The man, who had been having a nightmare at the time, woke up to find himself in a scene from a horror movie.
The footage shows the snoozing cephalopod jolting violently awake as though reacting to a bad dream.
On October 31st, 1992, the BBC broadcast a 'live' (and fake) ghost hunting show that was arguably way ahead of its time.
No, this isn't an image of a monster from a fantasy movie... it's a creature that you might find in your own garden.
A fisherman recently reeled in a rather strange looking shark and nobody is quite sure what species it is.
Representations of dreams and nightmares in cultures across the world have changed a lot over the centuries.
For Vladislav Ivanov, reality TV turned out to be a nightmare he couldn't escape from for 3 months.
A man who had been waiting for a bus was unaware of the nightmare scenario he was about to experience.
When Liam Gomez felt a peculiar sensation in his ear, it signalled the beginning of his worst nightmare.
A delivery truck driver has been struggling to cope after coming face-to-face with a strange creature in the bush.
The eerie phenomenon, which can occur during hot, humid weather, is an arachnophobe's worst nightmare.
Nightmare became reality for six passengers last week when their elevator plummeted towards the ground.
Known as Handle, the new robot has been described as 'nightmare-inducing' by founder Marc Raibert.
A remote area of woodland in Mexico is home to thousands of mutilated dolls hanging up in trees.
A day out at the safari park for Helen Clements and her family turned in to something of a nightmare.
Scientists have been investigating the specific emotions that separate a nightmare from a bad dream.
Far from being the stuff of nightmares, spiders are actually more afraid of you than you are of them.