What's the scariest dream you've ever had? I'm speachless!

[RealPill]

I just had a nap with DS, something I haven't done in many months. I really needed it as was feeling really tired.

I dreamt of a terrorist attack. It made no sense at all, I remember telling DH in the dream that this was all very sudden since I wasn't aware we were in dispute with anyone or had upset/pissed off another country

It was bombs, there were these plans type things in the sky and they were dropping random bombs. I could see them come out of the plane. One was very close and the impact of it did hit me but it wasn't fatal.

Each bomb seemed to be getting closer and closer, then I woke up. It was incredibly real and I've never felt so shaken, I was literally fearful for my life and I remember being very 'aware' of my feelings in the dream. It's still haunting me now - And I'm aware it really is just a dream.

What's the scariest thing you've ever dreamt, that had stayed with you?

@cousinboneless I don't know why but I think yours is the most petrifying one yet. Maybe it's because I'm scared of baby monitors anyway but reading yours actually filled me with dread

I had a a dream last year that I was on a night out with my husband and we had a row so I walked home alone, I was then attacked and I woke up literally unable to catch my breath and crying so much my husband woke to see if I was ok.
It was so graphic and realistic i felt sick for days after.

I had an horrible dream recently that my beautiful children (my little DDs aged only 2.7yo and not quite 3 weeks) had been taken in broad daylight in their double buggy. I'd stupidly left them unattended for a moment while they slept (which real life me would absolutely NEVER do!) and when I came back they were gone - someone had abducted my children.

The panic was absolutely sickening and awful, I couldn't believe how horrible it was once I woke up. I think that feeling is probably going to stay with me for a long while.

I'm lazing dreamingly in a boat - like some lady drifting along on a peaceful lake. As the boat drifts along, the water starts to flow faster and starts to get choppy. suddenly we're in rapidly flowing water and bouncing against boulders. This continues for a while and finally we're at the brink of a huge waterfalls and my boat tips me over into the water at the top of the falls and I tumble down through the spray to be killed on the rocks at the bottom of the falls.

Sometimes I'm lucky and I wake just as the boat goes over the falls.

I suspect there's something in this based on the fact that I grew up a few miles from Niagara Falls and when I was 6 a boy my age had exactly this experience but lived.

I don't usually remember my dreams but about five years ago I had a really short dream about being in the back yard of my childhood home (and I was a child again), the back gate (which led to a long alleyway) opening and a skinny tall man wakes through the gateway, with a big hood on that I couldn't see his face in, only the glints of his eyes. He walked about three steps towards me (I was frozen in fear by the back door) and then in a flash he was right up in my face. I woke up and thought my god, what's that noise, someone's screaming - and it was me! I didn't even know that I COULD scream (I've got quite a low voice), let alone scream full throated like a victim in a horror film It wasn't even that scary, with hindsight! Never happened before or since.

I had really bad dreams when i was pregnant with DD. The worst was running away from a group of guys who were trying to stab me , and having to run through a river blood, can remember it so clearly, woke up in utter panic!

In real life, a teenage boy my age went missing in my home town 30 years ago.
He was never found.

I dreamt that I had killed him. That's why he had disappeared, and I dreamt that I would have to carry that shame and guilt forever and I didn't know why I'd done it. But I didn't want to give up my life. (I"d just had a baby) so I didn't want to confess.

I woke up and I was out of breath, sweating, heart pounding! Argh

Waves, I’ve had it a few times. Also some real life scenarios and worries that get magnified.

I figured out that my dream meant the loss of youth. Also, because the boy was from my home town and I was living with my then h and new baby, it felt like the death of my youth. He represented that in my head.

@RealPill interesting that you dream your mother locks you in cupboards, that together with the fear that she will slander or disgrace you - sounds like there's a side of you that you keep hidden because she doesn't want to see it or couldn't accept it. ???

Or, your relationship with her is lovely but it constrains you a bit at times.

A dream about dd having an accident that was so horrific the dream me was relieved when she died and her suffering ended. So disturbing I'm not going into details.

Another, involving being tricked into a mundane appointment, that ended up with me being forcibly detained for false claims of insanity, and dd being led away in tears to be raised by my mother. I was being physically restrained and dd was looking over her shoulder, and over her sobs I could hear my mother repeating the same abusive shit she inflicted on me. After they'd gone I begged them to let me sign anything to say dd could be put up for adoption, I'd never try and see her again and I'd stay in the asylum forever, anything but my mother. And they laughed, and said that was the whole point, but my mother would bring dd every week so I could see the results first hand.

