Nightmares and horrors as a child. What were yours?
We all had 'em, I guess....
I had a witch in my wardrobe :suspect:
But only at night, when it was very, very dark......

Sasquash came into my room one night and scared the willies out of me.

Oooh. I've just made myself shiver thinking about it.

(Sasquash is like bigfoot, and it turned out to be an hallucination - which I got alot as a kid).

I had a wasp under my pillow once...:shocked:

I used to be absolutly terrified that someone was going to come in through the window and get me. I don't know why I thought this.
:help:

Originally posted by Draggletail
Nightmares and horrors as a child. What were yours?
We all had 'em, I guess....
I had a witch in my wardrobe :suspect:
But only at night, when it was very, very dark......

I wasn't scared of too much as a kid...my home life was scary enough.

But there was one thing that used to terrify me, no matter how brave I tried to be.

The Chupacabra. Indigenous to Latin America, and the southwestern US, including California.

http://skepdic.com/chupa.html

They even did an X-Files episode about the Chupacabra. Whenever an adult wanted to make us kids behave, they'd mention that if we didn't, the Chupacabra would catch and eat us.

:) Sierra

I've just read your link about the chupacabra. I'm now feeling a little bit anxious. (I've got a nervous disposition).

Definately leaving the light on tonight.:shakes:

Werewolves! :shocked:

I watched 'The Howling' when i was little and after that i was terrified. Me and my brother were in the same room and i would let him sleep on the top bunk. My thinking was that a Werewolf was big and would get to him before it got to me! (brotherly love :rolleyes: )

I got so bad that i even started researching them at the library :loopy:

I'm so sorry, Deavon! I didn't mean to scare you. I actually picked a page that I thought wasn't too scary!

My mother used to work with a man who delighted in telling Bigfoot stories whenever our families went camping. Nothing like being out in the woods with only a thin nylon tent between you and some 9 foot tall creature.

:) Sierra

I had one that used that used to reappear all the time roundabout the time TESB came out.

basically I was in the Death Star running away from Darth Vader. As I got to the Millenium falcon I found I was having to squeeze into a "window" feet first. Every time I got stuck and just as Darth Vader was about to slice me with his lightsaber I'd wake up in a cold sweat.

Originally posted by Draggletail
Nightmares and horrors as a child. What were yours?
We all had 'em, I guess....
I had a witch in my wardrobe :suspect:
But only at night, when it was very, very dark......

Litha???! :suspect: :D



I used to have recurring nightmares about a real dwarf I'd once seen in Sheffield when I was a nipper.

I didn't think they really existed at the time - & this wee fella had classical dwarf facial features - which must have further horrified me at the time.

i remember mine even now they were so vivd and real ....i used to dream some men in bolier suits were after me and when they caught me they used to stand in my bedroom and make me go to my mom downstairs and demand money to take back to them .....whilst still asleep id be downstairs screaming at my mom begging her to give me money to give them. she once tried not giving me any money and she thought i was going to have a fit or something i was that scared ,(remember i was asleep!!!) then id take the money to the men in my room then get back in bed and all would be ok ......:|

I had a recurring nightmare for years that was quite interesting because it would start off in different ways but always get to the same 'bottom line' in which I'd be in some sort of corridor with a door ahead of me. I knew I had to open the door BUT I knew that there was something really unpleasant behind the door.

I never found out what it was but had this mother of a dream for probably 15 or 16 years. I'd wake up terrified, too scared to move and sweating.

I had one other dream that I had once but it scared the bejabers out of me so that I remember it to thgis day. I was at a relative's house and wandering around when I passed a bedroom and saw soemone lying covered up in bed. I then peered in to the room next door and saw the person who SHOULD have been in that bed sitting there grinning at me with a really nasty grin.... Who or What wa ACTUALLY in the bed?

It scared me ****less!

And on the cold shivery note I need a coffee and a walk to get the papers!

Joe :)

Originally posted by Draggletail
Nightmares and horrors as a child. What were yours?
We all had 'em, I guess....

