What are your nightmares usually about?

I used to get regular bouts of tonsilitis growing up. I would get terribly high fevers. Although the imagery was completely benign I would wake up screaming every time. All it was was a blonde woman with her hair up in a French Twist, dressed in a long pink gown on a stage with a black curtain behind her. The curtain opens up to the sky and fireworks start going off and I wake up screaming. That's it. I'm not afraid of fireworks, in fact at that age I loved fireworks (I was about 7 the first time I had the dream) or any other image that was in the nightmare for that matter. I've had the dream several times throughout my life and it's exactly the same every time. When I'm awake I can picture the whole scene and it doesn't bother me in the least. It only happens when I have a high fever. Strange. One of these days maybe I'll figure it out. Thank goodness I haven't had it in about 10 yrs.

Unlike my husband, I don't usually get nightmares, but why I do get just before I fall asleep is that I feel my bed and the bookshelves trembling, like during an earthquake! I guess that is because I was born in Peru, an area prone to quakes, even though there are almost none in Austria, where I am living now! I guess one never gets over that fear!

My nightmares vary. Usually it is something that is bothering me and I am stressed about that I have nightmares on. For example, I have a friendship that is rocky right now and I have been having nightmares about that. Basically this person will not let up on me in my dreams. They keep coming down on me for my mistakes and I keep apologizing over and over. Anyway that is how mine usually go.

I don't have many nightmares that aren't about things that actually happened in my life. If I'm having a regular dream (one that isn't a memory) and it starts to get scary, I can control it and turn it into something not scary usually. For example, if I have a dream where I am being chased by a monseter of some kind, I will realize it is a dream and the monster will turn into something cute and cuddly, or I will turn into a "warrior" version of myself and beat it. =p It's only the nightmares that are memories that get me most of the time now. It's harder to realize those ones are dreams, since they did at one point happen. Sometimes even those I can cause myself to become my "warrior" self and defeat, but it's very much harder.

Sometimes I have nightmares about me being followed by someone or I must say something and I just run and try to hide. But most of the time my nightmares are about me lying in bed, wearing the same clothes as I wear before going to sleep and I just can't get out of bed. I just try to shout but I seem to lost my voice, I try to get up but I can't even move my fingers. It is really scary because it feels so real.

Hello artemis!Well lately for the past couple months ive been having nightmares that my 4 1/2 year daughter is falling off a boat and i cant swim,but in my dream i jump in and cannot find her and shes sucked down a tunnel.I wake up crying and upset with this one.It always has to do with water and her in my dream.Another is we are lost in the woods and it becomes dark,we climb a tree because there are wolfs after us.Im sitting on the branch with her infront of me against the tree.I try not to fall asleep,but i do and wake up shes not there.The other is someone taking her and i cant find her and i become crazy and kill myself from a broken heart.The one that i mostly have is with the water,being in the middle of the water and cannot swim.I HATE THIS DREAM!!!When i awake from it i have to go see if shes in her room because its sooo real!I think im being paranoid,but i love her more than anything on this earth,more than life itself!:)

my greatest nightmares are all people taking decisions against me. My nightmare is sometimes when I see the person who has recently behaved so badly with me, coming into my dreams.

Last month I had two nightmares about nuclear attacks and nuclear bombs. The first one took place at an ampitheater ruins near a theme park. Below the ampitheater there was a blue Arab mosque and a city far away. The city got hit, and the aftershock created a medium-sized tidal wave that me and other people tried to run. I tried to run up the ampitheater to escape the aquatic devastation, but as soon as the tidal wave hit me before I could make it to the top at the last second, I was choking. Literally! I was half-asleep, half-awake at that time. The second one took place near a bridge, but the nuclear bomb struck several miles away. I wasn't blinded, but I saw the mushroom clouds, I was near a bridge with other people, and the same aftershock from the first nightmare struck us down as a severe earthquake. However, I didn't choke this time. But it was horrific.

I don't really have too many nightmares. Never really have. The bad ones only started after I got married. I dream about losing my husband. I guess I never had anything to lose before this, therefore I didn't worry about it.

Well, actually I don't have nightmares as such. I have had many dreams where one would think it was a nightmare, but for me it wasn't because I never felt in danger in them. For instance I had one where somehow a car I was in with some other people ended up under water and, not only was I not having any problems, like running out of air or trouble getting out of the car, but I was helping the other people all of whom were in great distress. I guess the closing thing to a nightmare is that sudden awakening because of a sense of falling which is not really a nightmare since there is no dream taking place at the time; instead I think it occurs just as someone is really in the last stages of falling asleep and the mind is not quite ready to relinquish control.

Nightmares you say...LOL...common nightmares are nothing compared to "real" dreams...I think I find them the scariest dreams of all!

actually alot of my nightmares have to do with high school. I think that this point in my life was very insecure. I guess that is the worst part i wish i didnt/