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Has A Book Ever Given You Nightmares?

When I was a kid, they'd say, don't watch this, it'll give you nightmares. So I was always afraid that watching a scary movie, or reading a scary book, would give me nightmares. Seemed like a really good reason to avoid these things.

Then I started watching them, and reading scary books. It didn't happen. I don't think those things penetrate deep enough with me, to get into my dreams. I think that in any event, dreams are a rehashing and sorting out of what's been going on during the day, and other things take precedence in the sorting, at least inside my head, it seems.
 
I went really dizzy (close to fainting!) and threw up after reading the part in Gerald's Game (Stephen King) where she's nearly peeling her hand like a glove to escape from some handcuffs. Proper turned my stomach!
 
Johnny Canuck2 said:
When I was a kid, they'd say, don't watch this, it'll give you nightmares. So I was always afraid that watching a scary movie, or reading a scary book, would give me nightmares. Seemed like a really good reason to avoid these things.

Then I started watching them, and reading scary books. It didn't happen. I don't think those things penetrate deep enough with me, to get into my dreams. I think that in any event, dreams are a rehashing and sorting out of what's been going on during the day, and other things take precedence in the sorting, at least inside my head, it seems.
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not everything mentioned is a "scary" book
 
One part of The Magus was pretty gross. :eek: Don't know if it gave me nightmares though.

If I had my life over again, there are a few things I would change, and one of them would be that I would not read The Magus. Yes, I know that somebody famous has already said that. Was it Woody Allen?
 
I am going to find this difficult to describe so...

I was obsessed with reading horror stuff from the age of about 8.
I have always had really vivid nightmares from well before that and still do.
I love watching horror films (classy/cheesy/psychological all that jazz) and still read the occasional nerve twitching book.
I have patches times where nightmares are really bad.

I still can't quite equate a particular book (or film) to particular nightmares.

Sorry that was a very long winded explanation to say one line :o
 
If the question was "Is there a book that has left you seriously un-nerved rather than technically having a nightmare about it" then the answer would be loads.
 
Books that gave me actual nightmares... The Road.:(

And I think Clays Ark, by Octavia Butler... years ago. Still would though.:(
 
the image of the horse's head filled with eels in the tin drum has always haunted me and i think has been in my dreams
 
"The lion the witch and the wardrobe" I think it was or it could have been something to do with Narnia ..

Anyhow the jist was beasts and things in wardrobes and as a child I had a big wardrobe in my room, I was terrified that the things could come out of the wardrobe and get me. I had a few nightmares about it.
 
oh, happy like murderers gave me twisted brainwrongs - the image of fred west walking around the huge basements of derelict institutions immersed in total darkness: <shudder>
 
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