r/Nightmares

I will copy and paste what I sent to chatgpt, but first I wanted to give more backstory. The mention of THC is in the prompt because I was asking Chatgpt if this could have been caused by my more constant use of THC. When I was younger, I'd usually take a gummy once every 1-2 months and get super high, but recently I was introduced to the easy-ness of blunts and although I do have a job interview coming up (I was recently let go from my last job due to budget cuts) I've been stir crazy, so I'll just roll up and get high to pass the time. I've been pretty much high for the past week, and although it's not even close to as high as I used to get when I was younger, I'm still high all day. I've never experienced a dream like this, and I guess I'm here looking for answers or some kind of scientific explanation. Well, here it is

The dream starts with me, my boyfriend, and two friends at some kind of Airbnb or a house that I'm not familiar with. We were all drunk in the bedroom, and my boyfriend was pretending to kiss the other girls to piss me off (he'd never do this in real life) I went downstairs to cool off. The lights weren't on so it was super dark. You know when you go into an unfinished basement and there's sometimes this corner with pipes and stuff? Well there was an old bathtub not hooked into anything underneath these pipes with water in it. I look closer and there's a foot. This is where I THINK I wake up. I'm back in my apartment bedroom on the bed, and I look at the doorway. It wasn't fully decomposed and still seemed human-ish. The tongue was bloated out of the mouth, and the eyes were huge and waterlogged, looking like they were going to pop out of their sockets. The skin was very dead person looking. No living color. This thing didn't look living at all, if you know what I mean. As you can imagine, this was absolutely terrifying to me, but I'm not stupid. I told myself in my head to wake up over and over again.

And then I REALLY thought I woke up. Except everything was fuzzy. I felt like I could barely breathe. My assumption was that there was a gas leak in my apartment, and I had the scary dream to try and wake me up. Now I'm genuinely scared because this feels like such a real life situation, and I thought I was awake. I drop out of bed, unable to stand, and desperately try to reach the door to get outside. Except that I don't make it and the fuzziness gets stronger and stronger, and I assume I passed out and probably died.

THATS when I actually woke up

In terms of thc, I would use pretty rarely. I would use gummies and get fucked up enough that you could see shit. So pretty high doses. I was introduced to blunts and they're a lot more accessible. I haven't been getting super high, but I've been high the majority of all week

I’ve been having the exact same dream for about 3 years, and it’s getting worse over time.
It started with one loose tooth. In the dream, it would wobble, then half of it would break off and I’d be holding it in my hand while the other half was still in my mouth.
Now it’s completely different. Last night I dreamed that every single tooth fell out. I literally had nothing left but gums. The teeth feel just like loose baby teeth. If I push on them slightly, they come out effortlessly. I end up holding handfuls of my own teeth and showing them to the people around me in the dream. They always react by saying, “That’s not normal,” which makes me panic even more.
The strange thing is that there’s no pain at all—just pure panic. It feels incredibly real every single time.
In real life, a friend once told me that I sometimes make a loud clicking sound with my teeth while I’m asleep (not grinding, just clicking). Also, I’ve been feeling mentally “off” for quite a while. I wouldn’t necessarily call myself depressed, but something definitely doesn’t feel right.
Has anyone experienced this exact dream for years? Did you ever figure out what caused it or how to make it stop?

