Every time I find myself anxious, I have these vivid, disturbing dreams or nightmares. They are rarely even related to what I'm anxious about. Instead, they're on random topics, like zombies, diseases, or people dying.
They usually come in pairs, where one dream/ nightmare ends sometime between 3-4 AM and then I wake up. The second I go to sleep, another one begins. The second one doesn't go along with the first at all, but if the first one was a nightmare, the second usually is, too.
Does anyone experience this? How do you deal with it?