Line #140 Literature/NightmareBeings


1	''Nightmare Beings'' (called ''Nightmare Menagerie'' as of 2017) is an annual series on {{Website/Bogleech}}.
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3	The premise of the series is simple: commenters describe a disturbing dream they had with an interesting monster in it. If the monster is bizarre or freaky enough, it gets illustrated, either by Bogleech himself, or by a guest artist, with over twenty different artists contributing to the series as of this writing. Some of Bog's own dreams are often featured.
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5	As of this writing, the most recent post can be found [[https://bogleech.com/halloween/hall22-nightmares.html here]], with an archive of previous nightmare beings at the bottom.
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8	!!Provides examples of:
9	* AbusiveParents: Well, sort of--the titular subject of Somnambulist's "Grandma" nightmare is an EmotionEater monster that primarily feeds off of guilt and shame who manifests as a [[FauxAffablyEvil seemingly kindly]] grandmother when she's [[BodyHorror not feeding]]. Her demeanor, however, very much resembles that of an emotionally abusive parent.
10	* AdultsAreUseless:
11	** In Certified Fucker's dream starring Mr. Fiddly, the narrator tries to tell their mother about the being that tried to drag the narrator into the TV via his prehensile GagNose, but the mother just ignores them.
12	** Similarly, [=MasterBarf=]'s dream about a hopping [[WhenTreesAttack palm tree monster]] has the narrator trying to tell their parents about the creature, only for them to keep responding with "We're talking". It's implied that this ends badly for them.
13	---> ...the entire time I ran, I could [[GoryDiscretionShot hear a sound like someone loudly chewing on cereal and slurping soup at the same time]].
14	** Downplayed in Everbound Venvel's nightmare. Most of her family ignores the monster that makes up her dining room wall in the dream, but her father banishes it with [[WeakenedByTheLight a camera flash]] when he sees it scaring her.
15	* AnimalisticAbomination: Very common.
16	* AnimateInanimateObject:
17	** One of Bogleech's dreams stars a man who lives in a mansion filled with malevolent furniture.
18	** [[http://www.bogleech.com/halloween/nightmare-jesusstory.png Dustpan's]] [[http://www.bogleech.com/halloween/nightmare-jesus.png Jesus]] is horrifying even before he turns into a cricket. He moves his head like a security camera and his walk is more of a mechanical marching.
19	** Bogleech theorizes that [[http://www.bogleech.com/nightmares/wheezy.png Wheezy]] is “an anthropomorphised version of something we just don't actually have in our timeline.“
20	* AnthropomorphicFood:
21	** One creature resembles a scoop of ice cream with buck teeth and WhiteGloves. It's more scary than it sounds.
22	** The Lemon from Ketchupcat's dream is a lemon with a cartoon face and a body made from "2000s technology."
23	* ArtifactTitle: Bog admits that a decent amount of entries don't exactly count as nightmares due to being more strange than scary, but he still features them anyway if they're [[RuleOfCool particularly memorable]].
24	* AttackOfTheTownFestival: Calaveracarnival's dream about the [[https://www.bogleech.com/nightmares/angelsidol.png Angel's Idol]] starts at a seaside town festival.
25	* BadBoss: Taken to SurrealHorror levels with [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep The Boss]], a BlobMonster from Lukas Reimer's dream. If you fail to follow its rules, it sucks you into the grate on its stomach, which leads to an AcidTripDimension.
26	* BadSanta: Lukas Reimer's "Face Sucker" dream starts out with them being following home by a creepy stalker MallSanta. Then it reveals its horrifying [[http://www.bogleech.com/nightmares/facesucker.png true form...]]
27	* BasedOnADream: [[invoked]] The entire premise of the series.
28	* BearsAreBadNews: [[http://www.bogleech.com/nightmares/nightmare-bobipinemanbear.png This]] “bear” from Airborne Terror's nightmare, which looks [[CallASmeerpARabbit barely anything like one]].
29	* BeastWithAHumanFace:
30	** [[http://www.bogleech.com/nightmares/madworld3.png This "wasp"]] from one of Bogleech's own dreams.
31	** [[http://www.bogleech.com/nightmares/giraffe.png This pained giraffe-creature]] from Rusti H's dream.
32	** The Man Fish mentioned under CarcassSleepingBag.
33	* BigfootSasquatchAndYeti:
34	** One user's nightmare involved a “Sasquatch” that looked nothing like the one we're familiar with, resembling a skeletal ape-like creature with red eyes and the ability to control its victim's movement.
