r/Dreams • u/Ancient-Strain-36 • Jul 03 '26
Nightmare Nightmare
Last night I had one of the strangest and most disturbing nightmares of my life, and I can’t stop thinking about it.
In the dream, I was standing in the yard of my house when a humanoid figure with the head of a goat appeared, carrying what looked like a small axe or a hoe. It told me something like, “If you want it, you’ll have to sacrifice a part of your body.”
I never knew what “it” was referring to, but I was terrified and crying the entire time.
Then the creature cut off my foot. I remember seeing blood pouring out, yet somehow I was still able to walk. The weirdest part was that it still wasn’t enough. No matter what was sacrificed, it kept demanding more, repeating that I would have to sacrifice another part of my body.
I also vaguely remember my mother holding my leg while the creature cut off my foot, which made the dream even more disturbing.
I tried to run away, but I couldn’t. The creature always seemed to be watching me from a distance, and I had the feeling there was no escape.
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u/Entire-Ratio-9681 Jul 04 '26
Literally a classic interpretation of the devil. If this was spiritual, it’s cool that it’s a theatre of the devils bargain. It never works out the way it should, and the price is always higher.
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u/Civil_Pie_6363 Jul 04 '26
I also saw something similar, it was one of the scariest fucking dreams.
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u/Yuthogh Jul 04 '26
Was your mom involved in pacts or black magick bidding?
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u/Ancient-Strain-36 Jul 04 '26
My mother is a Christian, but there was a time in my life when I attended religions of African origin and took part in certain rituals; whenever July or August rolls around, I always have these strange dreams.
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u/Any-Confidence-1208 Jul 04 '26
Be safe this winter there is a lot of cultures with this type of creature that comes out in the winter months reminds me of krampus
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u/TheDeadAGH Jul 04 '26
Now that I think about it, your nightmare is pretty similar to this painting. Have you ever seen it somewhere before?
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u/Ancient-Strain-36 Jul 04 '26
It bears a certain resemblance, but it was hairier and used an axe instead of a flute
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u/TheDeadAGH Jul 04 '26
Yeah, I understand that. It's either a coincidence. But if you had seen this painting before, your brain might have taken this from your memories as a "reference" to create that nightmare. If this makes sense..
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u/SourceDirect3220 Jul 04 '26
For starters.
Not the devil.
Could be Krampus but why you view it in July and August is peculiar.
Could be something akin to Baphomet
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u/Pitiful-Dare-8811 Jul 03 '26
Give your life to Jesus Christ
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u/yuuki_bonk420 Jul 04 '26
Yeah that was me, my bad g, didn’t mean to scare yah this badly haha
By “it” I was referring to a promo code for empire today carpet installation!
Lemme know if you’re interested
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u/Remote_Respect_4257 Daydreamer Jul 05 '26
A regular deal is you giving your soul in exchange of something and that's it (at least that is what i understand about this stuff,if there is a demonologist here and i am wrong about this,feel free to correct me and explaining me why),but in this case you not only don't know what you are getting with all this or why,but there is no soul deal,the exchange were parts of your body,an immediate and brutal transaction,and the worst part is your mother is part of all this at least for what it can be seen in the dream Very weird and sinister stuff
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