AIBU to actually be really freaked out by this? Trigger warning- mentions rape

[mrsdrablowsbittersister]

I had the weirdest dream last night that I kept waking from and feeling upset but would then fall back asleep and continue the dream. It doesn't link to any films/shows/books I've read as far as I can tell and I'm not on any medication and I don't drink at the moment. I've never in my life blacked out from drinking or lost memory.

The dream:
It began with me having to take my youngest DC to the hospital due to a bad bump of the head. They were fine but I was up all night and exhausted. Didn't get much sleep at all. The next evening I had plans with my DH and friends to go out, but I didn't want to drink much and wanted an early night. It was very vivid and realistic and we began in a few bars before ending up in one particular one where there were three bar staff- one a bit bitchy and the other two lovely. I had maybe two drinks, nothing unusual, but felt really tired so was getting ready to go home. I was about to leave with my friends and DH.

The next thing I know it's the next day and I've woken up and been told that I am suddenly infamous across social media. Apparently I had been repeatedly assaulted and raped the night before but it began with my being highly promiscuous and basically sleeping with endless men in a row, but in my dream I was very aware of the fact I remembered none of this and that I can't have consented. I don't and have never done this IRL. Apparently it had been filmed and was all over social media from various accounts, and someone had even hacked in to my own account and changed it so I was constantly posting videos and statuses that suggested I was some sex-crazed lunatic. Many of the vdeos were highly graphic and frankly upsetting. I was receiving a lot of hate online for being such a 'slut' and even my boss had seen it. I mentioned going to the police and was told by a friend that at the end of the night I had been repeatedly gang raped by police on the street and it was filmed by loads of people. Everyone had videos of me naked.

I honestly don't know where this came from and I've (very fortunately) never experienced the same IRL but it has left me feeling pretty shell-shocked and IDK where on earth this has come from.

Does anyone else regularly get weird AF dreams like this? Is it normal? I'm really freaked out.

It sounds very upsetting and I'm not surprised it's stayed with you.

Are you struggling with any stress at the moment? Or feeling like you're in a situation beyond your control? I would very much read it as a metaphor that something in your life is violating your boundaries - not at all necessarily sexual, it could be anything. Everyone seeing you naked in the dream is something that stands out - this is feeling exposed emotionally in some way.

Sounds like you're worried about or have a fear of losing control of something?
Any situations recently which have thrown you? Or revelations that have come out of the blue?

I think the subconscious mind can see disturbing things maybe a movie or a book or something and it can struggle to tell real from imaginary and then it processes the emotions and fears from it when we sleep via dreams. It is really freaky and unsettling though.