I've had my share of nightmares or strange dreams. There's not enough room here for them all, so I'll just post two of the more interesting ones.
When I was a child:
My father used to own a pick up truck. I was riding in it with he and my brother. I sat in the middle seat. We were driving on a major thoroughfare in Hialeah (where I lived as a child). A lot of cars on the road, all the drivers staring ahead of themselves, like robots. Their faces were like stone, looking straight ahead. I looked at my father and brother and they were the same. Upon looking forward, I had seen a huge and bright spherical object off in the distance, that made me think that the sun had crashed down on the earth. I had to get out of there. I crawled over my bro and jumped out of the window of the moving truck. I landed on the green turf on the side of the road and sat up with my arms on my knees, watching everyone drive mindlessly into the sun.
(it doesn't scare me like it used to, now its just feels like an unresolved mystery.)
One from a few yrs ago in adulthood:
It was a moonlit night as I laid on the grass looking up at the stars. I felt as though something were attempting to serenade me to sleep for its own purposes. In the distance there was a group of vultures. One had strayed from its pack and came towards me. He spoke to me in the voice of the lovable villain from the Dark Crystal, saying things like "Go to sleep". I opened my eyes and started arguing with him. I knew that he was trying to get me to go to sleep so he could eat me, and I told him so. He insisted that wasn't his game but I knew he was lying to me. Finally I got tired of the sherade and left. Later on, I was in the apartment with my husband. The doorbell rang. It was the vulture again. My husband got the door and invited the vulture in. He was telling us about how he was my husband's spirit father. I got in his face and told him if he was going to tell more lies then he'd better get out.
(Afterthoughts made me consider he might have been telling a half truth in the latter part of the dream. My husband has an affinity for scavenger birds such as eagles, and I had considered that perhaps that was being expressed in the dream, through the visage of the vulture.)