Nightmares every night

I used to have those, some thing was always chasing me...then I would go blind, odd I know. Then as I got older the stopped. Dreams are your subconcious at work, usually bringing up things you don't want to deal with. If your feeling anxious about something, or there is something you've been trying to avoid dealing with this could be a cause, but I'm no dream expert.

 

Must be hard. I havent had any nightmares in ages. You could try sleeping pills if you're having problems getting the right amount of sleep. Perhaps a change in your diet might help you get rid of the nightmares? Or maybe you could try fighting the demon or whatever in your dream? I really dont know.

 

Nightmares are not unusual or particularly troublesome when they occur infrequently. But from the description you give, it sounds like this is something that is happening fairly often which puts it in the category of parasomnia.

You may need to have a sleep study to rule out things like sleep apnea or other abnormal sleep patterns that can cause parasomnia.

 

When I was about nine, I had a nightmare about an evil robot living in the downstairs bathroom. Its appearance was similar to something I saw on TV shortly before that kind of freaked me the hell out as a kid. It showed itself, but didn't attack me or even touch me. I later had recurring nightmares, not every night like you but definitely once in a while, following the same theme: robot shows itself, I get scared to look at it...but it doesn't do anything to me.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that my subconscious was just trying to make me look at the damn thing and stop being so afraid of it. The intermittent nightmares came and went until I was around fifteen, when I did a Google Images search for it. At this point, I hadn't actually seen the thing since six years ago on that cartoon. I flipped through page by page, not finding everything...and then there it was right in the middle of like the last page, ol' nuts-and-bolts himself. My face flushed, I got all the feelings I got when I saw him in the nightmares. But, after looking at him a few times...I realized something. One, it was a cartoon, and two, what I was seeing in my nightmares at that point didn't even resemble what it actually was anymore. I had one or two more nightmares after that point...and that was it. I was pretty much over it.

Fast forward two years after that. I'm a regular practitioner of lucid dreams and induced one one morning. I was in a casino when I realized I was dreaming, and I immediately knew what I wanted to do: find it and shoot it in the head. I ran through a door into this sort of indoor pool, and materialized a gun from out from my pocket. At the other end of this pool room was a doorway, and I basically challenged him to come out. "C'mon, get out here! Get out here so I can pop a cap in your metal ass!" In this dream, he poked the top of his head out the side of the doorway, but didn't come out. He was now afraid of me.

Now? He's comedic fodder to me. I like to turn things I was afraid of into jokes, it's the best way to deal with something like this. And what's funnier than the idea of a menacing robot who's too chickenshit to actually hurt anyone?

You might be wondering what my point actually is. My point is, you have nightmares for a reason. My reason was because I saw something that scared me on TV and was afraid to look at it for no good reason at all. Consequently, my subconscious shoved it in my face until I actually looked at it. Your dream meaning may be slightly different, I or nobody else can interpret your dreams. But once you address the issue that's quietly bugging you, I guarantee you'll see a favorable outcome.