I definitely have recurring nightmares still, even though i've been going to therapy for almost three years.

Sometimes I think I'm going crazy because I can't differentiate between the flashback sequence of a dream and if my mind is creating a fiction.

For a while I was lucky in that I could ask my brother (who witnessed some of the abuse that triggered my ptsd later), whether some of the things I was dreaming seemed familiar to him--if he remembered some of them happening in real life. In that way, some of my nightmares even helped me to reawaken repressed memories.

I think the dreams will continue for a long time, perhaps as long as we have unresolved vivid memories of violence. I do know that at least they have decreased in frequency the more I learn about my issues and the more I talk with therapists.

Hope that helps at all!

-Kay