I still get them and I'm 46:gag:

Last week I had a real bad one, I was been chased by a monster, the top half as a tarrantula the bottom half a wasp and it was about 20ft tall. I woke up at the point I died after been skewered through the stomach by the stinger.I didn't sleep much after that as you can quess. :gag:

Being that I was one of Thatchers children, my nightmares nearly always involved nuclear war!

I used to be terrified of vacuum cleaners when I was little. I had reacurring nightmares about them regularly. I used to have a dream that it was coming into the room and I was trying to keep the door shut but the door didn't fit and I could see the hoover through the gaps between the door and the frame growling at me.

I think that children often get scared of hoovers because they are noisy, and seem quite pointless and loud to them.

My maths teacher at HighGreen Sec Mod school in the 60s. She was an absolute monster.

I had the usual ones as a kid, animals attacking me and stuff like that, the main ones were usually to do with falling and then hitting the floor or falling off a really tall building and hitting the floor.

Really weird stuff like that.

I dont have bad dreams anymore though, which is a shame really as I can remember any dreams I have quite vividly and often do share them to the missus who enjoys them thoroughly.

Is it true that eating cheese before sleeping gives you nightmares-- me mam always told me this as a kid?

Think I might have to test the theory tonight with some beans/cheese on toast to see what happens!!

I used to have a recurring dream where I was chased around a maze by Daleks. I was always terrified that I'd walk around a corner and bump into a Dalek coming the other way. Then one night I discovered a small step somewhere in the maze, went up it and the Daleks couldn't reach me in that part of the maze. If I ever had the dream again, I just had to find the step and get up it. I soon stopped having it after that.

Of course, my escape plan wouldn't work with these newfangled flying daleks.

I still get the occasional nightmare, usually to do with something horrible happening to members of my family. I did have one a while ago where I was pouring bleach over guinea pigs and watching them die, their fur and skins burning away to reveal bits of their inside. It was very vivid and absolutely disgusting, more graphic than any horror film. The weird thing is, I knew it was absolutely evil and wrong to pour bleach on these guinea pigs, but for some reason I just couldn't stop myself from doing it.

Hmm, actually in writing that I've just managed to analyse what the dream meant. Hmm. Not good.

Speaking of werewolves, and hoovers (well, almost), I was once staying in a youth hostel with a bunch of friends when I was about 13. One girl was talking in her sleep in the middle of the night... "werewolves on motorbikes... oh no... help.... the cleaning lady's coming with the broom..."

Originally posted by bonny
Being that I was one of Thatchers children, my nightmares nearly always involved nuclear war!

Snap Bonny, I frequently had dreams about nuclear war as a kid! That and the realisation that my parents would not live forever provided for a fair few nightmares :(

I had a recuring nightmare that a female increadible came into my room and used to starngle me (i was only about 4 at the time).

Also there gremiln type things (more like critters actually) that lived under the stairs and would come for me and my sister.

The worst bit about these dreams is you want to scream and all you can manage is a whimper! SOOOOO frustrating!

I was afraid to go into department stores after watching John Pertwee's first adventure as Doctor Who where shop dummies came to life and shot everyone. This must have stuck in Russell T Davies' mind too...since he re-ran the very same story for the new Who series. BTW has anyone heard Bill Bailey's brilliant french jazz tune 'Docteur Qui'

"Il voyage dans le Tardis...le boite de telephone fantastique d'espace

l'interieur est beacoup plus grand que l'éxterieur!"

As a nipper I dreamt my family turned into vegetables and became worm food. I didnt eat veg for years as a result.

The sight of an uncooked sprout still makes me shudder.

