Here There Be Monsters Forum Good evening

All thoughts welcome here.

where this goes is up to you.

Up to me? Really?

Who else here has completely insane dreams? For example:

Me, my best friend, and his sister (also a close friend) are in my house. There are bodyless, armless dinosaurs outside (Just big heads with legs on the side). She wants to go outside, I beg her not to, and she says, "Why not?"

"They'll get you!" I say, pointing outside like a madman.

"What will get me?"

I look her in the eyes, holding her shoulders. "The dinosaurs."

She scoffs, goes outside, and is savagely eaten.

That dream is funny... But no I have very realistic dreams. I have nightmares constantly and sometimes when I wake up, I can still smell and taste the blood. Have you ever had a dream where you were hurt in some way, then wake up with that same place hurt on your body? Those dreams scare me... It makes you wonder if the saying is true "you die in your dreams, you die in real life."

The worst dreams I've ever had were the ones that came true. Like when I was 14 and I dreamed about a friend trying to kill himself while I was talking to him on IM. It had the next night. Luckily he was unsuccessful.

I've never awoke with the feeling of having been hurt. I actually don't even remember any sort of dream where I've been hurt. I've had bad feelings after nightmares. Sometimes feeling's of not being alone. I actually haven't had any nightmares in awhile.

I've had a night terror before. For those that don't know, that's where you're basically caught in the middle of waking up and dreaming, so that you still see the things you saw, but it's very, VERY vivid. More like a hallucination than a dream. There's this haze in dreams, this unreal sense that lets you know it's a dream...not so in a night terror. i don't think I've ever been that scared in my life, and it was horrifying.

And I've woken up from several dreams tasting blood, and then went to the bathroom, checked my mouth - nope, no open wounds, nothing that would leave blood in my mouth. It really freaks me out when that happens, because usually it's during more...violent dreams. I've felt phantom pain for a few minutes after a dream, but never, like, lasting ache as if it actually happened.

Wes Craven did a movie about night terrors called "They". It was interesting.

I remember that movie. Wes Craven has something wrong with him...that man scares me, and it takes a lot to scare me. Him and Clive Barker.

Really? Wes Craven doesn't scare me. I have yet to have a movie scare me. I mean I've had movies make me jump when I'm in a good movie theatre, but that's mostly cause it's surround sound. This sort of stuff never scares me, it just intrigues me. The weird part about that is that I was never allowed to watch anything scary growing up. So I wasn't really desensitized through lots of scary movie watching.

Oh, no, not the movies themselves...movies. I don't know, they just have never scared me, either. Only made me jump, like you said. But the ideas he comes up with are usually pretty freaky...and Clive Barker had a game out, Undying...it was scary. Made me tense playing it, but it was a brilliant story, great storytelling. Yeah, sorry, for the confusion, I wasn't referring to the movies themselves so much as the twisted minds that they came from.

I love Clive Barker! He, in my opinion, is one of the greatest horror writers. His ideas and stories creep me out too. The thought of the origin of such stories gives me an eerie chill. But that's what I love about it. And although I haven't yet had a movie scare me, I've read some books that have left me with the feeling of "what's under the bed?"

The story that has made me the most uneasy was probably Stephen Kings, "Room 1408". If you haven't read it, it's in his "Everything's Eventual" short story collection...it made me have very uneasy feelings while I was in my room.

i havent read King in so long. but if its near as creepy as you say it is, i will have to give it a look for sure.

BTW for those that get the chance ((like houston has so recently)) i REALLY recommend seeing the Bodyworks display. its traveling the US now, and has a bunch of plasticine peices of the human body in varying degrees of art and macabre. wonderfully contorted view of humanity.

I've seen that on the discovery channel and have been looking forward to actually seeing it. Do you know where I could get a schedule of showings?