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Hope this is the right place in the guild to post this kind of thing. My very first thread here, woo!

Anyway, I got to thinking the other day that a lot of the nightmares, and even just some of the odd dreams that I have, would make a good spooky story. And I bet to myself that lots of other people would feel the same way about their dreams too.

So tell me all about some of the crazy dreams you've had that you think would be good as spooky tales. Here's one of mine (more to come when I get a little extra time):

I was in an old barn, where I somehow knew that I lived and worked for a witch that I didn't really like very much. A bunch of crows lived in the rafters and I was searching for their eggs to use in the witch's spells. They spoke to me and said if I stopped taking their eggs they would help me get away from the witch. They showed me two eggs they said I could have to fool the witch with (they were rotten and would not hatch). So I crossed the barn to the garbage bin (right next to the door) with the rotten eggs, thinking. Finally I said "I'll do it." The witch opened the door just then and said "do what?" to which I replied "throw these eggs away; the only ones today were rotten." Then I went to the back of the barn to wash my hands. She followed behind me, saying "so, did you find anything interesting in the coffin last night?" I knew she was talking about how I'd gone into the cellar without her permission to find out what she was hiding there, which turned out to be a body in a coffin that implicated her somehow. I tried to tell her that I really didn't care what she had done, and all I wanted was to go away, but she cast some kind of spell and I blacked out. Then I came to and the witch was standing over me, laughing. I was tied helpless to a chair, bound and gagged, the whole bit. The witch said, "I'M not going to fry!" And that's when I woke up.

CRAZY TIMES.

You've such lovely, detailed dreams. But they don't
bounce about at all?

Hmm. Well, let's see. I've had a few in my time.

I, and a boy I have no real relation with, lived on
a thin wooden structure upon an uncompleted building.
And, all of a sudden, there was a doll in my possession.
One with gray flesh, unusually plump, covered in barbs,
but most importantly, with a pull string. I, being the idiot
that I am, pulled said string. The boy instantly ripped the
doll out of my hand and swan dived off the building. But
apparently it was too late. My father's family, in the
background, all began to gray and plump and became
notably mindless. Zombie-like. And then, of course, they
gave me chase.

And so the pursuit went, in a grocery store, and I dodged
them quite successfully until I sprinted into the back room
of the grocery, where the meat is dealt with. There I was
assaulted with elderly, women vampires, with crimson lips
and my dream ends.

Not as good, but eh.

Hmm.

Well, heres one I had awhile ago:

I was in some motel type building. All the rooms were attached and such, but the building was made of all wood. And it had a very old time feel to it.. Kinda like old western-ish. Anyways, the place was FLOODED, and it was weird cause only the building was flooded. Well There were monsters everywhere, and I was trying to run from them, running from room to room trying to shut the door and keep them out. All the while, with water up to about my knees. Well, I ran in one room and there was a woman with another person (I can't remember anything about the other person. I just know there was another person.) And I said " We HAVE to get out of here!!" And they just stood there motionless and stared at me with these expressions of horror frozen on thier faces. Well by this time a zombie like thing busted through the door and I ran out real quick, being chased by it and somthing else.. Dunno what. I ran into a room and found my grandmother in there floating on a couch. Well I told her too.. "We HAVE to get out of here!!" And the zombie thing and other monster busted in that room, and I was trying to push the couch out the door cause grandma wouldnt get off. Well I ended up somehow shooting the zombie (with what, I couldnt tell you) and lost my grandmother to the other creature. I ran down the hall, still spashing around in knee deep water, and just as I was running out of the building motel thing.. I saw this huuuuge monster.. It was like a dinosaur. It had the body of an iguana, but it was black. It had no eyes, and its mouth was larger than an iguana's would be. It had enormous teeth! I mean these things musta been at least 3 feet or longer. And it had a tongue like a snake, and a long tail like an alligator. It was just sitting there with it's mouth open like a alligator does on hot days. And ya know how some animals have saliva drip off thier teeth? Well this thing had fire dripping out of its mouth and off it's big a** teeth. Then randomly, I remember saying "This infinity is so damn sweet."

Then the dream ends.

I made a thread about one dream I had a while ago that was like several clips from horror movies strung together. Not very entertaining.

Yesterday morning I had a dream about some creepy house that was strewn together from pieces of houses I've been in over the years. I don't remember much of the dream, but I remember two scenes.

