Flashback Vs Nightmare

[safenow]

Do any of you notice that sometimes we can have a nightmare and then it turns into a flashback? For me, it depends upon rather I wake up to hear, see, or smell something that shouldn't be there. How about you?

safenow

 

[JustBe]

I'm not sure if this qualifies, but sometimes when I'm having a nightmare and Kira wakes me I feel as though there's someone in the house and we go around turning on lights and checking before I can go back to bed.

 

[Abstract]

Hi Safenow aka Safeway,

I do this too. I wake up and whatever was there in the dream is sometimes there in some way after I wake up. Like a figure standing over me, a shadow, a smell or a sound. Not nice. Especially since it then becomes very difficult to not feel all of the dream was real.

 

[safenow]

... I wake up and whatever was there in the dream is sometimes there in some way after I wake up. Like a figure standing over me, a shadow, a smell or a sound. Not nice. Especially since it then becomes very difficult to not feel all of the dream was real.

I so understand where you are coming from. If I woke up to a figure over me I'd end up back in the hospital or in jail. I've had that happen twice. Someone sent the police to check on me, I was asleep. They came in and the officer touched me, I opened my eyes and saw a dark figure next to my bed, I came up swinging. At a hospital a doctor got his nose broken when he did a (that thing where they press on your chest to cause intense pain to find out if you are unconscious) press while I was sleeping. sigh. Thank goodness for judges who understand what ptsd is.

safenow (aka safeway. giggle)

 

[blue-Ocean]

When I have a nightmare I always feel as if it were real and wake up with a panic attack all the house is silent apart from the thudding of my heart, I then feel as if I need to check everything is fine such as doors locked and windows and things, as I feel my dream was so real I have to be sure all is okay, then I start to think of things from the past so really a nightmare leads to these thoughts.

 

[Abstract]

HI Safeway,
Oh dear. Not so good.

Just to be clear I meant a figure that was not real and was flashback type material. Stuff from my dream that follows me out of it. Yuck.