When I was 15 I started having nightmares everynight , I am 21 now but these dreams made me spiral when I was 19 and I think it is worth sharing
The first dream was really subtle, it was regular I can hardly even remember the original context but I do remember a human wearing a reindeers skull and it had huge eyes. But it did nothing. For three years all the dreams were like this, it would just be in the background. But when I was 19 and started college it changed.
I remember this dream clearly because it freaked me out a lot, in the dream I was at my little brothers birthday party with a friend everything was notmal until I spotted a pair of deer legs behind the barbecue, then me and my friend hid in a shed woth two doors and we blocked each exit but my friend passed out and I saw the silhouette of this thing, the long antlers shadowed behind the frosted glass,it said my full name and I woke up. I was freaked out by this but I wasn’t concerned yet.
A couple months later i had another dream where I woke up in my bed and I could feel the temperature of my room and it was freezing, the creature was standing in the corner of my room and thats all but it felt so agonisingly long, i jolted awake and the temperature was the same as it was in my dream (maybe not alarming) i couldnt sleep at all.
The dream that really sent me over the edge was a few days after the previous one, I was walking down a local path I usually take walks on and I saw 3 white clothed figures in a field, I walk towards them and as I get closer the middle one grows antlers. They start speaking to me about how their god needs a set of eyes and calmly explained they would take mine, then one of them proceeded to lunge at me with a sharp stick and repeatedly stabbed me in the abdomen , I woke up screaming and felt a sharp pain in my stomach (could be placebo but terrifying) my dad rushed In but I was inconsolable.
After that i refused to sleep and I grew extremely paranoid, me and my best friend would take walks in a countryside area but I couldn’t go anymore because I was genuinely terrified of this creature and I convinced myself he was real and warning me. I wouldn’t leave my house because I was too afraid and also just too tired due to lack of sleep. My parents convinced me to go to therapy because of my paranoia and I went but it didn’t help at all.
Eventually the dreams did go away and it’s been 2 years since I had one.
Does anyone else have an experience with recurring nightmares ?