One was where I went outside into the backyard. There was gravel covering the ground, and a grey shed not far from me. There was a tall fence that surrounded the entire house with no gate. It was a good three feet taller than me. I walked towards the shed, and went inside. It was empty. There was a door in the middle of the floor that obviously led down, and shelves lining the wall only one foot down from the ceiling.

I didn't go into the door, but instead returned to the house.
Later, I was watching a horror movie in the livingroom taken from my current home. It started out by moving out the back door of a house, into the same backyard I had been in. It moved towards the shed, inside, where there was now several boxes stacked everywhere.
It went through the door, and rotated down the staircase beyond and against the wall to the right of it. It pointed towards the bottom, where there was a man in a wheel chair that looked similiar to the father of my friend.

He had scars on the side of his face, and had grey skin. He was trying to get something up the staircase, even though it was questionable how he had gotten down there to begin with. A box crashed at the top of the stairs and several boxes came crashing down the staircase. The guy looked pissed.

Then it switched over to a girl about fifteen years old, and an old hobo-like man who was telling her about the man and his house (or just the shed, maybe). She stared at him then said some weird dribble that made it obvious she was mentally retarded, but sounded like 'if you touch my ball, I'll kill you'.
Off screen, someone asked 'What is death?'

The next moment, my cousin comes running into the livingroom where I was watching this with my brother, and screams 'Death is you', and begins beating my brother to death with a metal bat. I got to my feet and ran out of the room and down the staircase around the corner to the front door. When I reached it, I touched the doorknob and it was an instant replay. I was back in the livingroom, seconds before my cousin ran into the room. This time I got up before he came in, and he ran straight past me. I ran to the front door again and was wrenching it open when I heard him running down the stairs after me.
Then, I woke up.


In another dream I had this morning, I remember being in a car that was going down the street between my middle school and my elementary school. The top vanished and I was sitting on a high seat in the back, watching the street in front of me. It was night, and occasionally this large form would fly past us. I remember two things specifically. One was a large black form that looked like a flying black cloak with two red eyes in the rounded top. It flew down the street past us as we came upon a car that was both upside down, and perched on top of two cars parked on either side the street.
A woman who was bleeding from the head was standing in front of it, glaring at us. The guy driving the car got out and shot at her with a shotgun. It tore a hole through the car behind her and she vanished. We moved on, and were soon driving very slowly (and sideways) across a large field that doesn't exist anywhere near where I live (I live near the schools I mentioned, and there's no field nearby that looks like the one I saw).
Zombies were ambling towards us and the guy with the shotgun kept shooting them down. There were a few on the back of the car, and a large beastly ogre-like man was there behind the car. He kept trying to rip me off the car, and was talking like a thirty-year old mentally retarded person who had the mind of a five-year old. I had this block of wood with a handle that had a series of spikes sticking out of it in neat rows and columns. Whenever he reached towards me, he'd reach out with a fist, and I'd slam the spikes through his hand.
He didn't react to this, but I kept doing it over and over again until I abruptly leapt for the corner of the car and yelled 'Wake up'
I held onto the corner and everything sort of ended. I didn't wake up, but I was convinced I had. I was thoroughly imagining "We got across the field with no problems, nothing attacking us at all," and kept imagining this until it became reality and we were across the field.
We had to get up a hill on the other side of the field to a building that disappeared into a hill. There was a trench at the base of the hill filled with a redish tar. While we were on the other side of the trench, we were knelt down and looking up the hill. I looked around, and noticed a little ways away, bent down just like us, was this skull-headed creature. It peered at the building for a moment, which was now surrounded by a high metal fence with a closed gate.
It looked at me, then ran at the gate. More skull-headed creatures rose from the trench but remained just next to it, as my brother (who had suddenly appeared), and a few other people I hadn't noticed before but never saw the faces of, and myself, rushed up the hill. We got to the gate first and wrenched it open, trying to get past before the creature did.
A few people got past the gate when the creature did, and I slammed my foot down on it's giant head. It was pinned to the floor and was crying out in this shreaking scream.
It began talking, something about how it just wanted to live again, that it was only a child. It had a horrible nail-on-chalkboard voice, and I kept stomping on its head until my foot broke through the bone that made up it's deformed skull.
Then we all moved through the gate as more creatures rushed up the hill. We got the gate closed and they couldn't pass through anymore.
After that there was something about a ritual to bring us down underground where we had to manipulate these pole things that looked like bird baths as inscence burned among the charcoal on top. When we were down below in this small lit room with glass walls, we could only enter after someone burned a small circle into our arms using the inscence, apparently.
After that there was some underground city, a giant cliff that went off into some gigantic room with humongous statues that were shrouded in mist, but I wouldn't get closer because the cliff dropped into a clear 200ft fall.
There was also some woman in the room where we had to be burnt to enter who didn't have to because apparently everything from the waist down suddenly qualified as arms... She had nothing from the waist down, and was chanting 'I don't have to be burned because I have no arms'. She had arms and broad shoulders... sure...

