Nightmares About Parents

[Bluepopsicle]

I see these horrible nightmares about my parents abusing me, being mean or sometimes they stand in front of me looking me and they look really scary. I have nightmares about narc mom who tries to kill me or threatened me to kill me. Last nightmare was when I was in shower (I leave details out it's too disturbing) and she came there saying "I kill you if you don't invite me to your wedding" ...I have other types of nightmares aswell and these nightmares seem to go hand in hand of how stressed I am. Anyone else had disturbing nightmares as me? Sorry my engl. Is not my first language

 

[Elevatorguy]

Yes. Nightmares can be very bad .. Especially with crazy parents. You're English is perfect ;)

 

[hodge]

Welcome!

Yes, I have similar nightmares. My mom is a narcissist and/or personality disorder, and when I still lived at home with her I used to actually worry that she would poison us someday with insulin (she was also diabetic). That's how scared of her I was. I think to a point it's helpful to be aware of our nightmares and work on them in therapy, but after that point, there are medications that can help prevent nightmares from haunting us all day. Prasozin is one, clonidine is another. Both are blood pressure meds, so you have to be careful standing up or getting out of bed when taking them, especially if you don't have high blood pressure. But both make it so that as you wake up, your nightmare fades into oblivion right away. You would have to make a really strong effort to remember it.

Good luck.

By the way, your English is better than some Americans'. :-).

 

[Abstract]

Yes I think you will find a lot of us have these types of nightmares. II sometimes cry and shout in my sleep and often thrash around. ts also normal for them to get worse when stress is higher. See if you can find an article on this site about The PTSD Stress Cup. Your English is good. :) I'm sorry your mother was like this.

 

[lalazagna]

Yes, definitely have these kinds of nightmares. Have a narc "mother" and a lot of them are about her, being terrified of her, her trying to kill me, or far more disturbing.
They also get worse during more stressful periods, or if am feeling more fear/shame/guilt/helpless etc (according to my old T the nightmares also did reflect parts of what was feeling at the time).

 

[Bluepopsicle]

Thank you all. I can't remember my "mom" saying things like that in real life and that's why these nightmares are much more disturbing because she seems even more evil in them... I have huge memory caps I can't remember much of anything my childhood. So it makes me think how horrible things has happened to me.
Nice to be here you guys give validation I really crave

 

[crashmoon]

I have nightmares of my father trying to kill me sometimes, they're awful and leave me in tears when I wake up. There was a time that he was so angry at me that he broke his girlfriends tooth, and I had a very genuine fear that he might try to come for me.
You're not alone. Your English is wonderful too, by the way :hug: