Venting Do you often get nightmares?

[struggles_inc]

I often have nightmares about suicide and/or survival. Just woke up from one.

When I go to sleep, there is 70% chance my dream will be about war or some kind of apocalypse, and I will either try to survive and save someone, in which case I usually die in this dreams, or I kill myself out of desperation.

Every time I wake up tired as fuck because of these nightmares. I bet you guys often have nightmares, too. What are those about? Does anyone have a way to get rid of them?

 

[AvaCutey]

Every night. Last night I was in the city, Large parts were a ghost town I was wondering about, I took the elevator down to the subway, and it crushed me alive like that Apple iPad advert.

I don't know any way to get rid of them unfortunately.

 

[render]

oh god yes i do, yours don't sound too dissimilar to mine. mine are largely about social rejection and execution and apocalypse and sometimes about people i no longer want to talk to. ive had one pleasant dream recently but the rest have been nightmares, and i dream much more often than i used to so its very unsettling to me

this is probably not good advice but i am also very forgetful, and i often end up forgetting them after i wake up. but god some of them are bad enough to stick around for much much longer

 

[struggles_inc]

Ohhh yes, ghost towns, had a couple of those dreams myself. They suck.

Every night. Last night I was in the city, Large parts were a ghost town I was wondering about, I took the elevator down to the subway, and it crushed me alive like that Apple iPad advert.

I don't know any way to get rid of them unfortunately

oh god yes i do, yours don't sound too dissimilar to mine. mine are largely about social rejection and execution and apocalypse and sometimes about people i no longer want to talk to. ive had one pleasant dream recently but the rest have been nightmares, and i dream much more often than i used to so its very unsettling to me

this is probably not good advice but i am also very forgetful, and i often end up forgetting them after i wake up. but god some of them are bad enough to stick around for much much longer

Some of these dreams are so stressful that they feel kinda traumatic? Like you've just been through a very real and very difficult situation.

 

[NeoN0va]

I, myself, dont have dreams as often as before anymore. I have around 1 or 2 dreams per month, where back in the days I used to dream practically every day. And back then, those dreams were mainly nightmares, where either I died, or people close to me died. I stopped dreaming often after Ive lost contacts with all the people, as before sleep, the only thing I really think about is either suicide, or hate on myself and on how stupid, pathetic and useless I am.

 

[willitpass]

I rarely ever remember my dreams anymore. With how horrible of insomnia I have I doubt I get deep enough into sleep very often to have full dreams. On the rare (and I mean a few times a year rare) occasion that I remember my dreams they are often unpleasant. Not nightmares perse, not scary enough for that. But enough for me to wake up with a bitter taste in my mouth. My last dream I could remember I had ended up in the psych ward and was on my best behavior, doing everything that I could to be able to get out, but they kept pushing back my discharge date no matter how well I acted. I was stuck in there. That one was awful.

I used to lucid dream every night. I didn't even know what lucid dreaming was until I was older, but I did it naturally since I was a child. Nightmares weren't really a thing for me because if a dream became something scary I would simply remind myself that it was a dream and that I could take control and turn it into whatever I wanted. Sometime after I tried to hang myself and was started on every psych med under the sun when I was 13/14 I lost my ability to dream.

 

[noname37]

I don't really dream about anything anymore. Not sure what that means.

 

[ijustwishtodie]

For me, life itself is the nightmare

 

[Calliandras]

Yes! Usually I spend months without getting them but when they come it's more than one per night for like a Full week. Most of them involve people being cruel to me, it's specially upseting when they involve my ex. Yesterday I dreamed that my house was on fire and no one cared enough to help me put it down.