my recurring nightmare was falling forever then i would wake up and hit the floor. turns out with my mom tucking me in so tight i would roll of my bed and get caught in the blanket then wake up to a face full of floor
Reviews for "My Childhood Nightmare"
Nightmares from my childhood haunt me still.
I stopped being able to have dreams. all i do is close my eyes, and somehow wake up the next day, knowing time passed but unable to trace back what happened in that time. that nagging feeling that you're forgetting something important even though every thought of it fas faded into oblivion, never to be traced back. and everytime i do remember something, it's always distorted or warped and skipping over things, like i'm on acid to LSD without any of the feeling. and the worst part, sometimes i can't tell i'm sleeping and loose the ability to tell dream and reality. it's only when i shock myself back to awake that i realized that i was in a dream and then i can't even remember that i was dreaming about. and i fear overtime this happens because i'm scared i'll either do something stupid thinking it's a dream and get myself killed or one day shock myself so badly have a heart attack.
and that's the worst feeling for me.
It's rare to see a claymation on Newgrounds. Although the animation consits of a few scenes with occasional animation, the photos are sharp and overral pretty to look at.
Now that w as a pretty eerie dreamy! More so the parts with all the people looking than the part about getting dragged into the darkness. It's the smallest and most familiar things, I suppose. Wonder how much of this is really exactly as it was in the dream too: the pictures on the walls? Wallpapers on the walls? The door handle slightly twitching as you crawl out of the room to fetch the ball? Overall really nicely done! Smooth claymation/stopmotion, and more so you really build up the mood.
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djavh responds:
Wow, I was going trough old comments, and found that I somehow missed to reply to this one. Better late than never I guess :). The dream took place in my grandparent's house around year 1992 and I was trying to recreate the scenery as closely as possible. I had and old wedding video on vhs transfered to dvd, just because there were some scenes filmed in this room and I wanted to see what the wallpapers looked like at that time (I don't have a vhs player now). There are the same pictures on the walls of my young father, aunt and some old pople in that room to this day. The cupboard still stands at the same spot to this day too. I took a photo of it when I was visiting my grandparents and made the exact little cardboard copy for a film. The carpet is no longer hanged on the wall, but it was at the time and I made it as close to the real one as possible. The twitching door handle was actually an accident. I kept touching it accidentally while animating the kid. I was going to photoshop it out, but my girlfriend suggested to keep it in, because she thought it added to the creepiness of the video. So I kept it as is. I really love your comments. They are always very insightful and it's clear that you pay attention while watching the videos. If you really liked this one, I would be very curious to know what you thought about my newest big (~23 minutes long) claymation video "Baby boy". It was uploaded here on October 2019, so check it out if you're interested. Thank you and have a nice day :)