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I've been having extremely vivid and violent dreams in the last week or so and it's worrying me. I want to know what they mean.

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I'm usually not someone who remembers dreams at all but I can recall these pretty much entirely. I don't know why that's changed for me, but I figured that may also mean something

They always start with me sleeping and waking up to a home intruder, my apartment is recreated perfectly in the dreams too, down to the most minute details like where I left my shoes the night before. its never someone I know, and I always end up killing the person. Its really fucked up and it messes with me for the whole day afterwards.

Every single time this has happened its been extremely gruesome and violent. I hate even thinking about it, so much blood, so much screaming, and it's always so real. The one I had last night I stabbed the other person in my kitchen, she had a knife too, and we both had specific knives that are actually in my kitchen. It was legitimately one of the most gruesome things I've ever seen in my life, genuinely disturbing shit. I almost feel like there was more blood pouring out of her than she could have held in her body, it was awful.

I remember trying to call the cops after the fact but my phone was dead, so I went to charge it and literally sat on my couch staring at her body while I waited for it to charge, woke up as soon as I dialed 911.

I've done a little bit of research on what this could mean but most of what I came up with was stress and anxiety. The weird thing is I've been much less stressed recently as I just finished my finals and have started my summer vacation, and these dreams started up probably 3-4 days after the fact. There's really been nothing new or significant that changed my life personally or at work either so I don't know where that is coming from.

I'll add some more detail and answer any questions if that helps anyone.

I'm mainly concerned because of how well I remember these dreams, again I usually don't remember anything or only remember little bits and pieces of it. So it feels like my brain is trying to tell me something and I don't know what it is.

Thank you for reading and thanks for any help.

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