Is it normal that i can't forget this nightmare?

I suddenly found myself in a dark enclosed space. I instinctively knew I needed to leave, that something was terribly wrong. I came face-face with what I can only describe as a large black machine. It had an artifical evilness that deeply disturbed me and caused me to panic. The machine said nothing and did nothing, but the energy that was radiating from it was enough to paralyze me with fear. I remember it was the color black and it seemed to be undergound, perhaps even secured to the ground on which it lay. The thing that brought me to this place was a red balloon. I woke up suddenly to see my ceiling spinning above my bed and sat up immediately. My entire bedroom felt unreal to me for a moment. It felt as if I had been yanked back on to a certain frequency and everything was still in the process of adjusting to my concious mind. While spinning was begining to disapate, my fear was still very much prevalent. I felt paralyzed with a feeling of hopelessness and despair and immediately began screaming. My father came into my room which instantly gave me a feeling of familiarity that I desperately needed. I eventually calmed down, fell asleep and moved on with my life, but this nightmare has NEVER left me. I don't think I'll ever be able to forget those terrifying emotional feelings it gave me.

I've since heard of people taking Ayahuasca and having similar visions of some sort artificial machine set out to destroy all biological/spiritual life. Could this be in any way related? I was a small child at the time, maybe 4 or 5 years old. Could this have been some sort of an out of body experience which enabled me to slip into another dimension?

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  • Geni

    I'd say it's normal. I've even had dreams that I have found myself waking up crying, and while I can't really remember what they are about, thinking back on them I can still feel the sense of sorrow, like something really bad happened and it made me sad.

    I actually have one dream I could remember so well when I woke up, I wrote the whole thing down on paper....and who know...if I find a good animator some time who is into kind of dark, macabre type stuff, maybe it will get made into a creepish, short animation. Remembering parts of it still makes my skin crawl, and I wasn't even /in/ the dream...more like I was watching it play out.

    I can also remember at least one really silly dream that even now, I still feel a sense of wanting to giggle when I think of it.

    So I think this is normal. I don't know about out of body, but some of us have very creative minds that are good at coming up with things, and replaying strong emotions into our dreams.

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  • spiffy

    I have a reoccurring nightmare similar but its pins and small spaces only happens when I'm ill it's horrible must be normal though

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  • Kutieadb

    I had a dream like that, never will forget it. That's normal.

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  • shade_ilmaendu

    I'd say it's normal, it's pretty scary when dream stuff intrudes into real life especially. I had something like this, but I was in a room full of confetti and this man in a suit was talking. I don't remember what he said, he wasn't mean and he didn't say anything important, but he terrified me. When I woke up I still saw confetti falling from my ceiling and freaked out. Our subconscious makes weird stuff scary I guess

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  • Chillpill

    I think it's normal that you can't forget this. It's no wonder nightmares we have as kids effect us so deeply. The brain is still developing and our mind trying to make sense of things. I also had a scary nightmare as a kid that made me feel like slipping into another dimension. I sent a post about it.(http://isitnormal.com/story/is-it-normal-strange-nightmare-i-had-as-a-kid-80539/)
    Your nightmare sounds like a very powerful experience. It seems that the red balloons represent joyful, childlike exuberance and the black machine pure indestructible evil - a very disturbing juxtaposition.
    I definitely feel that sharing and expressing these experiences are the way forward.

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  • yankeh

    I would of shat myself. It is normal I guess.

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  • Just1question

    Strange dream. But sure its not unusual to remember something as scary and disturbing as that. Aslong as its not mentally disturbing you then fine.

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