[RainGray]

Everytime I close my eyes I have extremely disturbing and gruesome thoughts. The most recent of which include one the other morning about finding our seven puppies having their skulls bashed in with a baseball bat when I came home from a movie. The one that is keeping me awake tonight was of a hitchhiker we picked up driving down the highway in Austin, he put a gun to his head and blew his brains out all over our back seat. Sometimes while I'm in the car with my boyfriend and we're driving down the road, I'll close my eyes and see us crashing headlong into the median at our exit ramp. Now I am far from suicidal and these images shock me and keep me up at night, but they aren't dreams for I'm awake when they happen.

Does anyone know why they happen and/or how I can stop them from happening?

[Perna]

Daymares/daydreams are very much like nightmares/dreams only more under your control. If the thoughts were mine, I'd look to see what I was afraid of or trying to do "worst case scenario" about.

Strangers are just that, strangers -- and I'd be scared, picking up a hitchhiker, because you don't know what they're going to do, especially with all the stories (the one down in Florida right now) where they rob or kill the people giving them a ride. If it were my dream I'd be thinking I'd "kill" him before he hurt me and my boyfriend. It wouldn't bother me too much that I'm thinking it now instead of then because now I'm truly "safe" from him and it's safe for me to realize how worried/scared I was whereas at the time I didn't think I was. Or, now there could be a situation "similar" to how I perceived the hitchhiker one and, like with dreams, I'm using imagry to help me "get it" in a way that is "safer" for me to see.

The puppies I'd think about whether I've gotten angry or been afraid someone was that angry with me, etc. Treat the daydreams like you would a night one and analyze what's going on around you a bit and/or change the outcome -- keep imagining and save the puppies, disarm the hitchhiker, etc. Look at what's happening with a "what's the message?" eye instead of just thinking "eww, grusome" and turning away, worried about the dream itself. The images/thoughts won't hurt you but they are trying to tell you something that only you can "decode."

[Rhapsody]

Ones Day Dreams or Night Mares are usually the subconscious mind releasing the fears & insecurities that one holds with in their soul.... and when one relaxes the subconscious mind takes over and helps them to heal through dreams / images.

LoVe,
Rhapsody -

[Rhapsody]

P.S.

DOGS - usually are seen as loyal, faithful and devoted companions in ones dreams, but if they appear in your dreams as vicious they represent aggression if hurt or damaged trust may have been broken.

GUNS - is seen a symbol of aggression. Shooting someone means you feel aggression toward some one or part of yourself that this person represents in YOU.
Depending on the circumstances in the dream, the gun can be interpreted in many way.... You may be using the gun to protect yourself or some thing that is of value to you. Killing someone may be message that YOU have violent feelings toward some one and wish to eliminate him / her from your real life.

CARS - are seen as forms of transportation, where we are going on our life journey. Think about the car, are you in control or are you the passenger? Are you clear about where you are going, or does the car seem to be driving you? Who are the passengers? Are you traveling fast or slow? These factors can you determine what YOU are feeling in your present relationships / life.

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[dtcoyle]

Wow, that must be an uncomfortable thing to deal with.

I'm not so sure about dream or thought interpretation, divining some abstract truth based on what dreams and thoughts supposedly are supposed to mean from the sub-concious.

I'd bet that it's more of a result of your overall personality or mood. If you havn't done it already... I'd talk to a therapist.

if it continues, i would DEFINATELY visit a psychiatrist. Especially if the images start to be accompanied by voices or urgings. Maybe you should tell a significant other so that they can help you monitor this. Stay safe.

[Fuzzybear]

[RainGray]

The daymares have been described to me as intrusive thoughts by a friend who is a psych major in school. She said that they sound as if they are attributed to a minor form of OCD because they are instantaneous and they only occur when I am wide awake, and are accompanied by an uncontrollable urge to keep my eyes shut until the images are gone. She told me to talk to a psychiatrist about it, that there are ways of treating it.