Thread 150874663

I don't mean that as an exaggeration, I literally had nightmares about this guy. I can still remember two actually.
>Some kind of scene from the movie that didn't happen. Some reindeer bumps into him, and then he sits down. The narrator said "It caused the Snow Monster to bite his feet" with a birds-eye view of him sitting down and moving in a circle while biting his feet. And then he just lunged at the camera. This repeated several times over. I couldn't get it out of my head.
>I was at my grandmother's house and I had this nightmare where he was coming up the stairs. I hid under my blankets as he stalked around my room. Thankfully he didn't notice me.

doomsday from the 2007 death of superman animated movie. i genuinely couldn't sleep the night after i saw that on tv.
also the toyman from the same movie

>>150874663 (OP)
Unrelated to /co/ (outside of being a foundational aspect for my story) but Giygas from Earthbound gave me a nightmare when I was a kid. I grew up being scared of Courage at times but Giygas itself was a whole different monstrosity that he can probably be considered a huge foundation of my psychology.
It was one of those things where it didn’t feel scary at first, but then something just clicked into place and it started to drape me with fear; I remember it being very difficult to sleep that night and that I was up for hours, unable to close my eyes for long because I would just see him staring back.
And the nightmare itself was pretty basic. The skies became black and his face was there, he pooled into every crevice, his face everywhere- absolutely inescapable until it was just nothing but the fear as he absorbed everything.
In some ways the dream still matches what I think about him today, and in many ways it doesn’t because of how my perspective has vastly changed over the years. The little story I’ve been imagining up is kind of loosely inspired by that nightmare, but it’s really more about the environment he creates than the fear aspect itself. That environment is everything to me and I believe it’s applicable to more emotions than just fear, and I want to find that as I keep writing and plotting.

>>150875020
I can see why

>>150874663 (OP)
Only tangentially /co/ related, but this ghost from Disney's Magical Mirror starring Mickey Mouse. It was a Gamecube point-and-click adventure game where you play as Mickey exploring an empty mansion in his dreams. The entire time, a ghost is playing nearly deadly pranks on you.

The game itself is unintentionally creepy and liminal. Since Mickey and the ghost are the only beings in the house, it feels really unnerving. Plus, there are intentional horror sequences in this game too. It just has a weird vibe the entire game.

When I was young, but still a few years after playing this game, I had a nightmare that the ghost pulled me under my bed. I remember that the dream took place during late afternoon, so it wasn't nighttime, but my blinds were closed so it was dark in my room.

Another one was Large Marge from Pee Wee's Big Adventure. I loved the movie, but the night I watched it I was afraid to roll over in bed out of fear that I'd see her right next to me. My overactive imagination was a boon and a curse as a child.

>>150874663 (OP)
Yeah, this guy was pretty creepy for me too. The fact that he became nice at the end probably saved me from some nightmares.

>>150875020
Woah, that's a cool description of your dream. Did you ever read the interview with the game's director on where he got the inspiration for the design? If I recall correctly, he saw a violent rape scene in a movie when he was really young, and somehow that inspired this design. It adds another layer to the creep factor for me. If I were young enough to have played Earthbound as a kid, this absolutely would have fucked me up.

>>150874663 (OP)
I don't believe anything actually triggered it but I had a random and very disturbing dream featuring Homer Simpson.
The string of events that led up to it are a hazy blur but I recall Homer was facing some form of execution but not through the typical court/judicial system. He was given a drug that caused his body to disintegrate while his arms were strung up to keep him upright and my POV of the events began to float around him watching it happen. His screams were blood curdling and at some point the dissolving flesh split across his midsection and his legs fell away in a bloody heap. At this point my POV moved to be right under his torso and looking up towards the dissolving tissue. I have a vivid memory of watching the lower intestines hanging down from his guts as the length of it broke up and fell away into sizzling pieces. All the while he kept screaming and thrashing about in agony.

The Nightmare King from Little Nemo, somehow he combined in my head with the Air Conditioner from Brave Little Toaster, and I had a nightmare that there was an evil living furnace in the back of the house that would suck in anything that went in the room.

The nightmare really had nothing to do with the scene in the movie but I had it after watching

>>150874663 (OP)
When I was a kid I would watch a minor scary scene from a movie, have a nightmare that was a way scarier version of the scene, and then get confused and think the version in my dream was actually from the movie so I'd never watch it again

>>150874663 (OP)
Never from a cartoon, no.

Frothy Dawg from CN's cartoons that never made it shorts. I would run for the remote to change the channel. I don't know why it terrified me.

>>150874663 (OP)
Never. Not even as a toddler. I remember, because my parents often warned me that I'd get nightmares, but it never happened. Obsessive paranoia during my waking hours, yes. Difficulty sleeping, absolutely. But nightmares, never.

I think I figured out what elevates the Pingu walrus from creepy to disturbing.

Where are his tusks? The human teeth are bad enough, but a lack of tusks does a number on his looks.

The only time in my life I’ve ever had an irrational fear of anything was when I was around 6 or 7 and I was scared of Spider-Man. Specifically the black suited version. I am completely serious. This fear ended when I had a dream where Slenderman protected me from him.

>>150874663 (OP)
The scene in Disney's Pinocchio where the boys slowly turn into donkeys, crying for their mothers the whole way.

>>150874663 (OP)
I saw that one episode of Real Ghostbusters with the zombie farm, and there was one specific shot of an undead rooster crowing that really fucked me up—being able to see the vertebrae through the decayed neck was a new sort of imagery to my toddler brain and it stuck with me. I saw it in scary dreams multiple times afterward.

I haven't seen that episode in 33 years, and I finally marathoned all of Real Ghostbusters recently to find it. The weird thing is that the actual image of the zombie rooster is somehow MORE scary than I remembered it.

>>150874663 (OP)
Used to watch DVDs on the Xbox, had a nightmare about the Xbox start-up screen attacking Archibald Asparagus from VeggeTales. Crazy stuff

>>150875570
>Did you ever read the interview with the game's director on where he got the inspiration for the design
I never actually read the interview despite hearing about it plenty over the course of my years. I generally try to stick as close to what the main material itself says while trying to not be influenced by side material unless the material was explicitly created as a side piece released alongside with the main material, so I just never felt like I needed to read it.
Not that there's anything wrong with using that interview as part of a perspective or anything. My autism just prioritizes my experiences first and foremost that I wouldn't feel genuine to myself if I used the interview. Besides its hard for me to keep track of events, stacking more info would just confuse me even more lol.

>>150874663 (OP)
If Barney counts a co then ya. I was a huge fan when i was 3 years old but one night I had a dream where my favorite Barney doll came tk life and bit my nose. I am not joking when I say I had this reoccuring nightmare with that doll almost every night to the point I stuffed in under my bed and refused to sleep alone in my room for like 2 years. My parents didnt take it seriously and at the time it really fucked me up how scared of these drrams and that doll i was. Thats not even getting into all the non barney nightmares I constantly had.

>>150875793
Yeah, that's it

>>150878516
It's weird

>>150875631
...Huh?

>>150878516
Barney's glossy eyes combined with that thin strip of teeth in an otherwise pitch-black mouth always creeped me out growing up. I still think it's a slightly uncanny design

>>150877021
>So what do you want me to say now