35	** Also [[http://www.bogleech.com/nightmares/nameless.png this thing]], which puts even Bogleech at a loss for words.
36	** The Disco Yeti is a sleep-paralysis demon that inflicts SensoryAbuse upon its victim with its bright colors and flashing lights.
37	* BigCreepyCrawlies: These [[http://www.bogleech.com/nightmares/stinkbug.png "stinkbugs"]] are fourteen feet long.
38	* BishieSparkle: The “[[http://www.bogleech.com/nightmares/salamander.png salamanders]]” in [[http://www.bogleech.com/nightmares/salamanderstory.png Croases’ dream]] were illustrated like this because said creatures were [[BoldlyComing considered more attractive than humans]].
39	* BizarreAlienReproduction:
40	** One dream involved a nature documentary about an animal that laid eggs which each had a pair of insect-like legs and walked around forming long trains like a centipede.
41	** A dream from 2020 features "Autogorgons," monsters [[https://www.bogleech.com/nightmares/autogorgon.png vaguely resembling]] LizardFolk that reproduce by making baby snakes appear in people's stomachs, which are then [[OrificeEvacuation vomited into cars]].
42	* BrownNoteBeing: Touching the Insignificator turns your very existence neutral, rendering you [[ExistentialHorror unable to have a negative or positive effect on anything.]]
43	* CallASmeerpARabbit: One dream involved the dreamer watching a documentary about fish... which were actually grinning babies with long antennae instead of eyes that were floating in a black void.
44	** This is a recurring trope, as with the above-mentioned “Sasquatch,” “salamanders,” and “bear,” and the below-mentioned “dragon,” “vampire,” “hyenas,” "goat," and “chicken.”
45	** [[https://www.bogleech.com/nightmares/thethingthatwasatree.png The Thing That Was a Tree]] is pointedly ''not'' a tree, but [[YourMindMakesItReal has to be convinced that it is one. If it knew what it truly was, it would become extremely dangerous]].
46	* CarcassSleepingBag: Sphinx stays warm on a snowy mountainside by hiding in the [[AndIMustScream rotting, still-living]] body of the [[https://www.bogleech.com/nightmares/manfish.png Man Fish]].
47	* ChestMonster: The [[https://www.bogleech.com/nightmares/cratekitty.png Crate Kitty]] from one "[[VideoGame/EarthBound1994 Ramblin' Evil Mushroom]]" lures the narrator in by pretending to be a CuteKitten in a box before extending a long serpentine neck, wailing like a cat in pain, and biting them.
48	* ChildEater: A being from Liam Phillipson's dream known simply as The Shadow, which vaguely resembles a [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Gastly]] with headlights for eyes. It leaves the dreamer alone, but "scientists" found the remains of a soccer ball and a T-shirt in its stomach.
49	* CooldownHug: The woman in Daisydice's "Werewolf" dream gives one to the titular werewolf until he calms down and presumably reverts back to normal.
50	* CreepilyLongArms:
51	** The Pool Woman from Can't Breath's dream has these, along with pale skin and big round staring eyes.
52	** Mr. Oogle also has these. Or only one, depending on the artist interpretation.
53	** [[http://www.bogleech.com/nightmares/thatjerk.png That Jerk Under The Sink]] uses its arm to [[EvilIsPetty just waste its victim's water]].
54	* CreepyBlueEyes: The Terrible Dog in one of Lukas Reimer's dreams has these. The [[http://www.bogleech.com/nightmares/dogblubber.png monster that emerges from it]] retains them in the illustration.
55	* CreepyDoll: The [[http://www.bogleech.com/halloween/nightmare-slimedoll.png Slime Doll]], which resembles a slimy baby doll with BlackBeadEyes and a grotesquely wide mouth with MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily.
56	* DarkIsNotEvil:
57	** Corky, despite his [[http://www.bogleech.com/halloween/nightmare-corky.png bizarre appearance]], is a benevolent creature.
58	** [[http://www.bogleech.com/halloween/nightmare-muriel.png Muriel]] may look creepy, but in the end, she just wants a tampon.
59	** Despite looking like a humanoid grub, the Announcer in marineVerdancy's dream is friendly and warns the narrator about the Blinky Blunk.
60	* DependingOnTheArtist: The designs of the monsters vary from UglyCute to horrifyingly surreal, depending on who's illustrating them.
