Hey Pandas, What Is Something That Gives You Nightmares? (Closed)

Doesn't happen very often that I have nightmares, like once every 5-6 months, but it is ALWAYS the exact same one, never anything else. Looking out the window, sky is dark orange, seeing a mushroom cloud from a nuclear explosion. And then, the 2 minutes that passes with the notion of being powerless, knowing what's coming, and still trying to scurry for protection for nothing. >< Big oof.

Trump 2024

Not to be a downer, but; the idea that life is fickle and can be taken away from you in an instant periodically scares me deeply. Several people within my social circle, including my mom, have had pretty awful news recently that severely shortens their life expectancy. Some of them are way too young for cr*p like this. It's unfair. Make the most of as many days as you can, kids.

I rarely remember my dreams. But the ones I do remember are horrible. I find myself doing things in my dreams that I have Never even thought about or would never consider doing in my waking life. Thankfully they have been few and far between. Only one of these nightmares had any root in my life. But the circumstances were that I had a cat that required sub cutaneous fluids. Twice daily , every day. Long term. I dreamt that I was trying to stab him with a knitting needle, ( something I don't even own). He passed away years ago, but now I'm crying again from the memory of that nightmare!
I will say, he had kidney failure. But he ended up surviving for over 3 years after his 2nd kidney started to fail. I can tell you he felt good for most of that time and was happy. I know this because he would nip me in the morning to wake me up. Something that he started doing as a kitten. Little bugger had a sense of humor.

Less of a scary answer- but I dream about tornadoes all the time. Either my family and I know that they’re coming soon, or it’s already here and we’re just trying to not die. Every once in a while, the tornado/es will pick up my cats and take them away. It’s more of an impending doom feeling than anything else. They don’t scare me much anymore, in fact, I think tornadoes are fascinating. But yeah, that’s a recurring nightmare for me.

When I read/watch about hate crimes. Some of them are so horrible.

Being left behind, being abandoned.

When I was 5ish, my older brother, who was supposed to be watching me deserted me in the middle of this town. He told me to sit on a bench and don't move. He went out drinking/getting high (getting high in those days was a 5 yrs in the county jail). He never came back. Anyway, there I sat, on a cold November afternoon with no money and 12 miles from home. I wasn't a stupid kid so finally I went into this old fashioned drug store and told the lady what happened. She called our neighbors who came to get me. But that feeling of abandonment never really went away.
Oh, what happened to my brother? He ran away and some how joined the navy at 16. It was a good thing he did, because if my Father had got a hold of him...
To this day, I have not spoken to him.

Low blood sugar. Really. I recently got mine under control for the first time, then started having hypoglycemic episodes, shakes and all. Which I handled properly. Then I started waking up from horrible nightmares and on waking found I had those shakes. Sure enough hypo. After several episodes, I started to worry what if I don't wake up in time, so I did some research (yes, it was online, hush), and found this is one of the body's defense mechanisms for just this purpose. I have since reduced my insulin (very carefully, very slowly) and gotten everything back on track. Nightmares? Yep.

Bears. I have a completely unfounded and irrational fear of bears. Ever since I was a kid, I have random nightmares of them being in the house and I can’t escape. In my 40’s now and I still have the occasional nightmare about them.

Watching scary movies before bed, a nightmare guaranteed!

The song "another brick in the wall" by Pink Floyd.
When I was 7 my elder asked me if I wanted to watch a film with him. It was "The wall". I don't recall much of it, but as soon as the song starts it makes me shiver, and I get a little paranoid seeing the masked kids everywhere. I really gets me all the time, even 22 years later.

Clowns! They are not cute nor are they funny. They are scary! I blame Stephen King! :)

Birds. I absolutely hate them. Feathers disgust me, their beaks are scary, their jerky movements are monstrous. I have nightmares about gigantic birds, they don't even have to attack me, their simple presence revolts me.
Oh and the fact that every day bring me and my loved ones clother to death.
But mostly birds.

Drowning. I love swimming and I am really good at it but this is like drowning I feel powerless like I am nothing and no one

What really gives me nightmares is the thought, that one day, at some point I will die. The lights will go out and it's over. My heart races by writing these lines.

I’m a social worker and work with a lot of people from the underbelly of society. I say a lot of things they don’t like, like you should stop using drugs or how they shouldn’t slap their kids when they are angry. I have a recurring dream that one of my clients hurts my child (2 years old). Or they kidnap him and sell him. It’s awfull and I always wake up crying. Then I have to go check if my son is still sleeping in his bed and nobody took him during the night.

Snakes. I know this isn't true, but I feel like they exist because I'm afraid of them.

Anti-vaxers, anti-maskers and Covid deniers.

My students.
I've had more twisted carnage-filled panic dreams about or because of teaching than anything else in my life so far.

Tomato horn worms. Feared them since I was a child and our grandmom had us pick them off of her tomato plants. They have this wicked looking horn and when provoked that stand up on their rear legs (are they called legs?) and wave their upper bodies back and forth clacking their mandibles. Ugh! I'm still afraid of them!