Emotional damage!

[PancakesWitch]

I wish we were like animals and dreamed of eating, running, or playing. My cat is always dreaming about drinking milk from his mother and he makes cute sounds when he sleeps.

 

[Rhaps]

My dreams are weird as fuck, dance battle with Cthulhu for his daughter in marriage, saving the world by playing a card game Yu-gi-oh style, body snatching, riding mechs to fight aliens, its all over the place.

 

[TheEldritchGod]

I wish we were like animals and dreamed of eating, running, or playing. My cat is always dreaming about drinking milk from his mother and he makes cute sounds when he sleeps.

Most of my cats had nightmares. Then again, all of them come from horrible situations. Eventually it goes away.

 

[BearlyAlive]

I had this reoccurring "nightmare" as a kid that was just a jumbled-up combination of Jurassic Park, Indiana Jones, and Lord of The Rings. I sit inside the old car of my parents and suddenly dinosaurs are next to it, trying to stomp me, then the car starts to roll down the parkway but doesn't stop there and accelerates down the street. The next thing I notice is good old Sauron's eye above the local bank and my parents telling me we need to move to Hyrule since it isn't safe anymore. Good old times where you didn't need drugs for acid trips...

Currently the most reoccurring nightmare I have is meeting the love of my life (I don't remember her face when waking up, just the feelings), falling in love, and just after she agrees to my confession I wake up with a terrible feeling of loss.

 

[RepresentingCaution]

I've had recurring dreams of being stranded in my ex-boyfriend's house with my son 200 miles away, some with my son with me and almost always without a working phone. Walking to my friends' house helps.

 

[AnonUnlimited]

I had this dream where someone dressed as a puppet killed me and it physically hurt, then when I woke up I found a bandage over an incision over my right kidney.

 

[melchi]

I had a dream where an unknown author posted a story, but then I went to look for it and couldn't find it anymore.

 

[Sola-sama]

I had a great sleep.

What traumatize me is when I woke up soundly in the morning and not die in my sleep.
Deer lord, why do we have to work everyday ?

 

[CheertheSecond]

I dreamed that I am a talentless nobody that took a great deal of time to be accepted in a teaching facility. After a year of working there, I caught one of the students badmouthing me behind my back. I tried to make my presence known but he only looked at me and chuckled saying that the one thing I am good at was not even good enough to be anything to be proud off and that everyone felt bored with my teaching. Then I met some of my coworkers and they asked if I wanted to suspended my work for a few days and then quit after that because it was clear that my teaching is not up to bar.

 

[TheMonotonePuppet]

this goes needlessly hard af lol good for you. My bad dreams are always like my work firing me.

It does go needlessly hard af, doesn't it? Lol. I'm still fired, so I get to live your bad dreams. I don't like them!

Conversing to this person in front of me in which couldn't remember.
Whatever done damage, at the end was a phrase "Farewell and goodbye"
Used that sentence months ago to leave 'friends' who were silent.
Enough to force me to fight sleep and made me teared at the end.
Whoever it was be it myself, wife ,friends, a failed life from before/another world.
This is my only chance of redemption.

Thank you for your question for deep within me, some darkness has swept away.

@Aez_Nairo I understand your pain. In real life, I needed to tell mom that we couldn't talk for the time being, that we needed a break because it was too much pain for the both of us to interact. And in the end, she took it wrongly. She read it as silence treatment... and so decided to make our estrangement permanent.
These kinds of departures make people like us lose sleep because we never truly wanted to leave the person, but circumstances failed us. No matter how much we wanted to redeem ourselves to that person, it was impossible.
And so we hurt.
It was my pleasure. Thank you for answering this question of mine. I'm happy it helped.

Had good ones, bad ones, fucked up ones where I cried. Even had one where I was raped and I'm not sure if it was real or not. Problem is my dreams become a little lucid. Lucid enough to feel the experience, but not lucid enough to control it.

I've only had that happen a single time where I had control and it was ripped from me by a dark shadow. I woke up in the middle of the night, looked around, shrugged my shoulders and went back to sleep.

Then the black shadow followed me into my next few dreams. Closer and closer each time. Creepy shit.

But my dreams definitely influenced me in a negative light. When I was six years old, I had two reoccurring nightmares. One was my family walking out the door as I chased them, screaming for help as a monster chased me. However, they just ignored me and drove away as the monster caught me. That dream stopped happening when it felt like real life one time and that monster grabbed my shoulder and made me turn around. I saw it's face and my vision went into a TV static kind of deal.

The other dream was something I dreaded when I was younger. It was me running away from my family members, the ones I thought loved me, as they chased me with machetes. But a six year old kid can't run very far and they catch me every time. I felt my body get slashed and cut into pieces. Then I'd wake up screaming, still feeling the pain. These two dreams continued, along with other bad ones, for several years until eleven years old when I stopped caring.

