Dreams that hurt

Imagine if you can, waking up, your face is soaked in cold sweat, and you just start sobbing. It's a horrible thing that has affected hundreds of thousands of people, A nightmare can cause some serious emotion. I recently woke up from such a terrible nightmare, that I woke my husband up with my sobbing. I hadn't cried like that since I was a young girl. Everyday I feel emotion from this nightmare and I feel that the visions from this nightmare will linger for quite a while. For those who would like to know what my dream was about I will put it in (" ") if you do not want to know you can skip to the end of that and finish reading.

(" I was in my bedroom waiting for my husband to come home from work, I walked out into the dinning room and saw the creepy looking shiny black creatures racing past my windows outside in my yard. I ran to each window and though they were probably just wolves or something so maybe if I yelled at them they would spook and run off. They were far from wolves though, now I have never seen aliens or demons but I swear if there were any way to cross breed the two they would come up with the creature I saw in my dream. I thought I was safe behind the glass and walls of my home so I yelled at the creature that stopped at my dinning room window and stared me down. It didn't hesitate, it crashed through the glass of the window and tried biting me. I grabbed a bar that was conveniently placed on the floor next to me and attempted to fight the creature off of me. I saw my 15 year old Siamese cat coming towards me - this is the part that made me cry so hard when i woke up- I grabbed her and cut her in half to use as bait to get the creature to leave me alone. As I held the upper half of my dying cat's body she looked at me and purred like she was okay with what I had just done. I threw her out of the broken window onto the driveway to entice the creature so I could get away, the creature was un interested in my precious dying cat. I finally got a pair of scissors and stabbed the creature repeatedly in the head until it ran off. I ran outside to pick up the pieces of my sweet little old cat, who loved me and trusted me for so long. I tried putting her body together again. My father showed up to see if I was okay, I asked him if there was any way I could save my cats life and he said no. So i looked her in the eyes, how full of acceptance and love she was, she licked my nose like she always does and I asked my dad to snap her neck to keep her from suffering.")

Now I have had some dreams that are pretty messed up, and some dreams I wish I wouldn't wake up from. This one however got the emotion in me to come out physically.

Why do dreams touch us in such a way? How are they so impressionable on us? I unfortunately do not have the degree in sociology or human psychology to answer this, however I do have my own theory. From my own personal study on what I was feeling before and after a dream or nightmare and how my week went or even month went according to my dreams. And I have knocked everything down into specific small categories that may interest anyone who reads this, it sure shocked me with how accurate I was. try it for yourself.

When I could remember my dreams I would write them down, write the date down, and write how I felt after the dream (because of the dream) down.

then before I went to bed that night I would write down how my day was in a few simple words referring to my emotions and if my day was either good bad or miserable.(so if i had a bad dream and I was irritable all day and everyone was rude and I was unable to focus and nothing was going right, that is exactly what I would put without any need for detail)

By doing this was able to discover that My dreams affected me more than I could have ever realized.I know it sounds like a no brainer but really you can discover some things about you you might not have known.

In some cases I would have a dream about something that really bothered me but wasn't like a nightmare and I would wake up and for that whole day I would be so grateful I wasn't in the situation I was in, in the dream I had.

If you are very interested in your dreams and what they mean you can always invest in some dream books and what not but to discover what your dreams mean specifically to you is so much better and alot more accurate.