Both a million times worse because all my dreams are vivid and in graphic detail, and the majority of the time I have some control over them, or at the least I have some awareness it's a dream, or can wake myself up, but both were completely beyond any control.

@YesILikeItToo sorry, but I took a dim view really tickled me

Celebrity Dear God That's awful! I co sleep with my DS and just the thought of it is chilling

Over the years I've sort of 'sleep trained' myself - I can often be aware I am dreaming, and if it's a bad dream, I can wake myself up. It's great!

But it often spoils good dreams. Last night I dreamt I was at a dinner party chatting to a young man (I'm fairly young too, had DC young), and he was asking me about myself and then turned completely off me when I said I didn't go out much

Then I proceeded to tell him why and he lost all interested. I still feel angry at myself for giving him the time of day!

I've had many many dreams about dinosaurs roaming around. Months I had the same 2 dreams.

Dreamt my uncle was a paedophile. Didn't know the term for that, but still. (He's not, but I guess my subconscious was telling me something, idk)

Something happened to a girl in a dream. Don't remember the main details but I remember being really upset by it.

Also frequently dream my son is dead. Usually triggered by severe bouts of PND. Last one happened around Christmas.

As I embraced my lover tenderly, I wondered why his back felt so odd. Then I realised he'd been sliced open from behind and his skin and lungs slapped over his shoulders blood eagle style. At which point I woke up so terrified that I couldn't fall asleep again all night.

Ah, Shannith, I see what you did there!

yeahlike isn't there something similar in a film or tv programme? It isn't lungs or skin, and I can't remember at this moment exactly what it was she felt, let alone the title. Just wondering if you'd watched it at some point and it inspired your dream.

posterTrainspottingWelsh no idea about film/TV. There is some absolutely horrifically graphic serial killer thriller pulp fiction title out there that includes the practice, though.

And, yes, I had recently read that in a single sitting while on a long-haul flight. I'm hence entirely clear on where my brain dug that crazy up from. It was still utterly terrifying, though.

Not a scary dream (sorry!) but shortly after my middle aged father died very suddenly, I found myself thinking how I’d love to see him again, even if only in a dream. That night I dreamt of my dad, he looked radiantly healthy and was wearing his favourite hoody and trackies for mucking out the horses I told him he looked great and that I loved him so much. I woke up feeling incredibly peaceful.

That my father had died, I later got a call to say he had

I frequently suffer from sleep paralysis.

In my most recent episode (last week), I dreamt that there was some sort of evil 'being' prowling around downstairs whilst DCs and I slept upstairs.

I dreamt that I dragged myself out of bed, onto the floor on my stomach, and pulled myself along the carpet and out of my bedroom door using my fingernails. I opened my bedroom door and began crawling across the landing to confront this thing that was about to make its way up the stairs.

I woke myself up growling.

I also have vivid dreams about aircraft crashes. Large aircraft - think A380 size. I see the plane in the sky and the unmistakable noise of the engines failing. I am always near enough to have to run from the impact as it hits the ground, but I'm never injured. It's the knowing that it's about to crash which is truly terrifying.

Recurrent nightmare before the start of term (uk teacher) I have to defend my class against an armed intruder. I always win, but it’s always graphic and I wake up crying. I sometimes have that every night for a week.

Worst one ever: aged 15 dreamed my dad had died, funeral, the lot. Problem was my dad was an insomniac and would often go for a walk or read downstairs early morning. I woke up distressed from my dream and wanted to check he was alive in his bed, but couldn’t bring myself to open the door in case he was up and about. It was terribly upsetting.

Worst menopause drea,: work colleague being murdered in front of me by Roman soldiers. Frigging weird.

Some of these are chilling, I’m afraid to go to sleep now!
When I was a teenager, I had a really vivid dream that I was in one of those teen slasher flicks that were popular in the late 90s. A group of us were being chased around a warehouse by what was essentially a... Teletubby pancake.
It was floating around the warehouse smiling, but if it was about to kill you it would adopt a “frowny” face complete with angry eyebrows.
I woke up as it was about to get me, a proper bolt upright in bed, heart pounding, palms sweating.

Ridiculous, but I was so scared in my dream.

Mine isn't really a dream as such but I'm conscious not to fall asleep holding my baby and always put him in his crib if I'm exhausted even if he is crying so I can't fall asleep. Just before I wake up I dream I've been holding him and then when I do wake up I think I've fallen asleep holding him and the fear that grips me is immense until I see him safely next to me in his crib. It's horrific.