7/1/26

I have recently been trying new things, and one of them is leaving Christianity behind. Since then, I have found new gods to worship: Artemis and Apollo. Ever since I have been worshiping them, I have felt more connected with nature, but today was different. Usually, I would go outside, frolic around, and jump rope. But today felt drawn toward this stream of water that led under a bridge, so I followed it. It led me to a empty park with another bridge that I've never seen before so I crossed that bridge and noticed graffiti that said Jamie heart Zach and continued walking I made it to a different park it was in a suburban area and walked around I didn't notice anything special so I was Just gonna go back home until I had this gut feeling that there was something I needed to see but I also had another gut feeling that I needed to go home now or else I'd be in danger so I was left pacing back and forth deciding between to stay and explore or go home and avoid danger but then I recalled that lady Artemis protects people from danger and is the goddess of the hunt and wilderness so that inspired me to go and explore and so I find this bridge with another stream of water under it and I leaped it was kinda a high jump but not high enough for me to get injured.so now I'm walking and I'm not scared I'm just alert and as I'm walking things start to feel familiar the smell the vibe the graffiti on the walls even reminds me of something I once seen and as I'm trying to figure out what is it that I've seen before I see a wall that had a green arrow
Pointing to a dent in the wall with the words death written beside it, and I'm not going to lie, I was a bit startled. So, I ran back to the bridge, trying to calm myself down and gaslight myself into not being scared. I ended up concluding that a teenager in the past was probably trying to be edgy and drew that on the wall. It took a lot of convincing, but I decided to go back because I still hadn't reached the end of the stream or its source, so I walked back. As I'm passing the death writing on the wall, I see broken concrete that had water around it ( I don't know how to describe it). I saw something that shook me to my core. Everything was starting to make sense; everything I had been seeing I had seen in a recurring dream from my childhood, and the thing that left me shook was this circular sewer tunnel with the same graffiti I saw in my dream as a kid. For context, in that dream I was with some relatives. We found that sewer tunnel thing, and they sent me in bc they wanted to see what was in there. When I got in there, I got attacked by a cult leader who tried to sacrifice me for some unknown reason, but before he finished me off, I woke up. As I got older, I had the same dream. But the story progressed each time I had it, and the last time I had that dream, instead of the cult leader trying to sacrifice me, an entity of sorts took my body and took my place while it trapped me in the tunnel. And seeing that same sewer tunnel in real life made me think that if I had stepped any closer, my old nightmare could have become my new reality. So, I ran home, questioning what I had just seen. I'm planning to go tomorrow to check it out and face my fears. I need you guys to tell me whether it is a good idea to go back and explore tomorrow, or stay, or if I should stay away from that area for my safety

my sister is currently 2 years old, and i've been having nightmares about her dying ever since she was born. the most recent one is probably the weirdest.

it starts with me in an auto shop. i walk in and make eye contact with one of the employees and he kinda ignores me. i then sit down at one of the work desks and bother the tools a little. my parents walk in and we grab our shoes from under some random tree in the corner of the shop ?? idk how we ended up barefoot. so, we walk out of the shop and into this breakfast hall in this big ass lobby. im assuming we were at a luxury hotel bc people were carrying suitcases and everyone was obviously on vacation.

suddenly, my 4 siblings (all younger and including the 2yo) are standing with us as we wait for one of the 3 elevators to take us back to our room. while we were waiting for what felt like forever, a man was going around to each elevator and standing between the doors so they wouldn't close. that was obviously annoying since the lobby was packed, so i did what anyone else would do and cussed him out. except, everyone got mad that i called him out ???

anyways, we get on the elevator with another group of people. there were like 11 people on that thing, but there was still a lot of room. as we go up, i notice the floor is also moving up and kinda tilting. at one point, we had to crouch to avoid being crushed. but oddly, no one questioned it. once we reach our floor, the other group of people get off with no problem. but when my family starts exiting, the elevator begins to sink. once it's just me, my parents, and the 2 year old left, the elevator drops. it stops a few floors down, then continues dropping faster.

before we got on the elevator, my dad was carrying my sister in her car seat. mind you, she can walk on her own and she hasn't used that thing in a year. when the elevator reached the ground floor, the ceiling had come down but it was only really covering my sister. as i was digging her out of the mess, i started praying and begging to god. (im pretty anti religion, so idk what that was) my mom grabbed my sister and started cradling her. i screamed and frantically asked if the baby was okay. the dream ended when my mom started shaking her head.

ive had other nightmares about bad things happening to my sister, but this is the only one that i woke up in pain from. like my chest, limbs, and stomach were sore and i was out of breath. and i never believed that dreams had meaning, but this lowk got me questioning 😭

wowzers this was longer than i thought it would be.

TLDR: i have weird nightmares about my baby sister dying and it's worrying me.

I’ve been having chronic nightmares my entire life, but it has seemed to get worse I’ve gotten older to the point where I will wake up every hour or two hours, crying and genuinely scared. I have tried sleeping medications ranging from melatonin to trazodone to ambient, but those just tend to make things worse. Does anyone have any lifestyle changes or habits that helped them reduce the amount of nightmares they were having?

I’ve had a dream where the man tried to dragged me into the hell

It out of nowhere I was at the old house by the front door door , the man was trying to grab me with two other people and I fought for my life with them . Then all the scenery moves to the old bus station, where they tried to push me into the bus .. and again I fought for my life… then it all moves to the basement where they tried to pulled me down .. then my dog showed up and I said to the man „ in the power of the God I command you to go back to hell „ the man just laughed at me … I said to him to come back when I will be 55 years old… he said „ deal „ and I didn’t… then I woke up and I felt like someone was watching me … I did went to the church to pray, even spoke with priest about it .. he gave me blessing , sprinkled me with the holy water and just said „ those things are really, don’t be scared, fight it „

This all situation made me feel like crap , depressed … like I don’t have any happiness in me anymore more , like it took a piece of me ..

