Nightmares Poems Novels & Stories

I kept questioning when this nightmare would finally come to an end. After a few minutes, my sanity and consciousness gradually crept over me. Every time I wake from my nightmare, it's as though I slowly forget everything about the present. Each time I awaken, it feels like I’m losing touch with everything around me. I have no idea why. I can't bring myself back to the current moment. I bit my lip to stop it from trembling, rubbing my eyes to clear the blur, desperately scanning every corner filled with doubt, anxiously searching for answers, terrified of whatever dark thing had followed me here. There was no sound or light—only the darkness. The air smelled of poison, salty like blood. I tr

Closing my eyes, I let my mind drift, pushing away the intrusive thoughts and focusing on the silence. I just wanted to stay in here forever, if that was possible. But reality had other plans. The nightmare was having a devastating effect on my mental health. Every breath I took was tinged with an ominous feeling, a haunting reminder of the nightmare. The images of falling into a grave, my stalker, and a burglar finishing me off and ripping me apart replayed in my mind relentlessly.

I want to scream, to fight, but the words catch in my throat, swallowed up by the darkness. And then, just as suddenly as it began, the nightmare fades, the shadows peeling away, leaving only silence and the faint light of dawn creeping in around the edges of my consciousness. I wake with a start, gasping, my heart pounding against my ribs as if I’ve just run a marathon. The room is quiet, still, but I can still feel the cold grip of the nightmare lingering, a shadow that clings to me, refusing to let go.

I had been hounded by nightmares, gnarled reflections of everything I feared most and everything that made me insecure. I had tossed and turned, my mind conjuring up dark scenarios where Alpha Blake turned his back on me, leaving me alone to face the unknown threats lurking around us. Shadows danced in my dreams, faces I couldn't quite recognize but felt an unsettling familiarity with. Nora's smirking visage haunted me the most, a constant reminder of the betrayal I felt brewing.

OLIVIA'S POV NIGHTMARES- Those far-off melancholic dreams one have filled with darkness and so many other sinister things one couldn't dare mention. It had been recurring off late, these same dreams and far-off vision like flickering of the mind. I had tried understanding this particular one but clearly couldn't and to make things worse Nate was having it as well, I had awaken a fortnight again to see the aura of his dream how darkish it looked, but had since shoved it out if my mind when he had said nothing the next day.

Jess sat up right and once more it was pitch black, that’s when jess understood what this was. “My nightmares.” Jess whispered, her voiced echoed in the darkness, but it was as if Jess had just said the key for everything to explode. Every single one of her bad memories, jumped out of the dark, young Jess sitting with her dead mother, trying to clean her wound, hoping she will wake up if Jess just keeps pressure on it. Her Father chasing her, beating her, screaming at her. Her beast tormenting her once again. All the Jess’s, the young ones or the older ones, each one of them that cried out in pain as they were being cut, burned or beaten, each Jess that was ever told how she should just die,

I don't know how to live without her in my life. Mom and Dad came to see Clay and I after the meeting last night. They tried to keep me hopeful and it worked for a while. It worked until I had to go back to our room alone. It worked until I had to get ready for bed without her. It worked until I had to crawl into an ice cold bed. I barely slept last night and when I did, I was tormented with dreams of her that quickly turned into nightmares of her suffering at the hands of her captors. I awoke with a start. I couldn't move for a few moments. I was hoping that what I saw was a figment of my brain and not what was really happening or would happen to her. I drug myself out of bed and showered a

I asked, squinting my eyes trying to get a glimpse of the stranger. “Oh please I know more than your name bunny, I know everything about you” he said taking two more steps. “So you are a stalker then, how long have you been stalking me?” I panicked as I took more steps back. “I’m not a stalker bunny, I’m your nightmare” the voice said and just like the wind he disappeared into the shadows like he was never there, my heart sank into my stomach as his last words echoed in my head. I’m your nightmare.

A lullaby hums in a voice not your own Sung from the mouths of the buried and dead A faceless thing grins in the wide doorway Stretching its arms, your escort inside Your name is etched on a tomb with no grave A jagged whisperer, an icy brace Your heart beats loud, but not for long Run, run, but your feet won't move The darkness wraps its chains around you I said grin forms in the blackest shade Time runs out, and so will your veins The bells don't toll; the clocks don't chime Only the sound of the end of time Your Shadow melts your hands turn cold The nightmare sings as it takes hold I'm sorry to say, but this is the end Your breath is stolen; no need to pretend A door creaks open; the void

I scream that they may have tattooed me, but I’m not one of them and I don’t want to go on anymore stupid missions. It works better than I hoped. Carden doesn’t stop by for days on end leaving me with my nightmares. They become stronger with each passing day. I wake up breathless. I wake up crying. I wake up with my fists clenched to the point of having bloody nail marks dug into my palms. I wake up with a scream. And then I don’t wake up at all.