Noam Chomsky

I did used to have nightmares about the idea that when I die, there is a spark of consciousness which basically creates the world. 'Is the world going to disappear if this spark of consciousness disappears? And how do I know it won't? How do I know there's anything there except what I'm conscious of?

American Activist

Fabio Quagliarella

It was a dream move for me - I was at my hometown club - but I couldn't leave the house myself or with my family after receiving threats that suggested anything could happen at any moment. It turned my life into a nightmare. I wouldn't wish it on anyone.

Italian Athlete

John C. Reilly

Honestly, to tell you the truth, being trapped in any video game sounds like a living nightmare to me. In most video games, the point is it's a fight for survival, so I think it would be a terrifying place to live.

American Actor

Jack Henry Abbott

The part of me which wanders through my mind and never sees or feels actual objects, but which lives in and moves through my passions and my emotions, experiences this world as a horrible nightmare.

American Author

Paulo Coelho

I'm not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.

Brazilian Novelist

Frankie Grande

The party life that had once given me so much confidence and comfort had turned into a nightmare where I never felt more alone.

American Dancer

Jennifer Saunders

Me just being myself in public or on TV is the biggest nightmare in the world.

British Comedian

Tommy Lee Jones

The world's not a very comfortable place if you have a nightmare to face.

Sean Scully

Imagine a world without art: it's George Orwell's nightmare!

American Artist

Roy Horn

Dear God, let this be just a bad nightmare.

German Entertainer

Nightmares can evoke strong emotions that may linger after waking up.

Emotional Impact

Some nightmares are repeated with similar themes or scenarios.

Recurrent Themes

'Nightmare' can describe real situations that feel as bad as scary dreams.

Metaphoric Use

The word can express severe frustration or difficulty one encounters.

Intensity of Situation

Refers often to situations with long-lasting negative effects.

Extended Problems

Indicates someone or something causing a great deal of trouble or irritation.

Descriptive Strength

Attributing 'nightmare' to people can imply they're very difficult to deal with.

Personification

The adjective form highlights the distressing visual aspect of dreams or experiences.

Visual Disturbance

It portrays situations with a gravity similar to disturbing dreams.

Intensity in Context

 I mean, I hate to say, yeah, it's a bit stereotype but it's the stuff of nightmares. It really is. It's like you know you couldn't make it up, could you? But it does, it exists. But it's a monster, it is a monster. This one is called the snag tooth sea devil. I like the names of them as well. Look at that. They're very characteristic, aren't they?

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 at least once in their life. This panic-inducing episode of coming face-to-face with the creatures from your nightmares can last anywhere from seconds to minutes and may involve visual or auditory hallucinations of an evil spirit or an out-of-body feeling like you're floating. Some have even mistaken sleep paralysis

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 is the stuff that has kind of violent or sexual content, right? Children's cartoons getting assaulted, getting killed, weird pranks that actually genuinely terrify children. What you have is software pulling in all of these different influences to automatically generate kids' worst nightmares.

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 Though the name suggested impossibility, modern scientific and political progress raised hopes of these dreams finally becoming reality. But time and time again, they instead turned into nightmares of war, famine, and oppression. And as artists began to question utopian thinking,

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 a bit of a nightmare so I hope you enjoy my story okay I grew up in the coast in England you know I started surfing about eight and I very quickly knew that it was something that I wanted it to be in my life forever and when I was leaving

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 her blood out into a beaker but why he said that he was a vampire and that he drank up the blood the nightmare continued for hours in between feedings the kidnapper kept her handcuffed in the bathtub it was through

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 Learning more about the causes and effects of the Black Death is important, not just for understanding how our world has been shaped by the past. It may also help save us from a similar nightmare in the future.

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 Servius was one of the few survivors. Servius still has nightmares of his comrades lying where they fell. But now the army is back to bury the dead with full military honors. As he helps in the task,

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 and many more will continue to creep through our nightmares. Yet, so long as they subsist off a living being's life force, they are part of my tribe. Even sparkling vampires can be included.

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 I never thought that we will became firefighters. That's the worst nightmare for a conservationist, because it means the weather and the systems that sustain life are broken.