61	* DomesticAbuse: One of [[https://www.bogleech.com/halloween/hall19-nightmares.html Bog's own dreams]] was about a horror film that featured a man who was constantly tortured and abused by his monstrous wife known simply as "Mama". A rare [[DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale female-on-male example]] that ''wasn't'' played for laughs.
62	* DreamWithinADream: The [[CallASmeerpARabbit "stinkbugs"]] from one of [=Glitchrr36=]'s dreams came from one of these, in which [[Literature/HarryPotter Hagrid]] took care of them.
63	* EmotionEater: The titular character of Somnambulist's "Grandma" dream feeds on guilt and shame, and in a truly disgusting way too--her face [[https://bogleech.com/nightmares/grandma.png morphs into a long proboscis with a tongue at the tip]] and she sticks it into her victim's ear, sucking the negativity out through the brain. She also [[{{Jerkass}} loves to stoke that negativity]], so as to have more food for later.
64	* EvilDetectingDog: In Lance Alan Welch's dream, his dog alerts the family to the [[http://www.bogleech.com/nightmares/sick.jpg oozing monsters]].
65	* EyelessFace:
66	** The old man from Beelzebufo's dream is described as having a face so wrinkled his eyes are hidden by folds of skin.
67	** [[http://www.bogleech.com/nightmares/insignificator.png The Insignificator]] from Nanzapants' dream has a vaguely avian skull with neither eyes nor sockets.
68	* EnfantTerrible: [[http://www.bogleech.com/nightmares/sprout.png Blooming Baby]], whom the narrator needs to kill to end a plant-based [[PlagueZombie Zombie Plague]].
69	** Nanzapants' AcidRefluxNightmare of [[https://www.bogleech.com/nightmares/crababy.png a giant gray photorealistic baby head crawling around like a crab on equally giant human fingers]].
70	* EyeScream: One monster has a tongue made of eyes, and brainwashes people by stealing their eyes and replacing them with two of the eyes from its own tongue.
71	* EyesOutOfSight: Pablo [[http://www.bogleech.com/nightmares/pablo.png resembles an]] EmoTeen with his hair covering ''[[TheFaceless his whole face]]''. Even with all the hair the narrator could still feel his murderous gaze.
72	* FaceStealer: The Face Sucker from Lukas Reimer's dream has a [[NauseaFuel sphincter-like mouth]] that it uses to suck off its victims' faces, [[AndIMustScream which then manifest eyeless and wailing on its body.]]
73	--> '''Lukas Reimer:''' I blacked out when that happened, but before I woke up, I could hear wet, quiet licking noises and a thin, worm-like tongue squirming around inside my brain.
74	* TheFairFolk: The "Bogwatch" from [[https://bogleech.com/halloween/nightmare-bogwatchstory.png Demonlemon's dream]] appears to unintentionally borrow from archaic fairy lore, complete with Demonlemon having to perform an odd little ritual to keep it from eating them...a ritual that will doom four people to save them.
75	* FantasticVoyagePlot: Played for horror by [[https://www.bogleech.com/nightmares/mine-microman.png the villain]] of an in-dream anime Bogleech was watching. He had the ability to shrink his opponents to microscopic size and somehow "suck them into his body," where they would be forced to fight against [[SeekerWhiteBloodCells his immune system]] and germs.
76	* FeatheredFiend:
77	** Bike Bird, a [[Series/SesameStreet Big Bird]]-like creature with two extra beaks instead of legs that chases the dreamer around on a red tricycle.
78	** Cordyceps sapiens' sleep paralysis incident involving a [[http://www.bogleech.com/halloween/nightmare-flamingo.png grotesque living taxidermied flamingo]].
79	** [[https://www.bogleech.com/nightmares/woodpecker.png The Woodpecker]] doesn't seem too scary at first, looking mundane except for its size and communicating with a lonely young girl by tapping, but, [[MultipleEndings depending on which of the dream's two endings was "true,"]] either [[spoiler:killed and ate her parents]] or [[spoiler:may have been DeadAllAlong]].
80	* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: One dream has a trailer for a horror movie called ''The Red Frog''. The titular frog is seen crawling out of the screen, but this is apparently all part of the trailer.
81	** Another has a being called Mr. Fiddly who appears in an advertisement and tries to drag the dreamer into the television via his prehensile GagNose.
82	** After waking up from a nightmare of DOG, an AnimalisticAbomination that manifests on various Disney park rides, Barayas sees it at the end of their bed.
83	* FrogMen: Frog-like creatures are ''extremely'' common, to the point where Bog theorizes that frogs have a special connection to dreams.
