Why the fuck are so many of my dreams, nightmares?

[Severen]

My latest dream was me being attacked by hornets until I grabbed the nest and tossed it into a lake. I could feel every agonizing sting.

 

[Empty Smile]

I have had quite a few weird dreams this year, ranging from dying to falling, to running slow motion and not getting anywhere.

The oddest one I've had several times this year, I was near a mountain and there was a door of some sort on the side if it. I kept hearing someone yelling help, I open the door and it's like paradise on the other side with glistening lakes, green grass and trees. But I keep hearing someone yelling help, and I never find anyone.

 

[therhydler]

I only have peaceful dreams, the nightmare is when I wake up. Recently I have been constantly dreaming of miraculously finding N or having it delivered and preparing to take it. Though in my last dream I took it but wasn't dying and that was horrible

 

[MsM3talGamer]

My nightmares begin once I wake up. My dreams are boring.

 

[Bread]

I only have peaceful dreams, the nightmare is when I wake up. Recently I have been constantly dreaming of miraculously finding N or having it delivered and preparing to take it.

I just had a dream that was very similar! There was a package on my front porch and I thought it might be n. When I opened it up and saw the two bottles I felt immense relief. I cradled the bottles in my arms and I was so thankful. Then I woke up and realized the dream wasn't real and I'm still stuck in this hellscape. I also remembered that for now n is far out of my reach. ):

I guess that was a nice dream, I usually have low-key nightmares. I've had this repeating theme in my dreams for more than a year that the people I care about are ignoring me or don't remember me. I usually follow them around for some time, trying to talk to them, but they're always much more happy to be talking to someone else. Those dreams suck but I guess they're kind of true to reality. I can't even escape from it in my sleep.

 

[Jen Erik]

Repressed trauma can manifest in nightmares like this. Some psych meds can also cause nightmares.

 

[azucaramargo]

My latest dream was me being attacked by hornets until I grabbed the nest and tossed it into a lake. I could feel every agonizing sting.

I often have vivid and unpleasant dreams when I stop taking my antidepressants for a few days. Wonder if this is your situation. Either way, it doesn't make the nightmares less disturbing.

 

[azucaramargo]

I just had a dream that was very similar! There was a package on my front porch and I thought it might be n. When I opened it up and saw the two bottles I felt immense relief. I cradled the bottles in my arms and I was so thankful. Then I woke up and realized the dream wasn't real and I'm still stuck in this hellscape. I also remembered that for now n is far out of my reach. ):

I guess that was a nice dream, I usually have low-key nightmares. I've had this repeating theme in my dreams for more than a year that the people I care about are ignoring me or don't remember me. I usually follow them around for some time, trying to talk to them, but they're always much more happy to be talking to someone else. Those dreams suck but I guess they're kind of true to reality. I can't even escape from it in my sleep.

You have impressive recall of your dreams, Bread! Do you keep a journal? Is that how you're able to remember the themes so well? Just curious.

 

[Xaphous]

Simply put your dark thoughts, experience of reality are being played out by the subconscious in dream time in the form of images. I have had countless terrible ones myself but ones linked with sleep paralysis are the worst, luckily I don't get them often now though.

 

[Empty Smile]

You have impressive recall of your dreams, Bread! Do you keep a journal? Is that how you're able to remember the themes so well? Just curious.

I know you addressed this to Bread, but I can relate to recalling dreams. I can remember one from when I was like 6 or 7, and quite a few since then. Oddly enough I can remember the words that were spoken in some of them.

 

[azucaramargo]

I know you addressed this to Bread, but I can relate to recalling dreams. I can remember one from when I was like 6 or 7, and quite a few since then. Oddly enough I can remember the words that were spoken in some of them.

WOW! Do you have a pretty good memory of events that occur in waking life, too? Also, was the dream you had at age 6-7 a bad one?

 

[Empty Smile]

I don't know if I'd call that dream bad or not. It was kind of stupid and why I remember it 40 years later is beyond me...

I had a gun and was shooting a pillow, but every time I shot the pillow, it would jump up and hit me in the face.

See? Stupid!!!


As for events that occur in waking life... Nope.

 

[Bread]

You have impressive recall of your dreams, Bread! Do you keep a journal? Is that how you're able to remember the themes so well? Just curious.

I can usually only recall dreams well if I wake up while I'm still having them. Based on that, there's probably a huge amount of them that I have no memory of. Also I do write some of them down. About a year ago I was curious as to how often I have that repeating theme in my dreams so I started keeping a record of them. It seems I have at least a few each month but there's probably a lot more that I can't remember.