Nightmare
A nightmare was a frightening or unpleasant dream. Nightmares could be caused by traumatic events, (TV: Heaven Sent [+]Loading...["Heaven Sent (TV story)"]) or be induced by certain individuals. (TV: The Nightmare Man [+]Loading...["The Nightmare Man (TV story)"])
In his childhood, the First Doctor bore witness to an old woman dying. Her corpse was wrapped in white robes with the heat attracting flies. The ghoulish sight gave the Doctor nightmares for years, even being used to haunt him several incarnations later. (TV: Heaven Sent [+]Loading...["Heaven Sent (TV story)"]) Their later impression of the shapeshifting Yend on Wengrol "was like all the nightmares ever experienced." (PROSE: The Sons of the Crab [+]Loading...["The Sons of the Crab (short story)"])
Tegan Jovanka had recurring nightmares after her mother took her to a corroboree as a child. (AUDIO: Psychodrome [+]Loading...["Psychodrome (audio story)"])
Liz Shaw had nightmares about a fallen door at the graveyard where her grandmother was buried. (HOMEVID: The Devil of Winterborne [+]Loading...["The Devil of Winterborne (home video)"])
The Nightmare Man, a Vishklar from the Seretti dimension, terrorised humans in their nightmares before he was defeated by Sarah Jane Smith who trapped him in a nightmare of his own. In the Nightmare Man's dream world, Clyde Langer saw Sarah Jane Smith as an elderly woman using a mobility scooter. (TV: The Nightmare Man [+]Loading...["The Nightmare Man (TV story)"])
In the last days of the Last Great Time War, when Rassilon briefly moved Gallifrey to Earth's coordinates on Christmas 2010, every human experienced nightmares of the Saxon Master's return, but all of them, save Wilfred Mott, forgot the next morning. (TV: The End of Time [+]Loading...["The End of Time (TV story)"])
Craig Owens claims that he has nightmares about the Eleventh Doctor's "noticing face". (TV: Closing Time [+]Loading...["Closing Time (TV story)"]) This is probably attributed to being a side effect from The Doctor's "psychic headbutt" used to transfer information about him to Craig's mind. (TV: The Lodger [+]Loading...["The Lodger (TV story)"])
After claiming Davros' chair, the Twelfth Doctor used it to enter Dalek control, taunting the Daleks that the sight was a nightmare that they'd all had. (TV: The Witch's Familiar [+]Loading...["The Witch's Familiar (TV story)"])
During the second phase of the 2180s Dalek invasion of Earth, Susan Campbell had nightmares of her grandfather being exterminated by the Daleks. (AUDIO: Lucie Miller [+]Loading...["Lucie Miller (audio story)"])
After the Eternal Rakaya had been trapped, her lover Zellin fed her a diet of human nightmares to keep her sane. After she'd been freed, the two went to Earth to feed on the planet's nightmares only for the Thirteenth Doctor to lock them both in Rakaya's former prison, leaving them to be tormented by the nightmares they'd once fed on. (TV: Can You Hear Me? [+]Loading...["Can You Hear Me? (TV story)"])
Ryan Sinclair's worst nightmare was that he would travel with the Doctor for too long, and by the time he returned, the Earth would be destroyed and everybody living on it would have become Dregs. (TV: Can You Hear Me? [+]Loading...["Can You Hear Me? (TV story)"])
Pete Lambert likened the time when the Ninth Doctor posed as an independent consultant at the council where he worked after an industrial accident to a nightmare. (PROSE: Have You Seen This Man? [+]Loading...["Have You Seen This Man? (short story)"])
"Vicky" once told Chris Cwej that he looked upset, asking if he'd had a bad night of sleep. Cwej responded that "you could say that. A nightmare. Fifty years. A nightmare, or something inbetween. Something down the middle.". (WC: Cwej: Down the Middle Coda [+]Loading...["Cwej: Down the Middle Coda (webcast)"])
