Surely you have noticed it when you have spent a more nervous season than usual in a moment of stress. When concerns surpass you or when you are suffering an anxiety problem, that restlessness does not abandon you or at night. Do you know what someone dreams with anxiety? Because this disorder also shows in dreams that become more agitated, as if you were swimming in a scrambled sea. We tell you in our dream dictionary what dreams are when you have anxiety.
Your whole body transforms when you suffer an anxiety disorder. In milder cases, you notice a huge muscle tension that translates into contractures in body parts that did not even imagine or gastric problems. They are the first two signs and the most common that anxiety is overwhelmed.
But before you have noticed it emotionally, right? You are more pessimistic, with fears and obsessive thoughts than most of the time they are catastrophists. In this state of emotional tension it is not surprising that your night rest is altered. Insomnia problems usually accompany anxiety, but that does not mean that you do not sleep anything, it means that you sleep worse. A study by the University of Valencia confirms it: “It is evident that emotional reactions, as an experience that affects the individual in such a broad spectrum of their existence, will influence and condition sleep in their broader manifestations.”
You sleep worse when you have anxiety, you rest worse and, of course, you have worse dreams. People with anxiety often remember more what they dream and are very agitated and revealing dreams of their emotional state. And, for better or worse, anxiety also causes you to have more nightmares. Do not scare yourself, that you already know that even from the worst dreams you can get something positive.
It is true that nightmares disturb, scare, stir us emotionally and we want to forget them as soon as possible. But we cannot forget the function that the worst dreams fulfill, which is to point to an emotional problem that is there or that is about to come to light. Thus, nightmares can also alert you that you are about to suffer an anxiety problem. And if you are already suffering, you surely have this type of nightmares.
+ Dream what drills
The dreams in which you drown in the sea, in a river or in a pool are characteristic of people with anxiety. In contrast to the cleaning of the water, which represents that emotional cleaning you need, in your nightmare you are drowning and your attempts to keep afloat do not work. You are running out of strength, right?
+ Dream about being paralyzed
The nightmares in which you feel paralyzed, that you cannot talk, that you want to shout and no sound from your mouth, that you want to move and it is impossible to you are also an anxiety alert. As you know, an anxiety disorder comes to paralyze due to insecurity, you cannot make decisions and that is as if you had no capacity to move.
+ Dream that someone chases you
There are a very common type of nightmares in people with anxiety. It is about persecutions. Someone chases you, a shadow runs behind you through the dark streets and you feel that you are in danger. It is a very distressing dream that perfectly reflects the state of alert in which anxiety keeps you.
+ Dream with death
Sometimes anxiety also leads you to dream of death. But not that you are dead, but rather that you are going to die. In these dreams, violence may appear if your mental state is very agitated or may be only dreams in which you notice agony and panic to die.
Not all the dreams that alert you to anxiety are nightmares, although logically do not expect to dream that you are sailing in a calm or lying sea quietly on the beach. Any sense of well -being disappears when you have anxiety, even in your dreams.
+ Dream with food
Dreaming of food, especially if in your dream you eat compulsively or you are always very hungry, they also point out an anxiety problem. It seems that when you eat some emotional lack, tapas your fears or leave your problems aside, but it is not. The reality is that this type of dreams with food the only thing they feed are your concerns.
+ Dreaming that it puts your whole body
It does not become a nightmare, but it is a fairly unpleasant dream when you feel that it bites your whole body or that you have lice or even spiders in your hair. This type of dreams rather reflects that discomfort that completely fill your life, so take the inconvenience in dreams because they are the signs that your concerns increase.
+ Dream what are you missing time
If your anxiety is more linked to daily stress, it is very common for you to have dreams related to time; or with the lack of time. Calendars, watches and alarms sounding are indicative that you are worrying too much. And be careful with noises that do not cease in dreams, such as bell or phone, because they also announce anxiety.
+ Other dreams that people have anxious
Between the dream and the fear that it will come true sometimes dreams like that you are late for an exam, that you have to speak in public and you are terrified, that you run to a job interview or that you leave home with the shoes and the pajamas. These types of situations in dreams indicate a high degree of anxiety attached to an insecurity or low self -esteem. Don’t you look capable?
Pay attention to your dreams and the emotions that it transmits to you. Restlessness, fear, feeling of disability, desire to give up, extreme exhaustion … are signs of anxiety. So wake up and seek the help you need to recover your tranquility and your security.
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