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AIBU to tell you all about my dream? *trigger warning-child death*

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Monoblock67 · 22/02/2018 01:43

Just woke up from one of the most bizarre/awful dreams I’ve ever had. In this dream:

Me, DH, DS1 and DS2 go out for an event (NYE maybe). We go, come home, all good. I check the boys the next day and there’s someone else’s pram in their room. The boys are sleeping, I pull back the covers in the pram and there’s a (sorry) dead child in it. It has a frozen screaming face and it’s arms are up defensively but it is very much dead. I cover it back up with a blanket and get the boys up and out their room.

I go about my day, and I tell my husband what’s happening. I remember very clearly being scared to phone the police, and having flashbacks to the party the night before. What happened, did we hurt a child and not remember? Did we take someone else’s pram home because we were concerned for their LO? How can we tell the police the truth-we don’t know how a dead child ended up in our sons room? Should we even tell the police-should we try and cover it up? In my dream I remember feeling sick with guilt and worry and wanting to do the right thing but being scared of the repercussions on my family (awful I know!).

Somehow a day has passed and it’s the boys bedtime again. We put them down in their room, and removed the pram. Husband hands me the phone to call the police and I start to sweat, still not sure what the best thing to do is. I know what the right thing, morally, is, but I just can’t seem to want to do it.

Then I remember, feeling super stressed and sick and unsure, realising-this is just a dream. It’s not real. You can control this. And I woke up, sweating, heart racing, feeling absolute shit. WTF brain! I still have flashes of that poor child’s face running through my brain Sad

Also in my dream I’m apparently a dick who leaves a dead child stiff in a pram in my house for a day while I worry about my own kids Confused

OP posts:
lizzlebizzle33 · 22/02/2018 01:49

Jesus that is messed up! Sounds like s horror movie, Just a dream though thank god.

Man our brains do some crazy shit!

I'll try and get back to sleep now.........

VimFuego101 · 22/02/2018 02:08

That's awful - you poor thing Thanks can you find something light hearted to watch on tv before you go to bed tonight to hopefully take your mind off it?

nocoolnamesleft · 22/02/2018 02:15

Make sure you wake up all the way, before trying to go back to sleep.

Check on your DCs, so you know that they are all right. They will be, but it will help calm you down. And will help reinforce in your subconscious that there's nothing wrong in that room.

Look at some pictures of nice things (kittens, puppies, whatever) to get those images fresher in your head than your dream ones.

But mostly you need to get it hammered into all levels of your brain that this was totally not real.

WashingMatilda · 22/02/2018 08:27

Awww OP that's horrible.
I've always had some really messed up dreams, DH loves hearing about them because he never remembers his.

Did you manage to get back to sleep? Remember it's just a dream, albeit a particularly nasty one. Flowers

Emmageddon · 22/02/2018 08:32

It might be worth looking up the dream definition. I had a terrifying dream about seeing a 5yo boy mauled by a lion. The meaning was that something in my life is worrying me, something I have no control over. This is actually true (work related stuff) and I found it reassuring.

troodiedoo · 22/02/2018 08:34

YABU. Dreams are not to be shared.
Hope you manage to calm yourself though.

toooldforthisshirt37 · 22/02/2018 12:51

I have dreams like this. So real and terrifying, not least because of my reactions in the dreams.

I am still somewhat convinced there is a someone buried in the back garden of my old house. Despite my brother now living there and an huge extension having been built over the "grave" which would have been dug up for foundations and therefore found.

Hope you can work out what it is in your subconsious that is causing this dream. You clearly aren't a person who would do this in real life at it is disturbing you. Hugs.

Aprilshowerswontbelong · 22/02/2018 12:53

I once woke up crying as in my dream one of my dd had drowned. It stayed with me for weeks.
Paid for her swimming lessons last year!!

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