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Most of us have had strange dreams. One time I had a dream where I married Cameron Boyce. Does that mean I married Cameron Boyce in real life ? sometimes intrusive thoughts pop up in our dreams. I struggle with soocd and once had a dream where I was having lesbian sex with a friend from 8th grade. In the middle of the dream, I walked away from it and said “no thanks.” I woke up and this dream disturbed me, and I kept overthinking it. I did erp and the thought of that dream still burdens me sometimes, but we both have the ability to push through. Our dreams can be intrusive as well!
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I think it’s normal. I’ve had dreams where I wake up super guilty but it’s just a dream. We don’t create our dreams. They’re involuntary. You’ll forget about it
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I used to have terrible dreams like this too! Vivid dreams where I could see and react to what I was doing and even comment on it like I was in the sunken place. I would be like “stop no I don’t wanna do that” and then watch myself harm other people, it never feels good. But it’s just a dream. I’m also sober and in recovery relapse dreams are super common. They don’t mean much but they are very scary and often time when I have a relapse dream or an “ocdream” (I should copyright that) it’s clear that I’m dreaming about it because I’m subconsciously afraid of it happening, not because I want to do it.
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Yeah I just get super anxious because I have a girlfriend, I think it affects our relationship, this dream then affects my relationship ocd about cheating and makes me feel like a cheater, but I’m gonna try and move on from it
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I have a boyfriend and I’m constantly thinking that my soocd affects are relationship. I also struggle with rocd as well, and often have mannny intrusive thoughts. We will both get through this I promise :)
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When I woke up today I got intense feelings of arousal and urges to masturbate and thoughts of this 12 year old kid I’ve seen irl started popping up, idk why it all happened, I can’t tell if I liked it or not. Or if I wanted it or not.
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Hi everyone, This is the hardest thing I’ve ever had to write. I’ve struggled with POCD for a while — intrusive thoughts that go against everything I believe in. I’ve never acted on them before. I’ve always been terrified of them and done everything to avoid them. But something happened the other night that I can’t stop replaying, and it’s tearing me apart. I was in that in-between state — not fully asleep, not fully awake. I was dreaming that something was “okay,” and in that moment, I moved my child’s hand toward me in a way I now feel completely ashamed of. I wasn’t aware of fully choosing it, but I remember it. I remember that it felt like I was following the dream, like my brain said it was okay. And the part I can’t stop obsessing over — that’s destroying me — is that in the dream, my child said, “no.” That moment makes me feel like the worst human being on the planet. I don’t know if he said it out loud or if it was part of the dream. But it felt real, and now I feel broken. I love my child more than anything. The fact that this happened — even in a foggy, dreamlike state — makes me feel like I crossed an unforgivable line. I’m not here to excuse it. I’m not here to get reassurance that it didn’t happen. I’m just trying to find someone — anyone — who has experienced something like this. Acting or moving in a way during sleep or semi-consciousness that your waking self would never do. I don’t know how to live with this guilt. I feel sick, ashamed, and like I’ve ruined everything. Please be kind. I’ve never felt more alone in my life, and I don’t know how to move forward from this.
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I feel nauseous. Extremely sick, i cannot eat, cant sleep well, and I haven't enjoyed things I normally enjoy to cry in bed and spiral for several days already. I feel extremely anxious over my past real events. I remembered something extremely triggering. I used to be morbidly curious about crimes and like I remember when i was a younger teen I watched a dark documentary that honestly i shouldnt have watched. There was this extremely weird scene and i think i felt weirded out but also a little aroused? but only bc I was thinking "lucky, shes already having sex. I wish I was her so i could experience it too." The poor person was like 1-3 years younger than me at the time. I KNOW how wrong that is now i legit feel like im going to throw up rn. Anyway I think I felt a little aroused??? And I think I touched myself a little bit and imagined myself in her place? I dont think I enjoyed it bc i remember it felt forced and weird and i stopped. I never did it again. I feel so sick! I would NEVER watch a documentary like that now as an adult and think or touch myself to it thats just so wrong but im scared that this is a sign im a sicko/p. I remmeber crying at the end of the documentary bc I felt disturbed by the contents but i still put some in my watch later out of morbid curiosity to see more real cases of these crimes bc they scared me. I never watched them again though. It only happened once and it was before my ocd started which SCARES me even more!!! And i wouldnt watch them as an adult either theyre too disturbing! I regret it so badly and feel like a monster bc it was messed up. Like what was wrong with me?! Theyre extremely disturbing to me and I rather avoid such content bc its triggering to my ocd but im afraid now like was that a sign of me possibly being a p? Am I a monster??? Am I in denial? Is this even ocd?! I feel so much shame and guilt it's killing me. 😔
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