Having real pain in dreams
So I've looked around and read up what other people are saying and I've found some posts that were similar to my experiences I'm having, but not quite the same.
This has mainly started up within the past few years, but its gotten progressively worse and worse.
I've never been the best of sleepers and wake up a lot at night, but these nightmares don't LET me wake up. Even if I realize I am having a nightmare and tell myself to wake up I'm just stuck in the nightmare. That's not even the worst part though. There has been a lot of these nightmares that for whatever reason I'll be getting killed. I've had times where for example: I was in a restaurant and suddenly people came in and started shooting up the place. I managed to run out of the restaurant, but one of the men ran after me and shot me in the head. I collapsed to the ground and felt the cold cement from the sidewalk on my stomach, and felt the hot warm sensation of the blood trickling down from my head. It started burning really bad and I can't even describe how painful it was. Then things started numbing out and getting cold. I felt like I was losing sight of everything. My life was letting go. To make matters worse when police arrived at the station I could hear them talking just standing over my body saying I was dead and that they would have to find my family and explaint hat their little girl has been shot and killed and just talking about me. It was horrible. I finally woke up after I saw the light and everything went dark and cold.
There has been so many of these I have lost count. They've ranged from getting shot to getting caught by a tribe on an abandoned island and being tortured. Stabbing, shooting, scratching, cutting, anything. I feel it all.
Then I was finally accepting the fact that I was probably just stressed out or something and would have to deal with these constant nightmares until I watched a video. It was an interview with a younger man who had actually physically (in real life) been shot in the head, chest, and arm and was left to die. What made these nightmares so terrifying was that the way this man was describing how he felt, what he felt, what people were saying, literally everything....was EXACT to how I feel in this nightmares. I heard that and started crying. Someone please give me some advice because I get no sleep anymore and wake up sweating, crying, screaming, heart racing, everything. I don't understand how it can all physically hurt me if they're just dreams. Help please! :whyohwhy:
