Why do I keep having this dream?

In the dream I am in trouble with the police (or sometimes it's the FBI) but I haven't done anything wrong. Sometimes they are hunting for me but I slip away from them and flee. In the dream, I know I haven't broken the law but I am still scared. Sometimes I have been arrested or just taken into custody and I am terrified. The police talk tough to me like I'm a criminal and I am too scared to think straight or know what to do. I wake up feeling sure I will be arrested shortly and that I will be treated so roughly it will kill me. I have to talk myself back into sanity because, in my real life, I live quietly within the law, and I have no reason to fear the police. I don't even get parking tickets!

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robbie1280 · 26-30

If your picture is not up on the post office wall you might be warching to many crime shows

greenmountaingal · 70-79, F

I don't own a TV and haven't seen a crime show in years.

Jenandra · 51-55, M

@greenmountaingal: thats awesome....I like it that you do not have a television...we as a nation watch too much...perhaps it is the book you are reading or ...

do you live in the states?

greenmountaingal · 70-79, F

@Jenandra: When I can afford it, I will get a TV though it is likely I will only see a movie (DVD probably) now and then. I read books a lot. The one I am reading is a novel about code breaking and cyber encryption in WWII and into the present time.

greenmountaingal · 70-79, F

About living in the states...I'm in a fairly crime free area.

Jenandra · 51-55, M

Was just thinking it could be something to do with trump and his negativity @greenmountaingal:

greenmountaingal · 70-79, F

@Jenandra: Actually, because of living through the red scare of the 1950s as a red diaper baby, I do fear a change of administrations, always have, whoever is coming into office. It's hardly realistic to suppose that any administration would be interested in harassing a 71 year old woman over something her mother did decades ago....but The subconscious mind is not rational. I am not so much worried about Trump as president as I am about the country dissolving into Civil War II, the ultimate American nightmare, before he can be inaugerated or during his inauguration. There has been a lot of unrest and disturbing incidents on all sides. However, I did start having police dreams almost a year ago. The dreams had almost stopped. I guess it's possible the election and it's disturbing aftermath may have increased my anxiety.