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We mustn't speak of nightmares here, girly. Evil feeds on 'em, don't ya know it." Mr Trinozka (character)
Your nightmares follow you like a shadow, forever.
The only time we stopped having nightmares was while we slept.
Mazer, i don't want to keep dreaming these things. I'm afraid to sleep. I keep thinking of things i don't want to remember. My whole life keeps playing out as if i were a recorder and someone else wanted to watch the most terrible parts of my life
I am the nightmare.
Nightmares are at all times better than real life; because you always have the chance to start over everything.
A lot of dreams can turn to nightmares ... if you don't really work them.
I am not afraid of nightmares, because mine came true and I lived through them.
What makes a nightmare nightmarish is the sense that something is happening that should not be. While nightmares are the most convenient reference point for this sense of the impossible, the unthinkable, as something that is actually happening, it is not restricted to our sleeping hours.
Memories always kill nightmares.
I just can't wake from these scary dreams.
For six nights, this nightmare has howled through my sleep, a dire warning.
But dreams have ways of turning into nightmares.
You have to know who you are, if you don't you have nightmares.
As a child I would get scared with those bad dreams
now incomplete dreams haunt me!
I had nightmares I thought were really horrible until I woke up and remembered what reality was at the moment.
Everything that is engenders, sooner or later, nightmares. Let us try, therefore, to invent something better than being.
I'm not your proverbial worst nightmare because nightmares aren't real and I am more real than anybody wants to admit.
Nightmares exist outside of logic, and there's little fun to be had in explanations; they're antithetical to the poetry of fear.
Stupid dreams. Even the good ones are bad, because they remind you how poorly reality measures up.
Emergency Rooms ... were the nightmares your nightmares had while they slept.
Dread of night. Dread of not-night.
Scratch a fantasy and you'll find a nightmare.
had nightmares I thought were really horrible until I woke up and remembered what reality was like at the moment,
If sometimes dreams come true, what of our nightmares?
Only happy people have nightmares, from overeating. For those who live a nightmare reality, sleep is a black hole, lost in time, like death.
There are some dreams you can't wake up from.
Ever.
These are called nightmares.
You wouldn't believe it. It's like a wonderful nightmare."
"Sure," I said. "I'd believe anything. Including nightmares."
"What's the matter? Feel low?"
"Low as hell.
In a life where waking hours are draped in the costume of horrid nightmare, where reality has suddenly become questionable, it's easy to be scared by dreams.
Nightmares are not dreams. A good dream does not leave the dreamer in darkness, confusion and terror. Start having dreams, not nightmares!
The thing about nightmares is that you can't prepare for them. They sneak up on you when you are most vulnerable, wreaking havoc and mayhem when you are totally defenseless. And they don't always happen while you're sleeping
People are inherently wary and fearful. What is a person more afraid of, the paucity of their dreams or the satanic magnitude of their nightmares? Poetic inventions containing elements of truth comprise all of our nighttime dreams and ephemeral daydreams.
A nightmare is a failed dream, a dream that, by not "handling" anxiety, has failed in its role as the guardian of sleep.
I was having nightmares because I'd discovered monsters that were real. Disease and the prospect of death were far scarier than any boogeyman.
What about nightmares? Have you experienced sexual dreams of a dark nature?
I think that the nightmares are telling me things about myself that I need to know. And I try to understand what they mean, so I can get to know something more about my soul.
Protect your dreams from your nightmare
The places that ive been, the things that i have seen - what you have as nightmares, are what i have as dreams.
Dreams are shadows cast by truth shining on our darkest secrets
Who are you?"
"I'm the stuff of your nightmares ... Actually, I'm the stuff your nightmares wake up screaming about
Well, I had nightmares when I was doing the Klan story all the time. I had a recurring nightmare of basically being exposed as a Jew inside the Klan compound.
Dreams: a door through which the dead return.
Fears can stop dreams,but not regrets
Ninety percent of people's nightmares is standing in front of 1,000 people. Did you know that? And having to speak. You would have thought it would have been a madman tying you up and taking your eyes out.
Between the world we see
and the things we fear,
there are doors.
When they are opened,
nightmares become reality.
Job moans that it is wanton cruelty that suffering people, brutalized or in mourning, should have to relive their horrors in dreams. In fact, why should any of us, in seeking rest, be met with nightmares?
