Had an intrusive dream and then woke up very anxious. So I compulsively started googling ( I wish I didn’t ) and saw an article that says some dreams come true in real life. That article also provides evidences about it. I am so terrified now I can’t stop crying. I couldn’t sleep the whole night also.
I am so so sorry. Truly. I’ve been there too with so many disturbing intrusive dreams related to some of my OCD subtypes (SOOCD, ROCD, etc) and wake up freaking out and googling everything. I know dreams are such a complex and often limited researched topic in the world of neuroscience and brain research but I try as much as I can to say like okay my brain got so creative my ocd thoughts and turned them into a “movie” to experience them, like that’s how manipulative and sneaky OCD is. We spend so so so many hours of our days awake thinking these spiraling intrusive thoughts, so they’re bound to get into our subconscious dream world too and manifest in these deeply uncomfortable scenarios. I really try to look at it logically in that way of like of course we’re gunna have uncomfortable dreams if we also face lots of ocd awake, like of course it’s gunna come up in this new context of sleep and feel SO real and almost like we lived it and felt it so vividly. Anyhow I just want you to know you’re not alone and that in my experience of having an extremely active and immersive imagination and dream world, I have the wackiest, strangest most sensory vivid dreams and even the most disturbing of them haven’t happened in the ways they play out in my recollection of the dream, like over the years of my life they really don’t come true, and even when I’m scared they will, they don’t. So I hope it’s helpful that you’re able to be like “yup that dream was freaking awful, moving on now” and not assign it value beyond a strange loopy uncontrollable subconscious state that dreaming is! Sending you all my support and care!
@Flowers123 Thank you so much. Your words are so helpful and comforting for me. I have already spent a few hours googling and now I’m trying not to google anything about it again. I am just trying to move on and do other things in spite of feeling really scared. Thank you!
@Lin Thu That’s amazing you’re trying to do other things with the fear there still. I’m so proud of you! My best friend always tells me the saying “do it scared” when I wanna do something that I genuinely want to do but the fear tries to stop me. Well instead of saying like “oh no, I gotta work through the fear to get rid of it and THEN I can do the thing” I shift the thinking to “oh yes, I feel very scared, and I also want to do ____, well I’m gunna do ___ and also acknowledge and let my fear come along with me for the ride.” Anyhow, doing other things to move on even if it isn’t going smoothly and you end up googling again later, is still a WIN! Like any time you can not engage with your compulsions it’s still a WIN! Our paths with all this OCD stuff I’m coming to learn, really aren’t linear and anytime you can use your RPMs and disengage with OCD is part of the progress/managing OCD! I’m rooting for you and for all of us, we’re in the struggle but accompanying each other through it!
Oh my god that is so terrifying I feel your pain. I’m so sorry
@kat7 I really wish I didn’t read that article. Now I am so terrified and can’t stop crying.
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
TW I have to watch this show for one of my classes and towards the end of one episode a naked baby boy was completely exposed. I didn’t expect it, I didn’t know it was about to be shown. I’m already ruminating on whether I’m a terrible person for watching it and whether I actually did or did not know. Nevertheless, I tried the SOS button but I fear intrusive thoughts/urges are going to happen and now I can’t sleep. How do I prevent them from happening before they do? Is that even possible? Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
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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