[Withered-Rose79]

Does anyone else suffer with nightmares? I never, ever have good dreams, only bad ones. Occasionally I dream about traumatic things in my past, but usually my dreams are fictional. Sometimes they are down right horrible, horrible nightmares that include people I love, like my children, but they aren't based on real events. The dreams are so vivid and feel so real. It's like watching a horror movie in my head. I wake up feeling relieved they weren't real, yet I'm left feeling scared and sad for days afterwards.

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[Trippin2.0]

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I don't think I have dreams, (except about dead people trying to talk to me, but that's a WHOLLLLE different story) and if I do have anything besides nightmares, well then I don't ever remember them.

I think they started when I was about 9, same time as the abuse actually... None of my dreams are based on any events, fictional or fact, just random scary stuff.

The theme of my nightmares is always my death. If its not an executioner chasing me with a noose or a giant battle axe, its demons trying to take me straight to hell. If its neither of them, its zombies, or alien children, or just a random serial killer who has his heart set on me... Yeah, I die or nearly die almost every night. I've woken up having panic attacks, or to silent throat aching screams, or just to a tear stained pillow.

A few times when its really terrible I'm able to lucid dream. When I lucid dream I either kill my would be killer or I wake myself the fk up and smoke a cigarette.

The few times my dreams aren't about my death, they're just plain disturbing! Like a cat eating a live baby and other such nonsense!

Sleeping is tiring but I make light of most of my nightmares. I talk about them, poke fun at them, and even though they don't go away, they don't scare me as much anymore, because I've taken away their power.

Wanna hear something weird I discovered recently?

When I struggle to sleep I think of all my usual bad guys and I dose right off.

You're not alone

[Withered-Rose79]

Not that I'm happy you also suffer nightmares, but it's nice to know I'm not alone. I'm like you, IF I have good dreams I don't remember them. And the majority of my dreams are random bits of nightmares that are blurry and make no sense. A lot of them are exhausting, because I spend half of my night fighting for my life, or for someone else's life. Once I wake up I don't think about them again. However, the last few nights I've had the clearest, most vivid dreams that continue to disturb me after I'm awake. This happens from time to time and makes me not want to sleep at all for fear of what I'm going to experience. Thanks for sharing with me.

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[FlowerChild67]

I have had horrible flashback nightmares but I should also say I have PTSD but I also had horrible unknown themed nightmares. I use the word had as I take a medicine that took 95% of the nightmares away

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[Withered-Rose79]

I use to have horrible flashback nightmares as well. As I've gotten older my dreams have somewhat shifted away from my real experience of witnessing the loss of a loved one and have become fictional nightmares about losing loved ones that are still alive. I didn't realize there were meds that would take away nightmares.

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[greentires4me]

I have nightmares about lots of things this morning I slept in segments of four hours first segment I was dressed up into Japanese geisha first it was on land then the next segment it was in water....but I couldn't do it in the water I had an appointment next segment was about eating sushi they had cows tongue I was thoroughly grossed out but my job was to eat all the raw fish with rice I was gagging and everything. I refused to eat the cows tongue thats went I woke up and start to gag seeing the cow's tongue in my thoughts thats the end of my sleep cycle.

I get more like that but nothing having to eat a cows tongue in it...

[jk2833]

Aw dear me YES!!!!!
Seems very common amongst us here I didn't realise...so were not alone here.
I have night terrors real bad where upon I think they are real for hours after I have woken.
It's horrific!
My psych suggested a new item near my bed (new so you know it's real and not part of your past) I got a teddy lol, I thought there's no way it would work but sure enough I grab it after each terror and I know within a minute or so it's not real.
Simple but effective, I've always had a comforter in bed I know very immature but a new not familiar item has really helped.
Give it a try you've nothing to loose
Hope you all get a better sleep
Take care
J

I used to have awful nightmares. Usually a reoccurring one where I lost everything I ever loved in a fire even as I tried to save them. Actually most nightmares for me involved fire.

On the brightside I seem to be getting them far less now. Now I get mostly slightly disturbed random nonsense dreams.

[FlowerChild67]

My night were about fires, which were i died every time, or my abuse or attacks I received

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[Blue_velvet09]

I have horrible nightmares when I sleep alone. Usually it has to do with the person who raped me last year..

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[trying2survive]

Originally Posted by Withered-Rose79

Does anyone else suffer with nightmares? I never, ever have good dreams, only bad ones. Occasionally I dream about traumatic things in my past, but usually my dreams are fictional. Sometimes they are down right horrible, horrible nightmares that include people I love, like my children, but they aren't based on real events. The dreams are so vivid and feel so real. It's like watching a horror movie in my head. I wake up feeling relieved they weren't real, yet I'm left feeling scared and sad for days afterwards.

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you know that funny you should bring that up, i usually have nightmares 1 to 2 times a week. had one last night, woke me straight up out of my sleep. one of the heart pounding ones. i can't remember what was happening, just that it was terrible and i wanted to get away, so i woke up and stayed up for a while.
and they are always bad, because i wake up scared with my heart pounding

[trying2survive]

another one again. last night. for some reason if i fall asleep on my back they are more frequentstrange

[FlowerChild67]

I have them more when I use my sleep machine

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