Nightmares Affecting Me Big Time

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I've been having some pretty intense nightmares lately(Zombies). This is making me want to kill myself so I don't have to experience it again. HELP!! !! ! I feel like I'm going insane.

Blimey. Is there anything in your waking life that's causing you stress problems?

I copped this from a webpage, I think it might be a good idea, writing down dreams. It's something I do. Then when you go to bed, reread, it might help.

at a very early age (4-5) I was exposed to horror films and I was recently watching the Walking Dead and the end absolutely horrified me and I've been having nightmares since. It's pretty much taken over my mind and I'm living day to day in fear.

I should stop exposing yourself to such material. Watch some disney cartoons or something, The Happy Mermaid and that. Or listen to some nice soothing music.

When I saw "Signs" it freaked me out so bad that I had nightmares. Also a scene in Scary Movie just frigtened me. The film was comedy but that one scene just scared me so much. Even some disney cartoons scared me. A scene in Bambi 2 scared me in some way. I know how can a cartoon made for children scare me, an adult. My most common nightmares though are of me laying in a casket. I don't know why. I don't know if it's a nightmare, but I have had dreams of meeting my grandfather and hugging him. He passed away several years ago.

Aw - I could have written the exact same thing when I was 16 and saw a zombie move that kinda broke me. *shudder*

Moog's right, you need to stop exposing yourself to that kind of stuff. That's what I have to do.

Maybe it'll help you to understand the historical significance of zombies. Taken from an academic stand point they lose some of their power to frighten. There's the ancient fear of death and all the associations with it, the supernatural and the unexplained but then more recently, there is the fear of communism. Zombie movies especially (like alien invasion movies) started as a reaction during the cold war. That's why they eat brains and not livers or something like that. They are symbolically destroying a person's individuality and turning him into one of them.

Hope you feel better about it soon.

I'm starting to come out the other side of this. @Moog I ended up drowning out the zombies with the many many podcasts I listen to. @happymusic that really does help and now that I think about it that makes total sense.

All my bad dreams are about being lost.

I parked my car in a strange city and now I am lost wandering around the streets looking for it.

I am for some reason back in High School and wandering the corridors looking for the class I should be in.

I am stuck in a city and need to go home except I have no money and can't remember where I live.

Do you think that you have ptsd from your childhood experience of the horror movie and seeing the recent zombie movie caused a sort of flash back?
What you are describing sounds like ptsd. The best thing to do for that is to hyperfocus on what is going on at the curent moment, called mindfullness which is a zen buddhist mental extersize...it has proven effective for war veterans.

nightmares affect me big time too.... but they are about my exgirlfriends, i know it sounds kinda funny but it afects my day, sometimes several days