Thread: Recurring Nightmare

Just started in this site to try to finally put an end to this recurring nightmare. Mainly because it has had more frequency the last month, and also because it changed last night in a very odd way that left me kind of stunned all day.
This is dense, sorry. Never wrote it out before.

OK. To start it began when I was a young teen (am 31 now). I would walk down into my grandmothers basement and into the unfinished utility room. (newish house, 70s style) when i would go in the furnace unit would catch my attention as something disturbing but as I realized that, a glass hutch would morph into a glass monster and scare the heck out of me. That lasted a couple years, till the focus became that furnace because the disturbing feeling would become terrifying horror. I mean paralyzing. like it was pure evil. (freaks me out typing it).
This went on for years. sometimes it would pull me in and inside of it would just transition to another dream, usually a house that I knew.
In my early twenties it turned into my dads house. but the furnace disappeared, and it was certain doorways. he had a large old two story so the upstairs landing was very large. and as I would go around i could feel dark presences and some doors would give off that horrible evil.(I can't stress enough, that it isnt fear or scariness, its down right wrong)

Finally in the last several years, It has just been a gigantic mansion. Some times I will be in the basement, sometimes the upstairs. But each time I know what area to fear. On one hand I am drawn to it but on the other I am scared as all hell because I know that whatever is behind that door is so wrong. Sometimes the evil feeling will chase me, other times i can will my self to wake up, and other times i have no idea, but i am awake.

Last night. I brought a group of young people in. First time ever. They were running around. ANd I told them to stay away from the attic. Next thing I know i am standing there, several of them are hurt and in the middle is a person size clear box with one kid in it (by kid i mean twenties) and this blonde, dark looking man is cutting off his arm sticking out. He looked at me, and he was that evil. Terrified completely, just in awe, never had a solid person representing it. he said i had to bring him more or i was never getting out. And i did, went to find more, and then i was out. Only got so far as finding them. Then I was awake.

Again. really can't stress enough the feeling that it gives me in these dreams, so overwhelming and powerful just pure evil. I am and have always been a very vivid dreamer. always have good stories, because i remember them well and feel a lot in them.
I also want to stress, that I am a good person, I realized writing this that I may seem like a serial killer or something - really I'm not. ALso, seems like i am hiding something. But pretty sure I am not, i am a very open person. Actually looked fo hypnotists today to see if maybe there is something there, but decided to start here.
I want to take control. And I am thinking with the senses I already have working in my dreams in general that I may have some luck with it.
Thoughts Please... a little nervous to sleep tonight...

Hi Andy,

I don't know any way to ask but just to ask... is it possible that you were ever molested in a basement furnace area as a small child, or that you were ever asked to bring other children to the molester? Maybe not in your granparents' basement, but in their neighborhood, a house with a similar basement? That is such a sensitive subject, that I hate to ask, but it's the only impression I'm getting from this one, really. I usually don't do nightmares though, because I don't have many myself, and don't relate too well to them most of the time. But this one kind of reaches out to me as needing some response.

Sometimes, we repress childhood memories, and they crop up later in life when we're better able to deal with them as adults. It never occurred to me that you might be a serial killer. But repression is kind of keeping secrets from yourself until you're old enough to face them.

Furnace rooms always seem to be rather dreary, utilitarian, dirty, dusty, noisy when the furnace is running. The glass monster is sort of fascinating, because glass is formed by extreme heat melting glass, so he would come from a furnace. It's possible these are also related to extreme horror when hearing stories in Sunday School about hellfire, or the story of Daniel being thrown into the fiery furnace. If all of that took hold negatively, then I could see that also relating to the dark presences.

If you are fearful of anything really evil coming in these dreams, I would suggest White Light Shielding before you go to sleep. That might put a stop to them, and I am pretty sure is why I have very few nightmares, and I'll post what I use for you if you like, though there are a lot of different methods of doing it. It's really asking for God/dess's protection and shielding from anything dark like this.

Let me know what you think!

Well. As far as I know - no. Grandparents house was always a pretty happy place to visit. But I guess if somethings repressed I may not know it. I really don't think so though. And it's cool that you ask. I am putting my self out there with something personal, so I would expect the responses to be pretty personal as well.
The other thought about fire and brimstone. I was raised with Very little religion. was there but never spoken of, never did the sunday school thing. The one detail about that glass hutch was it was full of my Great-Grandmothers things, and she lived in a little pool house at my grandparents, adn i always think of her when i think about that hutch. She was a sweet little old lady

Originally Posted by Andy24

Well. As far as I know - no. Grandparents house was always a pretty happy place to visit. But I guess if somethings repressed I may not know it. I really don't think so though. And it's cool that you ask. I am putting my self out there with something personal, so I would expect the responses to be pretty personal as well.
The other thought about fire and brimstone. I was raised with Very little religion. was there but never spoken of, never did the sunday school thing. The one detail about that glass hutch was it was full of my Great-Grandmothers things, and she lived in a little pool house at my grandparents, adn i always think of her when i think about that hutch. She was a sweet little old lady

Hi Andy,

Did the dreams start around the time she died? Was her death upsetting for you? Could that be the source of it? If you were frightened by her death, and no one really explained things to you, that might explain it, possibly. Especially if you still need to seek to understand death as a subject, and figure out what you believe about it. Without the church background, that can sometimes be even harder, I think, and I grew up with a family with no religious focus, really, but I also went to church with a friend's family. Sometimes, the very things that are not talked about in families are the ones that build up in a child's mind to something spooky or scary.

My family would not talk about my biological father, so I had him all built up in my mind to something different than I would have if I had actual known him and had visits from him. The fact my mother would get so upset if I asked about him kept me silent. And all that was stuffed and I'm sure was part of a later depression I experienced. And I loved my stepfather dearly! But still was all the more aware that he wasn't my real father because of all the secrecy and silence. I imagine they were trying to protect me in some way, or, to protect themselves maybe. I don't know. I did go out and find my biological father in my thirties, during the depression I went through, and he's okay, but we didn't have much in common, really. I have six more half-brothers and sisters through him that I hadn't know about though!

And yes, if something is repressed, you might not know it! But it would likely stir some memories up if it's true, just being asked, and thinking about it.

Do you remember any of the actual items in in her glass hutch? Was anything there scary? Usually, they hold art treasures and collectibles, so it doesn't seem as if it should be that, but maybe...

I'm running out of ideas! But I know that just the act of dialoguing about it will probably trigger some things over the next few days, and maybe even some new changes in the dreams that help to clarify it.

My names adam im 17 iv also had a recurring dream which i dont understand only that it is different to other peoples iv read about.
i have had them since as early as i can remember before i started school i think and i get freaked out by them.
it is as though i am sleeping with my eyes open because i am aware of my surroundings and someone talks to me making me feel guilty for something really terrible because when i wake up i always start cry and screaming about what this person has said i have done. for some reason my mouth begins to feel incredible uncomfortable as though it is full of gravel and then to the opposite being soft but equally uncomfortable.
also i can never remember anything visual other than shapes but very rarely i can remember that
some times they can be triggered certain things like noises or images while im awake, these end up giving me panic attacks.
if anyone can help figure these out they would be very appreciated as im worried about them.