Is it normal to dream about your past bullies?

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I still dream frequently about my past life in school, including a lot of times where i was get bullied as well. I don't think about it as strong anymore since i don't even live in the town anymore where my school was. It has been quite some years since i left school but i still dream a lot about school in general, but the bullying parts always make me very uncomfortable when i woke up like it was real (it feels very real) or on rarely occasions i even wake up from it. Should I worry about it?

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Based on 12 votes (9 yes)
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  • playklax
    1 year ago

    It's your mind telling you that you have some sort of unfinished business with that experience. Whether it's something to do with how it shaped how you are today, or regretting something you could have done differently back then. It's totally normal, and a therapist could help you sort it out.

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  • Holzman_67
    1 year ago

    While I voted normal, as your mind is still subconsciously (or consciously) processing the bullying, I’d suggest speaking to someone about it, a therapist say, you don’t want it to become repressed trauma that will effect you in later life.

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  • Tommythecaty
    1 year ago

    Sometimes I dig up a nest of bull ants and say “oh you little bullies, you’re gonna get it now!”

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  • kikilizzo
    1 year ago

    I dream about my past bullies pretty much every night.
    They are the people who frequent my dreams the most out of anyone i've ever known.
    Yet it's been 10 years now.

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  • bbrown95
    1 year ago

    I think it's normal, as our brains have a way of bringing up people from our past into dreams. Not sure if it just randomly selects them or if there's a specific reason for it.

    I actually had a dream about a former high school bully about a week ago, though he was following me around smiling and waving while I was trying to get away from him. 🤣 That's the second dream of him I've had like that, the last being a few years ago.

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  • miss_jass06
    1 year ago

    I guess it's normal, I have the exact same issue. I also moved out of my hometown and it's been quite a lot of time since I've seen those people that bullied me, but I still have dreams with them sometimes.

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  • olderdude-xx
    1 year ago

    I had the same thing when I was many decades younger.

    Your mind is still trying to work out issues from those encounters.

    Eventually, those dreams will reduce and likely disappear as your mind comes to terms with them and you likely adopt a different approach to certain situations in life based off of lessons learned.

    I think that process took me about a decade for all of those bad dreams to go away from my childhood bullying (we did not call it bullying back then).

    I wish you well with this...

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  • Somenormie
    1 year ago

    I dreamt about one of them and I'm now friends with the person who used to bully me.

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