A link between depression and bad dreams?

That makes a lot of sense. I always feel tired when I wake up from sleep, never refreshed. It's also true though, that I mostly have broken sleep. It's rare for me to sleep for more than a couple of hours straight through without waking up.

Yep, I'm the same. I'm tired all the time, any sleep I do have, doesn't seem to do me any good. In fact, the bad dreams probably make me feel even worse. I'm sorry to hear you've been having similar problems.

I honestly don't think I've ever had a good dream, but that could be because the core problems that I have now, I had even when I was a young child. I may deserve better, but we don't always get what we deserve, sadly. Sometimes bad things happen to good people, and good things happen to bad people. It's the way things have always been, and probably will always be. And thank you, once again.

 

light exercise shortly before sleep seems to help a little for me.

 

What about great dreams and a shitty life. That would be kinda depressing I guess.

 

I suffer from depression and I have always had bad dreams, I have had dreams of people pointing a gun in my face, injecting needles in my brain dogs biting my hand to the point it goes numb allot of falling dreams too. I’m on meds now I still get those bad dreams every once in a while but I feel I handle them allot better. I still sometimes get nervous before going to bed I think ohh god what will I dream about tonight. Maybe you need to be on meds. When I was having nightmares every night I thought to myself I’m going to stay up all night so I won’t have bad dreams

 

when I'm high before bed I don't feel nervous about what I will dream about that night. I just fall asleep and wake up feeling fine

 

a friend of mine started doing heroin again. i found out last night.
had a dream about people doing heroin and giving no fucks. ended in me stabbing a guy who broke into my house while my protectors were strung out.

there were other elements in it that were shocking, like some trippy visuals, but it was overall just strange.

 

there are many things in the dominant culture, the kinds of crap on television, fanatacisms of all kinds, even the dominant culture and its dominance itself, which can and ofter do, trigger, emotional lows. frustrations and emotionally lows can certain result in unpleasant dreams. often one's own anger is the subconscous trigger. mantra meditiations or other simple pleasant visualisations, instead of television or radio, before going to sleep, are likely to help. pleasant smells, pleasant quiet sounds, imagining non-harmful things you enjoy, a world you personally would find both sustainable AND gratifying, any of these kinds of things as focus, instead of what angers you or really is wrong.