Poll Flashbacks vs Nightmares

[TLight]

Flashbacks occur with more intensity lately, although farther apart. I think I had them before, but I didn't know what they were. Now, I'm sure when a flashback is coming and I get the physical sensations, terror, anger, all the emotions just coarse through my body.

I used to have day time hallucinations......again, non-specific (my father in the corner of the ceiling, someone trying to come at me arms swinging).......this was when I was terribly clinically depressed.

Nightmares were terror filled and I could remember them. Like I was going to be killed by demons........non-specific I'd say.......but horrible. Very disturbing the next day and for days afterwards.

I still have nightmares and wake up screaming.......but I don't remember. My BF tells me it happens often. But I'm not disturbed and I go right back to sleep. They don't bother me.........I guess it is just my brain releasing.

 

[Ambience]

I suffer flashbacks of my lsd experience relating to my abortion. I also have nightmares like of being stabbed last night. Woke up terrified. I sometimes wake up panicking and i've had dreams of being strangled and dreams and some even worse nightmares that i can't mention, too traumatising for me. I flashback in an emotional way to the lsd experience and i see it like it's happening now.

 

[a3a2]

I have had nightmares since childhood centering around the abuse. I think I have had flashbacks for a long time, but have only recently become self aware enough to recognize them as such.

 

[Lisa]

I have horrific nightmares and have suffered them since childhood. Better now in that it's not 6/7 nights a week, comes in phases and the intensity varies now again too, thankfully. I had an awful two years where it was most nights. I also have flashbacks. I would probably say I have them in equal measures.

 

[dutchieinPA]

Frequent nightmares, wake up sweating. Flashbacks that have become very intense. Just now starting to connect the dots...understanding that its all connected.

 

[Lionheart]

I have experienced both.

 

[Angelwings]

I know one of the key symptoms of PTSD is flashbacks. Personally, I have not had a flashback of the eve...

my nightmares are pretty specific.