I suffer from nightmares and night terrors on a frequent basis. Sometimes I will be plagued by these dreams at least a few times a week, sometimes only once or twice a month. I am (almost) always being chased and/ or threatened with a violent death. When I awake I am breathing rapidly and rather loud, as if I can't catch my breath. I am usually still completely frightened and it takes a couple minutes for me to realize that I am awake and that I am not in danger. Most times I'm scared that I will see a decapitated head next to me in bed, someone jumping out of the closet, things of that nature.

A couple nights ago I awoke in typical nightmare fashion. However, at the foot of my bed was a very distorted/ blurry brown-ish/ yellow-ish form. (Part of me wants to say "ghost" or "spirit".) It was at least six feet tall (based on the height of the bedpost at the end of the bed), probably about 2 - 3 feet wide. Because it was 2 in the morning and I had just awakened, it was very dark, but it seemed like the "form" was illuminated somehow. (That's the only way I suspect I could have observed color.) Other than movement best described as "pulsating", it did not move about. When I initially saw it I yelled because I was still frightened by the nightmare and I certainly did not expect to see something at the foot of my bed. I'm not sure if I turned away or closed my eyes, but when I looked back it was still there. I sorta screamed again and stated that any negative or evil energy should leave because it was unwanted and did not have the power to cause me harm, if that's what it intended.

I realize that the sight might have been a delusion based on the nightmare I had just expereienced. However, prior to this particualr expereince I have never encountered such a scare upon waking from a nightmare. And I have had well over one hundred of nightmares/ night terros during the past several years.

Can anyone share a similiar experience with me or possible theories as to what I may have expereinced. Thanks in advance.

Christian

I am sorry to hear about the nightmares, they are horrible. I had to deal with them a lot when I was young, so I can understand your situation.

First off, my guess would be that the form you saw was little more than leftovers from your nightmare. When I used to wake up from nightmares, it would take a bit before I was totaly awake, and on occasion things from my waking world would slip into nightmares, and vice-versa. There were several times where I was actually able to get up out of bed and crawl into my closet before I was awake enough to know what I was doing...It is rather disturbing to wake up in a different place then you went to sleep...

I can understand how upsetting it would be to experience a critter at the end of your bed, but as I said, it is nothing more than stuff from your dreams. If I were to do it over again, I would have looked into why I was having nightmares and how to deal with them a lot younger than I did.

Nightmares are generally caused by some stress in your waking world that makes it way into your dreams. I don't want to get too personal, but I found that in my case it was caused by the stress of my family life at that time. I found that by reading about lucid dreaming and how to control dreams I was able to start waking myself up as soon as I realized I was having a nightmare; it helped a lot.

Ultimately when I resolved the stress that was causing the nightmares in the first place, they rarely happened; now I may have one or two nightmares in a year, and very often I am able to control them.

Good luck

How curious. I just signed up for these forums to talk about just such an experience. How's that for lucky. Though I'll save it for another post because there's something more I want to talk about it, I too often have reoccuring nightmares, especially around this time of year, with a plusing figure like you describe (pulsing- that's the best way I can describe the form. Like the being itself was some formless heartbeat). Except in my dream the figure was small, like the size of a head, and round.

Well, since this thread is started, might as well not make a new topic. I will share with you my experience, starting from the beginning. Almost 18 years ago in fact. (I am 27 years old now).

Back in elementary school, my brother and I went to a field trip to the Smithsonian museam. The big hubbub was about Black Aggie (a suspossedly sinister graveyard statue at the museam)- and how something bad would happen to you if you taunted it or chanted it's name to it. Well I don't remember seeing the statue at the museam. It was a long time ago after all. But my brother says he did. Curiously I followed him to where it was, but we got lost and could not find it again before we had to join back with the tour group.

Since that visit, my brother has been terrified of the dark, and mirrors. He thought someone was looking at him through the mirror. Then we both started having the same nightmares. The nightmares were mostly the same- some oddly colored pulsating form would be around. It seemed to be immobile and observant, but it -felt- evil. We had these nightmares every night. Mostly in our dreams we could not move. We were paralyzed and could not go anywhere and escape the form.

We told our parents the story and our dad related about his own story about Black Aggie, about him and his college friends visiting the statue, and how one of his friends had to go to the hospital after a dare to spend the night in the graveyard with the statue- before they moved the Black Aggie statue to the museam. I don't remember my dad finishing the story, and if I want to ask him the rest it's too late now, since he's now passed away.

