# 9/11 Nightmares **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 24, 2003, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-nightmares/197335 "2003-08-24T16:04:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-nightmares/197335/1 "2003-08-24T16:04:18Z")
Anyone else have nightmares after 9/11? I remember a vivid dream of an airliner flying VERY low over my car and crashing into some nearby woods. Through that crazy ‘dream logic’ I somehow just knew that the passengers had taken it over from terrorists and crashed it. It really spooked me…and I rarely have nightmares of any kind… ---
**Author:** ![The\_Man\_With\_The\_Golden\_Gun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dc4da7/32.png) [@The\_Man\_With\_The\_Golden\_Gun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Man_With_The_Golden_Gun)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-nightmares/197335/2 "2003-08-24T17:00:30Z")
I had nightmares about it for the first few months after it happened, but they went away. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-nightmares/197335/3 "2003-08-24T20:38:53Z")
Not so much nightmares about terrorism and such as just plain not sleeping well for a couple months and feeling really stressed out. ---
**Author:** ![vix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a88e4f/32.png) [@vix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vix)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-nightmares/197335/4 "2003-08-24T22:17:16Z")
I had nightmares for a while, yeah. I can’t remember most of them, but I do remember one where a big truck was flying through the air and crashed into a building. ---
**Author:** ![sleepytimebaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9e8a1a/32.png) [@sleepytimebaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sleepytimebaby)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-nightmares/197335/5 "2003-08-24T22:23:32Z")
I had nightmares and was pretty stressed. Then I got to the point where I could not sleep and was freaking out over every little thing. That is when I went to get help ---
**Author:** ![Jaade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dfb087/32.png) [@Jaade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaade)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-nightmares/197335/6 "2003-08-24T23:16:58Z")
I didn’t have nightmares, but I still cringe everytime I hear planes flying low. ~frowns~ ~J ---
**Author:** ![minlokwat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minlokwat/32/2844_2.png) [@minlokwat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minlokwat)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-nightmares/197335/7 "2003-08-24T23:18:17Z")
I had one based on an urban legend that somebody in one of the towers “surfed” his way to the bottom as the building was collapsing. I was in one of the Twin Towers, and knew that the planes had struck. As the building started to fall in on itself, I simply rode the piece of floor I was standing on all the way to the bottom and then…that was it. Don’t know what it means and have only had this dream once. O.K., that’s all I have. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2003, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-nightmares/197335/8 "2003-08-25T00:05:58Z")
I had a recurring dream for a few weeks that because of my computer skills, I had been drafted to create a database of recovered limbs and body parts, in the hopes of matching them up to dead people. That was pretty weird. But at least we were using MySQL. ---
**Author:** ![Daoloth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/82dd89/32.png) [@Daoloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daoloth)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2003, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-nightmares/197335/9 "2003-08-25T00:13:02Z")
I a dream in which terrorism is involved every month or so. Never had them prior to 9/11. My most recent one was this past summer sometime when I dreamt that skyscrapers were being blown up in Tokyo. ---
**Author:** ![if6was9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2003, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-nightmares/197335/10 "2003-08-25T00:53:10Z")
I’m not insensitive, really. But I didn’t have nightmares. I was stressed about the world situation, but I slept (as always) like a baby. I DO get stressed when a plane flies low, but that’s because about 5 years ago a small plane crashed right in the center of my little town. ---
**Author:** ![ErinPuff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dbc845/32.png) [@ErinPuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ErinPuff)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2003, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-nightmares/197335/11 "2003-08-25T01:25:01Z")
I had a few nightmares about plane crashes after 9/11. I still get a bit nervous about plane noises outside, even though I know I’m being ridiculous. ---
**Author:** ![AbbySthrnAccent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@AbbySthrnAccent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AbbySthrnAccent)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2003, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-nightmares/197335/12 "2003-08-25T02:28:10Z")
I had some 9/11 related nightmares, but they were more about things happening at the airport than planes crashing into buildings. HubbySthrnAccent works at an airport. ---
**Author:** ![Second\_Star\_to\_the\_Right](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3bc359/32.png) [@Second\_Star\_to\_the\_Right](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Second_Star_to_the_Right)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2003, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-nightmares/197335/13 "2003-08-25T05:27:45Z")
I had one that I recall, shortly after 9-11. I was standing in the streets of NYC and buildings were on fire, things were blowing up left and right, people were panicking, etc. One of the more vivid dreams I’d had in awhile. ---
**Author:** ![Publius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c57346/32.png) [@Publius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Publius)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2003, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-nightmares/197335/14 "2003-08-25T05:35:38Z")
I still often have nightmares in which I am either onboard one of the hijacked aircraft or in one of the buildings when they are hit. In both cases I am aware of what is about to happen, and try to stop it, but am unable to do so.