[Ahkrill]

Hi

I posted this already in the dream forum, but since most of my dreams are of this nature (but usually less upsetting) I thought I'd post these here too:

The last two nights I have experienced the most unpleasant dreams of my adult life. Last night I dreamt I was searching for the remains of my brother after a fire (my brother is alive and well). The previous night I was on a local bus route, when some racial hate acts broke out on the bus. By this I mean extremely violent acts like beheadings, scalpings, genital stabbings and general slashings. During this time the most awful, repetitive music was playing in a loop and I was just waiting to be next. The faces of the people were frighteningly demonic: they lacked any soul or humanity and were just so vacant and two-dimensional in expression. Does that make sense?

Although I have lots of strange and disturbing dreams these stand out because they were not at all surreal, but horribly mundane and inescapable.
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What do you guys think? Anxiety or something more? I don't particularly want to go on antidepressants or any meds as I feel they don't resolve problems, but often make more problems. Any recommendations?

[ChangingMyMind]

I don't know what it could be but I can say I had a bad dream last night where my brother as assessed by some sort of psych doctor and told us he was a high risk of slitting his own throat.... So I ran around trying to find him to keep him safe... Very scary dream indeed! I typically don't have these types of dreams but lately I've been suffering depression and anxiety and I notice they do affect my dreams in that they are a bit more scary and dark. I guess it's possible it's anxiety... Although I agree with you antidepressants make things worse so if the dreams are tolerable and do not interfere with your life then I wouldn't worry to much... Just my opinion. I'm not a doctor.

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