Thread: Dreams that have really disturbed me - looking for answers.

Everybody has those dreams once in a while I had dreams where I was a maniac and started killing everybody am I like that in real life no? it is really weird the things that go in your head when you are sleeping. Just don't worry about it all I have to say is it is just a dream.

Wow, your dream has so much detail... I'm sorry to hear that you are stressed out from these dreams.
I constantly have dreams about being chased but never anything to the same extent as yours!
I'm not really sure that I can help you. I'm sure you're not losing your mind!
Perhaps Dexter is your "enabler" to add the morbidness to your dream.

You'll be ok!! Is it a recurring dream or was it a once off?

This may sound a bit vague and strange, but try to do more exercises. From my experience, theses kind of dream tend to happen when you're stressed out and carrying relatively too much energy. The other benefit coming from spending this extra bit of energy would be the well being feeling you get out of any kind of exercises(chemical).

Had a friend experiencing similar dreams, which were equally disturbing. After he got a little more active, he stopped having theses dreams.

Another path we could look up would be your feeling towards whats coming up. University can build up pressure, and stress. Also, it would be interesting to know whats motivating you to go there. Any familial back-pushing? I mean, I could easily puzzle it out if for example, through expectation, stress and anxiousness your subconscious would cook up such a dream.

Very normal. Everyone at some point in time has a dream that's too disturbing to even try to remember. I admire your courage to post something like this here and am quite amazed that your not getting flamed. Kudos to all the other members. I wouldn't worry about it. I can't think of a way to dodge these types of dreams, sorry ;_; Best way i can think of is. If you have a dream similar just get up and turn on music and keep your body moving and focus on the loud music and sing along. Clears my head. Also love your username. A Scanner Darkly is one of my all time favorite movies If you want to have some crazy dreams you should see it!

Yeah, their right.
Dreams have a funny paradox to them. Sometimes you have those horrifying nightmares that are so bad that you feel like nobody will ever know how truly bad you felt throughout the ordeal no matter how hard you tried to explain. And on the other hand, Im sure we've all had those wonderful, fantasy-like dreams that you know would be impossible to describe the euphoria that it's given you.
So some dreams will be bad, some will be good; but you try to make them all good by being Lucid.

I've had a dream like that before, I was at this pool party and there were all these women in brightly colored dresses. I preceded to drown everyone of them in the pool, and they were all floating in it. I also had a big beard and my face was all scared up. I woke up feeling very traumatized as well.

I think most of the reason I had a dream like that was because I was going through a depressing and stressed time in my life. I think the exercise option might be a good idea, as it's proven to help with stress.
Alternatively you could try Salvia, as it's had some proven benefits to people with dream problems, or depression. I've experienced with it and had some good effects. Many people report it helps unearth underlying emotional problems in their dreams, and increases lucid dreaming: here's some sites with info if your interested:

Salvia emotional help article
[EDIT]- salvia scotland link
www.salviasource.org

Also you don't happen to resemble my clay lady do you?
jk

I'm sorry that you had to experience this, sounds terrible. But you're not responsible for what you do in your dreams. It's clear that you didn't want or like any of it on any level. I find that in dreams, I'll sometimes take on characters roles and act completely different from myself. You just seemed to have taken on the role too.

I see two possibilities:

1) You may be encountering a negative entity assuming the form of your mother. Negative entities commonly take on such forms because they represent security and protection.

2) You may be dealing with a past life issue.

Understanding these dreams usually involves learning much about the dreamer's waking life, which would not be appropriate in this setting.

You shouldn't feel too bad about the dream. I've had quite a few dreams similar to yours that involve acts of incest, but I think it's just your mind creating nightmares, because from your writing I can tell you're a smart, rational person - stereotypical "nightmares" probably don't scare you (they don't scare me, instead I get a lot of enjoyment out of them, because they're like a decent horror film, which is rare), so our minds come up with something else that would scare us. I can tell you, the dreams that I have where I somehow end up doing something twisted to one or more family members terrify me more than anything.

I always exclude those dreams from my dream journal, even personal dream entries that no one else sees, because they freak me out that much; it's just something I don't want in my head.

In other dreams, I've done equally screwed-up things like brutal murder, rape, necrophilia, killing animals... But in my dreams I'm just a different person, who makes different decisions for the sake of the story in the dream. In the waking life I'm a different person again, one who has better morals.

I used to have a recurring dream in which I had killed someone. It was always that someone discovered a body part in the yard and I was afraid that I was going to get caught. No one knew I had killed this 'person' and I couldn't even remember having killed anyone.

As I thought over this and tried to use logic saying 'I didn't kill anyone, I couldn't even remember doing it or who or why in the dream' the dreams started to evolve as if my brain were making up a senario.

I think it did that because humans are story tellers and we want to know why and all that nonsense when sometimes a cigar is just a cigar as Freud would say. And no I am not an expert on Freud, I just know his name and that he wrote a book :-)

Dreams can be really powerful things and I am glad you shared yours because it helps others to read this and to know that they are not alone in having the same crazy experiences. So, thank you for being brave *big hugs* because I also have strange dreams at times that I really do not know how to explain and it is good to know that others have had similar. It makes you feel better and less crazy and you can then deal with it.

I hope, really hope, this makes you feel better. Like some other persons suggested, work out and get some sweat going a few days a week and that will help. You might also check your diet and try to get better more healthier foods in. You are what you eat and your body needs nutrients.

If you still get scared by your dreams and they really bother you then please talk to a councellor, there is NOTHING to be ashamed of in that. We all here at the boards love dreaming and want to help others as best we can, but we are just regular folk like you and not qualified to do anything like a councellor can.

Hope you are feeling better soon.

:-)