Category: Nightmares

Parasomnia – When Nightmares Become Real

  I’ve been studying odd sleep disorders the last few days, and I’ve come across this word Parasomnia.  Parasomnia is defined as abnormal behaviors and experiences that accompany sleep; it’s mixed states of sleep and wakefulness. This includes sleepwalking, sleep eating and sleep drawing.   It’s been reported that up to thirty percent of children…
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Shrunken Heads and Oranges

When a nightmare invades peaceful sleep most dreamers work on immediately putting it out of their minds. After all, there are enough horrors to deal with in everyday life. None wants to deal with them when they dream. One of these horrors are nightmares that include shrunken heads. These little horrors can be disgustingly horrific,…
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Unveiling Slenderman

    There’s this phenomenon happening around the world that many of us haven’t heard about. There are more than a few videos on youtube chronicling this character terrorizing teenagers who’ve wandered out in the middle of the night to do what teenagers do without parental supervision. Others go into the woods to summon him.…
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Ravenous Dinosaurs

We’ve all been in a place in life where we’ve felt like we just couldn’t take it anymore. This was the case for the dreamer who dreamed about ravenous dinosaurs.  Although the dream was filled with dark terror, it provided the impetus to change her life. Here’s the dream. I was in a huge house…
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The Devil’s on the Other Line

A friend of mine told me the story of his brother’s dream over a decade ago.  I haven’t been able to forget it. I’ve thought a lot about it, studied it, I even asked to hear it again and again.  This dream has lived in the recesses of my mind long enough — it’s time…
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The Witch and the Table

I thought I’d share with you a simple classic dream I ran across about a year and a half ago.  It was short and to the point, but terrified the dreamer and issued a stern warning. The dreamer found himself in a place he described as a Hansel and Gretel house.  He was being chased…
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What Causes Sleep Paralysis

Sleep paralysis is as sinister and as old as time itself. Its crippling connection to nightmares and night terrors can be traced through texts of the ancients as well as the advancements of modern neuroscience. Surprisingly, the answer to what causes sleep paralysis can be found in the one and the other. Sleep scientists have…
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