So, recently I've been having both recurring dreams about my ex-boyfriend and very violent themes. I'll begin with my dreams about my ex...
For about a week in a row, I had a very similar dream every night involving my ex. He just kind of "popped up" in the dream in very random public places--in front of my mall, in front of a building on my campus, etc. The weird thing is I never dreamt about him this much in my life until about 2 weeks ago, even when we had been dating. Anyways, when he appears in the dream, we just talk about little things, once or twice he's hugged me. It's extremely friendly though we do not talk to each other now and while we were dating he was more of an asshole than a nice guy; maybe this is the reason that these dreams are occurring, also perhaps because I have a new boyfriend who I love very much and hate thinking of my ex all the time.
Now my violent dreams vary a lot and maybe I will go into more detail about them later but a majority of them involve this theme of intense guilt and throughout the dreams I feel like I have murdered someone. In a few of these dreams I was actually searching for the body of the person that I had killed and was desperately trying to hide it.
These dreams are very distressing to me in different ways. HELP?!?!