ROCD and dreams

Ok so it seems my OCD has resorted to being in my DREAMS .. I’ve had three dreams in the past 2 weeks about men I had small crushes on in high school (not even people I’ve HU with in the past.. weird)… and I just had one last night and we only did slight sexual things but what’s crazy is I could feel myself in the dream becoming anxious.. that i was comparing this guy to my boyfriend in real life and our sex life etc. it’s crazy how our brains do this. It’s SO HARD not to want to examine the dreams. Because it’s like .. why the hell am I dreaming this? why does OCD want to test me so badly? The dream is literally one big exposure and in the dream, I was checking/comparing my relationship to the person I was with. I couldn’t help it. I was dreaming! However, when I woke up, I felt anxious. I breathed deeply and told myself it’s just a dream and that there is no need to examine the dreams. Have you ever experienced this?

sylvy

Date posted: 3y

Wow congratulations on telling yourself there's no need to examine your dream. When I dream things like that, I usually check what it means and then think about it all day.

Klynn2700

Date posted: 3y

thank you! I’m learning a lot, but doing that is one of the only ways that helps me. Especially when it’s like 5am and you’re distraught and crying because of something.. when I told my therapist yesterday.. she said it’s normal to sometimes have dreams of people you barely talked to, or maybe have.. but don’t associate with. It’s also normal to have OCD sneak into your dreams to make sure you know all is well (when in reality it’s making you think it’s not lol).. it’s crazy because I did a compulsion IN MY DREAM.. and I couldn’t stop it. I was comparing and checking the person I was with with my boyfriend. normal people may be upset over it shortly, and then move on like oh well. It will take us time!

sylvy

Date posted: 3y

@Klynn2700 Yes, thank you for your answer. And I think I prefer that my brain tries to figure it out during my sleep than when I'm awake.

_MO

Date posted: 3y

I’ve been having dreams with my themes lately too! Extremely bothersome in my opinion, but I’m still in the early phases of learning ERP.

Klynn2700

Date posted: 3y

yes they are!! i just commented above about how I got through it, but it’s actually insane how our brains work. I’m 4 months into therapy but I still feel so new at this. The biggest thing I want to work on is setting up a “self-therapy” schedule, to do exposures for around 20 minutes a day

auroramaple

Date posted: 3y

I literally dream about cheating on my boyfriend/him cheating on me ALL the time. It must just be our anxieties manifesting into our dreams. I can relate to having those feelings when you wake up too! It’s great to realise that dreams are just dreams and we can’t control them. When you realise this, you can apply the same outlook to intrusive thoughts, they’re just thoughts and we can’t control them 😊

Klynn2700

Date posted: 3y

I love this ❤️❤️❤️ thank you so much for sharing. Our brains are wild things

Klynn2700

Date posted: 3y

It’s so hard NOT to want to examine our dreams! Especially when we are so used to doing that normally. My therapist said my brain is like a detective lol

rane75

Date posted: 24w

Does anyone know if dreams and OCD have connection

I have very odd dreams and they always have to do with my intrusive thoughts. I will have nightmares about all of the things i don’t want to happen and i am afraid of and even thought this is normal, i never have real dreams. Only nightmares.I also always remember my dreams and have 3-7 dreams a night even if i only sleep 6 hours. i wonder if anyone feels the same way or has a story to share

OCD_girly

Date posted: 14w

Hocd dreams

I know people say ocd can manifest in your dreams. I had a semi sexual dream, in that there was a naked woman and I enjoyed the dream so surely that can't be ocd. Idk this shit is annoying.

Whatabtme

Date posted: 6w

Rocd triggered, ran into guy I have history with

Ocd sucks. I’m at a stay away multiple days long event for school rn and ran into someone I used to talk with. We had a will they won’t they kind of thing for years and knew each other all growing up. I knew when we were really young that he had a crush on me for a while. And then when we got older there were times I had a crush on him but I don’t think he liked me anymore at that point. I never fully knew where he stood because he often was in a relationship or living somewhere else. Because we never dated or kissed or anything, only hung out on ambiguous date-like occasions, there has always been that what if sitting there for me and I hadn’t seen or spoken to him since before I met my current partner years ago. Well they happen to be at this place I’m staying at, where we are in the same places everyday, and I ran into them, said hi and caught up for a bit. It has totally triggered my ROCD in a way I’ve never experienced. I feel guilt and shame and keep having intrusive thoughts that are so extreme and catastrophic like what if I leave my partner of 8 years for him, what if I find him more attractive than my partner, what if I cross a line while I’m interacting with him this week, what if I’m a terrible girlfriend to my partner and a fraud??

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