ga yankee,

I feel your pain. I seem to go through cycles with my nightmares - and right now I'm in one of those cycles. My nightmares give me no rest, it's as if I'm not sleeping, that I'm simply awake in some Hitchcock like dream-scape reality when I'm sleeping and I never quite feel rested because my mind just won't shut down right now.

I'm equating it currently to some stress going on in my life - like being away from home for a week and the days preceding my leaving were stressful because I knew I was going away. I've always had extremely vivid dreams and they can ruin an entire day or days for me because they affect me like any other traumatizing event can, because they feel so real. I'm not taking anything special for the nightmares, just benzos for a sleep aid.

I hope you can find some relief, but just wanted to let you know that you are not alone. BTW- if you're interested, there is a group on here for analyzing dreams - Seeking Nirvana (Tammy) is a very good dream interpreter, and maybe you will find some peace by posting some of these nightmares for her to analyze for you. I've found some peace by doing this. She's a great resource.

Best,
Rachel