NO idea where to put this. Terrible nightmares. Dream meanings? What's my brain doing/thinking?

[RagingHormone]

3 nights ago I dreamt a man of ridiculous super strenght invited himself to a family bbq and I was too scared to say no and then he killed my dad. I was crying in the dream and in real life.

The night before last I dreamt I was in some sort of end of world metal maze and I was trying to save people from something bad. I turned on lights and kept hearing crunches each time i turned one on. Turned out everytime I turned a light on it chopped into a horse and my sister and killed them. I was distraught in the dream and distraught when I woke up.

Last night I dreamt my baby son who is my world along with my DP died and I had to go to Cyprus (where we're getting married) on my own to bury him in a cypriot cemetary so that he would be near to us at our wedding and he would be happy and lay in rest and I was stood on a top of a hill looking across and the graves were all covered in white roses (my favourite flowers) and I had to bury him myself and lay whote roses down. It was horrific, frightening and devastating for a dream.

I'm waking up so upset. I'm very family orientated and love them to bits and can't stand the thought of anything happening to them. I've never dreamt about death before.

My nana has recently died and I wonder if that is in some way linked?

I'll put this here and in spiritual.

I've had dreams that have affected me like that. Are you under stress at the moment? Sorry about your nana.

What's CRUSE? is it for bereavement? She died in July and I've actually not felt too much although sometimes it hits me and I feel awful for a few minutes. It's strange because I loved her soooooooo much and I do miss her but it's like I'm in denial. Even when I go to the grave. I can't process things. So maybe that does fit in.

I also have PND and I'm trying to come off Prozac. I've been ok for a few weeks but feel stressy at the moment as I'm working full time for a few weeks.

Oh and also in the baby dream I suddenly wanted to bring him home so I had to go and get him, bring him home and take him to our cemetary. Very strange dream.

www.dreammoods.com/

I have used this before, was eerie!!
from the little I know of dream study, there will be a link to your nana, getting married and baby. probably something like that your nan has gone and left you, nothing you could do about it, the dream about the man coming to your party and killing your dad = nothing you can do about someone leaving you again, partner dying, burying in cyprus to be near you and the family at the wedding, trying to do something to stop someone leaving you????

sounds like acute anxiety, un resolved grief and starting a new life worries (getting married invariably changes the relationship so leading to worry?)

I only did a short module on this for my degree so not much help but the above website is supposed to be really good and my one visit to them as I said was eerily correct!!

Thanks Misi, that's brilliant! Good insight. I think I just need to get a little perspective. I'm worried to go to sleep in case I have another.

yes, I know what you mean, the more you worry about going to sleep and having bad dreams, the more likely you are to have them because of the built up stress and anxiety
I had this when my dad died some years ago, he died far too young, had unresolved issues with him etc etc etc.
I was taught to instead of fearing the dreams, go explore them. instead of running away in your dream, go look into the nooks and crannies to see what is really there, eventually in my dreams, instead of waking up all fraught, I trained myself to look and found my dad in a corner and in the dream I talked to him, a week later I was upset as I was no longer having the dreams and therefore was not talking to my dad anymore !!!!!

RH, i used to have terrible nightmares when i was pregnant. Absolutely awful, gang rape kind of dreams, used to leave me paralysed in fear when i woke. I was being treated by an acupuncturist at the time for acute morning sickness, and she treated me twice for my nightmares and they went!!

might be worth a try?

good luck.