They spring from deep within us, these nightmares, these folktales. They speak of our deepest needs, the ones we have all been taught since childhood never to put into words, because dreams reveal our other face, the one we keep hidden, the Hyde to mankind's collective Jekyll.
I try to distract myself from reality by wielding an active imagination. Then I have nightmares.
She'd slept terribly the night before. The room, the bed, were both comfortable enough, but she'd been plagued with strange dreams, the sort that lingered upon waking but slithered away from memory as she tried to grasp them. Only the tendrils of discomfort remained.
When your dreams turn into a nightmare, it's time to wake up.
You're capable of such beautiful dreams and such horrible nightmares ...
Men were snoring, twitching and whimpering, struggling with nightmares less terrible than reality.
From one small lie her dream had transformed into a hideous nightmare
What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow.
-Bad dreams?
-Just dreams.
The scene had been a nightmare, one of those insane nightmares where the most normal objects become infinitely menacing.
I had no night terrors. Maybe when your real life becomes the terror, there's just nothing left to dream about
Dreams may have been the paintings on my walls, but doubts and fears were the bars on my windows.
All the nightmares that had ever plagued a woman alone in the dark loomed in her mind.
You can't reason with a nightmare
How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares
if there seemed any danger of their coming true!
I've had a quite a few nightmares about being chased by walkers.
Unfortunately, a superabundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares
It can't all be dreams because a broken dream will kill you as surely as a nightmare will, and with a lot less mercy. At least the nightmares don't smile while they take you down.
All nightmares are a peephole through which we see the unsettling particles of our trampled past, whereas all uplifting dreams are a portal to escape the inexplicable undercurrents that worry our survival.
You don't forget nightmares, but when they've been exposed to enough sunlight, they fade.
Like nightmares, dreams were insidious things, and didn't like being locked away.
They'll wait until I'm asleep - or nearly asleep - to strike. That's how they do it; they blur the line between reality and nightmare. They give me bad dreams, and then they make them come true.
The responsibility to nightmare is to wake up.
Nightmares appear many times before your dream.
In nightmares, we can't look into our own eyes except by indirection, perhaps because we fear discovering that therein lie the worst monsters plaguing us.
I have nightmares that I'm going to wake up, and everyone's driving a Prius and living in a condo, and we're all getting health insurance.
The world's a nightmare.
The nightmare of living was begun.
A nightmare has taken hold of my body. Lunacy has dug its way inside my mind.
It's because the door hasn't been closed yet that the nightmares still find their way in.
The world's not a very comfortable place if you have a nightmare to face.
psycho monsters.
It was just a nightmare, or was it?
There's no nightmare you can't wake yourself up from.
Take your worst nightmares, and put my face to them.
God, wake me from this nightmare!
Really, a nightmare just really has to evoke some sort of, we call it, dysphoric emotion or something uncomfortable. You could be sad, you could be unhappy; you could be scared, anxious. But traditionally, the definition is you have to awaken from this nightmare.
My biggest nightmare is I'm driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: 'Please help me.' And the people say: 'Hey, you look like ... ' And I'm dying while they're wondering whether I'm Barbra Streisand.
A nightmare is something you awaken from, Peter," she had said. "But thoughts and ideas that remain after its terrors have disappeared are something considerably worse.
My dreams are of water. And my nightmares.
I've long considered becoming a writer to be the death of nightmares. For me at least, since I started writing I hadn't had any. Something really terrible or awful happens in a dream and you wake up and think, awesome, and reach for a pen and paper.
Broken necks, splattered patellas, severed arteries: These are the things from which dreams are made of.
There's wall of agony between dreams and reality.
You can't kill a nightmare, but you can scare it. And there's nothing so feared by nightmares as milk and cookies.
Most of my nightmares involve me forgetting my lines in a stage play.
to all those who slept through the nightmare till it ended, you will remember your nightmares and it will be easier to confront them when they come again for you.
If we didn't have nightmares, we wouldn't wake up every morning chasing our dreams.
When your thought is right, your imaginations will be colourful; you will then dream and not have nightmares!
The greater your dreams, the more terrible your nightmares.
Horror operates with complete autonomy. Generating ontological havoc, it is mephitic foam upon which our lives merely float. And ultimately, we must face up to it: Horror is more real than we are.
Future dreams distract you from present nightmares.
How you can have dreams when your neighbors have nightmares.
The idea of having dreams that don't come true is really terrifying.
Who am I to tell my private nightmares to if I can't tell them to you?