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What do you guys think it means if I have had nightmares since childhood with no link to trauma…
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Anonymous 1d

Everyone has nightmares sometimes - it’s how your brain processes stressful thoughts & fears. What you eat before bed, watching scary movies or being worried about something makes it more likely.

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Anonymous 1d

Not having a regular sleep schedule w/ 7-8 hrs sleep a night will also make this worse.

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Anonymous 56m

I have cptsd and have that. For you maybe you have some sort of autoimmune or underlying health issue that your brain registers as nightmares. Or you have some sort of mental illness maybe

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 1d

No dreams. Almost every night since I was kid of illnesses, murder, or worse?

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 1d

I’m sorry you’ve been experiencing this for so long. Could it be you’ve grown up in an environment where you often didn’t feel physically or emotionally safe?

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 1d

that's a good point, you can grow up in fight or flight without having been through stereotypical traumas. CPTSD does come with nightmares.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 1d

That’s the thing. I had a great childhood. My home life is pretty good. I had a lot of friends that went through a lot of unstable situations but I was pretty oblivious to a lot of things until middle school and even then I wasn’t too aware of everything. I’m the baby of the family too so my family protects me from stuff all the time.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 1d

it might be that you do have peaceful dreams but your memory isn't "recording" them because we dream several times a night and don't remember all of them, or maybe it's a night terror situation bc usually children don't remember having night terrors and they usually get less intense but more memorable with age

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 1d

I wish I couldn’t remember the “dreams.” I’ve also gotten heart rate alerts while I am asleep as well and have woken up in several different states. I have a history of sleepwalking as well.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 1d

sleepwalking is fairly comorbid with night terrors

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