"Let's talk about anxiety dreams, shall we? They suck.
But we all have them, no matter how much we have our act together in
real life. Anxiety dreams happen when the stress, fear and worries of
daily life infiltrate our unconscious mind. Or conversely, when there's
some crap we're not ready to deal with, the anxiety will express itself
through dream imagery. After an anxiety dream, we often wake up in the
morning, or drenched in sweat in the middle of the night, with
heart-pounding fear, feeling exhausted, like we didn't sleep at all.
"I
like to think of dreams as clouds of mental, emotional and spiritual
energy. And really, the only way to make the clouds go away, is to let
them rain. So yeah, the only way to make anxiety dreams stop is to get
to the bottom of what's causing them and deal with the issues.
"I
subscribe to Carl Jung's method of dream analysis. So, basically, I
think that dreams are a reflection of the individual dreamer. Meaning,
if you have a specific association with spiders, like you had a beloved
pet spider or something, your spider dream means something totally
different than mine does. In addition, I think it's important to
consider context of a dream. Meaning, it matters what's going on in your
life and the world when you have the dream. Point being: dream analysis
is both deeply personal and highly complex. That being said, there are
some common anxiety dreams that most people have had at one point or
another. Click through to see what these dreams might be trying to tell
you."
I had a recurring anxiety dream about the auto repair shop where I worked in Chicago. I had it for years. Details varied, but in the dreams I was super busy and unable to keep up with the customers' demands. That dream was replaced by a recurring anxiety dream of a much more personal nature early last year. That dream was devastating. A few months ago, the recurring dreams stopped altogether. Now I have occasional dreams on the same subject matter, but they're just the usual nonsense.
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I really believe we dream of things that our mind hasn't sorted out. It is a natural way to solve problems. The trouble is that sometimes the dreams are so vague and obscure, it is hard to tell what issue your brain is trying to solve.
They say that dreams of flying have a sexual origination. No wonder those are the most fun... ;>
I dream about flying every night. Am I repressed or over-sexed?
Most of my dreams are chaotic, like bits and pieces tossed into a blender.
They say that if you want to remember your dreams, the first thing you should do after waking up is to write them down.
With me, it would have to be the second thing.
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