Hey /x/, how can I induce nightmares?

>>16956399
why? life is already a nightmare

>>16956435
I was gonna shave with a razor but I think I'll just use this post

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watch horror related media (movies, vidya, stories, etc) before you go to sleep. better results if what you watch/read is related to any fears you have. good luck

>>16956399
Sleep on your back, while thirsty, in a hot room, with blankets on.
It helps if you have something eating away at you mentally like stress about work or insecurity.

>>16956399
Simple.

When you close your eyes to go to sleep: move your eyes side to side for a few minutes or until you fall asleep. Don't open them once you've started or it might not work.

>>16956522

Also this..
>>16956469

>>16956522

Thanks I tried that and now I'm blind

>>16956441
Did you cut yourself like i did?

>>16956522
how is that nightmare inducing?
ill try it tonight but still im curious

Buy a nicotine patch, slap it on, at the very least you will likely have a vivid dream.

>>16956564
When you have a nightmare your eyes dart side to side, REM. My only hypothesis is that it replicates this.

Fuck knows desu. I found this out accidently as a kid, and after doing it a few times I stopped because it was working and I fucking hate nightmares

>>16956564
Post results tomorrow

>>16956399
Dairy products and spicy food. Scientifically proven.

>>16956593
You can't have a nightmare in REM. I believe it was only in Stage 2 of Sleep

>>16956631
Source? Nightmares are dreams, and to my understanding dreams occur during REM

Nightmares rock.

I miss the insane horrorshow hellscape nightmares I used to have as a kid, where it would chain together into one after another after another, fucking night terrors, man.

I had one again recently as an adult, it was about WW3 and it was fucking BAD. Even the people who love blood and guts are going to be crying for mercy. People have never experienced death like that.

Had another one years before that about the end of the world, all the stars starting to move in the sky, everybody in the world stopping and looking up in transfixed terror, and the stars are circling and circling faster and faster and then they all stop and they fall down to earth and they become tiny motes of light that burn out before they touch the ground, and then holes open up in the black sky above and angels started pouring out and everybody was on the ground screaming and weeping and pulling their hair out, scratching themselves.

Those dreams are prophetic maybe not completely accurate in details, but in general ideas, very accurate. Nightmares are real shit, happy dreams are just meaningless fluff.

>>16956643
Nevermind. I was thinking of that one thrashing around thing.

>>16956669
Lol, well now I'm curious. What thrashing around thing?

>>16956679
It's Sleep Spindles. Basically it's electricity spiking through you brain and if it hits the right note, you thrash around in your sleep

>>16956646
Nah man. Dreams are must. Nightmares aren't good for your brain

>>16956469
I had some nightmares from reading H.P. Lovecraft stuff before going to bed. His stuff isn't even that scary, just weird. The nightmares I had were fucked up and were actually spoopy

Eat greasy leftover chicken before bed.

No joke. I did this last night, and once my stomach settled down enough for me to actually fall asleep I was launched into a string of nightmares like I haven't had in months. I'll share the first of these because even though it was simple it drew the greatest response from me.

>outside my house at night
>job involves delivering shit, idfk
>get call
>on phone with dude, can hear same dude talking on phone inside house
>dude's voice is creepy as fuck, like Capote but with totally inhuman mannerisms and inflection
>he's not actually ordering anything, just talking like he wants company
>ask him if he's going to buy anything, no response
>hang up
>sudden wailing from inside house. Desperate, mournful, like Gollum when he loses the ring but creepier by several orders of magnitude
>What the fuck is this thing in my house?

It was so fucking weird. Again, real simple, no horrific dreamscapes or anything like that. I never even saw the fucker, just heard this totally alien being with alien emotions that I couldn't comprehend in the slightest. I have no idea what that thing would have done if it had known I was right outside. I'm still relieved I woke up when I did.

Fucking chicken.

>>16956603
will do
>>16956593
thanks for answering

>>16956399
look in the mirror

700mg diphenhydramine, don't fall asleep and do have a sitter.

Enjoy.

what does a nightmare about personal body horror mean?

>>16956646
I miss those crazy nightmares as well and I still remember parts from many of them with picture-like clarity despite them being 20 or more years ago now.
These days my only nightmares are about being late for work and other dumb shit.

>>16956399
Eat a fuckton of sugar before bed, take some benadryl and melatonin, and go to sleep with heavy blankets on
Alternatively, do as >>16957233 days and take a get high off of the benadryl

>>16956646
I agree, it was thrilling as fuck. Especially the dreams in a dream where when you are trying to run away from a figure and try to escape in your bed to just wake up in another dream. Where this dream actually shows you getting taken by it. Man I loved those dreams as a kid. Too bad I don't get nightmares anymore, just me sitting in a dark room staring at nothing till I wake up.

