Alright, this may sound a bit strange but I'll do my best to articulate my thoughts. Does anyone else ever have nightmares that are, for lack of a better word, symbolic? Like, they may not be your exact memories that play out, the events in the dream and the circumstances may not be the same, but there may be certain key points- things you can or can't do, certain emotions, things like that-that are still similar or even the exact same and still end up evoking the same distress?

I'll try to use my own as an example. After, shall we say, The Event, I began having these intense, eerily similar nightmares. I noticed that although the dreams were never exactly the same (and, purely from the events perspective, were totally different), certain things in the dreams, like the threats and dangers involved in The Event were always present, as were other circumstantial elements, for example the feelings of powerlessness and fear and horror that perfectly mirrored the reactions I had in real life in response to the same danger, even though the exact event in the dream wasn't quite the same as in real life.

I suppose the point I'm trying to get across is that although what happens in these nightmares isn't the exact same thing as what happened in real life, some elements present, such as:

• specific threat/danger, same as real life
• inability to prevent what happened, as in real life
• horror, fear and feeling of powerlessness, as in real life

along with the presence of certain other details and items, do mirror what happened in The Event perfectly, even if, again, the exact happenings and circumstances aren't exactly the same.

Okay, I know that probably made absolutely no sense, I'm sorry. I promise it makes sense in my head. Does anyone else experience anything like this? Or am I just nuts?