Nightly Dreams About Recent Break-up

A week ago, my five-year on/off relationship with my boyfriend ended, sort of on bad terms. We haven't spoken since that day, which is a long time for us. Since the break up, I have been having nightly dreams about him. During the relationship I did have dreams of him but it wasn't often. Now it is every night; some are happy dreams where we are just out doing things together and some are about me seeing him with other women and moving on or about us fighting. I'm not lucid in any of these dreams, although I have had the experience before in other dreams; but these dreams are the kind that feel so real that when I wake up from them, I feel like we never even stopped communicating and it throws off my sense of reality.
I don't know whether the dreams mean anything specific or if they are just my unconscious way of keeping him in my life. Any ideas? Has anyone else had dreams of similar content before? :uhm:

Haven't been in a situation like this, but when you are constantly thinking about something it's obviously going to come up in your dreams. Your dreams also help you deal with things that happen in your waking life and sort through information and which memories to store for long term etc. So it's probably normal you're dreaming about someone you were with for 5 years and then abruptly don't see anymore.

you'll probably dwell on this for a while.
and that's okay, you were together for a long time and i'm sure he meant a lot to you.

it just takes time to heal. the dreams will stop, or gradually fade away.

:content: thanks for the help

I'm experiencing something similar now. I was involved with this girl and things ended badly and ever since (6 months or so), I've been dreaming about her constantly. Sometimes the dreams are nice but mostly I'm either angry or upset in them. In my opinion its my subconscious telling me to deal with the issue, but I really don't want to.

I think its no suprise in your case. When you're that close to someone, its natural for them to be on your mind a lot afterwards, but like quicksilver said, I think it will just fade with time or when you move on.