Hi everyone I'm 9 weeks postpartum and I keep having these awful nightmares which I can't do anything in I'm just helpless. These nightmares mention tarantulas and my baby being nearly kidnapped so if you don't want to read then please look away.
The first nightmare: I was driving down the road with my dad and there was a huge shipping container that said zoo animals on it. Then we looked forward and there was loads of baby tarantulas running across the street and jumping on people's faces whilst they were screaming. The baby tarantulas weren't normal size though they were the size of dogs. Then me and my dad went to Tesco god knows why it's all faded a little but the tarantulas were running around in there too. Suddenly I was at my mums house and we were watching a really old fashioned TV and it was showing footage of the tarantulas attacking people. We heard a noise upstairs and I went to go look and it was a tarantula and it started running at me but my mums husband tried fighting it but it bit him then suddenly it disappeared and he was crippling up. I was back at our house again and I went outside into the garden and there was like a little outhouse that looked like it was for a dog with a curtain drafting and I looked inside and there was yellow mush on the floor almost like it was somethings food 🤢 then I turned around and the tarantula was there, it ran at me, can't remember after that. I was back on the road me and my dad were driving on and I saw huge big 8 legs and I looked up into the sky and it was starting down at me with 1000 eyes, I think it was mummy tarantula, and it opened its mouth and screamed in my face... and then I woke up.
The second nightmare: I was on a bus to school with my 9 week old baby (which makes no sense because obviously I haven't been to school in years). My old school friend was there and for some reason I got off the bus and left him with her 😳. I don't remember what happened in between but I got back on the school bus and looked out the window and a girl I used to know was holding him and I thought aw that's nice. I don't know what happened in between but the girl said come over here so I followed her to the road just outside my school and there was a car parked there. Inside was an obese man with a walking stick (don't think he was able to hold up his weight) but he was very strange. He said oh hi love where do you live, I told him and he said oh I'm from (blank) which isn't far from where I live. In the backseat were 3 car seats all with babies in facing front ways? I looked in and the 2 babies closest to me I didn't know but my baby boy was right at the end! Me and the girl said to the man we're going to get him out now, he started screaming saying no you're fucking not you stupid bitch, all these terrible words. I took him out the car seat and he snatched him off me and tried shoving him up the bottom of his car pants. This all sounds so silly but I feel genuinely traumatised. I was at home with my baby, safe, although I didn't feel it. I was sat downstairs in the living room and our house is nowhere near fields but I was sat on the sofa and the blinds were open (it was pitch black) and I kept pulling them but they weren't shutting. I felt as if I was being watched. Meanwhile, my baby was upstairs and in my heart I was thinking go and get him! But my nightmare wasn't allowing me to do this. My partner came home and the girl was only just leaving even though she wasn't in the house before that and I said to her to explain to my partner what happened. She did, and he didn't care which is so unlike him and of course he would care! Whilst we were talking the door was wide open and I could hear my baby upstairs crying and of course I would go and get him! As I said though, the nightmare wasn't allowing me, and I don't remember anything after this.
What could all of this mean and how do I stop it. My baby has a feed at 9 then sleeps til 4 which til 4 I'm fine but when he's finished his feed at 4 and I fall back to sleep this is when I'm having these nightmares.