Furious dreams!

[SilverDragonfly1]

My hormones have obviously shifted around again as I am getting night sweats (gabapentin was keeping them under control). But before I wake up all damp, I have these very long, vivid dreams about being absolutely furious with someone. I feel real rage and hate in these dreams and it is almost always directed at someone who I would never feel that way about in real life. Not that I am prone to rage or hate anyway!

It's just getting quite distressing as on top of all the emotions I also wake up feeling guilty about screaming at a close friend or family member! Just wanted to see if other people have this?

[JammyDoughnuts]

I haven't had dreams where I'm furious but I'm definitely having a lot more nightmares. The other night I dreamt I was possessed by the devil It was so real when I woke up I quickly said the Lord's prayer

[SilverDragonfly1]

Don't give my stupid psyche ideas lol!

I've always had very long, detailed dreams but the emotional intensity is new.

[ParisUSM]

Mine involve me doing something unforgivable to people close to me, though I never know what. I wake up feeling really guilty and it's hard to shake. Our bodies and minds are very cruel to us during this stage of our lives!

[Knittedfairies]

I used to have those - I have had to explain to my husband that I was, very unreasonably, in a towering, furious rage over something he’d done in my dream, and that it would take me a while to calm down. He used to bring me a cup of tea..

[Emerald13]

It’s due to hormonal changes during peri and meno. //www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2460192/What-dreams-reveal-health.html

[Emerald13]

www.healthcentral.com/article/womens-dreams-change-as-we-age

[SilverDragonfly1]

Thanks all! I am relieved it's not some kind of dormant psychosis coming through (which sounds flippant, but I do have significant mental health issues anyway!).

I will check out the links.

[SakuraBlossom]

SilverDragon - me too!!!

Last night I dreamt that we were at a school function at a health centre and then as we left I noticed DS2's class getting ready for a pool party. Everyone was invited but him. The mum, a nice acquaintance of mine told me it was because she didn't like me. I then told her to "go $$$$ yourself" and had a massive slanging match with her and then we pulled up a table and sat there the whole party.

How absolutely peri-menopausally bonkers is that?

[SakuraBlossom]

Just to add SilverDragon that most peri-menopausal women are questioning themselves daily about their sanity at this time. Am I going mad is a question that many of us are asking ourselves. Deep down we know we are not but the absence of tangible problems makes it more difficult to talk ourselves round. When you have a bump and are pregnant it is a lot easier to tell yourself its your hormones.

[SilverDragonfly1]

That sounds rather familiar Sakura! My son is an adult now but I have dreamed of arguments with a couple of friends about other stuff (one of them is a bit of a difficult personality anyway which somehow makes me feel worse because it's like bitching about her behind her back!).

I have Clinical Depression and anxiety anyway, have done since my early teens, so I am used to dealing with my mental illness, but this is really pushing my limits.