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Everyone has dreams. Isn't it interesting that we can, many times, remember them as soon as we wake up. But, an hour later they have been jettisoned from our brain. Like a computer getting rid of unnecessary ram. There are some dreams, perhaps nightmares, that simply stick with us. 

I'm going to start with bizarre ones and then get to scarier ones. Most of these I've been having for years. Some since I was very young.

Flying. Indeed I think this is a common one. By flying I mean no helicopter, no airplane. It's always the same, with concentration, I can levitate then fly slowly about 4-10 feet above the ground. I want to fly higher, but it's the best I can do. And, that's okay. It's just cool. This is fairly frequent.

Walking around a grassy field near a creek with weeping willow trees. This is a good reoccurring dream. The sun is out, it's morning and this place is definitely a place I knew as a kid. It was beyond a baseball field that was directly across from my family's house. Just off of Pine Street in Grove City, Pennsylvania. A dream-like place itself that is always welcome as I sleep.

Now, keep in mind, I grew up watching a endless stream of horror and science fiction films. This lead to some darker and strange reoccurring reveries in my sleep. There's one I've had for years. A family member is suddenly around. Someone who had passed away years ago and I knew this in my dream. I mention this to her and others there in the dream world. They all say that was a mistake. She's just been away. I'm happy to see her but can't get over the fact that I knew she passed away.

Now things take a more unsettling tone. Beginning when I was only about four or five years old, I remember thinking that I had woken up in the middle of the night. There at the foot of my bed stood a tall, cloaked and dark hooded figure. Not moving. Just standing there. Me, paralyzed with fear. This reoccurred a few times, but thankfully, I haven't had this vision in years and years now. But, I never forgot it.

Lastly, this is a series of dreams that I have had from childhood to the present day. While these dreams are never quite the same, the physics and happenings are all the same. I'm in a house and it has a mind of its own. It's dark and I try to turn lights on, but the lights either turn themselves back off, or I can't get any lights to turn on. Windows open or close on their own.

Doors slam shut in the darkness. I think I know where these fearful dreams began. They were inspired by two things I had watched as a young kid on TV.

One of these things was THE TINGLER, the movie starring Vincent Price. The scene where the mute woman is having hallucinations and can't scream. The windows and lights no longer under human control. The other viewing involved an episode of the TV show WILD WILD WEST with Robert Conrad. It's the episode called "The Night of the Man-Eating House." Again, the house is seemingly alive. Those two shows apparently have embedded life-long nightmares in my conscience. Whew.

I bet you have some on-going dreams that keep coming back. I think I'm going to make sure my light switches work right now.

Ron Adams
Ligonier, PA
April 2026