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Nightmare

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💡Possible meaning

These can be very painful dreams; however, there is a reason your mind will go through these experiences. Such a dream simply signifies the unprocessed emotions left over from a hard day that needs to vent out so you can be at peace. That is why these are called "Venting Dreams". We can also have this type of dream when our mind is afraid and is replaying traumatic events hoping to find new ways to keep you safe.

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Learn to process these experiences and emotions while you are awake so that you do not take them into your dreams. Talk with a mental health professional, work on yourself and grow. By learning to become aware of emotional conflict inside of yourself and accepting all parts of you, you will find peace again.

❤️ Feelings

The dream of a nightmare evokes intense fear, anxiety, and distress. It leaves a person feeling unsettled, overwhelmed, and helpless. Nightmares often bring a sense of dread, terror, and unease, leaving a lasting impact on one's emotions. The experience can be deeply disturbing, causing a person to wake up in a state of panic and uneasiness.

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7 Nov 2024

dream-about-foggy-woods-and-dead-man
Fear
Nightmare
Ghosts
Spirit
Darkness
Woods

Dream

I had a werid dream .. in the dream it was foggy and i was in the woods , in the dream it was dark there was still light just really foggy , i looked around and i stasrted hearing voices in the dream saying zoe theres a man in the woods zoe theres a man in the woods zoe theres a man in the woods i walk s bit fast trying to find my way and i approach a tree and stop in my tracks and out came out of the tree a was a head of a man he was pale and his eyes were rolled back he had , black curly/wavy hair his mouth was open he looked dead .. i then freaked out in the dream and tried to wake up but my eyes werent trying to open .. i started saying i rebuke u in the name of jesus and woke up

2 Nov 2024

dream-about-dating-in-a-bunker-with-aliens
Fear
Wedding
Alien
Love
Boyfriend
Bracelet

