Violent Dreams

My Dreams are often violent. Often I am killing someone or trying to. Sometimes it is someone I know, other times it's not. It's scary. I don't know why I would dream these things. does anyone else do this??

I've been having dreams like this quite often lately. For me, I think it's because of the resentment and anger I've been having towards people, the way they can interact and conect with others while I'm just all on my lonesome. Have you been having any kind of anger problems? Do you have a therapist or someone you can talk to about these dreams? They may be able to help you figure out why this is happenig

My dreams are more often than not violent. If I'm the victim, I wake up feeling crappy. If I'm the perp, well, that's usually pleasant. They tend to increase during agitated phases, either way, they don't bug me, been having them since I was little.

I always think of everything that happens, is for a reason.

Maybe you just have inner anger, maybe not with these people, but with something, even yourself.

If you dig deep down, maybe with a therapist's help, you'll be able to get down to the core of this problem.

Once the problem is laid out to you, trust me it's a lot easier to solve.

I don't know who you are, or anything about you, so I'm sorry if everything I've written doesn't apply to your life at all.

But you have my blessing.

There could be two simple explanations for this.
(1) When someone deliberately kills another person, there is usually a high degree of anger being felt towards the victim. Do you have a lot of anger or simply feelings of dislike or ill will towards many people?
(2) What I have observed in many peoples dreams is that such dreams can reflect a person’s manner of speaking during the day. If you are in the habit of using expressions, even jokingly, such as, saying. “I’ll kill you for that”, or “its killing me that…….” , it can come out in dreams as scenes of violence. Don’t use expressions containing the idea of killing or dying because they can result in terrible nightmares. Words carry meanings. One needs to respect that meaning in our speech.

Have you had a med change coinciding with the onset of these dreams? There are some meds that can cause violent dreams, so if you've had a med change you should bring up the dreams to your doctor.