I used to have extremely violent dreams when I was 16-20 (I'm 25 right now). I feel it's in large due to my traumatic brain injury. It caused severe depression, extreme social anxiety along with equally extreme social withdrawal and isolation. Something I had to deal with was very vivid, often uncontrollable (although sometimes I indulged in them) violent, homicidal fantasies on an extremely regular basis. Hatred and absurd levels of aggression and agitation/annoyance were just a part of all that.
Obviously I was pretty disturbed at the time, but does any of that sound like you, even if it seems far more extreme in my case? If not, I'm not really sure what it could mean. Do you consume a lot of media centered around violence and gore?
Here are some examples of some of my dreams--if you feel weird about yours at all, perhaps mine might make you feel more normal:
I often found myself having gore filled dreams back then. I had one where I was a disembodied camera and I watched the story of a Korean guy who got tied up with a Korean mob/crime syndicate, who went into a bar and the mob went after him... one mobster guy came up close to him in a crowded area and had a chainsaw and used it to cut a random civilian's head in half and blood and brains went everywhere. Several others involved me either killing somebody circumstantially (I stabbed my dad in the back while he was facing me with a knife he used to attack me that I wrestled out of his hands by making him stab a pillow I picked up, held out in front of me, and twisted to wrench it free--technically self defense, but he was oddly sorry about attacking me as I basically was holding him in a kind of hug with the my hand still clutching the knife I plunged in his back as he was dying), or being forced to kill people with random blunt objects for no other reason than I felt compelled to by a mysterious force that I felt powerless to, and usually they would cling to life for several minutes while I was forced to maul them to actually get them to die. Despite being filled with hate and aggression and having homicidal fantasies regularly at the time, in the dreams I never really wanted to kill the people but I was forced to.
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