Through countless days of my youth, nightmares were few and far between as many readers here may relate. Those eight to ten hours of sleep could either bring wonderful and adventurous experiences, or traumatizing terror.

Winged Terror at the mall

One of the first nightmares I ever experienced was walking around in a shopping mall with this flying demon following me around at every step. My parents were behind me as I kept walking deeper and deeper into the building in a straight line. The demon didn't show any kind of hostility or harm as it just flew by once in a while.

The knight, the mummy and the Frankenstein monster

It's hard to say if this one counted as a nightmare at all, but when I was still a toddler I once had this dream where I was laying on my bed with these three living creatures staring me down. The knight even had a face behind the helmet, as well as having glowing eyes. I'm not sure what exactly triggered the dream either, maybe from a cartoon I was watching at the time?

The giant abandoned warehouse

In this dream I wasn't alone, having my older brother and a cousin following me as we made our way through corridors full of dirty antique items. Making our way to one room we had to make a turn to progress to another corridor, and lying in wait was a giant marionette puppet making us jump in fright belting out a loud "WHO'S THERE?!" then scurrying off into the dark corners of the warehouse and awaiting us in another room.

Alien egg harvest

My older brother once had a hobby of buying merchandise based on space creatures, and I suppose this dream branched off of that experience. This dream had me in the setting of my very own bedroom, and upon opening the closet door I was in for a surprise seeing this huge canister of alien eggs floating inside of a green, bubbly liquid that was glowing. My parents were in the dream as well, and I tried my best to hide the canister from them. Attempting to drop it outside from my bedroom window, it shattered and rope-like tentacles began coming out of the eggs as they ran off into the streets.

A row of falling teeth

Dentist appointments were the worst during my childhood, and to have a nightmare based around it was an even darker experience. In a dark room resembling the dentist waiting hall, the area was completely empty except for a dentist glaring at me in the distance, telling me to grab a toothbrush from a counter and proceeding to a small room to brush my teeth. No tooth paste tube was around, so I attempted to brush without it, only for each tooth to slowly fall out of my mouth one by one. The dentist being right behind me and displeased, scolded me and took each of my teeth for himself as I left the hallway and into another room with filthy looking teeth scattered all across the floor.

What are some nightmares you experienced as a kid? As always, leave a comment and hope you have a Happy Halloween!