THE TWO SENTENCE HORROR STORY - A NEAT IDEA CATCHING ON WITH THOSE SHORT OF ATTENTION SPAN BUT LONG ON LOVE OF SCARES - ANYBODY CARE TO SEND ANY? NO CRITICISM, NO JUDGING, JUST SOME GOOD, ORIGINAL SPINE CREEPERS. IF YOU CAN'T THINK OF ANY BUT HAVE READ ONE, I'LL TAKE IT - JUST MAKE SURE TO PUT WHERE IT CAME FROM

Reddit Made Me Do It

I've been seeing these lists on different horror sites and usually they come from Reddit. Now I don't know Reddit from shinola but that's 'cause of my age, not because it isn't a neat place to express yourself. If you are as old as I am, Reddit basically is a place where you can ask for material (such as these two sentence horror stories), or ask a serious question and get answers from people all over the world (those who get Reddit anyway).

So after reading some (and there are some really freaky ones out there) I noticed that some were, uh, copies of copies of copies. I'm not dissing that, writing is hard, and when you find a gem you tend to want to share it.


But Reddit has some pretty nasty people out there - on the page I visited (I had a two sentence gem of my own) most of the current page was filled with complaints of people accusing others of plagarizing or of having their own entries, uh, is it downvoted? because others wanted their own entries to move to the top of the list (the lists can be sorted a number of ways, apparently 'popular' is the the most, well, popular). 

So I put mine on there and also a request for anyone who had one they'd like to share on my blog (getting their proper credits of course) or, as I requested a while back, a time when they've had a nightmare that actually made them bolt upright in bed gasping and/or screaming.

We'll see what happens.

Huh? Oh yes, mine was:

'My creep of a father liked to scare us saying when he was a kid he woke one night to find his grandmother at the foot of his bed although she died before he was born and he'd never seen a picture of her. I never told him how pissed she looked standing behind him every time he told that story.'

True story, too. Well... half of it is.



                        

OUR FIRST NIGHTMARE ENTRY

I'm Happy To Say There Are Actually People With Screamer Nightmares - But Then I'm Twisted That Way... 

Fortunately I didn't dream these, but someone else did. We'll call her akaAbbey, as these are very personal and she was great to let me print them. And these are real chillers, I know I would have been scared to death by them...

akaAbbey: I have had one that (not being sure if I'm awake or asleep) someone or something was sitting on my chest and I woke up trying to scream but could not move or scream because I was actually still asleep. I woke up again with same thing happening - but still wasn't really awake. When I woke up for real I couldn't move for a few minutes, then sat up sweating... (my mom says it's called Sleep Paralysis). 

When I was a child I would dream the same dream over and over and still have it once in a while... It is me in my gran-gran's house playing with my cousin and a man breaks into the house (his face is blurred out) and I chop him with a butcher knife (the whole dream is in black and white). As I chop him the dream colors turn to black, white and red as his face falls into a glass sitting on the floor (the fluid in the glass turns red).

A recent one is a last month we got J****'s new room done and he was sleeping in our bed so I got pushed out so I went to sleep in his new room, I am sure it was because of the movie we had been watching, but I tossed and turned and barely slept. I dreamed I was filming a movie with someone and I looked at the closet and saw 2 little scary kids looking at us. I yelled and the camera guy said what? Then watching again he saw them and we laid on the bed and he said hold my hand and pray. Then he yelled look! I said NO but I looked anyway and EFF! A little kid was running towards us and was jumping all over me and I woke up standing in the middle of the room screaming.

I don't know about you, but any of these three nightmares would make a much better movie than a lot I've seen lately. Thank you akaAbbey for sharing. Trust me, I am NOT laughing.

Sleep paralysis consists of a period of inability to perform voluntary movements either at sleep onset or upon awakening. It is a natural thing while you're asleep to keep yourself from harm if your dream has you moving and your body wants to follow. But when you're aware - in that moment between sleep and wakefulness - it can be terrifying.

Symptoms include:

• A complaint of inability to move the trunk or limbs at sleep onset or upon awakening
• Presence of brief episodes of partial or complete skeletal muscle paralysis
• Episodes can be associated with hallucinations or dream-like use of the brain

That alone would be enough for me to keep the lights on for weeks. MY version of nightmares is dreaming that I'm back at work at (pick one miserable place) and it's just as horrible as it was when I was awake... guess I'm lucky.




                              

I WANT YOUR NIGHTMARES!

We See It In Tons Of Movies And TV...

That moment when something awful is happening, whether it is someone dying, a bit of violence or just plain ole' scary imagery. Suddenly, the man/woman sits straight up in bed, sweating and panting, sometimes with an 'AH!' or other squeal as they slowly realize that they are not in danger, but have been dreaming.

Who does that? Seriously, I want to know. If you have EVER sat up in bed, sweating and panting because of a nightmare you've had and you'd like to share, leave me a message on Google or PM my Facebook account. I would really love to see that this happens to "REAL" people.

When Netflix started streaming the series 'Medium' I tried to watch it but I swear if I was Patricia Arquette's husband I would have kicked her out into the street - who wants to be woken up every night by someone going 'Ahhh!' and sitting straight up in bed?

Sweet dreams!



                              

YOUR STORIES WANTED FOR AN EXPERIMENT

We See It In A Ton Of Movies And On TV... 

That moment when something awful is happening, whether it is someone dying, a bit of violence or just plain ole' scary imagery. Suddenly, the man/woman sits straight up in bed, sweating and panting, sometimes with an 'AH!' or other squeal as they slowly realize that they are not in danger, but have been dreaming.

Who does that? Seriously, I want to know. Being afraid of nothing means that when I have 'nightmares' I can usually turn them around and make them what I want them to be. I'm great at lucid dreaming, lucid meaning I know I'm dreaming and can control them, so would-be killers, spooky stuff, falling, whatever the 'horror' I can handle it. I've opened my eyes wide before after a dream, but never, and I mean NEVER have I sat straight up with an exclamation as I slowly realize I'm in no danger. So who does?

If you have EVER had that experience, I'd like to know. Call it a Reader's Panel of those who actually have experienced the dream so vivid or awful that you literally almost jumped out of bed. If you have one, and would like to tell it, I would be more than happy to put it on my blog. Not to make fun of, or get a snicker or two, but to have honest stories of the actual experience. You may contact me through Google +, or PM me on Facebook and I will print it.

As for me, the ONLY time I've been startled awake (no jumping up or exclaiming, just wide awake in a second) is that I could swear I looked at my window and men were climbing through it. That's it. The second my eyes opened and I saw the window was shut and locked, it was over so... yeah. Let's hear them - I'm curious to see what would make a REAL person do this kind of thing.