does anyone else suffer from nightmares??

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 1:28 am

Do your nightmares have a central theme (for example, are you always lost, alone, scared, etc)? A lot of the time dreams are your mind's way of bring subconscious worries to the forefront. Sometimes solving the underlying problem can reduce or stop the nightmares.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Jan 04, 2009 5:02 pm

well i get weird nightmares...and i don't even take meds .....like...i can't talk...or no one can hear me...idk but they r very scary...and i have anxiey...maybe people with anxiety or other stress related problems just get them...what do you all think...let me no...

Bakedpears · Post by **Bakedpears** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 11:13 am

I don't sleep well at all. I have very bad dreams every night; they seem to be about different things I'm afraid of or nervous about. Does anyone else experience that? I often wake up feeling disoriented which really scares me.

Hally · Post by **Hally** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 6:56 pm

I too have dreams in which the thing that are troubling me manifest. If I feel let's say vulnerable in a dream I wake up feeling this way as well. Or let's say I feel inferior then when wake I feel this way as well. I know it seems backwards that the dream actually effects my waking life rather than the other way around but that's the way it is for me. Any comments?

Jamika · Post by **Jamika** » Tue Jan 06, 2009 1:33 am

I used to wake up in the middle of the night to the bed shaking and I couldn't move or talk. I'd try to scream but I couldn't. I was fully awake by then. My doctor told me that those are panic attacks and that you can have them in your sleep. I thought it was a demon trying to get me. Thank God those don't happen anymore. I wasn't on any medication so I don't think that is related. How I got over those was just to let go. Once I let go and stopped trying to fight, I was able to move and talk again. I guess my body just woke up in a state of panic. I was living with a very stressful and loud roommate so I attribute it to that. Once I moved out, I never had them again.

Now, with regard to medication, Xanax made me have strange dreams but not "nightmares". They are abnormal though.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Jan 06, 2009 2:27 am

It's comforting to know I'm not the only one with that issue. I just don't know how to make them go away. Maybe as I go through the program, this problem will decrease.

Inspiration is All Around · Post by **Inspiration is All Around** » Tue Jan 06, 2009 11:42 am

I suffer from nightmares. Since I am a professional worrier, I will dream about something that is bothering me and in my dream I deal with all the negative side effects of what could go wrong and ALWAYS goes wrong in my dream. I wake up and I am in a panic..This is never fun!! your not alone!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Jan 06, 2009 2:24 pm

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An interesting article on the link above from Yahoo. The number 1 cause of nightmares is anxiety and stress.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Jan 06, 2009 4:11 pm

Lately, over the past year, I have dreams where I wake up and I think Im somwhere else. Like the lights in my bedroom for clock and stuff are some kind of machine or something. I really wake up scared. It takes me a while to realize I am home. Sometimes I have to be brave and turn the light on just to make sure.