I just had a very scary waking nightmare, and I never used to have these before the past couple of years, so it's a recent phenomenon for me. I don't understand what's causing them but they are very disturbing.

I physically opened my eyes in the middle of the night, halfway between unconscious and awake, and I saw someone clearly standing at the foot of the bed on my side, looking at me, and pointing a gun or a rifle straight at me, getting ready to shoot. I KNEW they were about to shoot me ( I wasn't sure if it was a man or a woman ), and, terrified, I jumped out of the bed to the other side, waking my partner up, repeating that I saw someone. He calmed me down, and I went back to sleep and dreamed normally with no more nightmares.

My normal dreams aren't filled with terror and stress or disturbing things, especially not lately. In fact, when I woke up this morning, I had been dreaming about sunbathing nude, laying on my belly to give my skin nutrients.

So, these occurrences really confuse me.


I have only had two other nightmares like this one, spread out over periods of several months. I will describe them here, and wish to point out that the link to all three of them is that it was something that was going to kill me. The terror came from a feeling that I knew I was about to die violently.


The last time I had a nightmare like this one, was several months ago. Again, my eyes opened in the middle of the night between asleep and awake, and my partner was turning over in the bed towards me, and my eyes saw something shiny sharp metal flashing in one of his hands, and I instantly knew it was a pair of scissors, and that he was about to stab me with them. I leapt out of the bed, terrified, waking him up, I explained the dream, and that time, it was so real that I felt compelled to go check to see if the scissors I had seen were still in the last place I had left them. They were. 

And, finally, the first nightmare I ever had like that happened about a year ago, and, just like before, my eyes opened in the middle of the night, looking to the side, between asleep and awake, and I saw sitting in the computer chair a bag filled with long slender bombs. I felt instantly terrified, because I knew they ALL were about to detonate, and I leaped out of the bed, looking towards the kitchen area, seeming to know that there was another bag filled with bombs in there, too, and that in a moment, all would go off, and we all would die. I panicked, and had to be calmed down.


Does anyone have any ideas why I have been having these waking nightmares, and what is the reason, and what I should do about it?


Thanks, everyone. 

Thanks for your input, Spooky.

Yeah, I figured it had to be that I am afraid of something, for sure, but I don't know what exactly. I don't live in my own country, anymore, and it took me a while to adjust to that. And, for a long time, the relationship was rocky, also. Might have something to do with it. There was lots of instability.

Plus, there was an instance when someone came kicking on the door at 3 in the morning, someone drunk and angry, and that scared the crap out of us both, took a long time not to be paranoid after that happened.

And also, I used to 'wake up' often in the middle of the night, although I didn't remember, I had to be told about it. I would be afraid, seeing shadows floating, or ghosts. I also talk in my sleep, and do not remember most of it. I would sit up in bed, and sometimes sleepwalk when I did that. He told me that I would talk in other languages, sometimes, and with a completely different personality. I never remembered any of it. Sometimes, I would 'wake up' like with the nightmares, but I wouldn't get scared. I would just see a person standing or floating in the room. I'd wind up waking my partner, telling him I saw a ghost. I'm not entirely sure if they were ghosts or not.

He can see things, also, but not in a disturbing way, like me. He can see them in the daytime, passing through. Mostly 'shadows' he says, but that they didn't feel threatening.

So, yeah, those things leave many factors open to possibility.   I'm still not sure what to make of it. I seem to have a problem 'resting' at night like I should, something always finds a way to disturb me, consciously, or otherwise. It isn't all the time, but it happens more often than not. Those nightmares have to be some of the worst of it, though.   They're no fun, at all. I hope I can find out what exactly is causing them, and how to make them stop. 

Thanks, again, Spooky.  Later.

I may be totally off but did something violent happen in the place that you stay?

supermodel wrote on Jul 21^st, 2009 at 9:32am:


No, Supermodel, you aren't totally off. You are right. There have often been problems that would escalate into violence. And many animals have been beaten to death, also.

Hi Ally,

Just my tuppence worth here - sometimes as one is lifting out of the body, one tends to see a figure at the end of one's bed, often threatening-looking.  One interpretation of this is that is "the watcher", one's own etheric double,  & is meant to "scare" one back into the body if one feels uncertain about A P.  I  have been grabbed by the ankle by this "thing" & pulled back - I finally got rid of it by saying, in desperation, "Oh, go to h. . . !" Perhaps if you confront it quite aggressively in this fashion it will dissipate.

My ex-partner suffered from severe sleep disorders; he used to leap out of bed screaming about snakes, knives, crocodiles etc.,  & once tried to throttle me, under the impression that I was some sort of monster.  This all came to an end after I learned to do the Lesser Banishing Ritual, which really seems to work, whatever one's personal religious bias.  Also, strong salt baths & affirmations of protection!

I really hope you overcome this as it can affect one's life very adversely - good luck & good vibes.

Namaste!

Does anyone have any ideas why I have been having these waking nightmares, and what is the reason, and what I should do about it?
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There is a difference between being alert/observant and being shocked/terrified. Perhaps you have the desire to learn more, and this is your opportunity. You prove to yourself, over and over, that you can return safely. When you believe it completely, perhaps the terror recedes. At all times, you are accompanied by those who love you. The white light is at your command.