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    So for the last week I have been having either totally weird/bizarre dreams or just nightmares. It started the night I quit at my club-- last Thursday-- and it has continued since then.

    I don't normally dream-- I mean, I know everyone dreams, but I very very rarely ever remember my dreams. It's really unusual. But now not only do I remember them but I'm having multiple dreams in one night. I'll wake up, be really freaked out from the dream and not want to go back to sleep, but get tired and fall asleep... just to wake up an hour or a few hours later freaked out again.

    I used to have a problem with heroin but I've been sober for a long time now. A lot of the dreams are using dreams-- I'm sober in the dream and then I decide to use again, and right before I'm about to get high I wake up. But I've had other dreams where I'm being chased or someone is holding me down-- I've had two now where I was being held down by two guys and about to be raped, but right before it was going to happen I woke up. I had a dream that my Mom died, and I've had some dreams where I'm in jail or about to be put on trial. And then just some bizarre ones where I'm walking in the dark and trying to get the lights to come on but they don't work or I'm walking really high up on a building looking down at the street.

    At first I just thought it was weird, but after a week of having these dreams they're starting to really bother me, to the point that I don't want to go to sleep at night. I'm not a child, obviously I know they are just DREAMS, but they're so intense and vivid that they don't feel like it at the time and I've woken up reeeeeally freaked out a few times now.

    Has anybody else gone through anything like this? I really would like it to stop.

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    Default Re: consistent weird dreams/nightmares

    are you on any sleep medications or any medications at all? do you eat any particular food before bed? i would also examine your dreams more closely as they reflect our subconscious, something is going on if you are having reoccuring dreams. some people get dream dictionaries but i feel like usually we can interpret our own dreams pretty well most of the time.
    i've been having sleep paralysis of sorts lately, i will try and wake up or sit up and i can't..its like i've turned to stone and ill scream and try and wake up and event though my eyes are open im still dreaming. scaring the crap outta me!

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    Default Re: consistent weird dreams/nightmares

    I think that means you have anxiety when you are awake.

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    Default Re: consistent weird dreams/nightmares

    I am on sleeping medication but I've been on it for so long at this point that I can't imagine it could be the cause-- we're talking like, 8 or 9 years on the same medication every single day.

    I'm not sure on the food thing, I would have to think on it, but I don't feel like I've been eating any one thing consistently before bed. I don't know the dreams are so varied I am having a hard time interpreting them! I saw my therapist on Monday but there was so much other stuff I wanted to speak to him about that I didn't get to the dreams, and he's out of town now so I'll have to wait until the end of the next week to Skype with him. Hopefully they've stopped by then...

    Your sleep paralysis thing sounds freaky! Sleep is supposed to be relaxing it sucks when it becomes stressful..

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    well i feel you on the relapse dreams. i used to get those a lot. i used to dream i went back to doing pills and smoking and i felt so much remorse and disappointment in myself and then i woke up relieved! i had worked so hard at quitting those things, and it showed me my biggest fear was going back to that and it was in the back of my mind

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    Default Re: consistent weird dreams/nightmares

    I usually have had weird dreams when something was happening in my life. Is there something going on at the moment in your life? Do you think quitting the club gave you any sort of anxiety? Possibly money anxiety, guilt, fear of going back to the club or meeting the people there (which the rape dreams might imply), the fear that your mother might find out and be ashamed or you (if she doesn't know)..


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    Default Re: consistent weird dreams/nightmares

    I've had three dreams recently that CAME TRUE. They were VERY specific and unusual.
    Anyhow, it scared me so much and creeped me out to the point where I am scared to go to sleep, because I don't want it to happen again.
    The dreams/them coming true weren't "scary" per se, but just the fact that it HAPPENED leaves me with a very eerie feeling.

    I've started taking ZQuill to help me fall asleep. I always wake up around 2 or 3 am. It sucks......

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    Default Re: consistent weird dreams/nightmares

    Dream interpreters tell you that it's not so much what happens in your dreams, but about how you FEEL. Sounds like you are feeling helpless/vulnerable/out of control about something in your life. If so, try to deal with that issue.

    When I was a little girl, I used to have bad dreams. It might sound silly, but at bedtime, my older sister would have me talk out the bad dreams & put my own positive spin on the endings or cliff hangers. Don't know why, but it really helped.

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