I often have "bad" dreams, although they were much more frequent when I was a child. Since I was constantly reading horror novels/stories and watching horror movies from a young age, I have a lot of nightmare material with which to work. Perhaps the dreams are manifestations of traumatic events in my life expressed through the horror imagery that is already present in my mind. At any rate, they are all very "realistic," meaning that they are in full color with no cartooney graphics, pixels, etc. I cannot recall ever having anything that could properly be called a prophetic dream. I've listed a few of my nightmares on the other dream threads, so I will share some new ones here
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The other day I watched the movie "Session 9" (a good scary movie, btw
) and in one scene, a man is in an abandoned insane asylum in the dead of night looting a stash of old silver dollars and other metal valuables from the building. Earlier in the movie, one of the characters explains that sometimes the inmates come back to the abandoned asylum after they are released, so you know that something is going to happen. As the guy is leaving, he hears noises, and as he looks back down a hallway, he sees an onimous shadowy figure. He starts running like crazy, then realizes that it was just some birds (even though the figure is clearly visible, just to mess with your mind). As he rounds a corner, he sees something, and then it's over (i.e. he's dead
). Anyway, later that night I imagined that the same thing happend to me in my house (while I was awake). I often have these kinds of experiences, because I go to bed later than anyone in the house, and I usually have to go down starts to get something in the dark. If our wood stove is lit, then it also looks like a pair of red eyes watching you from the corner of the roof if you see it out of the corner of your eye, which is always how you see it as you go up the stairs.
The next one comes straight from a book, and more or less gives away the ending, so...
[spoiler=ending of "1984"]In the end of the book, Smith (the main character) is being put through the final stages of thought reform by O'Brien at the minstry of love (which, ironically, is charged with law enforcement, torture, and punishment). The idea of the final stage of the reform is to get Smith to betray that which he holds dear, in order to crush his emotional attachment to the woman he loves. They do this by making Smith confront his deepest, darkest fear: rats. They but a large wooden box over his head, with rats on each side reading to be loosed upon him if he refuses to submit. He of course can't stand it, and says that he hates the woman he loves. Anyway, I dreamed that the same thing happened to me, except the cage was filled with tarantulas. That one actually scared me, especially since I had a rather troubling thought in the back of my mind: if someone did this to me, could they make me deny Christ?[/spoiler]
A lot of my dreams also deal with fighting, and I always win.