Quotes About Nightmares

Había días en que las pesadillas lo perseguían, y por la mañana se levantaba y no recordaba nada. Ya había aprendido que un sueño que se olvida por la mañana no desaparece, se esconde y escarba en secreto, y que hay sueños olvidados que salen a la superficie en mitad del día.

According to the medical literature, I was a textbook case for posttraumatic stress disorder. During the day I can control my symptoms, at least to a degree, but not at night. That's when all hell breaks loose in my dreams.

I used to be a very serious pianist, and I was one of the snot-nosed classical ones who was appalled by nightmares of Ethel Merman and trombones blasting in the background and who knows what else.

Girls grow up scarred by caution and enter adulthood eager to shake free of their parents' worst nightmares. They still know to be wary of strangers. What they don't know is whether they have more to fear from their friends.

Everybody has nightmares," she answered. "To paraphrase John Irving, you don't get to pick them. They pick you." "True enough.

Under the influence of mercury, which he administered to himself daily as a salve for his syphilis, & laudanum, which he drank each evening in imprecisely measured amounts to enable him to sleep, because of all things, this brave man feared only his dreams, opiate-enhanced nightmares that gave him no respite & which always ended in flames from which he rose phoenix-like just before dawn each morning, to recommence building what was already ash.

Some man's dreams can bring only nightmares to the world!

You fell asleep and a monster crawled from out of my head and found its way under my bed

Nature was quick to pass the sponge of her deluges over these awkward sketches (dinosaurs), these first nightmares of Life.

What does it mean when nightmares dream of peace? When shadows wish for light?

Dreams can only be seen with open eyes, what you see while you asleep are nightmares.

A staccato script of letters and digits beamed from an alternate world. Then they ceased communicating altogether. and began to liase in dreams and nightmares.

Nightlight, who never slept and never dreamed, would keep nightmares, both imagined and real, away.

Not stories told by wolf or man to frighten children, of Wolfbane and of werewolves, of grasht and goblins and of silly vampires, fables to frighten cowards with the threat of evil and of sin. But the power that lives beyond those stories, and makes them strong indeed, that lives in nightmares and in sleep. That is ribbed into the very fabric of conscious being. The power of love and hate.

I have crazy claustrophobic dreams, weird elevator dreams where the elevator closes in and all of a sudden I am lying down - oh my God, it's a casket. Just freaky stuff like that.

There will always be people afraid of the monsters in the night. They are usually the ones that look for them because they have proven they exist in themselves.

I have very vivid dreams and nightmares, and my biggest fear is of some kind of dystopian future where we're advanced in every way except in our humanity.

I heard that Stephen King doesn't sleep well, ... so I gues that he doesn't sleep well from his imagination. If I had the same imagination I won't sleep too!

Further evidence of perpetrators' lack of overt psychopathology is found in reports of their early reactions to the human suffering caused by their extraordinary evil. A wide range of perpetrator accounts reveal that initial involvement in killing often led to nightmares, anxiety attacks, debilitating guilt, depression, gastrointestinal problems, temporary impotence, hallucinations, substance abuse, numerous bodily complaints, and many other signs of stress reactions.

I'm not getting near that cat as long as he's trigger-happy," Ida Belle said. "A cat with a loaded gun and the ability to fire it is what a lot of nightmares are made of.

Drei Drachen kriechen in meinen Schlaf, die Seele woll'n sie lebendig zum Fraß. Feurigen Atems, gespaltener Zunge genießen sie jeden Mahl. Three dragons creep into my sleep, the spirit wanting life in its repast. Fiery breaths, flicking tongues relishing every meal.

I had no night terrors. Maybe when your real life becomes the terror, there's just nothing left to dream about

I've read and traveled a lot in the Middle East, and I built on eyewitness accounts of horrific executions that would shape a boy's character and beliefs if he watched his father die that way. These are the stuff of which nightmares are made.

College is the reward for surviving high school. Most people have great fun stories from college and nightmare stories from high school.