Does anxiety come out in your dreams?

[amielou]

Hey guys, I'm really suffering at the moment I don't think my anxiety has ever been worse and for the first time it's starting to affect my sleep. I'm struggling to sleep throughout the night I often wake up several times in a panic but the worst thing is the dreams I'm having. If any of you know my story I have really bad friendship anxiety involving two of my best friends and I keep having realistic dreams that one of them has done something to me or I've found out they have been talking about me, really quite simple stuff but I'm dreaming about it every night. Does anybody else ever have this?

[NickZx6]

I made a post about this the other day. My anxiety has been worse than usual lately and it causes me to dream about my worries. No good :(

[NixonRulz]

Hey guys, I'm really suffering at the moment I don't think my anxiety has ever been worse and for the first time it's starting to affect my sleep. I'm struggling to sleep throughout the night I often wake up several times in a panic but the worst thing is the dreams I'm having. If any of you know my story I have really bad friendship anxiety involving two of my best friends and I keep having realistic dreams that one of them has done something to me or I've found out they have been talking about me, really quite simple stuff but I'm dreaming about it every night. Does anybody else ever have this?

In the height of my anxiety, sleep and dreams became my biggest dread.

As bad as I felt during the day, I always knew I would be looking forward to the night terrors and sweats

My dreams with anxiety were extremely vivd and would often wake up in a panic. They were often about the same few things

Oddly enough, being woken by panic didn't bother me as much then when I felt it coming

I read once that you often dream about the last things you are thinking about prior to falling asleep

Since I was always thinking about how cruddy the night was going to be, that made some sense

What I ended up doing was would virtually meditate while lying down

I love the Eastern meditation music and would put my headphones in and completely go relaxed and thought free as possible

I did that for 2 weeks and fell asleep on the couch one night and woke up the next day realizing I hadn't panicked

I never did that meditation again. I suppose I somehow rewired my brain and when I did have those thoughts at night before bed, I treated it as a passing thought versus an obsessive tnought