Anxiety from dreams?

Have any of you experienced anxiety attacks after waking up from a  bad dream? I have been having the same dream for days now and each time I wake up I'm in a state of severe anxiety.

It sounds like a natural response to a bad dream. I have had a bad dream each night for the last two nights myself so I hear ya! Mine have been different dreams but still, enough to make me uneasy and upset. Research dream therapy online and see what your reoccurring dream might mean. Maybe your subconscious is trying to tell you something! I've heard that keeping a dream journal sometimes helps.

I once had a dream where my ex husband, who was violent hence the split, was trying to murder me with an axe... I'd only just moved and was terrified for weeks that he'd just turn up...

Now I'll often dream of my fiance, and when I wake up I get upset coz he isn't there (we temp live apart) and that's a real day spoiler for me.

I find that it really helps to talk about it.

Sometimes I do. I've woken up in a cold sweat on many a night and just a couple weeks ago I woke up at like 2am and couldn't go back to sleep because I was so anxious. Usually those kinds of dreams, I can only remember fragments.

That particular dream, I was on a beach with my brother and I was getting ready to take a picture of him. The sun was behind me and my back was toward the ocean and my brother was about 20 feet ahead of me. I was just pressing the shutter and a wave completely ungulfed my body and drug me away. That's when I woke up.

Bad dreams make your body react the same way it would react if that were really happening.  Thus the wet dreams of youth.  Are you taking any sleep aids?  My husband had night terrors from Lunesta.  I mean full on screaming like a kid.  Maybe it's your subconscious telling you something.  But maybe it's just a dream.  Hope you get some rest!

Dreams usually reflect or amplify what's really going on in your mind.   If you're happy and relaxed you'll have happy, relaxed dreams.  If you're stressed or anxious about something - even if you think you're dealing with it OK - then your dreams will be troubled and panicky.  The answer is to find ways to deal with what's troubling you 'in real life', as it were.  Once you do, the nightmares will magically stop.

That is so weird.  I just posted about this yesterday at 4:00 AM because I couldnt sleep.  Anyways I sometimes have weird dreams, Or sometimes with no dream I feel as if Im half awake and I feel like I can't breathe as if Im having some panic attack or asthma attack and then when I wake up wooooow my heart is pounding its really scary.

Dreams can be very powerful.  They are to the mind what nightly batch processes are to a main-frame computer.  A way to sort, file, and reconcile with the days information.  If you are experiencing the same dream over again, or almost the same dream over again, it could mean there is something in your life you are having trouble sorting, filing and/or reconciling with, though you may not realize.

I'm here on cc, and on a mission to re-create myself because of a dream.  It was a Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol type of dream, where an ex-fiance I had not thought about in 20 years, visited me, and proceeded to point out every mistake I had made with my life, every failure, every thing he would not be happy about, all the things I needed to change, or else.  I didnt just wake up from it with anxiety, I cried for a week.  And now I am here, and am motivated, and thankful for that dream.

 

I'm inclined to think this is normal and happens to everyone, but if you have recently gone through a trauma then you may have Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). I've got it and my dreams often suck :(

But if it's just the normal stresses that occur in life (family problems, stress at work, moderate depression, etc.) then I wouldn't worry about it too much. You do need to address whatever is bothering you, though. 

Good luck :)