The article lists and describes the seven most grotesque nightmares told by people in therapy. The nightmares include:
1. A man hearing footsteps and seeing a monster in his room, with the door mysteriously open when he wakes up.
2. A person walking through a frozen ocean filled with human bodies, pursued by a beast with multiple eyes.
3. A teenager at a party surrounded by faceless people who devour him with snail-like creatures.
4. A young boy's bedroom being consumed by a wall, which then swallows him whole.
5. A teenage girl seeing a skeleton in her classroom, which gets closer and closer, eventually on top of her.
6. A person experiencing a night terror with a sense of impending doom, which they recreate through photography.
7. The nightmares of artist Mr. Bacsinszky, who painted his passive, horrible dreams, often depicting himself in infernal places.
These nightmares are shared to explore the darker aspects of the human subconscious and showcase the work of a unique artist who turned his nightmares into art.
Here are the key facts from the text:
1. The text describes seven nightmares and their corresponding rankings.
2. The nightmares were related by people who are in therapy for suffering from nightmares.
3. The seventh-ranked nightmare was about a person who dreamed that someone was going up the stairs of their house and eventually entered their room.
4. The person in the dream tried to turn their head to see the intruder, but it was a monster that smiled at them in a grotesque way.
5. The person woke up to find their bedroom door open, despite claiming to always close it before sleep.
6. The sixth-ranked nightmare was about a person walking through a frozen ocean filled with human bodies.
7. The person in the dream heard a deep, animalistic moan and saw a beast with multiple eyes staring at them.
8. The beast spoke to the person in a deep voice, saying "It's time to join the others."
9. The person woke up from the dream.
10. The fifth-ranked nightmare was about a teenager who dreamed they were at a party with faceless people.
11. The faceless people grabbed the teenager and began to devour them with snail-like creatures.
12. The teenager's dream ended with them turning into a bloody mass of flesh being eaten by the faceless people.
13. The fourth-ranked nightmare was about a little boy who dreamed that his bedroom wall had something strange on it.
14. The boy saw a choir on the wall and screamed in terror, but his voice came out as a soft moan.
15. The wall began to swallow the entire room, and the boy was consumed by a black abyss full of tortured souls.
16. The third-ranked nightmare was about a teenage girl who dreamed that a skeleton was peeking into her classroom.
17. The skeleton spoke to the girl, saying "You're attracting me to you" and "Wake up and let me go."
18. The girl woke up from the dream and started crying.
19. The second-ranked nightmare was about a photographer named Nicolas Bruno who suffers from sleep paralysis.
20. Bruno recreated his sleep paralysis experiences through his photographs.
21. The first-ranked nightmare was about a man named Mr. Bacsinszky who suffered from nightmares throughout his life.
22. Bacsinszky painted his nightmares as a form of self-imposed therapy.
23. He was found dead in his apartment in 2005 with 17 stab wounds.
24. The janitor's son had murdered him after he refused to lend him money.