Dream

Had a dream where I got really close to a friend of mine and then ended up going out with him and dating him.. we connected fast and loved being around each other. We would go out on fun dates and run around. The thing was that in this dream we lived in a big bunker, most of the people on the planet did after the big change where most of the planet turned into dust. There was some forests here and there on our planet and a couple of farms but other than that everything was gone. There was no cities, towns, hotels, barns, grocery stores, etc. We had to defend ourselves by making bunkers in different areas of each country… a lot of people didn’t make it so there was like only 3 bunkers per country. Most bunkers had about a thousand or so people. We had just found we were getting invaded by aliens so all of the smart people got together and started to make plans on what was going to happen… we were going to invade there ship undercover since they are very similar looking to us. The thing was both me and my boyfriend were in part of this plan in some different ways and we worried all the time about if something was going to go wrong. One day when some of my friends and my boyfriend and I went out for a little in the dessert area through a secret tunnel. When we were heading back to the bunker my boyfriends friend randomly said “just do it already and get it over with”… so I went to ask my boyfriend what he meant and halfway through my boyfriend kisses me. There was so many feelings all at once that we both felt but the one that was most important was that we truly liked doing it, I was super blushing and he was awkward all the way back home. The next day the head of the alien squad said that the mission was going to happen tonight so be with ur loved ones as much as u can before it happens. I’m the middle of breakfast with my family and my boyfriends family my boyfriend just gets up and leaves without saying a word so I went and followed him. Once I found him he seemed mad and I’ve never seen him that way in my entire life, then when I tried to talk to him he yelled at me and said that he was stupid to take the job and shouldn’t have done so. My boyfriend was one of the people that was going up to the aliens ship to invade it, I guess he didn’t want to now but he can’t back out now. He told me how he was worried that he won’t see me again, then I got mad nd upset and ran away… both our families were concerned and wanted to help but my boyfriend said it was fine and that he’d fix it. I ran to the forest crying my eyes out and ended up at my favourite spot, my boyfriend caught up with me and asked me what was wrong… I told him that I’d been thinking about the same thing for way longer than he has about us dating and the alien squad. I said to him that I was worried about the mission ever since it was announced and thought that it wasn’t a good idea for us to start dating because it would be too much on us and might affect the mission which could ruin it. I then told him I’ve been having nightmares about him being caught and haven’t gotten much sleep because of it.. he told me that he was having the same dreams as well. He looked at me and wiped my tears away… then he kissed me for the second time, it’s weird because we’ve never kissed during the whole 2 years we’ve been together and then we start doing so which makes us even closer and not afraid about the alien mission. We have a hidden bunker we made ourselves in the forest so we went there and ended up sleeping together without any nightmares for quite awhile. Our family was definitely worried so we woke up to them yelling out in the forest looking for us so we hurried and used the back door of the bunker and said sorry we just needed to talk and enjoy the wildlife at the same time before anything goes wrong tonight. We head back home and I remember that I had made him something to make him feel better so I go looking for it and gave it to him.. it was a bracelet and it said on both of them “I love u” which everyone thought was really cute. He thanked me for it and then went off to practice for the shuddle flying and the aliens that he was going to see. We had took the aliens that came down here to find us and gotten rid of their abilities to remember what happened here down in the bunker. The squad leader said that it was time to get ready and to get our uniforms on.. I was one of the people who was going to operate the mission by speaking into a very small earpiece that the invaders are going to use but they can only listen they can’t talk back to us because then the aliens will notice we aren’t one of them. When I was starting to get ready and the invaders were heading to the shuddles with the real aliens in them my boyfriend stopped me from saying goodbye to him which i thought was strange and then he pulls out a box, gets down on one knee and everyone was super shocked and made a strange noise then I realized what was happening. He proposed to me asking me if I could be his wife, his girl forever and gave me a beautiful silver/diamond ring that was shaped into a heart… I obviously said yes but then asked him how he bought it and he said that he had money saved up for something else he was getting for himself and decided to use it on this instead and said that he has some good gambling skills. He went into his pod and they left, he forgot about the bracelet he was wearing so he had to try and hide it from view as much as he could. Once they got to the ship the invaders were shook and scared but managed to calm down once the head of the aliens came over and asked why it took them so long to find us. We had changed there minds and told them lies to say to the master… they said it was so dusty that they couldn’t find a thing but managed to find one farm with animals that were nice and healthy which we didn’t put into that ones mind and that farm the alien was talking about was one of my best friends house just outside the bunker so I called them and warned them to leave immediately. After that I don’t remember because I woke up

22 Oct 2024

dream-about-freddy-krueger-and-escaping-dreams
Nightmare
Orgasm
Darkness
Daughter
Mirror
Running

Dream

I was laying in bed with my daughter Lucy and Freddy Krueger was trying to kill us. In order to rip him out of our dreams and bring him into the real world I had to have her put her finger on his head then her other finger on my head and I had to put one of my fingers on her head and then on his to make a loop. He was fighting us so hard to make sure that didn’t happen. Finally he escaped and I was trying to hide from him and while running through the house I saw a mirror and looked into the mirror and saw my face. I was thinking something scary was going to happen since there was darkness behind me but it never did. There are some other parts I don’t remember but at one point I knew I was dreaming then it turned into Freddy laying in front of me and trying to seduce me with his mind, which he did, and he made me orgasm and after I orgasmed my head shook violently and uncontrollably then I woke up.

