Anxiety, insomnia and nightmares
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The title pretty much sums up most nights for me. If i get any sleep at all, it's usually met with a nightmare- including tonight.
However, this one almost has a weird, almost comical undertone, though the dream was disturbing 😕
So, all of yesterday, i had been more anxious than usual- right upto night time. I'm laying in bed but cannot sleep. I decide to use my phone and watch YouTube, listening to Joe Rogan podcasts through my headphones. I eventually doze off at 3am but with podcast still playing through my ears and not even being aware i am asleep.
In this dream, i "wake up" and go into my living room to use a computer that i don't even have! And seemingly doing some weird coding/programming (?), still with my headphones i was wearing in the real world and still with the podcast playing through. I then hear muffled banging- which i ignore as i believe it's either coming from my headphones, or its an audible hallucination, as it is late and i am sleep deprived (again, i still dont realise that i am not in the real world but in a dream).
The banging gets louder and intense. Eventually, i realise this sound is not from my head phones but must be the door- but why? Its 3am! So, i head out of the hall way to sounds of faint crying/screaming and a draft of freezing cold air... To my horror, as i approach my front door, i realise the cries are my children's and that the door is open whilst the cries seem to be outside. As my view pans to the wide open door, i see a dark demonic figure with piercing red eyes grinning at me as my headphones (yes apparently i didnt take them off throughout the entire dream) start making an unbearable screaching sound over Joe Rogan's voice) and then... The door slams violent and i immediately wake up in real life, in absolute fear... Then realise the podcast is still playing through my ears.
I finally realise i had fallen asleep but it was all seamless and felt really. I am also startled to find that i was cold to the touch, the bedsheets around me also cold but my wife next to me is really warm, in fact, the heating is on. I also turned the podcast off straight away, i was kinda freaked out that it literally played through seamlessly throughout my dream and waking moments. I'm even aware of the contents of the podcast as i type this.
So weird!
I'm now wide awake and can't sleep, its now 4.40am. But i felt like i had to tell someone about it! (I'm not waking the Mrs, she'll kick my ass at this ungodly hour! 😂 lol)
What's your weirdest/scariest dream?
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RydiaMoone stephen60834
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Hi Stephen. My anxiety is at an all time high at the moment and my dreams are so weird that the feeling of them can stay with me for days and i hate it. I can still remember a dream I had when I was 5 as it was pretty scary at the time and kind of still is. I used to have dreams where i am being chased by a wolf or a dinosaur or king kong or a gun wielding man who just wants to shoot me. Lately my dreams of my kids are very intense and make me feel very weird. ( i dont see my kids at the moment). I just hate the after dream feeling that comes from having anxiety dreams. I cant handle any weird feelings at the moment and everyday I feel like im living in a dream like state.