They ruin your whole day. For me I don’t actually have nightmares of specific events I just have really horrible nightmares and wake up crying or jolting usually because I am fighting in my dream and end up kicking and wake myself up
For example, I had a nightmare that both of my children got kidnapped. I knew exactly who did it. I went to his house and tried to confront him and he wouldn’t let me in. His neighbor told me now that I showed up and confronted him he was going to move. The entire dream I was searching for my kids endlessly. I was tired and couldn’t even go to bed and go to sleep. I was crying the entire dream until I woke up crying
I had a lot of important things that I had to do today. I’m not really able to do anything because of the nightmare I had. I don’t really feel comfortable expressing this one. At five pm my sons grandpa is going to help me do one of the errands
I am very disappointed in myself but I am not going to beat myself up. I like to think about this picture I think today I am “your” and “different”
@DeluxedEdition mine was about flying and not being able to land...kept bouncing off runway and back into the air repeatedly. i finally realized this is silly!! just kill the engine and shove the stick forward then hit the brake...
This was when we first started working on it. So I had the thought that I could fight back. Now I would like write (or think) out in as much detail as possible, how I would fight. And then go over the dream again in my head with the new ending. I will say though, that I don’t know if I could’ve done this initially on my own because I don’t want to think more about it. I just want to shut down. It was nice having someone who could help me actually do the work and help with ideas when I was distancing myself from it
Not really nightmares per say as this happens when im awake but I'm always afraid to start new places like a job or a school because of being treated poorly for pretty much a long time. Im having bad anxiety about starting a new job because ive been conditioned to assume im going to be disrespected and treated like shit and that nobody thinks i have worth. Ive legit self sabotaged a ton of opportunities in my life because of this. Oh youll never get as good as pay as here or youll never get the flexibility or the health benefits as here. Nobody will believe in you blah blah
@TempuraShrimp I just think you need a little more confidence 🙂 you deserve to get paid well. You are enough. Sometimes we all self sabotage. Don’t beat yourself up. Just use those as learning experiences to progress you in the future when you try again
If you learn from a mistake it was never a mistake
@DeluxedEdition Confidence is key but then again I'm someone who has always struggled with that. I swear this current job was doing their damndest to break me but I didn't let them do it. I guess that counts for something
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I don't think I have PTSD but I have a lot of active dreams with kicking and other movement and it destroys my sleep quality. I'll be sending good vibes, my friend. I wouldn't wish that stuff on anyone.
I am on this whole " I'm going to figure out why I'm so effed up " kick ...and do better ...I have good days and bad days too ...the depression and anxiety i experience is from cPTSD I'm learning this ...everything about this makes so much sense to me and explains alot of why I am the way I am ...now that I know I can do something about it to help myself the best I can . Sorry if this has literally nothing to do with your post ...🫤
Hope things get better for you and you have better days ahead ...
@DeluxedEdition there was a period in which I'd wake up suddenly from a falling sensation. Then a period in which it felt like I was wrestling some sort of entity. Lol! I always told it to go fuck itself. Though it was probably just that weird REM phenomenon.
@Lostpoet I would never joke about someone’s mental issues 🤗 im sorry if you thought that and I’m sorry you went through that. You didn’t deserve to be stalked and harassed by your coworkers
I have ptsd because I was in an abusive relationship