14 Oct 2024

dream-about-feeling-stuck-and-longing-for-home
Abandoned home
Anxiety
Being Lost
Nightmare
Mother
Son

Dream

I’m at my grandmother in Maine’s house-technically it is my aunts house now as before my gram passed she signed it over to her. I must have come up to visit but without my son SJ because it is just me and my aunt there. I still have my Chevrolet Suburban because it’s sitting in the driveway of the house. I don’t know what happened but I am stuck at my grandmother’s/aunt’s(I’m not used to calling it my aunts yet because my grandmother has only been gone two months). I guess in the dream even though my grandmother is gone my mom is not because for whatever reason I am stuck in Maine no money no gas and I am trying to get ahold of my mom because I need her help to get home to her and my son SJ. She never answers my messages though and I am starting to get very upset because I just desperately want to go home. I miss being home and feel out of place at my aunt’s. At one point my aunt asks how I am holding up and I break down and lose it because I miss my mom and my son and I just want to go home so bad but I just feel stuck. Some part of me seems to know I am asleep too because I am struggling to wake from the dream like it’s a nightmare I want out of.

25 Aug 2024

dream-about-oni-demon-encounter
Demon possession
Fear
Nightmare
Family
Eating
Truth

Dream

I JUST HAD THE COOLEST DREAM EVER. I mean it was super scary but it was so freakin cool!!! I’m not sure what all I’m aloud to say since they were like “It’s not safe to be too honest” But basically there’s this super cool Oni demon guy and I was so happy to see him again but bro was like “GUEL STAWP IM TORURTING U DONT GET EXCITED” but like I can’t stop myself from being happy? Like yay! He said he’s not completely horrible and that I’ve taught him a lot about himself so he’s decided to help me a little. It was super funny cause he was doing his normal trying to scare the shit outta me routine, and I was doin my normal cussin him out thing and then outta no where I woke and I was like OH AHIT YOUR THAT DEMON GUY I TALKED TO AND HE WAS LIKE AYYYY YOU REMEMBER ME. truly I’m so happy though I guess normal people shouldn’t be this excited to see one of there bullies. I just hope he meant it when he said he’d have a tea party with me one day. He explained to me how people aren’t really supposed to lie in this real or they turn into monsters and that’s how higher beings started realizing I wasn’t lying about who I was or what I was going through- or apparently I was vague enough with my description to forgo to normal body metomorphesis. Tho Mr demon guy was all like, “Just cause ur mind and soul can withstand the amount of fear and torment you receive here, doesn’t mean your human vessel can. He said that’s why I keep shaking so bad is cause apparently I’m a lot more scared rn then I realize. Also!! Demons are like super duper cool. They totally infultrated Christianity or maybe it was always like that?? Anyways apparently saying Amen is like a demons name? Amon? So cool. Like maybe one of truth? Idk ig I gotta study more. It makes me really sad to see me dad suffer in the dream but when I woke demon guy said not to worry that that was just an illusion for visualization purposes but that I should try to avoid thinking about my human parents fate. Apparently it’s a crime to hurt beings like me? They say I really gotta keep eatting cause I’m outgrowing my vessel rn and it’s important to take care of myself. Also to tell the truth! I feel like I’m listening to a bedtime story it’s so cool!

23 Aug 2024

dream-about-scary-nightmares-and-ghosts
Blood
Fear
Nightmare
Pregnant
Ghosts
Darkness

