Dreams about children & rape starting to scare me

The past couple weeks I've been having long, horribly vivid and detailed dreams about children being raped. I started having weird dreams when I went on my current medication, but they're usually nonsensical, even when they're bad. I'm sure the medication has something to do with it, but why are these particular dreams so realistic? And why the subject matter? Where the hell is my brain getting these gruesome ideas?! I have never been sexually abused, I wasn't doing anything with children recently, nor even thinking about children or rape. Just...ugh! I feel like such a freak. Anyone have a possible explanation?

I had a similiar dream , and luckily my therapist is psychoanalytic, does the dream interpetating thing, because I felt really ashamed and embarressed.

I'll breifly sum up mine and tell you what my therapist said:

Basically, in my dream I had sex with an underaged kid, woke up horrified.

At the time I was entering into a relationship with a friend that was starting to get sexual, and I was unsure how I felt about it all, so it translated to my wish for a sex life, but how I also felt it was not appropraite, and it was awkward in a way.

Really, it doesn't even have to be sexual-a shot in the dark here, but I think it has to do with the relationships in your life, whether you're watching one or in one. I would examine those and explore my feelings around them. Even if thinking about it ends up not resolving the out-of-character dreams (which may be the whole cause of the dream...were you forced to do something out of character, or anything dealling with that?) at least you will get the chance to take an outside perspective on the "inside" of your life, persay.

Serously, who knows, dreams are out in left feild to begin with;
if we look for similarities in something though, we usually find them.

Homo Sapien, I hope your dreams stop, I hope you find some sort of resolution with the disturbing subject matter. Having such dreams is in no way a reflection of you as a person, the dream is simply your unconscious mind's way of trying to deal with something, communicate some idea or feeling to your waking mind. There is no definitive, sure-fire interpretation for dreams in general. Like individuals, dreams are unique, and any stab at interpreting them, by anyone, is nothing but guess-work. So don't get your hopes up over finding a meaning for the dream you had, it might never happen. I've had a lot of dreams I struggled to understand. I kept a dream journal, consulted various dream dictionaries, talked to lots and lots of people, some psychiatrists or psychologists, some not. The un-educated people I talked to were no more or less competent in offering meanings for my dreams than the psychologists and psychiatrists. Dream dictionaries were no help at all. I don't know where I'm going with all this, exactly, just don't expect to get any clear-cut answers. If you do, that's great, but don't get your hopes up.