Does anyone still have nightmares?

[CornBreadGang 514]

I still have nightmares from time to time. But I can have REALLY weird dreams and nightmares. Some can be quite funny,, but I forget about them when I wake up.

[MichaelxXxTrixie 433]

I almost never have had them in recent memory. I use to have them quite a bit about your regular scary things, but now when I have nightmares it's usually something stupid that randomly scares me. Like a few months ago I had a 'nightmare' where snow started to softly fall and I woke up scared for some reason.

[Vertigo_95 572]

I can't recall the last time I had a nightmare. It was probably about a few years ago. I am now having Pinkie Pie type dreams where a whole bunch of weird,random things happen.

[Thrashy 2,800]

Nightmares are a bit of a rarity for me. I don't really consider gorefest or "chased by a monster" dreams to be nightmares, just bad dreams. What really qualifies as a nightmare for me is one that's so disturbing on a base level that I wake up emotionally distressed. Many years ago, back when I had a girlfriend (wha-- ME, with a woman?! Perish the thought!), I had a particularly distressing nightmare involving her cheating on me. Even though I knew it wasn't real, upon waking I couldn't help but feel resentful towards her, irrational as though it was.

 

The most recent nightmare I can recall had to do with me murdering a man - we were in a swamp, and I pushed him beneath the sludge and repeatedly stomped on his face, simultaneously drowning and bludgeoning him to death. I woke up so disgusted with myself that I couldn't go back to sleep.

[Nulln 755]

I'm 21 and I have nightmares almost every night.  I had a pretty traumatic childhood up until I was 18 and left my house, so a lot of that still haunts me.  Then after I was 18 for about a year or 2, I got into another scary living situation, and now I have like super nightmares.  haha, I even hurt myself the other night trying to fight off someone in my dream, and almost broke my toe from kicking the bed post.

[DaReaper 1,945]

I never had a nightmare tgat i can think of, worst i ever had is the falling and wake up before you hit the ground kind of dreams

[Arretez 225]

I have usually have nightmares about twice monthly. I seem to have more whenever I'm really hot, so I try to keep my room fairly cold at night, which is at about forty degrees. I count myself lucky when I have a nightmare, because at least then it's not a night terror.

[Guest]

I dont think nightmares are specific to youth but to us as humans. If your brain is randomly throwing people and scenarios together chances are they wont all be pleasant.

 

Its more to do with how we cope with bad dreams, as kids they are terrifying but as a hardened adults we can rationalise them away. That's not to say a particular one cant still shake you but they are less common.

 

So yeah I think we all have nightmares, it's just that we're harder to scare now.

[samjamjamison 0]

Nightmares and I are...scary close. I tend to have nightmares every night, due to some very unsettling childhood trauma. I used to be able to just sleep with someone, usually parents, and they would go away. Now, being 14, it's odd for me to sleep with them. Now, I sleep with people in skype, usually a close friend/boyfriend. I suppose my body has gotten used to it, or my mind, for now I still get the nightmares. I know it probably isn't the best thing for me, but strangely, I feel like the nightmares are part of me.

[DubWolf 17,271]

Ahh I love grim topics...sometimes.

 

I rarely get nightmares. I've had a few mild nightmares (dead people I know :\) or lying in bed as I see a white tiger charge at me and bite me, sending me awake.

 

I think something that is more common for me is "sleep paralysis"; it is what some people like to refer to as "dreaming while awake", or a nightmare in this case. When it occurs, I will first become immobile (this actually happened to me this morning as I couldn't move in bed though I was conscious), and will probably experience a dreadful feeling as if some evil presence is nearby. It has occurred frequently enough that I can predict when it's about to happen due to that "sinking into my bed" feeling. They're scary, but harmless. I can avoid experiencing sleep paralysis by shaking my body or trying to sit up in bed; other times, I'll let it happen and enjoy the ride!

Edited September 3, 2013 by Wingin'Wolf

[Iron Shield 88]

I always have nightmares, but I've gotten used to it. Heck, I even get sleep paralysis from time to time.

 

Good dreams are very rare for me.

[GenderIsAnIllusion 2,177]

No one is immune from nightmares. I have them very frequently.... they don't really bother me that much anymore, but there was a time not too long ago I was afraid to fall asleep..... Learning how to Lucid dream can help take the edge off of nightmares, because knowing that what your seeing is fake, is always half the battle....

[ChoroChii 284]

I have a nightmare almost every single night. They're always very gruesome and violent. I usually only mind them when they involve things that upset me, such as last night when I had a dream my old stalker had returned and hacked all my friends. 

 

My subconscious seems to have been crying out to me for years now but I ignore it.

[Splashee 28,565]

You stop having nightmares around the age of 13

Or was that something else?

I haven't had any nightmares since July of 2020.

[Tom Gallagher 33,588]

I thought I didn't but I then I had one last night. 

[Brony Number 42 10,069]

I sometimes still have nightmares of graduate school / college. And sometimes I have weird dreams that are uncomfortable, but not quite nightmares.

[PonyyyyyME 0]

Yeah, I have them from time to time...

[Vefka 1,499]

I had a nightmare last year that I came to the final school exam completely unprepared

Can't remember anything aside from that in last 7 years

[Lucky Bolt 35,064]

I have them on the rare occasion, it's been a long time since I last had a nightmare. My dreams are typically of the kind I don't wanna wake up from. 

[Jeric 46,854]

12 hours ago, Splashee® said:

You stop having nightmares around the age of 13

Or was that something else?

They can continue throughout your life. I have them from time to time and I am 43. Most of the time they align with experiences, conversations, or thoughts I have had the previous day. If dreams are your minds way of processing memory for 'storage' this makes a lot of sense. 

[Codelyy 1,286]

I don't think I've had a nightmare since I was like... 8. As silly as it likely sounds, nightmares stopped as soon as I got a dream catcher as a kid and I haven't had enough one since. 
I say that... though I did recently have a dream where in it, I was having a lucid nightmare xD

[Steve Piranha 29,428]

I haven’t gotten many nightmares as I grew up. In fact, I used to have one in years. Now however, I theme to have the occasional nightmare about once per month... 

[Adorable Lovestar 243]

I have nightmares sometimes, usually about bad things happening to people I know.

[Ittoni 538]

I don't have nightmares as much as when I was child but the ones I still have have a theme. They are normally about something chasing me. Or me dying in a catastrophe. 

[Cagey 4,248]

Most of my dreams nowadays aren’t scary; they just leave me with a general sense of unease.