My brother and I tried any sort of assistance, asking our grandparents, church persons, school guidance councellers- none were any help and who could blame them. Two kids with nightmares. But we knew it was something more than that. However one night I found myself free of paralysis, and assaulted the form. Just as I reached to attack it my brother and I both woke up.

I don't know what I did to it, but we both looked at each other, and knew it was over.

Except it wasn't.

Many years have passed since then till today. -I- still have those nightmares. Especially around these months it always starts, every year. When I am awake, I think of the nightmares as annoying and fustrating and a way to make me lack good sleep. When dreaming them, I cannot avoid the fear I feel, even if I know I am dreaming during it. Sometimes I wake up paralyzed, and cannot move without great effort. Sometimes I have to just fall back asleep and hope the next time I wake up I'll be able to move.

My brother hasn't had a dream like that ever since. However he still won't sleep without a light on (and he barely remembers the dreams either- the lights-on-while-sleeping is just built into him now subconsiously).

So maybe I saved him from the dreams curse only to have it inflicted on me? I don't know. I've gone to some people who know about dreams better than I, but no one has been able to help yet.

It's that pulsing thing that gets me, in my dreams. It hurts my own heartbeat to think about it. Also in the dream it seems to emerge from mirrors. I don't know if that is common in your dream too.

There's more to the dreams, but that seems to be the common point of ours. Hey, piss off any unholy statues lately? :P

Hell yeah, i get creepy dreams all the time...dreams about demons chasing me, and dreams about me dying....crazy stuff! dunno what to think of it all...

Fortunately I have only had one nightmare in my entire life but I am sorry to hear the terrible nightmares you all have experienced. It is awful to go through that and did find a website not too long ago about dreams that may help. Sorry that is I can do for you and hope that you can find a way to stop your nightmares and night terrors. I will have to look up the site and if think it will help I can post it. Take care,

I used to have nightmares when I was little that happened all the time.....I felt like I was tied down..couldn't move, couldn't scream....it would scare the crap outta me....happened almost every week for a few years that I can remember. I don't know when they stopped, but I'm glad they did. Wish I could tell you how to make them stop.

The only thing I can think of is during the times I had those certain ones my parents were fighting all the time (not so much in front of us-I think at night when we kids were asleep)...that might have been something to do with it. Real negative emotions and such, know what I mean?

I used to have the same dream at least three times a month when i was younger; i was at school,in the 4th grade, we had stairs in the back and i had to climb them everyday to get to my classes, anyway, my dream was that i would get pushed or slip off the top and fall for ever, never hitting the ground. All thru middle and highschool. after highschool i would dream this maybe once or twice a year till i was about 20 then it stopped. Well when i was around 24 or 25 after i was married and had two children, for some reason i dreamed it again, but this time ( i don't know why) i reached the ground, slowed myself down and landed upright on my feet, perfectly fine and never had the dream again, i am 36 now....

Just thought i throw this in..... Good Topic...

Thank you for the replies (and advice).

I will have to disagree with the suggestion that the "form" at the end of my bed is part of my nightmare experience. I do consider the possibility of that being true. However, normally I look about the bed and room for the frightening images that I expect (such as the decapitated head) and I reassure myself that there is nothing dangerous or scary around and that I am safe. Yet this "form" was totally unlike those experiences. It seemed so real that it motivated me to post in this forum for possible answers and advice.

I may try to do some further research. Tho' I am trying not to think too much about it or become to analytical because I do not want to drive myself crazy trying to figure it out. (Unless it happens again, of course.)

I do appreciate the response so far. Thank you.

Christian

Nightmares I must say, nightmares are just plain evil!

I`v had nightmares since as long as i can remember. But about a year ago I had surch a frightening experiens that i no longer can sleep without music or the TV in the backround.
Its embarrassing to tell but i belive that as long as something`s making "noises" in the backround, i cant loose counsesness and be defenseless...
( you all must think i`m insane )
But something really scared me! Thats the only thing i can say...

I really hope you all get a way to handle your nightmares

Here are a couple of reseach sites I found about nightmares and night terrors. Hope they can help some. Just a couple of places for you to start researching. Hope you can over come your nightmares. Take Care,

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Some people say that monsters and creatures of evil are created through fear. By fearing them you create a manafestastion of evil or an energy that enters this realm. or maybe there was a rainbow in your room lol.