Blumenkohl1

Date posted: 1y

Repeatedly bad dreams

I am lucky that I can sleep throughout most of the night but I keep waking up to either horrendous anxiety inducing ocd dreams or nightmares that kind of come with a mild sleep paralysis. Does anyone have suggestions if theres a way for me to stop the dreams or how to respond mindfully to them? They feel so real, especially the ocd dreams and sometimes it even feels like they swap into reality, leaving the same feelings like I had in the dream :(

Diondru

Date posted: 1y

Dude this literally happens to me !! Is that my OCD fr????

Blumenkohl1

Date posted: 1y

@Diondru Its so irritating right! I hope the dreams get less when I continue in therapy sigh

Anonymous

Date posted: 1y

Maybe say the dream felt real, but it wasn't. The feelings aren't facts. Maybe allow yourself to do 5 senses, that is say one thing you see, one thing you hear, one thing you smell, one thing you touch, etc. Do you believe in God ?I will pray for you.

Blumenkohl1

Date posted: 1y

@Anonymous That’s a good idea! Thank you for your tips:) Yes I am a believer! I always pray for good dreams but often I still dream weird. I appreciate your prayers a lot tho! I will also pray for you💜

Kaila R.

Date posted: 1y

I always have nightmares, ones where I feel too much for it to be just a dream. And my nightmares feel worse then the word nightmare idk how to explain them and the severity of it, they are just purely evil and when I tell people I have nightmares regularly where it’s not normal every night they probably think I had a clown chasing me with a knife, it’s worse then that, that would be a nice change then the ones I have. Mine feel so demonic and weird and and like I said too real where at times I genuinely think I’m there or that I get conscious in the dream somehow and try to wake but I can’t. I also have dreams where I am nothing but a conscious what it feels like death would be like longing for air and to see again. They scare me and make me question my sanity because every time I wake up I think to myself wtf. At this point I wish I could just turn off my dream mode when I’m sleeping and finally feel somewhat at peace because I wake up feeling so anxious and scared and unsettled. Nobody understands they aren’t just nightmares to me, they are another part of my life that continues when I’m sleeping time ceases to exist and everything horrible is a possibility in the world I enter when I sleep. I used to be hesitant to fall asleep and would stay up but I can’t do anything about it so I try my best to feel comfortable listening to music until I fall back into the dark world that awaits in my mind. I know they are just dreams. But why do they affect me so much if it’s just “a dream” :(

Blumenkohl1

Date posted: 1y

@Kaila R. I am so so sorry that you’re experiencing this! I will pray for you and keep you in my thoughts! Just remember that God is with you (if you believe/ want to believe in him) and that you don’t need to be scared because dreams can’t harm you. Just know that I already experienced the same and I know how scary it is, feeling like the thoughts/feelings from dreams continue during the day - its so scary. But I believe that God is bigger and nothing will harm us💜

Blumenkohl1

Date posted: 1y

@Kaila R. Maybe you can start saying the name Jesus before you go to bed, I truly believe that there’s so much authority in his name! It’s just a suggestion but you can try it if you like:)

Anonymous

Date posted: 1y

I have learned that the word of God is powerful. If u have a Bible start reading it out loud. Read psalm 91 and put your name in it. Read Psalm 20 and Psalm 121. Also, start playing Psalm 91 every night. God loves u and he is with you. Read Psalm 139.

Blumenkohl1

Date posted: 1y

@Anonymous Oh my goodness Psalm 91 has been on my heart since ocd started! Various people have confirmed it while praying and speaking it over me, not knowing that this has been a verse close to my heart 🥹 Thank you for reminding me! I will continue to speak bible verses out loud, I believe that words have power and that my spirit is growing stronger the more I speak the truth over myself! I am so sorry that you went through horrible nightmares. Are you better?

Anonymous

Date posted: 1y

Thanks! Talk soon.

Anonymous

Date posted: 1y

I'm sorry you're having such a bad dreams. I can relate had bad dreams as when I was a kid I had a recurring dream in which someone was coming to tell me in my parents or something like that. I also had a dream where a snake was chasing me. Do u read the Bible?

Anonymous

Date posted: 1y

Correction. In the dream someone was coming to kill me and my parents or something like that.

Crazylady

Date posted: 1y

That happened to me this morning. I had to think for awhile about whether my nightmare was real or not. And it was definitely an OCD related dream.

Blumenkohl1

Date posted: 1y

@Crazylady Its so weird and scary isnt it

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

eea

Date posted: 22w

Help

Lately I have been having really really bad existential ocd the thoughts and compulsions never stop they are even in my dreams I resist compulsions as long as I can but I just want this to go away I keep thinking about how many hours in a day people would have if they weren’t like me I just feel so awful every second I feel like I’m living a double life I only know about I just want this to all go away

Vangogh00021

Date posted: 15w

Help please

I was trying to sleep in an aunt house and I’m suffering from nightmares or when I take naps or sleep I dream horrible things, and I took a little nap and I was about to start having a nightmare and I woke up. There’s a person that lives here and he’s not even here but I was about to have a dream with him it’s so scary he’s not even my family member or anything. And like it’s a delicate topic. But it’s the feeling that I can’t even sleep sometimes without dreaming this things that are so scary . And the groinal responses are about to kill me ! This is truly destroying my life I don’t know what to do I don’t want to be like this but I’m too tired to stay awake and too tired to sleep

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