Nightmare!

Unlike most of the people I know, I remember 90% of my dreams. about 6/10 are nightmares or weird dreams. The rest are cock blocks.

One I remember from when I was a kid was the T1000 from Terminator 2 was chasing me and Arnold. I was sort of the John Connor of the dream in a way. Anyway, I couldn't trust anyone because I was afraid they were the T1000 taking their appearance, and I was all alone running. Eventually he chased us into my school up the stairs and killed the Arnold Terminator, and blew my arm off. The entire dream was me running away and it was really scary.

I barely have chase dreams anymore. My scary dreams now are mass terrorist attacks and stuff. I had one last year where all of a sudden the entire country was being bombarded with bombs from terrorist planes. It was mass chaos and all the people in Philly gathered in this huge bunker that was 100 floors deep into the ground. The bunker had tons of 2 man rooms with bunk beds for refugees to hide out. Anyway, eventually the terrorists invaded the bunker and I was all the way on the very bottom floor. There was no room to hide, it was very narrow and no side areas, so I couldn't run. I was just waiting in my little room for them to eventually make their way down to me and execute me. I listened from my room as each room full of people on the floors above me got executed room by room. I knew I was going to die and was terrified.

That was pretty scary.

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by KnowsNothing

That sounds like textbook sleep paralysis. I get it too, albeit without the presence sitting on top of me, which, from all accounts, seems to be the scariest part :P It happens when you're either waking or drifting off, so you're in a half sleep state. When you sleep your brain shuts off conscious controls to your muscles, so during sleep paralysis your brain is awake but your muscles aren't. And since you're only half-awake, freaky hallucinations can happen.

It can be pretty scary when you don't know what it is, but for me now it's more annoying than anything. When it happens all you have to do is try really hard to move or speak (speaking usually works for me) and the instant you break it you're immediately fully awake. It seems to only happen when I sleep on my back, too...

Well...I think that's what you're experiencing....but *shrug* I aint not doctor :P

Anyway, I can't really remember any really bad nightmares....mine are usually stupid. There was this one where I dropped this plastic pan I had as a kid and it started rattling....it sounds REALLY stupid now but when I was like four it freaked me out >_>

I've had similar instances happen to me. Often I am not sure whether are reality or a dream. Like I remember one time where I thought my someone was knocking on the door and I tried everything I could to get up, but I just couldn't move no matter how hard I tried. I tried so hard with all my strength, but couldn't move. Then I kinda just black out, and wake up an hour or so later and have no idea whether someone actually knocked on the door or whether it was a dream or maybe a mix of both.

By mix of both I mean I hallucinated the knocking on the door, but me trying to get up out of bed was a reality. That has happened before with me in about 5 other situations. Some of them is me trying to speak, but I just can't get words out of my mouth. I wake up not knowing if it actually happened.

There's nowhere I can't reach.