worst dreams ive had....

lately its been hard for me to sleep and when i do its only for at the most 4 hrs at a time. I actually had to quit my second job over this. When I do fall asleep I dream of death. my death friends and family. alot of the time someone is trying to kill me and i cant ever see their faces. I always wake up right before I die. And its just getting worse and worse for me to the point where I cant sleep anymore. I really dont know what to do at this point and wanted to know if anyone had any idea of what i should do?

Hi,
The faults lie not with your dreams but with your sleeping arrangements. Your dreams are dreamt to wake you up for a definite reason. If you sleep with someone ask what position you sleep in when the dreams wake you. Sleeping on your back is the worse sleeping position. Any medicines or drugs can make your dreams more vivid and more violent.
However if you sleep for 4 hours, something must happen during that sleep that needs you to be woken. Stress or depressin could be the cause, however it is more likely to be caused by sme physical pain or discomfort during sleep.
You know how you feel when you wake up. If anything worries you have a medical check up.

I think some things to consider would be what is going on in your life right now; are you dealing with anything particularily stressful right now? Some people say dreams are the result of unresolved problems that you have while awake.

Freud would say dreams are wishfullfillments; this is the best way I can explain/rationalize it.

You are having dreams about your friends and family dying, and someone trying to kill you. I'm just now studying this, so bear with me:

If that is a wishfullfilment, then really it translates to wishing the conflicts you are having withyour family members would die (but the dream would just show you the family members. So it's not that you want them to die, the idea is you want the strife they are giving you to end. Someone trying to kill you is the other method of protecting yourself-either they go, or you escape.

This all seems crazy, but I found it to be so true.

For example, I have day dreamed about my brother dying and me either not caring or I end up crying. Were taught that is "worrying" about someone. But, for a moment I wondered, what if Freud was right, what if I did "wish" it? How could I possibly "want" my brother to die?
Truth was, I had been upset with him at the time, and the daydream was an emotional response for the fact that I cared for someone who at the time was hurting me. And therefore I daydreamed about a solution, an aggressive one (another one of Freud's theories)-him dying.

I donno, hope that made sense.