Uncomfortable dreams and what to make out of them??

[daisy0]

so my nightmares have come back lately and they just are so weird and i feel so disgusting when i wake up. i kept waking up every hour last night and i would be wide awake and then all the sudden back in another nightmare. i had one we’re i was being chased by a group of men and they told me i would be raped and have to have my friends watch. i woke up in panic and sweat. but then things just got really weird i had another were i was in my childhood home and i was young in this and sitting in the corner were i use to when i was little with my dolls, and he came over and started touching me and calling and talking sexually and kissing me on the lips, and the a bunch of people were over at the table eating. it was strange. i couldn’t see the mans face. i woke up and then went into another one we’re i was in my elementary school which i haven’t been to in 10 years but i recognized where i was and the how the school was set up, i saw one of my teachers but i was having extreme anxiety in that school and i was avoiding my gym teacher because he was scary to me. then i woke up and had a whole lot of flashy images come through i was going back to being afraid of this teacher but also obsessed and felt so loved because he was nice. i just remembered days where i peed myself in school, or i pooped myself in school and i was way passed potty trained but i did anyway, or i would start sucking my thumb. and his face and voice kept coming through my mind. idk what to make of that. then i had two more where i was in my childhood church, and the priest who i haven’t seen in years either was following me, and telling me to come with him and he said something like “i know you want it, i know you want me to suck on your vagina” and i was so scared and i said stop it and then i woke up. i am just feeling so nauseous and disgusted at all of this. and idk what to make out of it, or if it’s nothing and i shouldn’t tell my therapist because it doesn’t matter. but it’s happened where i have these dreams and flashes more than once and i just don’t know. i know so little about my childhood. it’s like i just didn’t even have one. i just don’t understand why i should be dreaming about people whom i don’t even remember, and haven’t seen in so many years. ...

 

[Inside Ana]

Dreams can be very confusing, but can also offer a lot of clarity into how your subconscious is really feeling. I thought the same thing you did when i wrestled with whether or not to mention my dreams to my therapist. I told myself, “dreams arent really that meaningful, youll look like the crazy person who thinks they can predict the future by what they saw in a dream.”
But I strongly encourage you to mention your dreams to your therapist. Many of them study dream analysis in school and can walk through it with you and help you figure out what the strongest details or feelings are really trying to tell you. Mine did, and what was a dream of random weirdness turned out making a lot of sense with what i had been feeling lately.

 

[Deleted member 46752]

Does the feeling or terror and or do you dissociate upon waking?

 

[Vee]

When something is bothering me or I feel unsafe, it always comes out in my dreams. I had uncomfortable dreams last night as well. In times of stress it occurs a lot, like once or twice a week, but normally its once or twice a month. It helps me to talk about it with someone; a therapist, preferably, but even just writing it on on paper helps as well. Anything so that I'm not feeling alone with the bothersome thoughts.

 

[Deleted member 46752]

When something is bothering me or I feel unsafe, it always comes out in my dreams. I had uncomfortable dre...

Journaling dreams is a helpful way for self care as it helps to release them, however once written down I lock them away as I feel bothering to understand them just leads to greater rumination