[FONT="Arial"]What was the scariest nightmare you ever had as a child? Please describe the nightmare as best as possible.

My scariest nightmare, I should say terrifying, was when I was about 5 or 6 years old. I remember it so vividly as if it were yesterday because it scared me so much. It began at a playground at school. No one was there, it was just me, and it was cloudy and windy outside. I remember having this eerie feeling as if something were wrong. Then I looked over, and my friend’s parents were standing on the side of the playground, then the wind started to blow and they had this worried look on their face, got into their car and left. I looked around and the clouds got darker and wind blew harder and I heard this rumbling sound. I looked over at the tube slide and could see a figure within it slowly sliding down. When it reached the bottom I saw that it was a brown monkey, a little shorter then myself, and it’s left eye was yellow. It ran over to me and bit me on the arm. Instantly I started bleeding and my skin began falling off until it was just a bony arm and hand. All I can remember at the end was seeing a skeleton surrounded by roses and the monkey running of screaming. That was the end of my nightmare which I will never forget. It made me scared of monkeys for the longest time.[/FONT]

When I was eight I had this dream that I was in the middle of my elementary school parking lot when my best friend came down in a hot air balloon. She told me to hop in, and I immediately jumped into the basket. However, my thumb got stuck in one of the sandbag ropes or something, and the pull of the balloon taking off tore my thumb clean off. It was just this gross, bloody stump. I remember being treated like a leper the next day at school (in the dream) because I had no thumb. It was creepy.

I don't remember it very well, but I remember being scared for some reason. I was about 5 years old and the nightmare took place at the Midnight Society campsite. The MS were talking and suddenly an old lady appeared. They walked over to her and asked if she needed help. She started screaming and then something exploded and everything turned green. I think the explosion was what scared me.

I had a dream about my mom almost killing me.:(

Plus today, I had a dream of the HBO Independent Productions logo (seen after Martin, and Everybody Loves Raymond) , that ALWAYS scared me shitless, especially in my younger days.

when I was really young, I saw an episode of are you afraid of the dark that lead to this naucktmare(thats nightmare in german), It starts out with little old me watching some looney tunes looking show, then I hear a voice calling my name from my(then) bedroom, I pay it no mind and continue to watch the show, then I hear the voice again, only this time it sounds very incistant(sp?), but still I dont pay it any mind then for some reason my brother comes in and says excitedly that theres something in there that I've just gotta come and see so I follow him reluctantly donw the hallway to the roon which appears to get longer with each step, when I reach the bedroom doorway I see him on his hands and knees looking under our bunk bed at some thing then he see me and waves me over. I go to him and he pulls me down and points under the bed and as I unwillingly look under the bed a green ghoulish looking creature with eyes resembling laser pointers looks at me with a ghastly grinrevealing rotten,black and green teeth, it said hello christopher would you care to join me for some candy and grape soda(two of my favorite things to eat then), I nod my head yes but when I start to crawl under the bed the thing grew more terrifying and changed from a ghoul to some form of a demon crossed between a gremlin(you know from the movie) and the crypt keeperby this point my dream-self was already on his way back out from under the bed with the creature in hot pursuit, and my brother no where to be seen then suddenly the nickelodeon theme starts to play and I find my self beeing chased down the hall by pinchface and woke up screaming. and before anyone questions the factuality of this dream it scared me so bad(as well as several other dreams) that they're forever entombed within my memory.

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That's creepy... i used to be so scared of the movie Gremlins!
Your dream reminded me of one similar that i had myself several times as a child. I'd have this dream were i was so scared to go into my room for some reason. id refuse to go in there then when i had to, i would, reluctantly and my lights wouldnt turn on. id keep flipping the switch but it wouldnt work. and i had this feeling to hurry myself to get the lights on before something got me. i hated those dreams. not even safe in your room![/FONT]

Gremlins was a possible factor in one of my childhood nightmares that I had a few times, as were the Child's Play movies with Chucky. I had these nightmares around the ages of 4-6. At the time my bed had several stuffed animals on it, and I had a lot more in a big toy chest. My nightmare would always start with me exploring my house, which was very dark. No one was around but me. Then all of my stuffed animals would start coming to life and trying to kill me. Some would even transform slightly into gruesome, horrifying and twisted versions of their original selves. They would be all over the house and every time I would escape some I would encounter more. Towards the end of the dream, they would all suddenly be gone. Then I would turn the corner and this stuffed animal that looked a little like something from the movie Gremlins mixed with some kind of demon would be there. He had these evil eyes, sharp teeth, pointy ears, etc. He was the only stuffed animal in that dream that I did not own. In fact I never saw anything like him before. He would start growling and talking to me as he approached, telling me how he was going to kill me. I would always wake up just before he got to me. I had this dream several times until they finally ended when I was about 7.

Here's the interesting part. A few years later, when I was about 10 it was Christmas morning. One of my many presents was a stuffed animal that looked like a Gremlin/demon mix. He had evil eyes, sharp teeth, pointy ears, and a light sensor that made him growl. He was almost exactly what was in my dreams. The funny thing is I never told anyone about those dreams up until that point. When I opened it I immediately started laughing and told my parents about the dream. They appologized for getting me something that reminded me of such a scary childhood nightmare, as they had no idea about the nightmare when they bought it. But I was happy to have it. I still think the irony of it all is hilarious. I'm also such a big horror fan now that I enjoy remembering my nightmares, and love having the gremlin/demon stuffed animal as a reminder of it. But I still can't sleep with those eyes looking at me, so he stays in the closet.

When I was about 4 years old, I had this dream where my dad turned into a monster. Scared the crap out of me.

I also had this one where I was lying in my bed, and it started flying, and eventually got sucked into some kind of vortex. I blame Poltergeist for that one.

I have some memories from my very early childhood. From about 2 and a half I start to have a long-term memory. I remember a few dreams from when I was about 3.

One nightmare I had about that time was that there was a machine called IIRC a "modelina" (I'm not sure if this was supposed to mean anything. My dream would have been in Serbian), and it was a method of discipline. As I remember it, your parents could "wind you up" on it (I think it looked like one of those old sewing machines with a crank in the back) and you would temporarily turn into a shark or snake. I think the snakes you turned into were called "plavoularka", "crvenoularka" and "belourlarka" (respectively blue- red- and white- "ularka", they were those colors). One day, I did something and my parents, prob. my mother "wound me up" and I turned into a shark. (now I like sharks and snakes but back then they were scary to me). I think spent some time rowing a boat among the snakes. I then turned back into a boy, and my mother told me something like she would punish me like that again if I did something I was not supposed to (I think it was opening a door I was not supposed to, maybe going into a storage closet that I know for a fact in real life my mother didn't like me going into but for me it was fun). But as I recall it, I went there anyway, and my mother caught me, but I don't recall being "wound up" again, though she might have threatened me.

I also had a dream of adventure of link locking all of my threads I posted at RetroJunk. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!:eek:

Lol I was just kidding!:D

I had this dream in jr. high where i lived in a trailer house which was right where my friend's old house used to be with my family but i had about 8 little brothers and sisters (i only have 2 in real life). I came back from a date and i noticed that my parents weren't home. I couldn't find my little siblings anywhere and i went to open the curtains to see if they were outside but when i pulled the cord, they were all hanging on the other side with their throats slit. (pretty much terrifying) Then the guy/killer came out through one of those doors you see in the movies where an ironing board pops out and he tries to attack me. I run out of the house and down the street and then i fall. Then all of a sudden this car pulls up in front of me and this dude tells me to get in. So i do. He then takes me to a build and we go inside then he tells me that it is a Sane Asylum. Then my dream switches to black and white. I am then taken through this dark hallway with only one lightbulb in it. There are doors on the side and i peek through the windows and the people inside are my dead brothers and sisters. They each tell me that i need to stop him before he kills me next. So then i go to the last door which is at the end of the hallway. I walk in and there is a chair sitting in the middle and this guy appears and it's the killer just laughing at me (but in a really eerie way). That's when i woke up.

[FONT="Arial"]After reading everyones posts, we all had some creepy/terrifying nightmares as children...I had to add this nightmare that I just remembered having as a child. This dream was one of those reoccurring ones, and I actually just recently had it again. The first time I remember having this dream I was in about 2nd grade. It started with me sitting in my grandma’s living room then noticed a bright light from outside. It was so bright that you couldn’t make out anything like the trees or fences in front, just a bright yellow/white light. Following this light was the weirdest sound, kind of like those sirens they turn on at the end of the month but different. So I walked over to the front door, opened it, looked up and saw a UFO floating in the sky. I don’t remember what happened, but it was one of those dreams where you’re petrified, don’t really know why, but I remember being terrified in that dream, like I could foretell something horrible was bound to happen. Later on in life, I had another dream that I was sitting in my parent’s house in the evening watching TV, then a strange blue light came through the window from the bushes. When I went outside, it came from all sorts of different directions, and once again I had the terrifying feeling that something was wrong and there was nothing anyone could do about it. Lastly, I just recently had this dream about a month ago. I was, once again, at my grandma’s house in the living room. All of a sudden, I heard this loud, rumbling explosion and there was a sudden hole in the roof. I looked out front to see two semi trucks crashed and exploded. There was that feeling again and I looked up through the hole in the ceiling to see a UFO sending this yellow light out as if searching for something, along with that eerie sound. I also overheard someone whisper “the aliens caused the crash” I don’t know why these dreams scare me the way they did/do, maybe it’s that weird feeling I get, maybe its also the thought that there is nothing anyone could do when the UFOs came and destroyed things. I hate having the “UFO Dream” and I still get them! [/FONT]

I've had a bad dream when I was 10 where I was eaten by pac man (I was blinky), one when I was sentenced to death by burial alive when I was 14, and then one when I was 12 where my dad was Hitler and I was working for him, (Not very similar to Der Furhrer's Face D.D. Cartoon) and he shot me with a springfield rifle. Another one was when Sorcerer Mickey and the blue words captured me when I was 6 (Was animated) and was hit by Mickey's spark. I get it still today, but hell, it isn't with the blue words anymore at least!