What Type Of Nightmares Are You Guys Having?

[afuneralinmybrain]

I've been killing people in my nightmares again. It's horrifying. :(

 

[Melody coates]

@afuneralinmybrain I seem to kill people in my dreams too.

 

[Rumors]

I struggle with violent themed nightmares. I wake up feeling like it really happened and I am so scared, it takes quite a while to calm back down. They feel so real... They leave me feeling pretty out of control.

 

[UpTillDawn]

Lots of nightmares about being out of control.

Being held down, or unable to breathe is a big one. Having a tube shoved down my nose. Being unable to breathe. Being trapped in a room. Sometimes that room, sometimes just a room.

The worst is being held in some sort of 'facility' (like a larger version of that room). All sort of awful things are happening to me, but no one else knows. I need to keep pretending to be 'normal' as it gets worse and worse, or I just know I'll never get out.

 

[Sarah_Rose]

@Solara, I am so sorry to hear that!!! I hope your dreams stop soon!

 

[afuneralinmybrain]

@Melody coates Yeah, I have Harm OCD.

 

[Gloww33]

Nightmares keep me from ever wanting to sleep again and I do not dream about the trauma, but I dream about how I felt during the trauma and create my own scenario somehow when I am a sleep. For instance, my head was held under water as a child as a form of punishment, I do not dream about this happening very much, but I dream of sinking in the ocean in a great storm, or being swept down river of a flood that has taken out cities. They are very vivid and very real, that sometimes when I wake up screaming, I can swear I taste salt water from the ocean, or mud from the flood I was in.....very scary stuff. My dreams are all reoccurring, I have had some of the same dreams for over 25 y ears. Sometimes I acknowledge I am dreaming in my dream, I feel trapped and know I can't wake up until I have completed the whole dream.....weird, but true. I think your dreams are related to PTSD

 

[Gary Brents]

My nightmares change between all four of the life involved traumas, that I have suffered through. I also have night mares from my occupation, which includes dealing with death and mayhem on the highway and streets. There are times when I will have nightmares, where all I can see is the faces of auto accident death victims, that I have pulled out of crushed and twisted metal, of cars. I will sometimes wake up and go straight into repetitive flashbacks from a collage of events, that feature horrific details of random features, related to the four major traumas.

 

[Ellabella44]

i only count things i wake up scared / or screaming as nightmares. my nightmares are about events that happened, repeated patterns of things that have happened. (for instance a nightmare of a cousin on top of me) I cant get back to sleep after them.

zombie apocolypse, or anything of the sort... those i can change.. they arent a real life event ( checks lawn for zombies, nope lawn is clear) and if i cant beat the monster in those, I usually become the monster and im ok with that.. ive adapted. i can wake from it, and go back to sleep.

 

[.Bubbles.]

I've always suffered nightmares on and off since I was little. But Lately I've been having them every night. Terrible ones. Violence, death, abuse. Its always one of my abusers doing the horrible things to me or to themselves infront of me.

I also sometimes have dreams where I'm having a good time with abuser. And these actually really effect me emotionally and feel like some kind of nightmare when I wake up.

 

[Bonsiren]

I think what disturbs me the most is that it never occurred to me how violent and awful they were until I confided in my current boyfriend about them. I knew, on some level, they were bad. But I learned that most of the people I'm in contact with almost never have violent nightmares--period. It was not a great feeling.

My nightmares have a tendency to center around helplessness or anger. Being tied down or chained down is a big one that pops up a lot. It's not always the same person who ties me down. Sometimes it's in my current bed, sometimes it's a bed I used to sleep in as a child. Sometimes someone else watches. Sometimes my mother will walk in on me and the abuser-of-the-night and tell me to stop panicking, that it's not a big deal, and that I'm bothering her.

Another one is violence. I have revenge nightmares about killing people slowly and horribly. There's a lot of torture. I see a lot of blood. It's grisly. I'm so happy about it. But the worst ones are the ones about me and my boyfriend getting into an argument and me losing my temper. Sometimes I hit him. Sometimes there's a belt. Sometimes it's so much worse. We argue sometimes, but I've never laid a hand on him, and I don't ever intend to. But those nightmares stick with me the most.

A couple times, I dreamed that I had killed myself and I was a ghost watching all my loved ones. They were celebrating. They were so relieved they didn't have to put up with my shit anymore. I woke up crying.

 

[TonyG]

I only relive my trauma and wake up like I'm still there, it takes me a while to realise I'm at home in bed and safe, Then my anxiety kicks in and I can't do much that day.