Dreams that leave you terrified

Hi. I just had a dream which was awful. It kept repeating and I couldn't wake. I feel so scared and I can still here the narrative an hour after waking

I'm sorry... I've heard night terrors are actually a symptom of bp. Especially in kids. We've had some bad ones here - left terrified sometimes crying uncontrollably. My older son used to sit up eyes glazed over and tell me what he was seeing in dream, and intense gorey stuff, not pretty. It could be bringing something subconscious to the surface that's too hard to process awake. I've had some terrible almost unspeakable ones that I'm still processing. You can talk about it more if you feel it may help?

Thanks Blue, these dreams are real regular at the moment. Have you ever experienced this kind of thing?

Yes some really bad ones this morning involving catching a serial killer. I wish I could lucid dream on command and make the dream have some resolution. I had a great lucid dream where I slammed a rock over the head of a rapist. Only after that was I able to talk about a bad thing that happened to me as a girl.
But you know if it's med related & really scary - tell the doc right away & they'll hopefully help.

Majority of my dreams are of the Stephen King variety and have been for as far back as my memory bank goes... I'm usually on the brink of being murderized in some way or another, and on rare occasions I've been the bad guy.

Lucky for me I've been lucid dreaming since age 11, so I wake myself up moments before I bite the dust.
I remember when I was on meds, the dreams were way more vivid, which took it to whole new level of intense, but it didn't last too long.

Nightmares suck, I feel for you, but I don't know any better

I've always had pretty scary dreams. I never wake up screaming or anything... but I do wake up still terrified. Fortunately it goes away once I clue in that i'm awake (it takes a while. I've had those dreams where you' "wake up" and then end up still in a nightmare!). By now, I sorta laugh at them once I'm fully awake - I can outdo the best horror films.

I've definitely died in my dreams. And been tortured. It's not pleasant feeling yourself die, even in a nightmare! (once I died at the start of the dream and then was a zombie! I have a new appreciation for zombies due to it).

Red omw you just reminded me of the dreams I hate most!!! I don't mind the dream within a dream within a dream type dreams. They're unnerving and confusing yes, but I have the "to be continued..." type

I wake up, scared shytless, calm myself down, by checking in here an having a smoke, then when I nod off again, the dream picks up where it left off!!

Ugh, not fun, yesterday I had a 3 parter.

Do you guys also get those?

there's some techniques to deal with nightmares

Trauma Nightmares and Lucid Dreaming - Kellevision

I had dream other night that there was war in my town but i really wanted KFC and shrimp ramen noodles, so I went out, but there were some drunks in front of the building I lived and of course, war, chaos, bombs, so when I came to KFC it was bombed.

yeah, sounds funny this way, but it was horrid.

Oh yes, I have the "to be continued" nightmares too! They're rotten! Although the way they twist due to the waking up can be rather hilarious once I figure it out.

((Weird one I had the other night involved someone really messing up with the world's timeline, and there were 6 "Types" of people... you were eitehr Type 1, Type 2, etc). I was Type 5 and 6 which was apparnetly not supposed to happen and I didn't have a clue what was going on because I was going backwards and forwards through time rather randomly! hahahaha. But the guy who had caused it all wanted to kill me because I was totally undoing all his hard work...))

I have very violent dreams that usually involve me killing people with random things. It's the same every night, just a different object. No change to meds or dosage. This is fairly new and it makes me worried because I haven't blown my top in years.

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Yeah. Which can be very convincing for not going back to sleep(!) One thing I've noticed is that if I wake up --in the morning-- then go back to sleep (like…. arrr arrr arrr hmmm, might get up. Nah.) that is when the weirdest dreams come. If they are scary weird, I won't roll back over when I wake up again, that's for sure, because it's only going to get weirder(!)

I had one last night, that I didn't remember till something jogged it. Then it vanished from mind again. Frustrating.

I haven't had many terrifying ones lately. They tend to go in spells and be recurring -- the same basic nightmare night after night. The most terrifying "series" ever... Flying (by self, no machine) WAAAAY up in the air (I'm scared of heights and this was waay above the trees), then with no warning, a totally sickening stomach-lurching bottom-drops-out full-body sensation then ripping, utterly out of control and in sheer terror, very very fast face-first toward the ground. Over and over and over. I didn't know I was BP then, but it struck me years later the thematic similarity. The nightmare was worse though. WAY worse.
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I've had terrifying dreams at different points in my life. Recently I might have had a hypomanic episode that lasted a while, now I'm coming down with depressive symptoms, and my dreams are more like hallucinations, all about gross giant bugs crawling all over me, dripping disgusting things on me. I can't tell when I fall asleep or when I awake from them, I just scream in my bed, heart pounding, it takes me forever to figure out nothing's there. Super disorienting. Glad to know I'm not the only one. I'm sorry we have to go through this, our minds have such dark corners in them!

I had a nightmare about a serial killer who collected and preserved bodies to sit with him around a big round table. I turned it into a short story and submitted it for publication, but I got it back.

I'm glad they didn't publish it.

Eating food before going to bed can cause very weird dreams or nightmares due to increase of metabolism and your body's temperature which increases brain activity. So if any of you are late night snackers this may be the reason why.

I'm new on here, but I have been experiencing the same thing. Sometimes the dreams are pleasant. Before I was diagnosed with BP, I could recall my dreams like memory instead of remembering my actual memories...if that makes sense.

The nightmares started about a month ago. I asked my psych about it and he said it wasn't med related. The nightmares are like real life scenarios then they shift to an almost acid trip coloring and everything is melting. Then these little evil toys come out and start killing other little toys. I have yet to research toy on toy violence in the dream dictionary, but I'm sure like someone said it's something subconscious coming to the surface. I've now had that dream about 4 times in the past 2 weeks.

It's strange and I just wanted to share.

Thanks guys. Really good to know I'm not alone on the dream front. I try explaining them to the other half but I guess unless you get them it's hard to understand. I agree regular themes include murder, bugs, disasters and themes that are linking to wierd day time phenomena. It's hard to work out if it is actually a hallucination or real. I've come to conclusion that it is better to stay awake and do something productive at night instead. And the housework gets done this way so win win! Lol. Does anyone feel like that these experiences are messages that need working out? If only I could work them out maybe they might subside! I wouldn't mind but I am in a new job and can't let my stupid head screw another job up! X

I usually stay awake also and work on my sketching. I'm going to my therapist on Friday. She's usually very good at helping me decipher them. I believe that mine now are linked to something that happened in my childhood that I've suppressed. Who knows? I just hate having the same evil ones over and over again. What happened to rainbows and unicorns?!

Sleep thing just got worse. Had to leave new job early as voices and commentary became too intense. I don't see how I can live like this

I totally think they are messages, some times I know what they are about and other times I don't but, somehow knowing never makes it go away. Although I do find that putting them into my stories or drawing them helps.

Thanks blue. Other half is making me go to docs next week. I'm hoping that things sort themselves out first and I don't have to x

Do you guys think that the rubbish nights could be kinda hypo manic?

Have you noticed other behavioural changes? Google for a list of hypo mania symptoms and see if you're experiencing any of those.