>>16956593
You're fucking retarded rem sleep doesn't just mean your eyes move a lot it's just named that because it happens. Moving your eyes side to side untill you fall asleep will do fuck all because you don't even enter rem sleep until a few hours. Fuck I'm so angry at your faggotry

>>16957943
If it had any effect when you were younger it's a mind set thing not the action itself. Kids have nightmares then get afraid of night mares so they have more. Move your eyes side to side he says. Either 12 years old or just dumb

Most recent nightmare that I remember. I've had some really good ones.

>me, my brother and sister are all little kids again playing in our backyard like we used to
>talking to a little girl through the tall wooden fence
>can kind of see her through the space in the fence
>she's bald, fat, and her skin is completely red
>telling us that she has to stay in the backyard all the time and that she has nobody to play with
>some other stuff happens but eventually end up watching tv in the dream
>anderson cooper on tv
>in the middle of speaking, he starts looking visibly shaken, like something is distracting him
>he stutters and keeps trying to speak
>starts sweating, huffing and looks like he's about the have a panic attack
>camera doesn't stop rolling
>wake up

easy, just get slightly lucid and go stare intently into a dream mirror or a dark room while making yourself get paranoid and the rest of the dream should become nightmarish.

>>16957943
>>16957964

Typical Dickhead.

>hurr durr i havent tried it but youre a retard it wont work
>faggot

I didn't say I had scientific proof of how it worked. I didn't say it WAS REM. If you fucking read my post you would see that.

Also, do you not think I would have tested it a few times before making a statement like that?

I was a kid, yes. I wasn't prone to nightmares though. I found this out while trying to induce a wet dream. It had the opposite effect. Out of the 20 times I did it, I had nightmares 19 times. If I didn't do it, no nightmares.

Later on in life, I was watching a documentary on sleep. They had cameras trained on the subjects faces, and when the subject had a bad dream, their eyes would dart side to side. I noticed the similarities.

Anon asked why this would work, and that's all I can give him. I don't know how it works. I'm no sleep specialist, and neither are you. So how about instead of being a fucking dickhead you actually try it and post results.

Dickhead. Fuckoff.

>>16956593
When you have ANY dream your eyes move from side to side.

>>16958538
Some, yes. REM happens when you enter a deep sleep but not always.

Again, that was just my theory. Idon't know how/why it worked for me, but it worked, so I thought I'd share how.

>>16956399
go to sleep, focus on your root and sacral chakra

at least that's what I read in dream yoga, those trigger more fight/flight based dreams

>>16956646
>all the stars starting to move in the sky, everybody in the world stopping and looking up in transfixed terror, and the stars are circling and circling faster and faster and then they all stop and they fall down to earth and they become tiny motes of light that burn out before they touch the ground, and then holes open up in the black sky above and angels started pouring out and everybody was on the ground screaming and weeping and pulling their hair out, scratching themselves
holy fuck

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Try sleeping on your back. If anything naturally scares you/creeps you out exposing yourself to that might work.

alcohol withdrawal

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>>16956646
Mfw I've started to see kid nightmares recently. Non-human killer clowns, silent hill inspired messed up dark abandoned towns, mushroom shaped nuclear explosions rising in horizon, torture.

Very inspiring stuff.

OP here, last night I had a dream, nothing to bizarre.

It mainly consisted of a pillar like mountain in the middle of a decent sized lake, it was about 9 football sized fields in length, houses and huge places on the length. I would jump off it continously, diving down deeper each time while unknown things touched my feet, it was quite terrifying at times too.
>quite safisfiying i'd say

I had a dream recently where my girlfriend and I were staying in this barn in some remote village, and all the residents kept on telling us that the "Red Man" comes to the village at night so we had to stay hidden when we were sleepinga nd not make a noise.

I don't know what the fuck, ha. I never saw the Red Man or know where my mind conjured that one up from, my dream just involved us trying to sleep quietly and being fucking terrified.

>>16956399
Zma...have fun

take Chantix (?)

>>16956435
2edgy4me

>>16960312
But he is right. Life sucks.

Melatonin.
Though the effect does wear off the more you use it.

>>16956435
>>16956399
I remember having a nightmare 2 nights ago, after all the things that happened in my life I usually just stroll through the nightmare.

I In all honesty feel sorry for the nightmares I miss and appreciate how they were there for me.

Eat some cheese before you go to bed.

>>16956646
The dream about the stars and stuff I've had too. Pretty damn similar. Strange.

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Yes, go for the cheese.