84	* FunnyAnimal:
85	** The Pig who shows up to play basketball with [[AnthropomorphicFood the aforementioned Lemon]] in Ketchupcat's dream.
86	** A much less funny pig is the [[http://www.bogleech.com/nightmares/bridalsow.png Bridal Sow]], which walks like a wind-up doll before the dream collapses into SurrealHorror.
87	** A family of anthropomorphic horses in Xionahri's dream has [[http://www.bogleech.com/nightmares/horses.png a rather unusual member]].
88	* GagNose:
89	** PlayedForHorror with the Nosey Woman, whose nose can stretch a long distance, chase after people, and wrap around them. Similarly, there's Mr. Fiddly, mentioned under TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou.
90	** A monstrous cloud creature from Graham Bredbenner's dream has a long nose that it uses to sniff out its victims.
91	* GaiasLament: [[http://www.bogleech.com/nightmares/naturegonewrong.jpg This]] EldritchAbomination, a bizarre amalgamation of animal parts, is "nature gone wrong."
92	* TheGrotesque: Squid's Worm Man is a large man with skin like gum, empty eye sockets, worms crawling around in and on his face and massive worms where his legs should be. However, he's shown to be a kind, if slightly shy individual whom Squid claims to have befriended in his dream. Apparently, the worm thing is actually a "skin condition" and Worm Man is noted to be rather sensitive about it.
93	* GenuineHumanHide: [[http://www.bogleech.com/nightmares/banjo.png This Demon Banjo]] uses a human face as a resonator.
94	* HairRaisingHare: Grandma is a hideous rabbit-like creature that disguises itself as a kindly old woman and makes dolls made from GenuineHumanHide.
95	** [=UnicornRevenge=]'s Easter Bunny is a serial killer that has a head like that of a candy rabbit with foil covering its face.
96	** Phazon Ultra's "rabbit" is a very [[Creator/GuillermoDelToro Guillermo Del Toro]]-style rabbit woman with [[BodyHorror a skull-like, skin-covered face in her stomach]].
97	* HeinousHyena: One user's nightmare involved "hyenas" that were actually half-human, half-hyena creatures with long necks and eyes that [[GlowingEyesOfDoom glowed]] so brightly, it obscured their human-like faces.
98	* HellishHorse: Horse-like monsters are common in these dreams.
99	** Panglong's "Window Horse", which has [[{{Cyclops}} one eye in the middle of its forehead]] and fish-like lips.
100	** Boringjorn's Leaf Horse, which, true to its name, is a horse made from rotting leaves that was found on a spaceship.
101	** One dream involves a [[http://www.bogleech.com/nightmares/nightmare-forgive.png corpse-like horse]] attached to a helicopter propeller that shouts “FORGIVE!”
102	* HellIsThatNoise: It's a common trend for dream monsters to have some sort of strange signature cry or make a strange sound.
103	** The [[Series/SesameStreet Cookie Monster]]-esque “A-GOO GEE GEE GEE GEE!” made by a bunch of bouncing balls of flesh on a crudely-made children's show.
104	** The “[=MuhMuhMuhMuhMuhMuhMuh=]” of Bernie Conroy's fever-induced [[http://www.bogleech.com/halloween/nightmare-muhmuh.png water tower creatures]].
105	** The “loo loo loo loo loo!” sound of [=DireSloth=]'s [[http://www.bogleech.com/halloween/nightmare-muppet.png Nightmare Muppet]].
106	** The sing-song “na na nee, na na nee” of Airborne Terror's [[http://www.bogleech.com/nightmares/paperboy.png Paper Boy]].
107	* HumanoidAbomination: Several nightmare beings are ''more or less'' human, but that doesn't make them any less terrifying.
108	* IKnowYourTrueName: Every time someone discovers [[OverlyLongName one of]] [[https://www.bogleech.com/nightmares/mine-per.png Prellelldielle]]'s names, she advances one [[MetaFiction layer of fiction closer to the real world]], somewhat akin to [[Website/SCPFoundation SCP-2747, the narrative eater]].
109	* ImprobableWeaponUser: Barnacle Boy wields a sharpened frozen fish.
110	* InNameOnly:
111	** One creature is nicknamed [[Film/PeeweesBigAdventure Large Marge]] by the dreamer, despite [[http://www.bogleech.com/halloween/nightmare-largemarge.png looking nothing like]] the Large Marge from the film.
112	** [[http://www.bogleech.com/nightmares/nightmare-bobipinemantriffid.png These]] things have nothing to do with the monsters from ''Film/TheDayOfTheTriffids'', despite being called triffids in the dream they originated.