I've not had many scary dreams lately.

onece i had a dream that i was in a old motel I just rented a suite i was walking to my room every one was outraged i was there i turned on my tv it said that a girl that looked alot like me was murdering people so right after the news report was over i herd a knock at the door then i froze in fear it was the MURDERER ! she said want some red rum? NO i answered she grined at me i showed no fear i closed the door in her face she cut a hole in the door and set blood filthy bags on the floor she said please let me stay with u forever NO why? she cried you have to rince your sins away (WTF was wrong with me was i like high or somin) i said she screamed then i died :O creepy right?

oh i have a good one lol
well in my dream i was insaide my house in my room playing video games then i heard a car stop so i looked out a wondow and there was 2 cloaked people things walking towards my fron door and i was like," thats weird." so i dont pay attention so then i hear my front door being broken open then i ran over to my door and went down stairs alittle and looked around and there was two very strange looking monsters that had like 5 inch claw/nails and there were killing my mom and uncle. so i ran back to my room and they came up stairs so then my brother opens the door and was stab throught his chest by the monsters then the one that wasnt killing my brother then came over to me but i slammed my door and ran for the emergency/ only use if your going to die door and when i opened it my dream ended

oh and this was when i was like 9 and i cried alot after that lol sorry if its corny or something lol

I had nightmares for most of my 14 year old life.

It haunted me, and scared the crap out of me... but now I kida want them back. Now, i just wake up... and not remember 1 thing that happened in my dreams.

Well... I'll share this one:

~ (I had this toddler sized doll that was a robotic toddler... you pushed her forehead and she would walk and talk... I got scared of her when I was around 4-6 years old). I had a dream I was out in the livingroom.
The room I would always put her in, I had a good view of the room.
Then, I heard her talk but not what she is recorded to say. One thing I remembered what she told me in my dream was... "You S.O.B better not run to your room... I'll run after you!!!!!!".
So, for like a while in my dream, I sat down in my couch waiting for the perfect time to run.
I ran... and she didn't follow me.
I told my mom in my dream... and she told me to calm down.
The T.V was on, and it shut off... the doll came in, and jumped on me yelling.

I woke up... on the floor, an the damn doll was there. gonk
It said without me pushing on her forehead "Mama!!!!"
I threw that doll away.

Woah eek
Those are some creepy dreams x_x
My dreams arnt as scary, but i normally get ideas to make stories from what basicly happens in them.

I found my journal from last year, i can write down one of the stories from there, Also, the silly things are there because i didnt want to scare myself too much, so i guess it helps you guys not get scared too...

The Scream Catcher.

Once, in a normal town in
Australia, there lived a young girl who always had nightmares, continues, night after night. Her parents were worried about her because every night she would wake up screaming and they would have to console her.
Her dreams contained unimaginable evil; it horrified the parents when they asked what happened to her in her nightmares. She always spoke of a place, a place where only dirt and dead trees were, where volcanos erupted every minute, and where Evil lurked in every shadow, stopped at every person, and ate at every MacDonald’s fast food resertunt.

After a few years of being company that sold electronics, the father had to go over seas to show his newest idea to the man in charge. He would only be gone for a few days, but he would see plenty while he was there.
On his 3 and final day in America, he finally decided to go shopping, to bring something home for his wife and daughter, to show that he loved them even when he was overseas. He brought his wife a necklace, it was laced with Jade and had a small pearl in a pendent that gracefully lay on the neck ( confused )
He got his daughter a dream catcher; he found it the ideal gift for her, because of her nightmares.
He got back to his home town a day later, when he walked into his house he was welcomed with hugs and kisses, he was jet lagged, so he needed to sleep for a few hours.
After the said few hours, he got up and decided to give his wife and daughter their gifts.

