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Yes and its crazy. Happens all the time. I always have an urge to check my exes insta and we broke off two years now. Then with work arriving late is so scary for me or having to clean something over and over again till its perfect (I'm a housekeeper for a living). I get dreams about all sorts of things that relate to my OCD and thats why I hate falling asleep sometimes. You think sleeping and dreaming will take you away from the reality of it all but not really cause it will follow you. Sometimes I should say.. its just weird how our minds work. I hate living with OCD🙃
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Yes! This happened to me last night
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Wow thanks to both of you for your responses. My OCD in my sleep puts me in the same situations as I am when I’m awake. Is horrible and it’s crazy that one can still experience spikes when sleeping as well as the corresponding anxiety that accompanies it.
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Literally can’t stop having them. I always give advice to people who have them, and ways to get rid of them, but it seems like I can’t even take my own advice. Luckily, we usually forget what happens in our dreams the more we think about them. And eventually, we forget them completely.
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Absolutely right MakeAChange
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I have contamination ocd and sometimes I’ll have dreams that I’m washing my hands and that I somehow mess up and keep having to do it again until I realize i’m sleeping and wake up... it’s so weird!
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Ohhh wow Ktsan that’s very unique.
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I had one just last night but I can only remember the part when what my OCD keeps telling me is true came true, but I don't remember having any anxiety until I woke up. Does anyone else get this?
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No Twinkabella my anxiety typically happens during the spike in the dream. When I wake up I’m fine. But I think it’s an interesting concept that you feel the anxiety only when you wake up. I hope we get some more feedback from others in the room regarding sleep related OCD.
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It has only happened to me once the other time I felt the anxiety in the dream. It made me really scared as I was scared that it meant what it was telling me was true
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Of course Twinkabella. I really believe with everything in me that the answer to OCD will be discovered only when the OCD community as a whole can put all their experiences together and try to find a single puzzle piece that only each person has... put all the puzzle pieces together and I believe you’ll see the answer plain as day. This has always been my theory on OCD. Any of your ideas are welcome.
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I had a really bad nightmare revolving around one of my big themes and I woke up with the panic still left over the dream as if it was real and I kept thinking about the situations. I tried to tell myself it was just a dream, but then it made me question real life. So then it was a cycle of ruminating about the events as though they were real and my reality which really messed me up bc my biggest theme right now is becoming schizophrenic/catatonic/"crazy." I feel stuck in a loop, I've tried saying the "maybes" and even talking to my partner about other things but it just keeps looping in my head "am I crazy?" "I can't differentiate between dreams" "I feel like I'm stuck in my head and I can't even talk". Any tips? I feel like I'm at the crescendo of my 20 years (lifelong) ocd due to stress from moving soon.
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My OCD diagnosis is still very new, but now that I know what it is, it is clearly something I’ve had for as long as I can remember. Contamination/bugs and health have been a consistent theme since childhood, but religious/existential themes emerged during adolescence. Around that same time, there was also a good deal of trauma, and during middle school I started experiencing hallucinations. Tactile (like bugs crawling on me or biting me, an eyelash being stuck in my eye, but nothing was really there); visual (like moving shadows or things that would dart past in my periphery, and then I would just have intrusive thoughts of scary things around corners or under things); and auditory (an angry male voice that grumbles or yells indistinctly, or a high pitched noise like a microphone/speaker feedback but muffled and less sharp). Because of the religious denomination I grew up in, I initially assumed these were demons and tried to address it that way, but when I was 14 or 15, it occurred to me that those voices/sounds sounded like the way I felt, and the visual/tactile experiences happened during times of stress too — and so all of those experiences could just be seen as an expression of a fragmented part of myself. That acceptance didn’t make them go away — I still experience them now and I’m in my 30s — but it made those experiences less scary and more manageable. I also see now how these all pop up specifically when OCD obsessions are super triggered and when I’m super sleep deprived. Anyway! Since this diagnosis, and talking about the hallucinations at all, are new to me, I am wondering who else has had similar experiences. I don’t really know how much of the hallucination experience is OCD versus trauma, but it seems like this might all make sense under the “quasi-hallucination” label.
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I want to know if this an ocd thing because I haven't read about it when I started searching of the disorder to make sure I had it (that before my diagnosis) Does your thoughts get worsened when you are falling sleep or are half awake half sleep? I noticed mines would get intensified when I'm trying very hard to stay awake or when I'm close to falling asleep
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