Dreams/Terrors

[UltraCulture]

I know we all read a fair share of Science Fiction,Fantasy and Horror here, but has anyone found it seep so far into their psyche that they have had some memorable dreams or nightmares?

I'm interested to hear of any that you can remember as being quite vivid, and of any recurring dreams.

[Talysia]

I remember a dream I had when I was younger. I dreamt that I was in my room, looking out over the garden, and I saw some things in the sky. I saw my sister in the garden, and we spoke to each other, pointing up to the things in the sky. The next morning I found that my sister had had exactly the same dream, only from her point of view. Very strange.

[Duchessprozac]

Most of my modern Nightmares stem from quite real threats. Usually fires and gas leaks, although I often have dreams where nuclear apocolypse is happening outsite and I cannot leave although radiation is leaking in and I know full well I will soon succumb to radiation poisoning and thereafter, death.

Some of my more memorable nightmares stem back to being a toddler, however where inanimate furniture would come to life and goad me and otherwise lovable characters would come to llife and try and make me go to the potty. What I will always find odd is that until I was about 15, all my nightmares were accompanied by a triumvirate of hooded beings that spoke as one and would always talk to me either as the dream began or just before I woke up screaming.

I actually quite miss them sometimes, as even though they were terryfing I wish I could see if they were capable of scaring me now I am an adult.

[HardScienceFan]

Originally Posted by Duchessprozac

Most of my modern Nightmares stem from quite real threats. Usually fires and gas leaks, although I often have dreams where nuclear apocolypse is happening outsite and I cannot leave although radiation is leaking in and I know full well I will soon succumb to radiation poisoning and thereafter, death.

Strangely familiar

[JDP]

After watching the old seventies animated feature of LOTR when I was young, I had a recurring nightmare that I was Boromir getting shot with arrows. Nice.

[Nikitta]

I sometimes have some seriously weird dreams and I can remember them fully (or at least a good chunk of them) in the morning. It's not often, but it happens at times.

Now that I'm trying to remember anything from them, I can't, of course. A lot of it would fit right into either a Sci-Fi or fantasy story, though. It would also cost a lot of money in special effects to film it.

I ascribe it to me having such a vivid imagination, which is probably also the reason I enjoy SciFi and fantasy, while me reading those things also helps me keep my imagination vivid, so it's kind of a chicken-and-egg question. Which came first: my vivid imagination or my fascination with fantastic stories?

Something not so weird, but annoying, I remember is dreaming that I was talking to someone who was just about to tell me what I needed to do to different in order to make everything go better in my life, but then the alarm clock rang. That annoyed me!

[mogora]

I've always had very interesting and vivid dreams. I've had dreams of exploring the moon and coming across my own mumified body. I've dreamt several Ends-of-the-World scenarios. I've dreamt of R'lyeh. (In fact, I've had a lot of very Lovecraftian dreams - there's one for what you read seeping into your pysche.) All in all, most of my dreams are things that most people would call horrible nightmares.

I've enjoyed them all greatly.

My nightmares involve things like: dreams of leaking roofs, dreams of car problems, dreams of missing flights on long anticipated vacations, and so on. Scary!

[UltraCulture]

My dreams are concerned with Alian craft, a normal dream(?) can get hijacked by a ship just zooming into view,it will fly pat then go into a levitated stall,rotate,then come at me.

Unnerving,but sattisfying.

[HoopyFrood]

I'm reading The Moon is a Harsh Mistress at the moment, so recently I had a dream that my friends and I landed on the moon. Then it got a bit crazy as the inhabitants of the moon appeared and they rode bikes and did fancy tricks. But we also found a crater full of water. It seems people have been trying too hard to find water on the moon...it's sloshing around in craters for all to see

While reading The Dark Tower, I had a dream about a certain death before I'd actually read it (I knew it was coming and was dreading it and thus dreamt about it!)

I have quite vivid and strange dreams so I'm quite sure pretty much all of them would fit into the category of SF/F and definitely horror (I dream about zombies more than is strictly healthy, I'm sure!)

[Leisha]

My nightmares involve things like: dreams of leaking roofs

I've had that one many times! There's usually a storm going on and the lights are flickering... Always scares me!

I have really strange dreams/nightmares. A recurring one I've always had throughout my life (whilst I'm nearly asleep or whilst I'm actually asleep) is that I've got a pile of sand in my hand and it's slipping through my fingers. The sand weighs so much and my hands can't support its weight, and I'm panicking because the sand is still slipping... Perhaps it stems from my childhood; I was very ill when I was little.

Other nightmares I've had have involved hands reaching out of walls and trying to grab me. Sometimes in these dreams the lights go out and then I can feel the hands coming towards me, but I can't see them and I can't move. When I try to scream my voice doesn't work. Those sorts of dreams are always scary -- though I haven't had one since I was about twelve luckily.

In other dreams there are usually people or aliens trying to chase me, and for some reason my feet won't run; all I can do is walk, yet I know these things are behind me... and getting closer...

But then I also have very strange dreams too. One I remember (and woke up thinking What?) was that I was stood waist-deep in a canal, then suddenly I heard a noise. I looked up to see a steamboat coming at me. The strange thing was, my dad's head was on the front of it (like Thomas the tank engine!), and he was shouting "Move! Get out of the way!" But I couldn't. The steamboat came at me. I was frozen. My legs wouldn't move. As it hit me, I woke up. That dream made me laugh!

Hmm... then three times in my life I've had alien abduction dreams, which always involved me in some remote location, when I see these bright blue and red beams. In my dream I actually remember my other dreams like it, and I know the lights mean the aliens are coming. That makes me panic (obviously), and then a start to run and scream. That's when the craft appears... Urgh... still makes me shiver. I think I've watched too many alien movies...

I can always remember my dreams vividly though. In fact, some of the less scary ones have inspired my writing. The five-book series I'm in the process of writing actually started out as a dream. So I think dreams are useful!

My sister, on the other hand, always has people chasing her in her dreams, and every time she has to escape from some building, she leaves through a window -- never a door. Weird!

[Serin]

When I was a lot younger, a recurring dream that I had a lot was that I was being followed by a black figure. The figure was huge and it wouldn't leave me alone, and when I tried to run away from it it was like I was running in slow motion. Also I remember trying to scream but try as I might I couldn't. Also I have had dreams when I hear loud banging noises like someone banging on doors, they were so loud that I actually woke up and had to check our doors.

[Quokka]

I was very young when I saw a special about David Copperfield walking through the Great Wall of China, complete with a guy talking about skeletons being found inside the wall etc as a lead up.

I kind of expected at the time that it was a set up but I had no idea who this guy was or that he was an illusionist.

I remember having a fairly uncomfortable dream that night about people reaching out and dragging me back into the bedroom wall.

[fantasy noob]

i have only had one sci-fi related dream it wasnt a dream about sci-fi i just remember seeing a sandworm in the lake it was weird (the sandworm was not dying it was swiming)

[sci-fi girl]

I have nightmares almost every night, nightmares with aliens, vampires, monsters... As a boulimic reader of SFF, not very difficult to understand where this tendance comes from.
Those dreams are scary but I'm used to them and to tell the truth, I would miss them if they had to stop.

The one that really scared me to death was about an evil spirit which gave me the choice to look at him torture my little niece or take her place and die in terrible pain.

[UltraCulture]

sweet dreams sci-fi girl.

Does anyone find themselves able to wake themselves at any point during a dream?

A lot of my dreams i suppose are near waking time, so i'm sort of in and out of waking, but if the dream gets a bit to harrowing i can just snap out of it.