113	** [[http://www.bogleech.com/nightmares/cthulhu.png A tornado of flesh and gore formed from an orgy of cannibalism]] is dubbed [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Cthulhu]].
114	* JumpScare: One of Bogleech's dreams, which features him hunting for a giant baby bird, ends with one, much to his disappointment.
115	* {{Kaiju}}: Promestein's "Anglermouth" is a [[https://www.bogleech.com/nightmares/anglermouth.png decidedly non-traditional]] monster that supposedly appeared in an old Franchise/{{Godzilla}} movie.
116	* KillerRabbit: [[http://www.bogleech.com/nightmares/bebebe.jpg Bebebebe]] is a silly-looking stick figure creature with a cute name that pulls small children into voids.
117	* KissTheCookApron: One dream features a HumanoidAbomination with an apron that reads "kill the cook".
118	* KnightOfCerebus:
119	** Wheezy, a strange coughing lightbulb-shaped creature with the ability to make other characters suffocate, is an in-dream example. He appears in an in-dream ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoon, and unusually for ''Looney Tunes'', is not at all played for humor. In his introduction, he is seen grabbing Elmer Fudd's shotgun, turning it useless, and doing something terrible [[NothingIsScarier offscreen]] to Elmer, who seems to be [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness uncharacteristically frightened]] of the creature.
120	** Zane Khan's Bathroom Stalker may be the first nightmare being with [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil implicitly lustful intentions.]]
121	* LargeHam: The "Hideous Eye Guy", a doll-like creature with one single eye from one of Bogleech's own dreams.
122	--> '''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis YOUR FIRST! HIDEOUS! EEEEEEEYE!]]”
123	* LivingClothes: One dream involved a pair of neon green Creator/DrSeuss-esque pants that walked around and [[EvilLaugh laughed evilly]], which frightened everyone in the dream. [[note]]Interestingly enough, there actually ''was'' a Dr. Seuss story (called "What Was I Scared Of?", featured in ''Literature/TheSneetchesAndOtherStories'') that involved a pair of spooky green pants with no one inside them, though it's unknown whether the dreamer was aware of this or not.[[/note]]
124	* LongNeck: One dream has the dreamer's mother come into their room in the middle of the night, only for her neck to suddenly stretch out and make a looping pattern. The dream has a sort of sequel where a long neck with a goofy, drooling human head on the end comes out of the bath drain.
125	* MadScientist: [[https://www.bogleech.com/nightmares/vintagelab.png And his "nurse" assistant, who run a "greasy," wooden lab on an opera stage.]]
126	* MagicalLibrary: [[http://www.bogleech.com/nightmares/librarian.png An amiable, ankh-headed fellow]] oversees one.
127	* TheManInTheMoon: Richard.APK is a smartphone virus that takes the form of a grinning cartoon moon.
128	* MeatMoss:
129	** [[http://www.bogleech.com/nightmares/thegrate.png The Grate]] is either covered in or made of this.
130	** Jadegyroid's [[https://www.bogleech.com/nightmares/meatpocalypsetext.png "Meatpocalypse" dream]] saw the entire Earth becoming made of this, stalked by [[https://www.bogleech.com/nightmares/meatpocalypse.png centipede-like monsters made of flesh and bones]].
131	* MissingEpisode: [[invoked]] [[http://www.bogleech.com/nightmares/nightmare-omnyhomestarstory.jpg doomydoomydoomdoom's dream]] about a ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' art book is [[http://www.bogleech.com/nightmares/nightmare-omnyhomestar.jpg reminiscent]] of a "lost episode" {{Creepypasta}}.
132	* MixAndMatchCritters:
133	** Tithe, the Banker of Death from [=Omny87=]'s dream, which is described a looking like a cross between a bird and a bat.
134	** Chuckiemaster's dream features a monster with the body of a spider and a goat's skull for a head, [[CallASmeerpARabbit although it is only called a "goat."]]
135	** [[http://www.bogleech.com/nightmares/roach.jpg Roaches]], which add even more BodyHorror than usual to this trope.
136	** One dream had a Sloth Man described as looking "more like a human that evolved to be a sloth but [...] a human that never saw a sloth and only went off of description alone."
137	** A huge [[https://www.bogleech.com/nightmares/mine-godless.png part-squid, part-crab]] creature from one of Bog's own dreams is apparently a [[EldritchAbomination "godless beast"]].
