All nightmares synonyms

noun nightmares

• dreams — a succession of images, thoughts, or emotions passing through the mind during sleep.
• hallucinations — Plural form of hallucination.
• incubi — an imaginary demon or evil spirit supposed to descend upon sleeping persons, especially one fabled to have sexual intercourse with women during their sleep. Compare succubus (def 1).
• fantasies — Plural form of fantasy.
• horrors — an overwhelming and painful feeling caused by something frightfully shocking, terrifying, or revolting; a shuddering fear: to shrink back from a mutilated corpse in horror.
• fancies — imagination or fantasy, especially as exercised in a capricious manner.
• illusions — Plural form of illusion.
• succubi — a demon in female form, said to have sexual intercourse with men in their sleep. Compare incubus (def 1).