For me it does...for most of my life, I had dreams of people chasing me trying to do bad things to me, and then I got dx with BP and with the meds my dreams changed and I stopped having as many nightmares, or the nightmares have changed.

Last night I babysat two kids for the first time--it was my first time babysitting as well. When I went to bed, I woke up at 2 because I was so excited and was thinking of what I could do with them on Saturday...and then I fell back to sleep and all my fears I had of babysitting were parallel to the nightmare I had: First I dreamt that bad people were trying to break into the house and I was hiding the kids, then I dreamt that I was delusional so I tried to call the parents to tell them I needed to go to the hospital who didn't pick up and then my mom who told me I was making it up. Then I dreamt I was driving the kids to town and was pulled over by the cops because they weren't buckled in and had no carseats, and then I dreamt I was on a motorcycle and was pulled over because the kids had flown off and died and I started screaming because the coroner was showing me all the pictures they took of the dead kids and how I was a horrible babysitter.

It was such a scary dream because that was everything I was afraid of/thinking of when i was babysitting them: I was afraid that someone would try to break in, I was afraid that I would have an episode while babysitting the kids (which is highly unlikely), I was afraid the kids would get severely hurt, and I dreamt that they would get injured when I drive them (I haven't driven them yet but it's come up about taking them to Chuck E. Cheese and I am not a great driver).

Gaaaahhhhh I needed to vent. That's some obvious parallel fears right there. =[