I once dreamed (and it's still the scariest) after watching 'Ewoks' (the one that was supposed to start Star Wars off)
This girl in Ewoks dreams that she wakes up and goes to this guy who's looking after her and he's one of the enemy, and these enemies are like skeletons but not quite, I'll try and find a link... so I was at my grandma's house and after watching Ewoks I woke up (in my dream) needing the toilet (weren't those one horrible) and I went to my mum and dad's room to say I needed the toilet (I was only tiny) and they were these enemy skeletons, so i went to grandma's room and she was, even my sister was, then I went to the toilet, and woke up to find I'd wet the bed :(

My friend used to have nightmares that 10 foot tall carrots were chasing her to eat her :loopy: apparently they had fangs :suspect:

Ewoks (http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://members.tripod.com/~yoda77/ewoks.jpg&imgrefurl=http://members.tripod.com/~yoda77/characters.htm&h=250&w=393&sz=65&tbnid=MJhK28HWbQgJ:&tbnh=76&tbnw=119&hl=en&start=4&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dewoks%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DN) then click on 'Wicket the coolest ewok'

I can't find the enemies, they weren't the Gorax or the Dulocks, do you know what they were called, they were like big skeletons and they started taking over endor... (it's the only Star Wars film I've ever seen 'Battle for Endor'

When i was younger i started to have really bad night tremors and i still get them now but not as often but just as bad. The main one i used to have when i was younger were about sheep being crushed in coggs. It sounds laughable but as a child they were horrid and made me feel really suffercated. I also used to dream about the witch in sleeping beauty chasing me from a fireplace up some really cold hard stone steps that never ended. I kept falling up the stairs and cutting my knees and shins untill they were just bloody bones with skin hanging off them. :(

Originally posted by rudedude1979
The worst bit about these dreams is you want to scream and all you can manage is a whimper! SOOOOO frustrating!
I know exactly what you mean, but once a couple of years ago I did scream - I think it was after a "something happening to my family" type nightmare, I let out the biggest, most emphatic scream you could imagine, then woke up to find that I was sitting bolt upright in bed screaming very loud. Didn't half freak my wife out.

Originally posted by ANGELUS
[Is it true that eating cheese before sleeping gives you nightmares-- me mam always told me this as a kid?

My mum always said it was cheese and fizzy drinks :)

I occasionally had nightmares about Japanese soldiers. This is unusual because, being 43, I have no experience of engaging in combat with them. Usually, it is veterans of Burma and Malaya etc that have this theatre of war as the landscape of their nightmares. I put it down to an over-enthusiasm for Victor comic, in which all Japanese soldiery were depicted as buck-toothed, devilish sadists. The nightmares involved me hiding as they searched the jungle, bayonets ever-ready.

Nowadays any 'Japanese' nightly encounters are likely to be pleasant, since I have met many Japanese people in my line of work and find them to be the most charming people. Confessing this dream to a student, she was amused but baffled as to why anyone might fear Japanese soldiers...

i used to have a repeated bad dream of sharpe thin pointed items like needles and sticks going into my eyeball!!! even now all these years later it still haunts me when i see people putting contact lenses or drops in thier eyes.... ooh shudder:loopy:

My reoccuring childhood dreams:

I used to dream of getting up for the toilet in the night and there would be the Egyptian god Anubis on the landing. He's the one with the dogs head and he was about 8 foot tall. Arrrrgh!

Also when I got back from school our house had been taken over by astronauts with mirrored helmets, when you looked carefully through the helmet you could see they were skeletons. Arrrrgh!

The worst one involved a giant cement mixer full of blood and guts and live people in it screaming as it turned and churned.

Are these all scenes from films I shouldn't have been allowed to watch I wonder?

Not so much a dream, but when the first Batman film came out I was quite young. Somebody bought me a full size poster of Batman, I used to be petrified of it and thought he was staring at me.

i could not have my back to a door or window....and i hated being upstairs wen there was nobody upstairs, being alone in the house was a no no aswell........and there was a toilet monster, o yes that monster, it played a big part in my life, whenever i flushed the toilet i would run away as quickly as possible...i fell down the stairs alot

Yes, I remember being scared of going to the toilet at my grandma's house, partly because it was upstairs. I would run out as quickly as possible.

I think my youngest daughter's taking after me - she usually insists that I come into the bathroom when she needs the loo.