I have horrible dreams - help me please?

Question

I have lots of nice dreams from time to time about surfing and swimming even flying planes abroad. But my recent dream keeps coming back. I am in a big tall building where the guards are all dead on all the floors. I get trapped in a lift and my dad is at the top of the building and breaks me out of the lift and when I go to hug him my hand is a jagged blade and I start to saw off his head. usually i wake up crying tears but this week i took the head home and put it in the toilet bowl at my younger sister's home so that my sister would see it when she went to the toilet. I was laughing in the next room while my sister is beating me. she wears nice clothes liek a nightie. she crys in my arms but says she understands that i had to.

I just want normal night.. I have tried having sex just before i go to bed as a friend told me, tried having a hot bath but nothing works. my mind is everywhere and i believe i love my dad still. He died 10 years from a heart attack.

Help if you can.

Answer 1

have you been eating cheese late at night, that causes nightmares

Answer 2

Hey, it can be so distressing having bad dreams but they are really nothing to worry about.

Your dreams indicate many big ambitions and goals in your life or ideas or projects you want to go ahead with but sometimes you feel like it is all too much. This feeling may be a direct result of your fathers death or something you felt when he was alive.

Death in a dream is very positive, it means new beginings and moving from negative, low feelings. The fact that the dreams are so lucid (distressing) means your very emotional.

It may not feel like it but this is a positive dream about moving on, you are dreaming what your mind will not let you think about, by dreaming about all these different types of behaviour you are just working through some issues that have been stopping you reach your ambitions.

Please don't worry it happens to everyone.

P.S. Read a book before nodding off to sleep, it will make the dreams less vivid.

Answer 3

You are going through a lot of grief on the subconcious level

What you find upsetting is the 'severance' of your dad, depicted in your dreams as physical rather than emotional, which is what this is really all about.

Think about your dad more, go visit the grave, talk to him inside your mind. Most importantly think of him as still being around. Just because he is not in the same room as you anymore does not mean he does not exist. He does.

There is life after the physical, just like in star wars!

Take it easy

Dave

Answer 4

You poor thing. That must have been terrifying for you. This may seem crazy to you but it works for me. When I have had bad dreams I have prayed before I go to sleep (for peace in my mind, and for God's help. -Also that He will stop any bad dreams before they happen) . I really does work!

Hey, I loved the original Starsky and Hutch - I thought Starskey was brill.

Answer 5

My goodness, this must be terrible for you. I was scared reading it! I'm not sue what to suggest really. A hot drink before bed? Some lavender essential oil on your pulses and pillow to help you relax? I'm sure there are professionals you can talk to too.

P.S. If people have nothing nice to say, sometimes they should say nothing at all. See above.

Answer 6

try not thinking about anything before you go to sleep, clear your mind and meditate for a while. also if that doesnt work then think about the best experience of your life while you sleep

Answer 7

I think you are just still traumatized from his death. Or you feel partly responsible for it.

Answer 8

Try snogging mummy again that might stop the bad dreams......