Does Anyone Else Get "Abusive" Nightmares

[Fallen_embers]

I was sent into a recovery community for an eating disorder and severe depression and that means I've been away from my dad and the abuse, which is great, I've never bee happier but now I've started having nightmares about him, and some of the staff here hurting me.
Some of the dreams are like reliving memories from when I was younger, but instead of the little me, it's the present me thats suffering.

I have a reoccuring one about my Dad coming to visit me (this never happens in real life anyway as he doesn't give a fuck about me) and one of the nurses, Jean, comes to tell me and as she starts to walk with me to the visitors room I decide to run away and then all the other nurses start looking for me so I go hide in one of the cubicles in the toilets and shes trashing the place as she screams at me to come out from where I'm hiding and then when she finds me shes pulling my hair and hitting me and I'm trying so hard to crawl away but her grips so strong as she tries to drag me to the visitors room. and then I wake up in a total panic and my head refuses to let me sleep for the rest of the stupid night :mad:

I was just wondering if anyone else has nightmares about being abused. It seems ironic that when it's stoped in real life it starts in my dreams.

[Grey fox]

I think that maybe its happening as a way of your subconscious starting to get over it.

It sounds horrid though, but at least you can wake up though, right?

Try to remember that is it just a horrible dream, and not real.

I sometimes have bad dreams in which im raped and stabbed, but I have no idea why, and as long as i can wake up, and turn my light on, I find that it stops me worrying overly.

*hug*

[Fallen_embers]

Yeah I can wake myself up as soon as I realise, also the more I worry about it I don't seem to have them, and then they come back when I'm relaxed and happy, aaah its annoying >.<

I hate dreams with pain, I can feel it :hug: the dreams about being raped and stabbed though sound awful :(

[Grey fox]

I think then its your subconscious trying to get over such a big trauma like the one you said you've been through. it sounds really, truly awful, and do not envy you in the slightest. :(

Your dreams should get better in time, as time is a great healer!

[Fallen_embers]

Yeah, I hope so, it makes sense anyway thank youy :)

:hug:

[peaceloverugby]

Yeah, I have had nightmares where my dad is hitting me, but not very often.

[TigerLily]

I've had dreams with my mother in them, ranging from just her following me around everywhere I went (following me both at this age and as I grew older in the dream), to her stabbing me through the heart with a knife...

The worst one I remember quite vividly, it started with me, my father and my little sister fleeing our home once I had received some sort of death threat, then suddenly we were in the high street of the town where my mother lived, and next thing I knew the whole thing had escalated into a sort of battle.. idk how to explain.. My mothers side had what seemed like hundreds and hundreds of people, all wearing this haunting masks so you couldnt see their eyes and carrying swords and knives.. and me, well my family had disappeared, and I was all alone.. I remember trying to hide down this little path until I saw that it was a dead end, then I looked behind me, only to see her standing over my shoulder... the dream ended with me on the floor, taking my last breaths lying surrounded in my own blood, with the blade still stuck in my chest...

[overcome.]

I've had dreams before that've been quite violent and abusive. I've never been abused, bullied, had a fight, anything. I've had several dreams lately about getting beaten up by groups of people, and getting chased along our seafront on a bike :confused: I've had three dreams that I've killed people as well, two of which I know, one of which I dislike. Weird...

[cranberry]

sexual events or incest, its not that mean.. but its kind of disturbing.

[Beautiful Obsession]

I have had a few dreams beingg abused, theres not really alot you can do about it though, try speaking about it maybe to one of the nurses?

dont know if it wud help but it might do?

[Fallen_embers]

It might do... out of recovery now so I'm freeee :)
I've had dreams about killing people too, usually about killing my brothers with something silly like a plastic spade or a shoe... weird really :/

thanks :)