I’ve had nightmares my entire life, and only recently have doctors finally started taking them seriously.
First, I was prescribed melatonin, but it didn’t help. Then I was prescribed 150 mg of Lergigan (an anti-anxiety medication) per day, but that didn’t help either.
Now I’m taking doxazosin. It’s actually a medication that’s mainly used for high blood pressure, but it has also been shown to help some people with severe nightmares. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to be helping me either.
The next step is to try an antidepressant in case there’s some underlying anxiety or another issue that I might not even be aware of. I’m not convinced it will work, but I really hope it does.
My doctors have also discussed the possibility of a neurological evaluation to see if there could be a physical cause behind all of this. At this point, I honestly don’t know what to do anymore, but I really hope they can help me.
It feels like all of my friends are getting tired of hearing me talk about it, so I thought I’d post here instead and get it off my chest a little.
Has anyone else experienced something similar? Do you have any advice or suggestions? Or is there anyone who would just like to chat from time to time? I don’t want to keep burdening the people I know with this, but I also can’t keep everything bottled up inside.

so a little while ago i started having dreams where my best friend dies, and each dream just gets worse. its been since the middle of may and i havnt been able to sleep a aingle night without having a dream of him dying in front of me. its different everytime too.

its eating away at me and when i told him about he said that hed been having bad intrusive thoughts about dying that started around the same time.

Ive been struggling with a lot of other things and Im worried that if i cant get the dreams to stop ill go insane

if anyone has really good methods for getting rid of nightmares please help me

I've had experiences like this before, but this one was by far the most intense.

Around 2:30 AM, I was in that strange stage where you're almost asleep but still aware of your surroundings. It felt like I was awake, yet somehow still dreaming.

At first, I thought I saw someone in my room. I ignored it, turned onto my side, and tried to go back to sleep. A few moments later, I felt like someone was standing near my legs. Again, I ignored it because I've had similar experiences before.

Then it got much worse.

I felt something wrap its arms and legs around me. It genuinely felt like another person was holding me, except it felt wrong, almost like it was consuming me. Then I heard a deep growl right next to my right ear. It sounded so real that I instantly woke up and turned on the lights.

Even after I was awake, I could still feel where it had been "holding" me for a short while, and my right ear felt blocked and sore. That lingering sensation honestly freaked me out more than the hallucination itself.

The funniest part is that once I realized I was awake, my first reaction was to flip off whatever I thought was in my room. Fear apparently doesn't stop me from being petty.

I've experienced episodes like this before, but never one this vivid or physical. Has anyone else had hallucinations that included touch and sound this realistic? The lingering sensation afterward is what really got to me.

I dreamt last night that I was someone else (a known actress Sarah Paulson lol), I looked like her but sounded like me and everyone called me my name. The whole dream I was filled with horrific guilt and constant panic. I was in a big but run down house at night, closing the blinds which kept opening. I remember being terrified someone was outside the windows. I went to a work meeting? In a similar kind of house and we all sat at this long table like council members and they revealed the body of a woman I had killed and put inside the walls. The whole dream I was so guilty about what I had done but I never realised what it was until they showed me the body. Dream me knew what I had done but me experiencing the dream didn’t if that makes sense? Almost like there were two of us in one body? The dead body has her arms crossed holding a candle and stared at me (now a ghost I guess?). Does anyone know what this means? Or what it could point to? Very very vivid and spooky which I don’t have often

So a few weeks ago I was asleep and the craziest thing happened to me. So basically I woke up in an almost exact replica of my bedroom but I felt a creepy vibe. Also, for some odd reason I had extreme anxiety. I heard voices and also felt wind blowing into my ear and out. When I checked my phone there was a big notification that said “you will be watched”. After that I stood up to go to the living room and then I stopped, looked to my left, and saw that my closet which is usually tall but not that wide turned wide as hell. So then i realized I was dreaming and spun around. It was crazy to me. But I’ve never had any lucid dreams before so that was my first.

So I fell asleep as usual and I woke up in my dream and realised I was dreaming I usually do. I panicked because I always form bad thoughts when asleep and tried to be in control. Although this one was different I couldn’t do anything no matter how calm I was. I screamed and screamed until I eventually “woke up”. I look around everything seemed normal my room and everything. Then I usually look at my hands to make sure I don’t have anything extra like fingers or toes. I did! I have 7 fingers and realised oh my god I’m dreaming again. There were these bright eternal beings next to me and I asked if there were anything I could do to wake up. They said name 40 fruits 40 vegetables and 40 religious items to wake up. I couldn’t and they locked me in an obsidian cage and I was in an inter-dimensional museum where there were other trapped dreamers that were on display for these monsters. It felt like I was there for hours and after they finally said okay shows over you can go home now. I woke up heart racing sweating and achy. I’m not sure if this was simply just a dream or something more…

This might be qualified as NSFW if only for the violence part. Though I will not be describing anything too specific.