Dream

So I dream of that like it was very scary it was very very skeleton life it was a scariest nightmare so I'm having nightmare pass to continuous days and yesterday I dream of that like a dream of that I was sleeping bed and suddenly a black scary hand came and drag me from a bed let's see essay like I dream it twice a dream and hold my waist and drag me from my bed to the ground and I just side and dream of that I was in my parents room like it was afternoon time I was in my parents cloudy weather some time I live in joint family and my paternal came and started talking to me suddenly and then like my another aunt came and she came and saying that when she came into my room and we were sleeping like she saw four black kids like they we shadow is figures they were playing at the like in the room between the area and her what suddenly caught my attention I was like what and I said like ya really friend like someone figure all black and their playing so scary and I also saw that in my neighbourhouse the house of my front house there was like kid got posses okay I can like it was a ghost wearing a black coat with the kid head and she she was like he literally holding another kids it was so scary then my aunt said go wash your clothes for sure clothes and I was asking so which I should do use water tangents are the solid deteriesis go down stairs and godown and get it so when I went down they were don't disturb I was shocked and confused how they came there so like I took the stuff and went upstairs and told them that I saw them don't say can be here so like when I like I told him like I saw them downstair this said like you time travel I said how I can do time travel it was so weird anyways and actually in my dream my maternal and family members came to our house and in dream I was actually pregnant but I was on the period also so it impossible to the pregnant and so that like they are window and outside the window there is a black panther it was a ghost like I have you take a shower and I was so scared to take the shower so I just took the courage and went to the shower and maybe killed by the black panther then everything was ok p so I took out my grey pants and so it was will with blood not read that with dark and brown blood and I was scared so actually I was pregnant but I got miscarriage and there was all blood and blood and blood and blood I took a shower and went down also so in dream like my parents room like they will lot of ghost in school there was that was so scary I saw like those whose eyes were so scary all looking at us at the hall from my parents shop it was scary cat is not coming to home for some days like feed her some cat food like I saw and bring that she came and I was happy to see her then I also so and rain that I got more like whats my love I have no more like so I got a mole on my lip when I saw more on my left and then I saw like everyone when outside the house and then the only person that left was at the house was my cousin he got by a ghost very wake up his saw that the whole house is MP and whole house was empty and he was in the dark red room with the king bed size bed and there was a ghost woman sole was sitting and when you Walker is saw the room was built with flash human flash and lot of blood and heated but actually an actually it was a flesh bar so he run in her and away from the house like he was at the house he was running running from Alice Alice your running to running and then he saw like he came out of the horse and the moment he came out of house I transform to him and it was really I run run and saw the main gate I thought I can't just go out of the main I feel so happy that and then at last I ended the end that thing I went out of the house and then I saw like in my near my heart they will lot of cafe stalls and shops of food so my best friend she was coming from the she was coming from I should go to her house going after her so she do not enter her she enter she enter somewhere else and then I realise he is also Ghost and then I saw the other shops of cafes as saw the people making cookies years and other foods search then I went to them and this ask me what they want to eat what I want to eat so I will buy Sun language I said sign sign language I said that I couldn't say or he anything so this anything and there is a Punjabi person came inside decide me he was eating and I saw elephant host eating his food and I can only see the elephant goes but he couldn't so and I also saw that one of my dreams like my little cousin my little cousin she got killed but in this stream a saw that she got possessed by a ghost sole and she was eating with her legs her to nails grow longer she was eating her legs are making me outside and then I got a call from a string number thought it was my delivery but when I like open the call and there was no voice because nothing and my grandfather he is a he is a judge OK so the call was from the ghost lives in judge in court and want to kill my grandfather I try to tell him like the ghost call me and give the morning that I want to kill you but him made me quite by saying that his wife is listening like his wife is that and her so can you listen to I even try to tell him twice but you do not listen

16 Aug 2024

dream-about-roller-coasters-and-escape
Nightmare
Mother
Car
Bathroom
Circus
Friend

Dream

i was going on rollercosters for a field trip so i waited in line with all my friend so they could go but since i dont like roller coasters i skipped ti the end and there i found a girl who was unable to go on the roller coaster due to a physical condition. so i sat there and talked to her for a little. she was nice so when she had a care taker come pick her up she said we should hang out again and i agreed. i would go to her house and my mom would go out with her parents. then her care taker came in and said he wanted to go for a ride, he kept being weird and against my better judgment i went with him. everyone in public was acting really weird like looking like they were satanic cult. i said i wanted ti go home and i was scared and suddenly we were driving down a corn field. i was begging to go home and he said he would take me there but then said let me check if he is here and pulled out a mirror asking “are you here” suddenly all around us would flash graphic images of a lady. we were driving past things like a circus parade and then we got out the car it was like everyone but him was after me. so i followed him, we were headed into a subway when i saw someone cosplaying the god Kali, so i went to point him out but my care taler was gone amd it looked like the people staring at me were after me so i asked Kali for help to please save me. she took me down to a bathroom to keep me safe and text my mom but in the other stalls people were pulling at my clothes and legs to go under to them. thats when i thought my dream ended, it felt like i had woken up and was talking to my mom about the nightmare i had and she comforted me and made me feel a little better before i fully woke up

