[under_the_iron_sea]

I just started getting help for some issues I've had for a long time, and I'm not sure if this might be related to that, or simply a coincidence, but, the last few days, I've been having dreams where something on my body is always in excruciating pain. It's usually something that already hurts or aches in real life (like I get headaches, or, I have a sore on my lip at the moment which hurts just a little) but in the dream, the pain is 1000% worse.

And the weirdest part is, in the dream, I am convinced that I am awake in bed, and that the pain is real. And so then I go on lying there and thinking about how this is just one more difficult thing to deal with, and deciding if I want to take pain medicine, etc. And then when I actually wake up, it takes me a few minutes to realize that the pain was in my dream and that the thing that hurts just hurts a little, and not nearly as much as it did in the dream.

What on earth is up with this? Is this normal at all? I've never heard of this before, and have never experienced it until this week. And I don't like it Any thoughts or similar experiences?

I also have been having this thing for quite a while now, where when I wake up from afternoon naps, I have horrible panic attacks (or at least that's what I think they are?). Does anyone else get this? It seems really weird to me. I was getting them long before the pain dreams, so... Anyway. Thanks,

Briar

[not quite right]

I regularly have panic attacks in my sleep. I wake up holding my breath or screaming. Can't count how many times I have been woke by my husband begging me to stop hitting hi m anda couple times trying to smother him with a pillow. You should ask in the dreams & interpretation forum. I wish you well

[birdpumpkin]

I wake with bad anxiety ever since our fire. It's gotten to where I don't take naps anymore because the feeling I have when I wake up from them. I don't have attacks thankfully, but the anxiety feeling is there for awhile whenever I sleep. I wake in the mornings shaking for a few moments and have really bad anxiety. Mornings are the worst.

[healingme4me]

It could be coincidental with the start of therapy. Do you also have a psychiatrist to speak with, in case meds could help, while you go through this?