Affraid of sleeping,because of dream that come every night

[Julia32]

Hi everyone does anyone experience to dream about something like every night? I keep dreaming the same strange dream like every night for a week now. Apart from that dream I had also diffrent dreams because like I wake up at night and like after 1 hour I
go back sleep again....this dream is kinda scary I always dream about huge chaos in airports, on train stations, even on bus stops,people try to enter ships and boats but they can't travel, there is always panic and people squeezing each other and I always find myself in the middle of that that I can't even move. There is lots arguments with the authorities, is dark,everywhere people screaming they want to enter plane,but they can't. Then like people in black clothes checking something on people skins and the people going after me but I run from them in that dream and from.the running I always wake up-they never catch me... this dream is repeating like for week.and every time I wake up.straight away I have panic attack that last even 1 hour. This make me difficult to fall sleep again and day time I always tired and feel extreme fatigue I have no energy I find myself this week lie down in bed more time in day time. My energy level drop very low this is not just normal tiredness. Is started all.after this crazy dream,but I don't know why I dream that do anyone experience this? Does this dream gonna stop? Maybe I have some disease that make me tired? But is always after that dream and last until afternoon after the symptoms get better but after this dream start again

 

[Phillies Phan]

I have a lot of what I call anxiety dreams. Some are worse than others. I had a horrifying one that built on a theme my dreams have had, the other night. The worst is hoping it’s a dream while it’s occurring, but every attempt to wake from the dream fails, until finally I open my eyes. It’s the mind responding to the stress in our lives, either in general or specific to one or more ongoing issues in your life. My anxieties are health related so those are the themes of my dreams, like teeth falling out, fear no one can hear me but I hear voices, and I could go on. Until we resolve the anxiety, the dreams will likely continue unfortunately.

You‘re not alone Julia.

 

[MATD]

Like Phillies Pham said. Dreams like yours are anxiety induced. If it is possible, accept them as such, understanding goes a long way toward relieving the resulting anxiety about sleeping. After I lost my husband I dreamt about him leaving me for a long time, the theme was always the same. I learned to accept these troubling dreams as a manifestation of my anxiety and fear of being alone. I rarely dream about it now and I believe it is because I chose to face my fear and deal with it as best as I know how.

 

[Cuchculan]

There are certain things we would dream more about if we suffer from anything. If you had a major fea of anything, for example, chances are it would enter your dreams. If something big was coming up in the near future, it would enter your dreams. More because these things are on your mind. With anxiety we have a lot on our minds. So people with anxiety can have more nightmares than other people. But come the end of the day your dreams cannot hurt you. They are only dreams. Our mind and our subconscious mind going over everything it is holding.

 

[Julia32]

Thank you all for answers. The problem is I have no stressful sytuation for long time now. I rather have normal every day people problems. Nobody was die, I was have no big health problems, no tragedy in family, no financial problems etc so I don't think so this dream is caused by stress. I just need to know how to stop dream every night the same stuff even this night I dream it again and end up with panic attack when I wake up I still tired right after wake up I feel like I never sleeping this dream make me extreme tired in day time

 

[Jonathan123]

Both Freud and Jung regarded dreams as messages from the unconscious. From experience I know that to be true. It is while I was counselling that I came to realise how true it was, The interpterion of dreams is an art. Now this is a very controversial subject and many will disagree. I can only speak from my own experiences. Dreams can come about through medication, such as anti depressants. But the messages are the same because in the unconscious all inhibitions drop away. The unconscious mind sees things as they are and not as we would want them to be. We should never be afraid of dreams no matter how disturbing they may be. What is your dream telling you Julia? Dreams such as yours do stop once the situation is resolved, whatever it may be. Dreams talk to us in symbols, that is the language of dreams. A Chinese person will have the same dreams as a Western person, but in the symbols of his/her own environment. If we ignore dreams and just regard them as something that happens because we are anxious then we miss a good opportunity to resolve our problems.
When I was in a GAD state I had repetitive dreams about America, The union flag was on every building and skyscapes were everywhere.
My old counsellor saw this as entry into a New World, which America has been seen as. At the time I took it with some scepticism, but I now see it to have been true. It was telling me to wait because I would enter a new world and I did. My life changed so much for the better. Pre cognitive dreams also occur. It is on record in many countries that some people have dreams foretelling future events.
As I have said, there will be many who disagree about this subject, but the question still needs to be answered, why do we dream?
It is too simplistic to say they are the result of outside events in our lives. Of course they are, but why do they occur?