Years ago, when I was working at the height of my mania, I would have anxiety attacks in the middle of the night. Basically, I would dream about my panic of things going wrong at work and my solving crisis after crisis. It would be exahausting when I woke up and actually did go into my workplace - because basically I had already done a full workday in my sleep. I wasn't sleeping much to begin with and thus what sleep I did get was quite terrible. And I repeatedly would wake up in the middle of an attack.

Fast forward six years. I have begun to get these dreams again. I am not working but I still get these 'day in the life of' dreams where I essentially live each day twice. I of course can't fall back asleep because my mind is still working a mile a minute trying to come up with solutions to 'put out the fires'.

I wonder if other people have similar experiences>

[Skeezyks]

I don't know if this is similar. But back when I was working I would sometimes dream about work situations... not necessarily things that actually happened... but dreams where the subject-matter was related to the work I did, if that makes any sense. Sometimes I would wake up feeling as though I had already put in a day's work & shouldn't have to get up & actually go to work that day. Also, for years after I stopped working, & even sometimes still, I will have work-related dreams. Thankfully, the more years away from having been employed I get, the fewer of these sorts of dreams I seem to have.

[Thunder Bow]

Our minds do process our days events through dreams. Anxiety can amplify this in our dreams.

[Fireandwater]

I am not sure if this relates to you..My dreams are very vivid, emotional,and if I awake then fall back asleep, the dream will either start from beginning and or start from where I left off when I was awakened. I have the problem of not being able to turn my brain off, therefore falling asleep becomes troublesome,and my dreams especially when vivid and full of emotions, that when I do wake up, it feels as if I had not slept and the emotions triggered in my dream stays with me the whole day and leaves me in a fog like state, sort of like being in the twilight zone. Now, that being said. I have had dreams that have become reality within the near future and when my mother passed away(car accident). I spent a month sitting in the back seat watching what transpired, but it was like a movie with chapters, the dream would take me so far and then pick up where it left off the night before. What really freaked me out was when I was explaining this to a family member, the color in their face drained and they proceeded to show me the accident report, all I had dreamt and what I heard right down to the medical personal trying to retrieve my mom and brother from car to what the police were discussing about the accident, I watched via my dreams. I don't know why this happened or what you would call such a dream. But it did happen and I can still clearly see it all as if it was yesterday not 25 years ago.