What was your worst childhood nightmare?

[flaminbats]

Mine was being run-over by a train.

I would be having a pleasant dream and then...honk-honk, here it comes! It never mattered where I was or how fast I ran, the train always ran me down. I could be in a hallway and open a door..there was the light of the speeding train. I could be running down a hill and into the woods, but the speeding train would be waiting there to run me down!

I was always screaming in terror as I awakened just before the train would run me down. Finally I stopped the nightmare when I stopped running from the train and waited for it to hit me. Then my fear was gone and so were my nightmares.

[LynzM]

1. Usually somebody dying, or my house burning up

Pretty much everyone I love or have loved has died in my dreams... When I was younger, I used to dream about my house burning down a lot, and then not be able to go to sleep because of it :(

[pansypoo53219]

6. giant mosquito

but i did get it.

and now they don't like me.

[Lisa0825]

2. OMIGOD! I had this recurring nightmare.....

about circular saw blades running down the sides of my bed, and cutting off anything that hung over the edge. I swear I still sleep totally within the borders of my bed to this day! So, one day when I was all grown up, I was watching the new Twilight Zone (or possibly Outer Limits), and there, in living color, was MY DREAM on the TV!!!! I was so freaked out! There it was, this kid on a bed, with sawblades, and he's screaming, and holding his arms and legs close to his body! It freaked me out soooooo much that MY DREAM was someone's screenplay!!!

BTW, thanks a fucking lot for bringing this memory back to me at quarter til one in the morning, you jerk!!!! (j/k)

[EstimatedProphet]

3. For a while when I was a kid, it was quicksand

But now that I have worked as a field biologist and run into quicksand numerous times, it's no longer scary.
For a good long time when I was an adolescent, it was the movie Alien. That really shook me up.

[Champ]

4. I don't really want to say anything

But it was so horrible I don't think I can possibly post it without coming off wrong. It was just so horrible, I can't believe I even had a dream like that.

[flaminbats]

5. We all have had dreams like that..

when it happened to me I would try to focus my mind to have it again before I went to sleep. For some reason the nightmare would never return. These types of dreams only seem to happen when you don't wish for them!

[EstimatedProphet]

7. I used to have some scary dreams that were really psychological

where a monster (alien) would chase me into a contained area, and I would be behind a door, and it would scratch at the door for about 20 minutes of dream-time...nothing but it scratching at the door, and I couldn't get away...
I have no idea what that says about me.

[BlackVelvetElvis]

8. Hundreds of snakes in my bed

Sounds like a B movie, doesn't it?

[Nikia]

9. Being attacked while I couldn't move or scream

Unfortunately, I still occaisionally have this nightmare and really end up with sleep paralysis for a short time. This makes it especially horrible. Fortunately, it hasn't happened to me for a while.

[BBradley]

10. The devastating effects of greenhouse gasses on our ozone *shivers*

I'll never forget those nightmares.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

11. As a Cold War kid

I had nightmares about bombs falling, especially when visiting my grandmother, who lived under one of the approaches to the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport. Those airplane noises would get incorporated into my dreams. :scared:

[Padraig18]

12. Being trapped in a burning room.

Still gives me the willies to think about. :scared:

[toddzilla]

13. my nightmare childhood.

n/t

[tjwash]

14. Nuclear annihalation, death, disease, watching people slowly die...

Those "duck and cover" films fucked us all up pretty good back then.

[solinvictus]

15. Recurring dream

I had a recurring dream that the rest of the world had been turned into vampires a'la "I Am Legend" and I had to sleep in the trunk of a neighbors wrecked car at night to keep them from getting to me. I could see them out of a keyhole and they wanted to kill me, so they kept clawing on the metal. I think I was about 5 years old or so.

[Donkeyboy75]

16. A couple of times a week I had a dream that a CHAIR was chasing me.

Went on for a couple of years. Seriously.

[TrogL]

17. nuclear bombs

I was born in the 50's

[Shananigans]

18. Tornados

I watched the Wizard of Oz and from that point on I wouldn't even dream of sleeping in my own bed when it was raining.

[NightTrain]

19. Frankly, my worst childhood nightmares occurred when I was awake.

I grew up with a mentally ill mother and a drunken, abusive father. With that kind of reality, who the fuck needed to have nightmares???