FIRST POST - common dream, need help

I'm so very excited, I've been trying to figure this out - and randomly googled, and found this site.

I have had, for years, the same type of dream - variations of it. I am laying in bed (and its current date, etc) its as if my eyes are wide open...same furniture, etc - and my dream will bring in bad things that are chasing me or coming at me. Spiders from the ceiling, shapes flying at me from the window, one time I saw a man in the close with a ladder and he was trying to get up into the attic crawl space. Here is the problem, every time I have this dream, I get out of bed screaming and running around trying to flee the scene. I have run down stairs, I have fallen down the stairs, I throw pillows, I scream my head off.

This week, I dreamed that someone was coming through the wall (meanwhile I was still laying in bed), I saw that they had a dart gun of sorts, and they were going to shoot me with it, I ran around the house with a pillow swatting at my ass because I thought the dart gun was moving around like a heat seeking missile following me around the house, thought if I could swat it away - I would be able to hit it down. The creepiest part is that i ran back upstairs thinking I had "out run" it (stupid I know) and all of a sudden felt this horrible piercing pain in my leg, like a prick. like a dart needle. I fell and woke up on the bathroom floor. :muffin::muffin::muffin:

Every time I have the same issue. I am laying in bed and something comes at me, sometimes I stay in bed and just throw pillows screaming bloody murder, other times I run out of bed down the call. EVERY TIME I wake up - aware of what is going on, really really embarrassed that AGAIN I didn't realize it was a dream. but I remember EVERY bit.

Its like i'm half awake - eyes open and can see my house the whole dream, I mean Im not falling over, I'm running around fully aware - and I just moved so you would think if my eyes were closed I would be hitting walls....and then the dream part is that my mind is adding attacking things, spiders, odd men, etc - things I did not invite into my room.
This has been at LEAST once a week for years and years.

HELP! I am so exhausted, my counselor thinks this is one of the reasons I have chronic fatigue, she thinks I get very little sleep each night...I'm desperate on how to figure out what this means and how to get rid of it!

Thank you :)

Super excited to see if anyone knows about this.

-Leaden321

I am not good at these things but will try to help.

Have you done anything bad in the past, say like stealing some money from your brother or hurt someone's feelings?
You're subconscious may want you to undo what has been done like apologizing to that "someone" that you hurt their feelings.

Maybe when you first dreamt about the dream and got scared, you think 'Its gonna happen again' and it does.
And on and on it goes until you dream about it everynight.

Your subconscious may be trying to help you overcome the obstacle of fear in your life.
or you may feel that there is really no safe place for you.

Maybe you feel that someone is going to "stab you in the back" and be betrayed by someone in your life.

I don't know if these will help, but it may give you some idea as to why these dreams occur.