Doesn't bother me anymore. And because of what happened when I was younger, I don't see bad dreams as nightmares anymore.

@Kalamity Aren't bad dreams nightmares by definition?

I digress.

And yeah... those dreams are always some of the most fucked up to experience. They can really ruin your week.

Yeah... don't you find it strange when the plot continues, even in dreams that don't feel like they match? They've always fascinated me.

Oof. Brutal dismemberment. What a way to go. I think we've both had more than our fair share of ruinous injuries in dreams, heh.

My dreams are weird as fuck, dance battle with Cthulhu for his daughter in marriage, saving the world by playing a card game Yu-gi-oh style, body snatching, riding mechs to fight aliens, its all over the place.

I'll trade some highlights of mine too!
Smushing grapes at a winery and finding out I was smushing heads and eyeballs too, being chased by a horde of Cheetos, becoming a genderbent version of Mahito who is friends with Panacea (from "worm"), traveling through a maze of laser walls that I can generate and go through while escaping from superhuman gangs, manufacturing high-tech, overpowered potato guns, to name a few.

 

[3guanoff]

I had a dream about dying repeatedly. Drowning, bled out, burning, strangled, fell off a roof, you name it. It went on too long. The pain was a bitch. Before that I did not thing it was possible to "wake up" inside a dream to another dream.
The real bitch was another still: the fear of losing reality. Parts of the dream were memories. When I woke up, the first thing I did was check my scars.

It took me a good while to sort out which parts had happened and which parts were fake... but to this day, I doubt my memory.

 

[melchi]

It does go needlessly hard af, doesn't it? Lol. I'm still fired, so I get to live your bad dreams. I don't like them!

@Aez_Nairo I understand your pain. In real life, I needed to tell mom that we couldn't talk for the time being, that we needed a break because it was too much pain for the both of us to interact. And in the end, she took it wrongly. She read it as silence treatment... and so decided to make our estrangement permanent.
These kinds of departures make people like us lose sleep because we never truly wanted to leave the person, but circumstances failed us. No matter how much we wanted to redeem ourselves to that person, it was impossible.
And so we hurt.
It was my pleasure. Thank you for answering this question of mine. I'm happy it helped.

@Kalamity Aren't bad dreams nightmares by definition?

I digress.

And yeah... those dreams are always some of the most fucked up to experience. They can really ruin your week.

Yeah... don't you find it strange when the plot continues, even in dreams that don't feel like they match? They've always fascinated me.

Oof. Brutal dismemberment. What a way to go. I think we've both had more than our fair share of ruinous injuries in dreams, heh.

I'll trade some highlights of mine too!
Smushing grapes at a winery and finding out I was smushing heads and eyeballs too, being chased by a horde of Cheetos, becoming a genderbent version of Mahito who is friends with Panacea (from "worm"), traveling through a maze of laser walls that I can generate and go through while escaping from superhuman gangs, manufacturing high-tech, overpowered potato guns, to name a few.

Panecea from worm has a sad sad story :(

 

[CharlesEBrown]

This. All of it. I still am dreaming

That cannot die which has the power to eternal lie, and with strange eons even death may die...

Assuming the dream came with some strange flutes too, that is.

I very rarely remember dreams, usually only if I partially wake up and intentionally continue them, which is sometimes more weird than disturbing. Probably the most traumatizing ones were my two "controller" dreams where I was not a character in them but one of the voices, like a cartoon devil or angel, advising the main characters. Those got really bizarre (one of them had me advising the lead male character in a full color version of Hitchcock's "Suspicion" and taking it in a very different direction, the other had me "riding" someone who was going to a comic book convention in my old middle school, only the floor gave out dumping "us" and the other attendees into some weird kind of place that I woke up before "we" could explore).

 

[jrell]

I don't usually dream much, maybe once or twice a year if lucky, and mostly just scary/horror stuff. But a few years ago, I had one incredibly nice dream that felt like it lasted forever. And it hurt like hell to wake up from.

In the dream, I met the love of my life. Like flashes of memory, I saw how we went on dates, got married, had kids, and lived in a small yet beautiful house. The last thing I remember is late evening, us cuddling on the couch and getting our laughs while watching some random, silly TV show. Then, in the dream, I decided to take a short nap, and the moment I closed my eyes, I woke up in the real world.

 

[Deleted member 41774]

Everytime I wake up from a wet dream, I get hurt inside.

 

[Azhurie_Mythephan]

I had a dream that the apocalypse was upon us and because I'm a little fatter than my siblings, my family ate me alive, hurt like hell and I woke up feeling physical pain.