To keep having this nightmare

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I keep having this nightmare.

It's about my parents who died in a car accident. No one officiated their funeral. To make it worse, my brother got arrested for a crime he didn't commit. I was the only one who had to take care of my niece. During that time I found a job in McDonald's. However, there was an abusive coworker. I eventually passed out and had a talk with the manager. The manager had to let me go for the sake of my health. Later in the nightmare, my niece and I couldn't live in my house due to low money, so both my niece and I were homeless. Let's just say I fed her more food than I. It got so bad that my bones were showing while she was obese. The last part of the nightmare was when I dropped off my niece to school, looked for the highest cliff, and tried to commit suicide.

This nightmare kept repeating and for some reason I keep coming back to it. This has been happening for 10 nights. I tried lavender oil, meditation, and breathing techniques, but it keeps coming back. No, I don't think about it all day. If I had a bad dream, I say "it's just a dream". This is not like that though.

As a result, I'm getting very little sleep (5 hours if I'm lucky).

Any advice to deal with this reoccurring problem?

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  • olderdude-xx
    4 years ago

    Bad dreams and nightmares are part of the process of your mind working out problems. I too have has the same reoccurring nightmare many times - for up to a year; especially when I was between 8 and about 16.

    One thing I noticed was that after a while they started getting better and not as many problems to resolve... and then they went away. That's when you mind has found a solution to the problem. You will also likely to have changed how you do or handle something in your life in the process; and likely that change is rather subtle.

    What do the dreams mean - is a harder thing to figure out:

    It appears to me that your dreams seem to involve that you cannot control life around you. That is usually an indication of what is going on in your life; but, not necessarly which way. Is it that you are having issues in life where you cannot control things... or is it that you can control everything (and are perhaps over-controlling things).

    However, that's just a first guess and it may be wrong. I'm not aware of any data that shows there's a highly accurate way to interpret dreams.

    You might do better to start writing out what is bothering you - and what is going well. When I have struggles I write. Often pages at a time (in word). These are all stored in a special place in my computer where most people would not find them (They are not in "Documents" - instead I created a special folder on the "C" drive under one of the standard folders for things like this (and it's not obvious either). There is a way to delete things from Word "history" as well.

    I have gotten to where I can write about how I feel, what is bothering me, thoughts and ideas including possible solutions.

    Then I can organize things and think. Then I write more. Longest issue was about 1 year long (and involved both my wife and I going into counseling for 6 months of that).

    I've always been able to come up with a workable solution to issues this way.

    I wish you the best,

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  • GaelicPotato
    4 years ago

    Coy Dina

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