I have recurring nightmares, I have had them all of my life but recently I have a brand new one and it is terrifying me so much I am fighting the need for sleep to avoid living the nightmare again.

(WARNING - may disturb some with lava issues)

In this particular nightmare I am with a small group of strangers in the middle of nowhere when a meteor strikes the planet, it shatters one of the larger European tectonic plates causing a massive subduction and the Earth's crust shrinks a little, not by much but enough for the Earth's surface to be flooded by lava.

The nightmare is very involved, there is a lot going on and it goes on for a long time, essentially the world is ending and this small group of people with myself included are running for our lives through horrifying scenes filled with mile high lava falls, people are being killed everywhere in the most horrific ways from gases through to lava flows.

The dream never ends as I always awake screaming as my feet begin to burn as the entire planets surface begins to superheat and begins melting. When I awake it takes me so long to come to my senses, I feel extremely hot and my feet still hurt intensely as though they had really been burned. It takes me a good long while to build up the courage to look out of the windows to see if the world is melting or if everything is okay out there.

Does anyone have any ideas what this dream is all about and more importantly how I can get it to stop, I desperately need to get some proper safe sleep, my mind is starting to play tricks on me I'm so exhausted from not sleeping properly.