8 Aug 2024

dream-about-being-trapped-in-my-own-head
Bear
Clean
Gun
Nightmare
Hug
Dog

Dream

I was trapped in m my own head. My dream started amazing. It started out with its own concept. A headquarters almost. For when i sleep. I walk into an office room with a lady and she directs me to the rest of the rooms where my dreams happen or other people or characters in my dream. Its a few rooms that are the backrooma behind my dreams, and its mine cause its my dream uou know? and everytime i got tired of a dream or wanted a new one, i would just clean up the rooms and walk outside the first door i came in through. Then when i walk right through everything resets. A new dream i can be in the backrooms of. And the door for me to walk through and experience the dream. i dont remember exactly how it started. But there was a nightmare that id lived before. I was experiencing it again and i knew what to do almost. I was in the living room with I and M and four men were trying to break in through the side door. I had. a gun. I opened the door and tried shootint them. but all of a sudden it had no ammo?. the last dream it did, so why didnt it now? i panicked and got scared so i chose to leave the nightmare. and to to headquarters through the door. It was different . the atmosphere was different. The people were moody and the office lady did not.. care?. it was odd. Eventually we started cleaning to start the next dream. I felt i hadnt done my part hut i thought maybe i should just try to see if we pass for the next dream. We then finished and a bright flash of light blinds all of us and when we close our eyes the SCORE of how well we all did overall cleaning, with the dream, everything us shown to us in our head. Usually this resets everything as i said. The room should be clean , new dream, new people. But it didnt work this time? we looked around and it was the same. So i thought, my fault i didnt do as much as the others. So i clean, Still nothing, I kept trying over and over again but it wouldnt reset. So i thought i should just walk in and out of the door dream. Since the dream hasnt been reset i should be sble to walk out and back in. But when i walked out i was in a, continued dream of the last one. The door was gone. For some reason i knew how this dream was gonna go, but i still tried to live. A man in the frontyard trying to kill me, a roaming bear in the street, and dogs in the backyard barking. I climb a tree to escape this man. He can't reach me. Everytime i scream he gets back. This attracts the dogs who i hope help?. They dont. He pulls out a lighter from his pocket and lights it near the base of the branch im hanging onto. I move to a different branch. Im out of ideas? Im thinking so rapidly. He gets to my branch and hes about to light it. and for the first time in my own dreams, i beg for something not to happen. The lighter wouldn't start? it wouldnt start. I forgot what got me thinking but for some reason i thought, "Maybe its cause i try to drag people down with me? ". And the mood changes again. My eyes open, ive come to a realization, maybe thats what im supposed to realize? what ive gotta take away? To me, its like the dream ended. I jump off the tree. and start yelling THATS IT and repeating my thoughts, The man looks confused, as if ive broken the dream barrier wall, I run up to him, hug him and say thank you? I walk towards the house and open this door expecting it to lead me to headquarters eith everything reset. I open it. Its worse than before. The office room is trashed, Abandoned and dark. I feel heavy. I thought i got it? I thought i reset everything? Ive tried everything i can? Why won't it reset. I dont want to be alone. Reliving my nightmares. I walk past the office and the whole of headquarters is abandoned, trashed, and has a dim atmosphere. But i know someones there? The office lady in an, almost altered form as if she'd been corrupted. She wasnt perceivable, nothint but a feeling that you knew she was there, A black hole with slim eyes, thats the most you could see of her now. I was scared. What happened to her? She talks to me, but looking back, maybe i was just talking to myself. I felt trapped in my own dreams, in my own head. I thought i was never gonna be able to wake up, dream another dream. To be left endlessly to figure out what i did wrong in order to deserve it.

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