My dreams suck.

Growing up I would always have nightmares, even as a small child I would dream of my favourite TV characters being abducted and never seen again or being hunted by death itself through a labyrinth of lethal traps or my family literally dissolving (like with acid) in screaming agony before my eyes. Ive never forgotten a recurring nightmare I had when I was about 8 or 9 where I hat to cave in my teacher's skull with an iron pipe to stop him murdering me whilst my mum watches refusing to help and saying "I think youre going to loose a bit of that face" to me like she is telling me she forgot to buy biscuits.

I got used to this by teenage years they were just kinda tiring after a while, but they didnt stop until well into adulthood. I mean I did occasionally have an OK dream, but it was mostly nightmares. Some time around 20 years old my dreams got cleverly sadistic, one dream made me truly content (something I had never felt) then kicked me out suddenly making me feel great loss, another made me wake up so many times (dreams within dreams) that when I finally DID wake up, I felt like I was dreaming all day and it just threw me off, then i had developing dreams, dreams which, rather than feeling the emotions right out would let them build naturally in the dream meaning that when I woke up I couldnt shake the emotion because it was real, not just part of the dream, 2 examples of this was one where I had just such a horrible week I ended the dream killing myself, (I was more than normally depressed after that one) and another had an escalating conflict between me and a friend until we kill each other which had me filled with feelings of hate for him for the entire day after the dream, I had to avoid him just to be safe.

In the end my dreams kinda gave up making sense altogether and now I almost never remember them, but when I do they are always nonsensical stuff completely disconnected from any thoughts or feelings I have been having.

Why cant my dreams just be NORMAL? If I have had a bad week, give me miserable dreams, if I am anxious about something, give me anxiety dreams, if I am happy, give me good dreams, but no matter what now, my dreams are always the same kind of random nonsensical bs so mundane that I cant remember a single one without immediate effort upon waking, and even then I forget it right after.

@Dante, as for me, I don't think I have ever dreamed. It's mostly just a blink to the next day, after a bit of struggling.

I think dreams are supposed to reflect what you thought about during the day. Multiple complcated thoughts pushed into a dream would definitely a chaos for a night.

People try this and that for better sleeps, like scents and foot massage. They all sound facny to me, but I can wash my feet before going to bed.

Dreams to this day; still I can’t understand.

I grew up with sleep walking, Night terrors, Nightmares.
Repeated dreams from childhood to adulthood.
I have even died in my dreams and felt pain many times.
On medication for a long time that helped with this.
I no longer take meds but all of this stopped 6 years ago.
I have no clue why, nothing significant happened.
I started dreaming of my current life. Having a hard time between reality and fiction.
Thinking I already had convos with people about situations. I didn’t ! Thinking I already experienced things. I didn’t
Still trying to get a handle of it all.
Best thing most positive is I no longer have night terrors.

I also agree that dreams correlate with what’s going on in your head. Certain issues I would obsess about would months later always manifest itself into a dream