Why Does This Happen

[Tigergirl1217]

Latley I am having a PTSD episode with intense nightmares. I've had dreams about my trauma but other people doing it to me that are authority like my teachers doing it. I had a great relationship with them but after my nightmares I'm scared of them.... Also in my other nightmares I actually fight and run away. Does this mean I'm getting better?

 

[Chava]

Not sure it means you're getting better, but sounds like the nightmare scenario is resolving itself...and I do think it's good you ran away. Probably a step towards healing in some way. I had a nightmare where I took my child self to an ER after she was attacked. After a series of bloody nightmares, this was the last one. I stepped in and took action (vs seeing the nightmare like from the outside, like watching it through a window vs being "in" it...weird). It was probably some good sign in my healing. I didn't get noticeably better when I think back to that stretch of nightmares, but the nightmares stopped. And I think I did become a little more self-accepting vs feeling self-destructive towards some parts of memories.

 

[Leah Morgan]

Have you spoken to you Dr about this I suffer horrific nightmares and have tablets to help me sleep calmly they mainly work I have less than I used to its not perfect but way better its worth a try xx

 

[Gadgie]

I've found out that I only get the nightmares if I go into a deep sleep, and that's not very often these days?

Last night the weirdest thing happened to me, I must have gone into a deep sleep, when I was woken up by the sound of my late wife shouting my name!

It was so loud that it woke me up with a jolt! ..........It was so real, that I was half way out of my bed, to go and check on her, until I realised that it couldn't have been her?

The only time she would shout me through for help like that, was if the Marrie Currie sitter had left, without putting our house phone beside her in her bed.

I was too scared to go back to sleep, just like what happens when I do have a nightmare?