“ Honey “ he said as he walked into the lounge room, “ I got you this in America “
His wife looked up from her book, Haunted Houses by Charles G. Harper, and saw the lovely jade and pearl necklace that lay still in a velvet box

The mother squeeled with delight, she took the necklace for the box and put it on, she admired it in a mirror for a minute, then hugged and thanked her husband for buying her such a wonderful gift, kissed him, then said she was going to cook his favourite dinner tonight.
Her Husband smiled, then remembered the gift for his littile girl, how was sitting on the floor and colouring in a picture of a unicorn.

“ Charlotte, “ he said “ I has a gift for you too “
He plucked the dream catcher from bag on the table and gave it her.
“ Its pretty “ Charlotte said “ what does it do? “
“ It stops you from having bad dreams, its a dream catcher “ the father answered, “ ill go hang it up in your room so you can sleep peacefully tonight “.
Charlotte grinned “ thank you daddy “ she said, hugged him, and went straight back to colouring in her unicorn. The father smiled to himself, then hung the dream catcher up onto a a picture hook in his daughters room.

That night, the parents of Charlotte didn’t wake up, for once in their parententing life, they slept from 10pm till 7am the next morning. The mother checked on her child when she woke up, Charlotte was sleep, she wasn’t even moaning or groaning or thrashing around, which was what she did in a normal nights sleep for her.
Charlotte didn’t have a nightmare ever again, or at least, until her 16 birthday...

9 YEARS LATER...
It was Charlotte’s 16th birthday, she had some of her friends over.
Kath, who was 16 as well, Brooke, who was 17, and Drake, who was Kath’s boyfriend and loyal carrier of her books.
“ Oh Kath “ Charlotte giggled, “ you come up with the funniest jokes sometimes “
Kath grinned , then started randomly dancing to the sound of the TV that Charlotte’s parents were watching inside.
Charlotte’s parents walked outside with a birthday cake, it was large and had chocolate frosting on the top, they light the candles and started singing “ happy birthday “ to Charlotte, unware of what was happening in Charlotte’s room...

The dream catcher, the only thing that stopped Charlotte from having horrible, hellish nightmares, was glowing... it was glowing a dark, sluggish purple, the beads were glowing bright.
when suddenly, the circle where the string was, faded and a whirrpool of dark purple formed... then, claws reached out from the middle, then an arm, then a shoulder, until the whole body of some kind of creature stood next to the dream catcher.
Its sharp teeth, its knife-like claws, its horrible, blood red eyes..eyes filled with a blood lust and hate for all things, living or dead..
The portal in the dream catcher closed, it faded back and the string that held the beads stopped glowing and went back to normal... the only thing in the room that wasn’t normal was the fiend that stood upon Charlotte room’s floor.

“ Hehehe, what did you get me, Drake? “ Charlotte asked, still outside and unaware of the horror that was dancing to Britney spears music in her room. “ Oh, its nothing much, just four tickets to SUM 41 “
“ OHMIGOSH!!! “ charlotte screamed, “ THANK YOU, DRAKE “
Drake gave her a thumbs up and then put his arm around Kath’s neck.

Suddenly, the was a gigantic crash, and glass flew everywhere, there was a horrible screech, one so high pitched that Charlottes dog’s ran into the garage and hid from the demon, Brooke stared at this thing, this demon, and froze, her eyes were wide with fright, she wanted to run, but couldn’t, she stood there, unable to move her legs, she was not saying a word but her mind was screaming... The demon looked into her eyes, Brooke saw horrible things, war, the holders of what should never come together ( ninja ) and, for some reason, Paris Hilton, but all those visions scared her to death, urine trickled down her leg, she stood there in fear, then collapsed...

When Brooke came to, her head was pounding, she didn’t remember anything but the fact that it was Charlotte’s birthday, and that she was here with Kath, Drake and Charlotte, and parents brought out a cake, and...
Brooke’s head shot up, she looked around wildly, looking, no Searching to see if there was any trace of that creature, that horrible demon that plagued Charlotte’s party, but she the only werid thing she saw was there was glass on the floor, the candles had melted all over the cake, and that trail of red paint...
What is that? She thought,
she got closer to it, she crouched down and touched it, she tasted it, then prompty threw up.
“ Ewww ” she said “ its blood “
She looked up, and screamed...

BY AQUA998