Dreams and predicting the future

Trigger warning: dreams about being attacked/ patterns/“ predicting” I’ve been wanting to talk about this for a while. But dreams are a big part of my ocd, one of the big parts. A lot of my ocd types manifest in them a lot and lately I think I’ve blocked them out(?) but there’s always one dreams that comes to me every middle of the month. And it’s a dream about being attacked by the same heavy set man, with a blue shirt and I’m a younger version of me or me now. When I mean attack I mean he chases me around and attempts to “ass*lt” me but before he actually does it I wake up and I freak out every time. I have reason to believe that this exact thing will happen to be someday? Or even worse it happened to me in the past and I just don’t remember it. It’s sounds scary and ridiculous of course but the fact I have this dream so often it freaks me out and I feel like I need to look out whenever I’m out in public. Especially when I look for places that I find similar from my dream or people I think look similar not even the man himself. I know it’s probably just my head messing with me but having this dream obviously freaks me out. And I’m just waiting for it to happen. Does this happen to anyone else? I know you can’t really get rid of dreams but is there anything I can do?

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Julia.

Date posted: 1y

I have the same thing! I don't know if I can offer any help but reading your post made me feel so much less alone! Ever since I was 12 I've kept detailed records of my dreams, and tried to figure out what they mean. My whole life I've had multiple recurring dreams that I'm convinced are trauma memories that I've repressed, or somehow past life experiences. I spend so much trying to piece together and review real memories and dreams to find meaning in them. The dreams are so vivid and similar each time that it makes me feel like I'm fully going to a different world in my sleep. I have this dream about this 70s style bathroom that I realize is haunted, I always hear this horrible scream and wake up - somehow I am worried that this has to do with s*xual abuse that I've repressed. I also dream about an amusement park that's also a water treatment facility, being trapped in a fun house, and my most common is a dream about being trapped inside this dark aquarium tank with prehistoric fish. On top of the nightmares, I also have a sleep disorder where I have hallucinations almost nightly in my sleep (Always during the first hour of falling asleep, my eyes are open and I'm awake, but in a dream state.) My OCD is truly terrible with these - I pop out of bed in an absolute panic because I think that I was supposed to recite some word at exactly midnight every night or else something terrible will happen, like the house exploding. I think I tend to look for meaning in my dreams to prove that something is wrong with me, like if I could just figure out what happened to me then it's not my fault that my brain feels broken. Dreams are random electrical currents in your brain firing, trying to process all of the stimuli you've experience, and with OCD I think it's really natural to try to assign meaning to them. I try to remind myself that just like not every thought has significance, while dreams are absolutely fascinating and they don't necessarily need to be given any weight.

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Date posted: 1y

@Julia. Thanks for sharing this with me! It’s good to know that someone else knows the feeling. Although I hope your sleep disorder has slowly been remedied over time that sounds like another heavy weight to add onto to another scary thing like ocd. I hope you recover from all that troubles you soon :)

nae nae

Date posted: 25w

Keep experiencing déjà vu

I'm adding a trigger warning for those with Health OCD and Existential OCD, just to be safe! The past week, I've been experiencing a lot of déjà vu. I'll post something and immediately feel a strong sense of familiarity, like I've done it before. It's been happening so often, I'm questioning if I am actually repeating things and not noticing, but then there's obvious moments, like phoning my dad for help fixing my pc that can't be replicated. Then, just before writing this post, I'd been thinking about going on a walk, and I got déjà vu having that thought. After, I felt this strange impending doom? Like, if I go on the walk, I'm going to get kidnapped, or something bad is going to happen to me. I'm not sure what this is. I'm not super freaked out, just curious and keeping track of how often it's happening... I'm still going to go on that walk, though, because I feel like if I don't, it'll feed into this fear I have.

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

Lulu~

Date posted: 17w

False memories + real events (TW: POCD)

Hello 😭, so uhm I’m kind of in the point of my POCD where I’m just tired. I just need to get it all out and get some sort of instruction of how to just idk live? So for me my childhood is pretty blurry. I have a few real event blended with false memory events there but other than that I’m a csa victim. And the way I tried to cope? By fetishising nyself, making CP of myself, seeing my life goal as being used, raped and a prostitue. Self destructive behaviour through talking to pedophiles and seeing my only worth as if I was sexually attractive. Which made me kind of numb to CP as a coping mechanism I guess. And heres’s where my main event of REOCD/false memory ocd comes in. I have a few events in my life when I’ve accidentally stumbled across CP ish mangas or just plan abuse and not had a big reaction. Some of them I even liked the story. And my ocd LOVES playing with it, making me truly believe I enjoy and get of from CP. I’ve also had quite a few dreams. A few days ago I had a dream about me getting triggered by something I did in the dream. Which I now can’t figure out if it actually was a dream. But also moments overall where I’ve unintentionally touched my private part while my siblings are in the room or when I found a guy 2 years younger than me pretty in 4th grade. Or a few of my only friends who turned out to be younger than me, and I had talked about sexual things (like fan fictions, my trauma ect) with them. AHSHB I absolutely hate ruminating and I’m tired so so so so so so tried 😭 idk help me? Please TT

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