Nightmare help?

Question

okay this is crazy it wasn't about the rape.I was raped in July of this year ..But it has woke me up and left me shakier than ****. It reminded me of the dreams that I was having BEFORE the rape that I was being held down dy something I couldn't see, I didn't put much faith in that dream or what not. But after it happened I was like that was that dream, I even felt like I did during the attack the way I felt in my dream


I' not sure why or what I was doing but apparently it was something illegal. I can't remember that part. Jennifer and *her daughter* britney were in my dream as well as Eden*my daughter* . There is someone after jennifer and me. She picks me up at ork and tells me we have to go now, that there isn't alot of time. Eden and britney are both crying. She has time foe me to swing by my apartment and get some clothes. I can't take my animals. My lights on my tree everything looks like it should. This was so freaking real. I'm hurrying and throwing things in a bag. Wondering where my parents are where her husband is. How long I'm going to be gone what I should be taking.
This guy comes in *he looks really familiar I think he may be a customer at the video store* He tells me to get him a ******** forces me to..*That was really weird and didn't fit with the rest of the dream b/c I wasn't scared or alarmed*
He then tells me that he won't kill me but thta I can't escape, then he is gone And I go back to putting my clothes in a bag and grabbing what I don't want to forget.

I get back down to the car and am like wait my pictures, give me one more second. She says hurry. Eden starts screaming for me to not to go back. I give her a kiss and run back around the building. Before I make it to the steps to go upstairs. Its sounds like someone knocks really loud on the door, and my cheast hurts, there is alot of blood. And all I can hear is jennifer saying, "they found us we're all dead too"

I woke up sweating and shakey, maybe its nothing or maybe it has to do with the rape. But damnit even the dreams I have had about the actul thing haven't bothered me this bad. Usually a smoke will calm me down enough to relax but i've smoked three so far. I've checked my doors and **** everything locked upp. I'm so jumpy and all I can't stand to barely hear the keys clatter while I type.

Anyone have any ideas or want to analyze go right ahead...

Answer 1

i would have to know more about you to give a better reading but it sounds like to me that your subconscious is trying to warn you about something. dreams don't always happen then way we dream them, our mind will do any thing it can to make you take precautions. and the part about you leveing is your mind trying to escape from what happened to you. I'm so sorry, and ill keep you in my prayers. i have had that happen to me as well and it took me over 10 years to deal with it. i held it in and i didn't tell any one not even the police. which was dumb on my part, but at the time i was young and couldn't deal with the shame. i had to confront my attacker before the dreams and feelings of helplessness stopped, i knew the person

Answer 2

First, if you were attacked in July (only five months ago) you really should talk with a professional about this whole thing.

Dreams can sometimes just be nightmares that we get after, say, watch a horror movie or hearing something awful on the news and kind of imagining for a minute what we'd do if we were in that situation. Then it comes out in a dream. Still, dreams can also represents our mind's way of dealing with the "underneath" issues we're having, and since you were attacked (I can't even use the r-word - that's how awful it is to imagine it happening to someone) you have to have a whole set of issues your mind is going to want to process, one layer at a time, until your dreams let your mind deal with the most underneath issues you have.

Things can happen in your brain when you're attacked. An example I once read about was that of a woman who was mugged on a nice afternoon. She developed a fear of being out on nice afternoons (rather than actually being afraid of potential muggers; she was fearful of the afternoon itself). It has to do with the hippocampus in your brain and with your brain's learning certain responses to certain types of stress etc.

I would not try to analyze your dream in view of the fact that you were attacked. Honestly, I would hope you would talk to someone who deals with this type of thing; because you probably do have some underlying issues.

The fact that a dream about something else (which has apparently occurred after you were attacked) would bother you more than dreams of the incident themselves just says your nightmare is bringing up the "hidden issues" in your emotions; and those are the ones we are more uncomfortable about. We can usually deal with "black and white" of a bad situation. Its the more hidden emotional stuff that we don't even allow ourselves to think about (or may not even realize is there) that dreams bring out

Your dreams about the attack were your mind's way of first "dealing with" the surface realities of what happened. Dreams that have followed are dealing with the hidden emotions. There's a chance, too, the older dreams before the attack were dealing with some unrelated issue you had. After the attack, maybe you have responded differently to something you did not respond to as dramatically before.

All of the above are just general ideas about how dreams work. As I said, I would never try to analyze what your dream may mean. Your situation is one that really would call for a professional to do that. If you already have a counselor talk to them about the dream situation. If you don't consider finding one.

Obviously (and certainly for good reason) you have anxiety-producing dreams; and they should be dealt with in view of your situation.

Answer 3

You need to get some counseling. This sounds like post traumatic stress syndrome. Also, I think that some really hard exercise might be a good idea. If you are physically exhausted maybe you will sleep better and not dream as much.

Answer 4

Oh my hell, story of my life!
i got raped in july also (what are the odds?) and i am going through the same damn thing!
i never had the dreams before it happened like you did, but not it's a nightly thing...
sometimes it's exactly what happened. sometimes entirely different.
i haven't told anyone what happened to me but, i looked at some **** on the internet and it said something about post dramatic stress disorder, you might wanna google it or something,
i'm so sorry. i feel your pain.

Answer 5

In my opinion both you and your first person (gun in hand ) who answered need to talk to someone who knows how to help the two of you deal with what has happened to you my daughter was raped at the age of 16 and would not tell us any thing until she turned 18 and thought she was safe and that we where safe really you need to talk to some one because i think you are have these dream because of what happened to you