Do you have reaccuring dreams? You know, the ones where you know for sure you have dreamed about before or a particular place that becomes a setting to your dreams time and time again?

I get them quite often. And the ones I remember the most are always the scary ones-the nightmares. The ones I get the most often have to do with particular houses or buildings I have either lived in or a makeup of places I have been to put together.

Just the other night I had one. I can still recall it and it still seems a little frightening to think of it. I don't remember what the place was but it was like a very large house with many rooms. And, of course, it is a house I have "stayed" in many times before in dreams. The scary part is that it is haunted.

That night in my dream I was in this house once again. But this time guests were there and I was trying to warn them that the place was haunted and that things will start moving around on their own. Sure enough, a matress in my room just starts slowly sliding off the bed on its own; the wooden staircase would start squeeking on its own, and I could hear voices softly speaking as drawers start falling out of the chest. But this time, I didn't seemed scared as if I was already expecting all of that. In my dream I wanted to make sure that the other guests knew what to expect. A warning.

I have had nightmares of being alone at night in one of the homes I have lived before while someone is trying to get in. The scary part was that the house always felt abandoned with all of my family's things still in it but having no one there but me. The lights inside always gave a soft yellowish color to the rooms and were always dim. The windows would almost always be open and there was always someone after me. Some had been shooting inside while I would run from one room to another to get away, others would just be trying to get inside.

Many times when I knew someone was after me I would run inside scared and hurried as fast as I could to get all the windows closed and turn all the lights off before they showed up at the house. I never get all the lights off and the windows shut before they got there and I always forget to lock the back door. That's when I creep below the windows so they can't see me and head to the back door where trembling I listen hard for any noise nearby and start to lock the door before that person opens it with me standing right there.

I used to have nightmares of another house that had a secret staircase in a wardrobe (no relation to the "Narnia" story) where I would use to get away from some kind of evil person. I remember living in one of the rooms up a few floors and I would use the secret staircase to get around. I was a kid when I had these dreams. And I remember this person wuld be looking for me and I was always caught going into this wardrope. So I would climb up the stairs as fast as I could and using the blankets and pillows that filled the wardrobes in each room to block the view as I made my way out of it into another room.

One other reacurring dream involves another house in which a room was very haunted and had such an evil spirit in it. The first time I was in this house I was sleeping in a room right next to the haunted one. I remember standing next to the closet and I could feel this very cold air coming from the vent lying near my feet. Then I could hear very strange noises and voices and I could hear pounding noises on the wall. I could actually feel the evilness. Someone at the house warned me the next day that the room next door was indeed very haunted.

Another time I was dropped off there and not exactly remembering the house I walked into it and headed right into the haunted room. As soon as I opened the door I felt a very strong evil entity pulling me in. The room was as red as can be with blood running all over the walls. There was a large wall-to-wall staircase that was shaped like an amphitheater leading very far down into darkness. It too was blood red. I had a hard time getting back out of the room. I felt like something was not letting me go. When I finally got out I felt horrified and very weak.

Slowly that house faded out of my consciousness. I soon started to just go by that house and recognizing it each time and making sure I stayed away from it, until finally I never dreamed of that house again. But I still remember it.

I have had nightmares where I felt conscience enough to try to wake out of it but I was so physically paralyzed that I couldn't move a single part of my body to force myself out of it. It would feel as if something was trying to hold me back to stay into the nightmare. And when I finally did break out of the dream I would feel so weak and exhausted that I would quickly fall right back into it. These nightmares always felt the most real to me. And because of that they were always the most freightening. I often got these when I was sick and would sleep on my back. I always hated going to sleep when I was sick.

The mind can truly be a scary place. Just remember to think happy thoughts tonight before you fall asleep.