138	* {{Mons}}:
139	** [[http://www.bogleech.com/nightmares/timdoggy.png Tim and Doggy]] are both ostensibly two "demo" monsters available in a monster fighting app game that causes monsters to manifest in the real world when they fight. Thankfully, there is an NPC (not pictured) known simply as Mr. Sweep, who exists to clean up any messes that may occur.
140	** Friendly Troll's [[http://www.bogleech.com/nightmares/polygonstory.png dream]] about the [[http://www.bogleech.com/nightmares/nightmarepolygonchild.png Polygon Children]] begins with these appearing in the real world before the dream shifts.
141	* MonsterClown:
142	** The stilt-clowns, which are eerie clown-like beings with long stilt-like legs. The fact that they appear at a cemetery doesn't help matters.
143	** The grease clown is a clown-like creature made from a greasy liquid that turns its victims into grease.
144	* NeverSmileAtACrocodile:
145	** This [[http://www.bogleech.com/halloween/nightmare-crocodile.png crocodile]] from [=PoonDragoon=]'s dream is described as looking like “one of those nasty old children's book illustrations of a crocodile”.
146	** A new species of alligator from Rhetco's dream, which has [[http://www.bogleech.com/nightmares/alligator.png a pair of arms sprouting from its back and no eyes]].
147	* NonHumanHead: [[https://www.bogleech.com/nightmares/francine.png Francine]] has the body of a wrestler, but a mylar balloon for a head, which is printed with the face of a cartoon woman in the style of TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation.
148	* NonIndicativeName: [[http://www.bogleech.com/nightmares/squeezy.png Peppermint Squeezy]] has no attributes or abilities related to either word in its name.
149	* NotEvilJustMisunderstood: Dustpan's Jesus, a wooden Jesus from a crucifix. It can clearly think for itself and appears to have concern for Dustpan's plight (paralyzed after tumbling over and hitting their head onto a pew) but its supposed "attempts" at healing involves being a total creep and blowing pan pipe flutes through its empty pupils.
150	* NothingIsScarier:
151	** We never find out who or what was providing those squelching footsteps in Cela's [[http://www.bogleech.com/halloween/nightmare-corkystory.png dream with Corky]].
152	** A [[http://www.bogleech.com/nightmares/nightmare-omnycowstory.jpg dream with a being known simply as “The Cow”]] cuts off as soon as the titular cow turns around, so we never find out what its face looks like.
153	** The Blinky Blunk is never seen onscreen [[http://www.bogleech.com/nightmares/blinkyblunkstory.png in the dream it appears in]]. Artist Biomechanicalmush decides to illustrate it [[http://www.bogleech.com/nightmares/blinkyblunk.png as a shadowy grinning giraffe-like creature with red shoes and a hand on the end of its long tail]].
154	** The things upstairs in [[http://www.bogleech.com/nightmares/thingsupstairsstory.png MadHighlander's dream]] are only seen as [[http://www.bogleech.com/nightmares/thingsupstairs.png ominous shadows]] in the dreamer's room.
155	** [[http://www.bogleech.com/nightmares/eddystory.png Eddy threatens to "hang up"]] the narrator. They didn't know what he meant by that, only that it couldn't be good.
156	* ObliviouslyEvil: The Matriarch, an enormous plant-like alien that infects humans with a plant-based virus, but sees no malice whatsoever in her actions, and only does it because she wants to reproduce. She seemed genuinely hurt when she was told that humanity didn't want to be converted into her "children".
157	* OurAngelsAreDifferent: [[GaiasLament "Nature gone wrong"]] would fit right in with [[AngelicAbomination the angels in the Book of Ezekial]].
158	** [[https://www.bogleech.com/nightmares/angelsidol.png The Angel's Idol]] looks like a vaguely human-shaped lump of driftwood with tentacles like the arms of a [[http://www.ecosystem-guides.com/images/MangalongaFeatherstar.jpg feather star]] in place of wings. It washes out the colors around it and [[LightIsNotGood drains dark colors from people it catches, which apparently kills them]].
159	* OurDragonsAreDifferent: This “[[http://www.bogleech.com/halloween/nightmare-plant.png dragon]]” from Seizurecube's dream is a giant plant monster with a brain made of rotting sheep.
160	* OurGoblinsAreDifferent: Aceotaku's [[https://www.bogleech.com/nightmares/goblinapocalypse.png goblins]] are physically weak, but crafty, little green humanoids who [[ApocalypseHow take over the world]] and have a larger, more powerful form called Hobgoblins.
