Emotions and Dreams

I've noticed over the last few months that the more emotional pain I feel the worse my nightmares seem to be. For example - I'll dream about dead babies and reviving them only for their faces to appear cracking and begin to die and looking at me accusingly; or it'll be kids having the life sucked out of them by monsters until they look old; or blood drenched demons looking at me to kill me.

Is it the emotions that cause the nightmares??

That sounds really scary, Phoenix

Could you share where your emotional pain is coming from, what is going on in your life, perhaps if we all can help you with that, the nightmares will lessen

I found this link, for you

http://www.unclesirbobby.org.uk/nightmares.php

Yes, what we feel is what's important in our dreams (just like in therapy), not necessarily the literal action, which often doesn't make sense to other people or is impossible, etc. I got so I looked forward to and liked dreaming, even the nightmares and other tough dreams because of what it could tell me I was working on in my unconscious. Knowing they were just dreams and coded information for me made them interesting to work with. The better I got in therapy, the less I remembered my dreams, the less intense they got, etc. I think dreams are a great tool for getting better.

Well, the way I figured it was it had to do with my partner making himself out to be this relatively innocent, inexperienced person then (inadvertently) coming clean on Christmas day to not be so innocent. The way I figure it is the dying children is related to that - I felt like he had taken away the, for lack of a better word, naive person I fell for. These nightmare where all around this time and the week after. One night I had three back-to-back (that drained me lol).

I'm rather curious about whether I'm on the right track with my thinking....

Thanks for the replies

Thanks for the link Junerain, was quite interesting.
I found nightmares to be scary at first - especially the one where my partners ex stabbed me, I'm still nervous of large knives.... But I think now I'm more annoyed by having them and just want them to stop

Oh I hate that when we see in real life symbols we've dreamed of? I dreamed of snakes along the road I lived on, by the side, in the tall grass and the area I had to walk through sometimes was just like that and I kept expecting snakes :-)