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Reoccurring Nightmate That Is Getting To Me.

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Elena Farely

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I have a reoccurring nightmare. I remember it so well and sometimes think I see something from that dream in the streets and I start to panic.

I'm in a dark room lying on the ground, same position every time. I get up and begin to look around, eventually after wandering for a while, there is a door. As always, I open it and see a little golden blonde haired girl sometimes standing, sometimes sitting facing away from me. When I approach her, I see it's me. As a child.

I usually fall backwards in shock and she/me walks up to me and then keeps saying the same lines over and over. And what is said is not nice.

"You'll never make it in life"
"You're in debt and it's your fault"
"It's your fault your parents divorced"
"Your daddy never wanted you. No one wants you"
"Pathetic"
"Disgusting"
"Kill yourself"
"<Partners name> is using you"
"You're not loved by anyone"
"Give up"

And many other things. Eventually I start covering my ears, start crying and screaming things like "Shut up", "You're lying", "Leave me alone" and various other things.

Eventually she/I come down to my level and then takes my hands and uncovers my ears and smiles at me. She then starts crying blood and bleeding from random areas and I'm covered in this blood. (I am very weak around blood. It makes me feel sick and I panic when I see large amounts of it)

She wont let go of my hands until blood is just covered and I usually wake up screaming with a small voice in my head saying "Give up".

I usually start to shake and/or cry when this happens and it sometimes wakes my partner up, sometimes he spends minutes trying to wake me and it doesn't work. It's worse when I'm alone at my home. Because I feel isolated and scared when this happens.

Some nights I fear going to sleep, try to distract myself and keep my self awake but it never works in the end. Does anyone know any kind of strategy to help stop something like this happening. Which as of recent has become very frequent. And no matter what I try, they all happen exactly the same way no matter what I try to change it.
 
I am on an Anti-Psychosis medication (voices - yet to be treated for BPD and Depression) at the moment but the nightmares were happening before I started the drug and were beginning to be more frequent before the drug.
 
I see my therapist again in 19 days. I find it hard to talk to therapists after school counsellors basically telling all the teachers what I told her. Which lead to humiliation from the teachers and other staff members. So, I find it hard to trust even people bound by law. But my partner really wants me to get help so I am trying to do it.
 
Hi, I am taking a medication called risperdone to stop me from remembering nightmares. Mabe you could look into that. I wish you the best, this is a really graphic nightmare. I am sad that you are tortured by the same one over and over. I hope you find some help so you can get some relief and help with this problem. You must be so drained and exhausted. Hug.
 
There are other nightmares similar but this is the one that seems to reoccur the most other then nightmares of abuse.

But thank you for the name of that medication. I will look into it.
 
I can relate to waking up in the night with horrific nightmares and seeing myself as young. I recently was hospitalized and started on Prazosin for the frequency has decreased and the intensity as well. Not saying for you to go get on this medication but might be something to discuss if you have a psychiatrist that knows about Prazosin and PTSD. Which I don't know if you have that but if you do who knows it might help.
 
I was actually walking home from work today, had a decent day.. Felt happy for a short amount of time.. And I just turned into my street and there, I see me.. Covered in blood. And I just shut my eyes for a moment and I'm gone. And now I'm just paranoid to whether I'll show up again. Or even what is causing this.
 
I'm also having sleep disturbances and I wish I knew how to fix them. I don't have the same recurring nightmare, but I keep having nightmares that end the same way--with me feeling like I can't breathe or I'm choking and waking up gasping for air, sitting straight up in bed. I've had multiple violent incidents that led me to the point of PTSD unfortunately, but the choking I think specifically comes from a mugging where I was choked and pulled to the ground. I wish I knew what to do to make it stop. Anyway, I just wanted to say I can relate to the recurring nightmare. Although it's a bit different, mine all end the same way, and I'm waking up gasping for air several times a week. I'm not on any psych meds, but I have been in therapy for 2 1/2 years and it has helped some, but not completely, especially since it's hard for me to talk about (I tend to want to avoid it) and the therapist seems content to just let me talk about my day or whatever random stressors I'm having instead of encouraging me to actually deal with my problems.

That said, you asked for a strategy to stop it and I don't know one, but I wish I did. I think maybe if I could process it better that might help me. One thing that does seem to be helping some is listening to a relaxation track on my ipod once I'm awake if I can't go back to sleep. It doesn't get rid of the choking thing, but it does help me calm down and get back to sleep sometimes. Maybe this helps?
 
I dont have recurring nightmares of exactly the same thing but rather a repeating theme of being chased by something that wants to smother me. It normally starts with like a dream inside a dream where I see whatever it is that wants to get me doing whatever it does to me, and then I wake up into the main part of the dream, and the thing is there, only now I know what it wants to do to me but I dont know how to stop it so I run and then it is chasing me through the whole dream.

Sometimes it gets me, but when it does its like that moment was another insight into what is going to happen to me if it gets me and then the pursuit continues. When it happens it feels like it is actually happening until i come back to the main part of the dream and start running again.

I often end up in populated ares in the hope somebody will help me but i always stay silent out of fear of the thing chasing me and i dont want to drag anybody else into what is happening to me. Sometimes I find somebody that I hang with as I loose the pursuer for a short while and they ask me if there is anything they can do but I always say there is nothing or i can handle it on my own. Also I go through settings or ares that have particular value or memory to me in real life and these are normally the places where it gets me.


I think this should somehow be a reflection of my current real life situation but I cant seem to figure out exactly what it is that im running from.
 
I use to not want to go to sleep either because of my nightmares. It's exhausting. I hope you get some relief soon.
 
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