Everytime I close my eyes I have extremely disturbing and gruesome thoughts. The most recent of which include one the other morning about finding our seven puppies having their skulls bashed in with a baseball bat when I came home from a movie. The one that is keeping me awake tonight was of a hitchhiker we picked up driving down the highway in Austin, he put a gun to his head and blew his brains out all over our back seat. Sometimes while I'm in the car with my boyfriend and we're driving down the road, I'll close my eyes and see us crashing headlong into the median at our exit ramp. Now I am far from suicidal and these images shock me and keep me up at night, but they aren't dreams for I'm awake when they happen.

Does anyone know why they happen and/or how I can stop them from happening?