Disturbing dreams

It doesn't need anything obvious in your life. dreams are more a reflection of our health and the elctrochemical mix that is our brain.

I went through a phase of having really vile dreams, perhaps once a month, so nasty I cannot describe them. I made a point of, once I had woken, consciously not thinking about them, so that I soon forgot them.

This went on for a couple of years and then they stopped, I have had nothing similar since.

I have for many many years had extremely vivid dreams, some just confusing, some just awful.

I have real issues some mornings as they are so real.

I know I find it really hard to “switch off” and think this is the main issue.

I've always had very vivid, dramatic dreams. Not far off nightmares. I just think of them as being like watching a horror film, with me in it of course! But no point dwelling on them in my waking time though. Done and dusted, until the next one.
Do you have a friend or family member who has become ill? Maybe you are subconsciously thinking about them?

Dreams are such strange things aren’t they? Our minds in free fall. I have a recurring dream when I’m anxious in life. I’ve people to feed and not enough food to go round. As I’m dishing up I take food from some plates to make more settings and hopefully put together a decent meal for the visitors.. I wake feeling stressed. There are variations on the theme (I won’t bore you) but I recognise it as a ‘thing’ now and just accept it.

I have very realistic vivid dreams every night. They usually involve my old house with helicopters landing in the neighbours garden and so on. I forget the details as soon as I wake.

Thanks for your thoughts, at least I am not alone. I have always had vivid dreams all my life but the illness one is new. Will put it behind me and get on with things

I was in hospital for major abdominal
surgery recently, in fact I had to have a second operation when there was a complication.
It was extremely painful and I had some horrible dreams, the worst was that I was searching in an enormous building for my deceased DH. Tears of pain and loss.
Since I've been slowly recovering at home, no more dreams but I do not sleep well and rely on Radio 3 Through the Night.

I dream very vividly. I also suffer from myoclonic jerks, night terrors and sleep paralysis, enough to be going on with! I am also an insomniac.

Sometimes I look up what a particular dream means, which can be quite revealing.

You are not alone. When things are really bad I sometimes listen to sleep music on my I pad when I wake up which can be helpful.

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Might just be what you're worried about? Perhaps , as well as enjoying good health , your life is generally going well (at last??😉🤞🤞) ; you can't believe your luck and you are catastrophising that it could all go wrong ?
There's an awful lot of health- related stuff in the news media in general. Also we are constantly being informed about celebrities dying and what they died of( celebrities of our generation are reaching a dying-off age now unfortunately). Derren Brown , that clever entertainer , is fond of saying that stuff " gets into your head" . So it does. Perhaps your dream is as simple as that.
I wish you happier dreams.
I almost never remember mine.

I used to get horrible dreams when I was pregnant, both times.As my last pregnancy was 53 years ago I cannot remember what they were about now but they were not pleasant.Also when I stopping smoking 30 years ago, and using the 24 hour nicotine patches, the things I saw in my dreams! I had a work colleague who was experiencing the same.

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Might just be what you're worried about? Perhaps , as well as enjoying good health , your life is generally going well (at last??😉🤞🤞) ; you can't believe your luck and you are catastrophising that it could all go wrong ?
There's an awful lot of health- related stuff in the news media in general. Also we are constantly being informed about celebrities dying and what they died of( celebrities of our generation are reaching a dying-off age now unfortunately). Derren Brown , that clever entertainer , is fond of saying that stuff " gets into your head" . So it does. Perhaps your dream is as simple as that.
I wish you happier dreams.
I almost never remember mine.

Old thread. I doubt very much that OP is reading.

I am a real big dreamer.
The other night I dreamt I was hoovering various rooms in our house. It went on and on and every time I woke up I was in a different room. It was so vivid, but then all my dreams are.

Some drugs can cause nightmares.
Have you changed any medication?

And some dreams are atmospheric as well, with that atmosphere remaining for several minutes after waking which isn’t nice!

That sense of being severely ill in a dream only to wake up perfectly healthy is such a peculiar experience. It makes you wonder, doesn't it? I've heard of aidreamscope.com/dream-interpreter for dream analysis – maybe it could shed some light on these strange occurrences.

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I am a real big dreamer.
The other night I dreamt I was hoovering various rooms in our house. It went on and on and every time I woke up I was in a different room. It was so vivid, but then all my dreams are.

Still having the same dream!!