161	* OurGryphonsAreDifferent: [=Omny87=]'s dream features “hippocrites”, which resemble hippogriffs with a snake's head on the end of their tails, and would always agree with the opposite of what the other head says.
162	* OurGiantsAreBigger: All that its dreamer [=Glitchrr36=] knows about the thing from their dream is that it's the tallest, it's humanoid, and it would eat them if it noticed them.
163	* OurMonstersAreWeird: Basically everything, since [[RealDreamsAreWeirder they are from dreams]].
164	* OurVampiresAreDifferent:
165	** [[http://www.bogleech.com/halloween/nightmare-vampire.png This]] “vampire” from Jacob Stevenson's dream is a great big [[MindScrew mishmash of various parts]] that looks ''nothing'' like the vampires we're familiar with.
166	** Another dream has the Chihuahuacabra, which resembles a demonic chihuahua dog in a stereotypical vampire cape.
167	* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: One dream involves a boy becoming a [[http://www.bogleech.com/halloween/nightmare-werewolf.png werewolf]] that resembles a dog skull with a writhing mass of tentacles.
168	* OutsideContextProblem: The [[https://www.bogleech.com/nightmares/mine-plantmen.png plant men]] in an in-dream comic strip that Bogleech was reading were "not created by the same god as everything else."
169	* {{Planimal}}: [=TheMostRealWalrus=]'s [[http://www.bogleech.com/nightmares/wormcactus.jpg Worm Cactus.]]
170	* PhysicalGod: [[http://www.bogleech.com/nightmares/skincoats-king.png The King]] [[http://www.bogleech.com/nightmares/skincoats-kingstory.png Of All Reality]] and [[http://www.bogleech.com/nightmares/skincoats-storyteller.png The]] [[http://www.bogleech.com/nightmares/skincoats-storytellerstory.png Storyteller]].
171	* PokeThePoodle: The Tongue Goblin does nothing but talk to you and show you [[http://www.bogleech.com/halloween/nightmare-goblin.png its two grotesque tongues]]...but it's enough to frighten anyone.
172	** That Jerk Under the Sink waits until the dreamer goes to sleep before turning all his faucets to full blast and wasting his water.
173	* PokemonSpeak: Bobobobasp fish are three-eyed shark-like fish named for the sounds they make.
174	* RedEyesTakeWarning: Domino is a glowing red eye surrounded by floating dominoes that "is extremely powerful and [hates the narrator] and wants [them] to die."
175	* SentientVehicle: [[http://www.bogleech.com/halloween/nightmare-truckstory.png This dream]] features a [[http://www.bogleech.com/halloween/nightmare-milktruck.png milk truck with an old man's face]] that shouts “YOU'RE REPEATING THE PUZZLE! YOU'VE BEEN REPEATING THE PUZZLE!” [[MadnessMantra over and over]].
176	* ShoutOut: Some beings are (subconsciously, of course) inspired by fictional characters.
177	** The [[http://www.bogleech.com/nightmares/wishgranter.png "wish granters"]] from Rose Diltz's dream resemble [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Thwomps]] edged with human teeth.
178	** [[http://www.bogleech.com/nightmares/mint.jpg The Mint Candy]] has a face resembling [[WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse the Centipeetle's]].
179	** Querm Lover's dream about Guffrey's, a Texan big-box store similar to Wal-Mart, has many, including the monster that may or may not be Guffrey himself screaming "[[Film/ForrestGump DEATH IS LIKE A BOX OF CHOCOLATES!]]"
180	** The [[http://www.bogleech.com/nightmares/windowlurker.png Window Lurker]] is compared to characters from ''Film/{{Beetlejuice}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas''.
181	** The [[http://www.bogleech.com/nightmares/conehead.png Little Pink Coneheads]] are described by their dreamer as looking like a cross between [[Anime/DragonBallZ Majin Buu]] and [[Memes/SpongeBobSquarePants EVIL PATRIXXX]].
182	** WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls fought the [[http://www.bogleech.com/nightmares/boneantsstory.png Bone Ants]] in [=DrEMBForRealsies=]' dream.
183	** Bogleech once dreamed about an anime villain resembling The Manga/LaughingSalesman as a HollywoodCyborg.
184	* SinisterMinister: [[http://www.bogleech.com/nightmares/bishopstory.png The Bishop]] certainly [[http://www.bogleech.com/nightmares/nightmareorganbishop.png resembles]] one, and Phosphenes immediately knows that it is "something bad."
185	* SkewedPriorities: In [=MadHighlander=]'s dream, they decide that getting the TV remote is more important than avoiding the malicious beings that have invaded their room upstairs.
186	* SpikeShooter: Peek, the offspring of a much larger Godzilla-like monster, is capable of this.
187	* StringyHairedGhostGirl: One of Bogleech's own nightmares features one that has a ''cactus growing from the middle of her face''.
188	* SpellMyNameWithAThe: [[http://www.bogleech.com/nightmares/thecasey.png THE CASEY]] (yes, in all caps).
189	* SugaryMalice: The figure known as "Grandma" from one of Somnambulist's dreams plays off like a kindly old grandmother, but gleefully stokes the shame and regrets of her victims in order to feed off of these emotions.
190	* SurrealHorror: Practically all of them are made of this. They are real nightmares, after all.
191	* TentacledTerror:
192	** One dream had a point-and-click game involving a guessing minigame where you have to guess which sock goes on which foot of an octopus creature.
193	** [[TheGrimReaper The Underwater Reaper]] is "an octopus that stole a parka from a drowning victim and wore it like a grim reaper cloak with his tentacles sticking out of the bottom, but he would appear to people underwater whenever they were about to drown, and thus became feared by anyone who went to scuba dive."
194	* TickleTorture: [[http://www.bogleech.com/halloween/nightmare-bramstory.png Done by]] a [[http://www.bogleech.com/halloween/nightmare-bram.png nightmarish version]] of Bram from ''Series/SharonLoisAndBramsElephantShow''.
195	* ToiletHumour: One dream involves a woman not wanting to pee anymore, so she has a scientist turn her urinary system into an independent organism that resembles an antelope's skull with the kidneys attached to its horns and the bladder in the nasal opening. The creature goes on a rampage, peeing acid on British soldiers before escaping.
196	--> '''Woman:''' Oh dear. This is as bad as [[NoodleIncident the time I wanted to do away with pooping]].
197	* TotallyRadical: One monster is nothing more than a two-dimensional floating head that spouts “xtreme” phrases like “Send it, bro!”
198	* ThreateningShark: The [[http://www.bogleech.com/halloween/nightmare-bobobobasp.png Bobobobasp fish]] are shark-like creatures which are named for the strange sounds they make, and have a triangular head with three eyes.
199	* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: No one seems particularly disturbed by Worm Man in the dream Squid had about him. Instead, they tell people not to draw too much attention to his "skin condition" (implied to be the [[BodyHorror multitude of earthworms crawling in and out of his body]]), which he's apparently rather sensitive about.
200	* TheVirus: The Mint Candy can turn humans into more of its kind in their sleep.
201	** If you destroy [[https://www.bogleech.com/nightmares/meatdancer.png the Meat Dancer]], you become the new one.
202	* TheVoiceless: The Librarian never speaks, but is quite friendly.
203	* VocalDissonance:
204	** Muriel is a grotesque cyclopic red-skinned humanoid sprouting out of a wall whose voice is described as a [[ValleyGirl stereotypical soprano Beverly Hills accent]].
205	** Similarly, the new species of alligator from Rhetco's dream frustratedly groans in a woman's voice.
206	* WeakenedByTheLight: Muriel can be banished with the flash of a camera.
207	* WilyWalrus: One of Bogleech's own dreams features a humanoid walrus with a face that looks like a spandex mask, complete with ''painted on eyes'', that moves in a fast motion like sped-up video footage despite barely moving his legs.
208	* WhenTreesAttack: One being is a bizarre palm tree-like creature with a single human foot, five human-like fingers on each side of its face, and a LampreyMouth with eyes surrounding it.
209	* WordSaladHumor: The innocuous creature named [[NonIndicativeName Peppermint Squeezy]].
210	* TheWormThatWalks: [[http://www.bogleech.com/nightmares/nightmare-siadwormboy.png Worm Boy]] who resembles a headless humanoid made out of worms, and [[http://www.bogleech.com/nightmares/barnacleboy.png Barnacle Boy]] (no relation to the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' character), who is made of barnacles and uses a frozen fish as a weapon.
211	* YouDirtyRat: Cthulhuigi's dream features many multiplying deformed rat-like dogs, and two huge humanoid rat men. The largest one is described as looking like a Chuck E. Cheese animatronic, and threatens the dreamer by cutting a deep gash in his own torso with a knife.
212	--> '''Bogleech:''' If he's willing to carve himself open just for dramatic effect, what's he gonna do to ''[[FridgeHorror you]]''?

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