Anxiety dreams or nightmares.

I dreamed of the grim reaper one night. It came after reading a book about 'out of the body experiences.' It said in the book how to get out of your body and what to do if you want to get back into your body quickly. It said to wiggle toes, blink, or move your fingers would help you to come back into your body and wake up.

So there was me in this dream after reading this book, and I was sitting on a bench. The grim reaper moving towards me and I thought 5H1t and thought I was a gonna! I started wiggling my toes in my dream and woke up really quickly. As I woke up my toes were moving about so much that it was my whole lower legs shaking about.

That dream was really scary for me but I'm glad that I read that book beforehand otherwise how would my subconscious have known how to wake up from it. Interestingly though, I knew I was in a dream.

I have nightmares pretty much every night. About half the time they're about traumatic things that have happened to me and the other half of the time they're about air accidents and other disasters, or werewolves (I don't know why werewolves!), and sometimes I have dreams about my fiance dying.
I usually wake up gasping for air, sweating, and my heart racing. Sometimes I wake up screaming.
I'm glad I have a cuddly fiance (soon to be husband!!) who can tell me everything is okay and hold me until I go back to sleep.

_Lukas said:

I have nightmares pretty much every night. About half the time they're about traumatic things that have happened to me and the other half of the time they're about air accidents and other disasters, or werewolves (I don't know why werewolves!), and sometimes I have dreams about my fiance dying.
I usually wake up gasping for air, sweating, and my heart racing. Sometimes I wake up screaming.
I'm glad I have a cuddly fiance (soon to be husband!!) who can tell me everything is okay and hold me until I go back to sleep.

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I have dreams and sometimes they are scary, but I don't think of them as nightmares. I try to read into them though and see where they have come from. Most times they are a release of the day's or weeks' events, but sometimes they seem to be symbolic of what may come. Wooooooo

XmasCarol52 said:

Of all things I have awful dreams about zombies and snakes probably because I am so afraid of them.I know it sounds silly but I cannot watch a horror movie with zombies in them because they frighten me so much,I am so afraid that please dont laugh that zombies are going to get us it isnt funny even before I go to sleep at night I always look into my darken bedroom because I have a nasty feeling one in my closet or a bunch of them are outside.Snakes I cannot even stand to look at they make me cringe.

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I can understand you being afraid of snakes, but, being afraid of zombies baffles me a bit. Mainly because I know they are not truly real. Do you associate them with something else in your life Carol? Like a person, you don't like very much or something?

I don't like to watch paranormal movies because I'm scared that is real, but I do watch blood and gore movies before I go to sleep. I just tell myself it's not real. I hate it worse when it is an animal film. Because the animal has to always get hurt or die or into trouble. I can't even watch King Kong movies now!

The zombie rumor around here came right around the time they started to use genetic therapy to treat cancer. The rumor was that one day those same people that took the therapies .... eventually the cells in there body would mutate so much that they would become zombie like creatures.

Snakes don't particularly bother me, in fact it would be extremely hard to find a domestic animal that I'm truly afraid of, since my area of study has always been animal biology and canine psychology. Some wild animals, on the other hand, really terrify me (like coyotes, bears, and big cats) and I absolutely can't with spiders. Interestingly, I'm not afraid of wolves, since they share the same basic genetic and psychological properties as domestic dogs. I would love to work with wolves or foxes. Coyotes though- no way.
I can totally understand being afraid of zombies. Even though real wolves don't scare me, I'm scared to death of werewolves. I know it's illogical and they probably don't exist but when I was a kid, the area I lived in had a rash of werewolf sightings and I was way too scared to even go outside or look out the window at night. I've had a phobia of werewolves ever since. I can't even watch a movie with werewolves in it. This probably sounds completely silly but the movie Little Red Riding Hood (not the original, the remake with Amanda Seyfried) scared the crap out of me.

It has happened with me too.

XmasCarol52 said:

It all started actually when they said in 2012 there was going to be a zombie attack on all of us and we needed to be ready for it.Would you believe that some people actually buy things to protect themselves in case there is a zombie attack I use to be able to watch zombie movies but one day when I was living at home i had this dream there was one in my daughters closet and from then on i became very afraid of them.

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I remember watching a zombie movie donkeys years ago when it was on at the cinema. It made me laugh when a zombie stood up on a rock and got the top of his head sliced off by a helicopter blade.

I read that there is a powder made from plant extracts that when given to a person, or blown in their face, that it makes them like dead. The doctor signs them off as dead but they wake up in the grave with their mind amiss. They wander around with their minds dumb and blank. They are stupid so if they do really exist it may be best just to keep out of their way!