I use to have a lot of nightmares as a child and teen. I no longer have them now, but because they were so intense I would try to scare myself awake from them, and it actually worked a lot.

For example, as a child I remember having a vivid dream of a dinosaur chasing me. Instead of playing cat and mouse, I turned around and jumped in its mouth. The dream ended and I woke up.

This started becoming a habit. Someone is lurking around the corner in a dream? Run around the corner and face them directly. If a door is looming there and you know something is behind it? Open it as quick as possible and run into the room where it is.

This was something became a habit when I would have nightmares. But as I grew the nightmares stopped being dinosaurs chasing me and developed into more gruesome situations. (Though, I did often dream of gruesome things as a child).

For example, when I was a teen I would dream about drowning. Instead of trying to fight the water and swim, I would give up and duck my head under to stop the dream as quickly as possible.

Here’s possible the NSFW part:
These nightmares would get intense enough that I would often in these dreams, use other tools, such as knifes and rocks to wake myself up. Like, for example, banging my head against a stone to wake myself up from a nightmare when I was stuck outside in the middle of the night. I almost went to therapy for my sleeping issues, but my mother told me that they would think I’m insane for doing those things in my dreams. I also got in trouble for brining it up to a doctor when I was a teen.

Thankfully I no longer have these. I was just curious to see how common this is. Especially considering how young i developed that habit.

Normally I don't put much thought into the previous nights dreams but I had a dream about 3 weeks ago and I can't shake it.

In the dream I'm walking with two dogs in a field when suddenly they take off. They run to an area where a dog is already being attacked and ripped at by two other dogs and the two dogs that were with me begin attacking this dog as well. The dog being attacked appears to have its head stuck in a metal rod fence while it's being attacked.

For the record I don't have a dog, or know any of the dogs in the dream. Does anyone have any insight into this?

I have lucid dreams and have never been frightened by anything. However the past few months I have experienced something that is terrifying. A being whose facial features I cannot make out appears at the foot of my bed and is reaching out to me. It seems to be in the room not in my dream. I physically move away from it and scream. I have had this happen three times. I am also hearing loud knocking on the door that wakes me up. I have had the knocking on the door before but for some reason the frequency of sounds that seem out of the dream state with the arms reaching for me are scaring me. I don’t know what to make of it. Anybody else had this happen? I would welcome your opinion.

So almost every night for the past week I'll go to sleep regularly but some nights I have terrible nightmares, I wouldn't even call them nightmares because it's not like it. "feels real." It is real. I dream of being chased by something unknown and when it catches me, I wake up covered in blood (my own) and clean cuts as if I got ahold of a scalpel and just went to town on various parts of my body. I'm kinda scared so any advice/suggestions would be appreciated. Anyone being insensitive you'll just be ignored.

I went to be at around 3:01 at dawn and as I tried to sleep my body kept jittering, like I'm talking full body jolts all around, I ignored it and kept on trying to sleep, but then at some point everything was quiet, I was sleeping.

Now this is where it gets really fucking creepy, I dream of myself scrolling on some random social media, I don't even know what it is, couldn't identify it based on any icons or anything. The short form video was of a girl who was screaming and her face was shifting moving around, I'm taking eyes flickering, mouth positionally moving up and down in the face . She had no nose, and the scream I heard was so mind shattering, one of, if not the worst sounds I've ever heard or imagined or dreamed of or whatever you call it.

And then it just went black, for a very short amount of time, but the silence was so fucking deafening. And then the same thing appeared once again, and this time I could not mentally sustain the sound and my body literally shut down.

I remember hearing something like "focus video" repeated numerous times, and then a severe shiver came over me, like my body was deactivated but a weird shiver around specifically my leg, and my arms were holding me down as though i was pinned to the bed, I was so scared In my dream world my body started reciting prayers within my dreams (i am religious but I don't know how much that plays a role into this).

And then I woke up 40 minutes later and googled it because of course I was scared out of my god damn mind, mind you my 17th birthday was yesterday so i don't know if this is some omen or something but I'm currently shocked out of my mind about this.

If anyone has similar experiences please, tell me this is normal because I'm freaked out.