Psychotic dreams

[Triceratops]

I've always been one to have extremely abnormal dreams ever since I was very young, but recently they've been getting far, far too extreme. I won't go into detail about them since I'm too lazy to type out masses of text, and I think describing the content of my dreams would quite literally get me banned from the site. They involve a whole manner of sick and twisted things. Tbh, the thought of typing them all out makes me feel anxious and shivery.

Most people forget their dreams after a while, but these can haunt me for months and months. I wouldn't say I'm scared of them, but I just feel kinda weirded out by them throughout the day. I can never take my mind off what I've dreamt about. I don't tell anyone about my dreams because people would think I have a severe mental illness. I don't even tell my psychologist, just incase he sends me to a loony bin or something.

I don't really know why I'm making this thread...I just have a million and one things going through my head right now. Qwertyuiopasdfghjkljmnbvcdstyjthrgsrtdrfredfghjkl.

[georgiamay]

:hug3:

I obsess over dreams all the time, I think it's pretty normal. Or not, I've never been sure whether my dreams are normal or not, mine can get pretty twisted.

I never tell anyone about my intrusive dreams/thoughts, ever. My dad read about them when he read my diary (but that's an entirely different story), but even then I didn't go into detail. I typed it out in a word document once, but then I freaked out, deleted it all, and almost had a panic attack. I wouldn't tell the psychiatrist or my psychologist about it either. They're aware of them, but detail? Fuck no, not happening, ever.

I don't even know why I'm replying tbh, I just saw this and was like... I get that. Idk. :P

[love is louder]

I to have really disturbing dreams
sometimes i have 3 or 4 a night almost all of them waking me like a bad dream
and i can remember all of them! sometimes not exactly what happened but most of them i remember the feeling they gave me.
sometimes i put off going to sleep because they are that bad. but then it creeps into my waking life!
sometimes it can be as random as spider man getting shot by gansters (stupid but when im asleep i dont like it. to a bath full of blood .... im not going much further into it
i have never told my therapist about them in detail but she says they are all metaphors for something. maybe it would be an idea to try and work out what they mean?

[Triceratops]

:hug3:

I obsess over dreams all the time, I think it's pretty normal. Or not, I've never been sure whether my dreams are normal or not, mine can get pretty twisted.

I never tell anyone about my intrusive dreams/thoughts, ever. My dad read about them when he read my diary (but that's an entirely different story), but even then I didn't go into detail. I typed it out in a word document once, but then I freaked out, deleted it all, and almost had a panic attack. I wouldn't tell the psychiatrist or my psychologist about it either. They're aware of them, but detail? Fuck no, not happening, ever.

I don't even know why I'm replying tbh, I just saw this and was like... I get that. Idk. :P

Tbh I wasn't expecting any good replies, so thanks for this Georgia. :)

I honestly think it's wise not to reveal any details to the psychologist, because they'll end up thinking that there's an extreme problem going on when there probably isn't. I s'pose that goes for myself and all. Whenever I tell someone something I consider a "minor" problem, they react as though I've told them something really serious, so yeah I guess keeping quiet for the mean time is a better option.

EDIT: Sorry Dark Defender, I didn't see your post when I was replying to Georgia. I too can get put off sleeping - depending on the severity of my dreams at the time. I agree with your therapist about fragments of dreams being metaphors for things in reality. I've always been interested in dream interpretation as well.

[love is louder]

no bother
im not an expert but what iv been told is there are two kinds of sleep and they are REM sleep and slow wave sleep
if you are having a lot of REM sleep (rapid eye movement) ((dreeming sleep)) your body isnt recharging its self for the next day
Slow wave sleep is a non dreaming state where you are almost parylised is when you recharge
if you are having a lot of bad dreams this isnt letting your body recharge and it will start to ware you out (which is where i am now) i hardly sleep and wen i do i feel more tired in the morning!
as i say im not an expert but my advice would be to sort it out soon.

[insanity]

I used to get heaps of dreams when I was younger. they used to be preety graphical and scared me alot, it got into the stage when I was to scared to go to sleep. I went to heaps of doctors and stuff who all tried to help me, but in the end one of mums friends who works alot of metephysical stuff monatared me for awhile and found out I was astral traveling or something and had been somewhere distrubing :S she manged to fix the problem, and I can sleep again. But thats just my familys weird beliefs, you might believe something different (: but if the problem keeps getting worse you could always look into past lifes or some other sort of metephysical dream work that might help....

[love is louder]

anything is possible. i watched a documentry on this kid with autism and everynight he went to this same place and he could describe it all clearly and he got hypnotised by this bloke and this historian was there and aparently he was going back to his past life in his dreams and the historian could tell exactly where it was and what year. pretty cool if you believe in that sort of thing eh.
and if your mams friend 'fixed' you before. couldnt you go to her for the same thing this time?

[Fiction]

I have pretty messed up dreams too, ones that I will never go into detail about. I think they're pretty normal? Kind of? I don't know my most messed up ones are based around memories, although these memories are sometimes exagerated.