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I have dreamt on more than one occasion about my mum having lions in the paddock on her block. But I seem to be the only one concerned that they are getting out, into the immediate back yard. No one cares and thinks nothing of it but me. I have the fear I'll be killed.

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just would like to know, some advice about my dreams i have.

mostly nightmares are based on zombies and monsters or ghost whatsoever....
my nightmares is my reality. ive been having this nightmare for over 1 year. no matter what i do i don't feel like sleeping early...
i end up going bed around 3am...and waking up around 7am. but everytime i sleep i always have dreams about my life.
since my ...

I'm 20 years old, and my family has no history of mental illness that I am aware of. However, I have been having a problem lately that is starting to worry me, and I would like advice from anyone who can relate.

For most of my life I have rarely been able to recall any of my dreams. I have an active mind that is/was difficult to shut off at night, but when I finally ...

Over the years I've been having nightmares more frequently, reaching the point finally where it's an odd night for me to not vividly remember a nightmarish dream. They're usually random as far as I can tell, and luckily I almost always dream from a third person perspective. It's like watching a movie for me. Once I related my nightmares to movies because of how I usually dream, they became easier to cope with. Combined with ...

I haven't really had nightmares alot before until recently in my life and they've come on really strong
i can't sleep much at all because i have a nightmare where i'm in a tunnel and theres a white figure in the distance
i wake up sometime after, and i can't go back to sleep because i'm really scared
i've never really had any issues like this before until this year..
not sure what to think ...

I was wondering if anyone has taken minipress( i guess prazosin is the generic for it???) for nightmares associated with PTSD? It's a popular high blood pressure medication that I think more recently has been tested on soldiers coming back from war. I'm not sure there isn't a whole lot of information about it. But a psychiatrist I had who specialized with a lot of people with trauma issues suggested that I go on it, ...

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I'm new and have no idea if this is going in the right forum.

So I woke up this morning, wonering why the hell my pillow was on the ground.

According to my dad, I fell asleep with the light on.
I watched The Exorcist the night before, so the girl's face was trapped in my mind. So, light stayed on.
and I don't know, because I also drank the night before more than usual, ...

Hi all,

I've had some nightmares the night before the last and the one before that. They were very weird, vivid and real. I felt extremely happy when I woke up- it was like a rebirth the moment of waking up and realization it was just a dream. They were so real I feared falling asleep last night thinking they may occur again... luckily, last night, my sleep was peaceful.

I was just wondering what ...

i have been in the military sense my 18th birthday i am 26 now. i have served 4 tours to iraq. one being 13 months, 8 months, 8 months and 5 months. i have seen many of my friends killed, shot. blown up and appart. lately i have been having really bad nightmares. i have seen my friends walking around in the condition they was when they were killed. i have talked to counslors about ...