I was wondering if anyone could help me... I keep having dreams about being chased and brutally murdered with an ax. In the most recent dream, we were all homeless, but there was one crazy guy who bullied everyone else. Then he went into the woods and murdered a man and took his clothing and other goods. He then put his body parts out for others to see. He got angry with me and started chasing all of us with a ax. We ran into a store, and locked the door. But he smashed in the window and started to kill the store manager. I woke up after that, but I know I would have been murdered. This is scaring me. I am a single mother and I live alone with my two young children. I know I have a lot of issues but I am sick of these dreams. I am strting to become paranoid because I am always dreaming of something horrible. In the same night I also dreamt that a family member (who I have not spoken to in 2 years) ha my son. They were supposed to bring hin back to me, but she said she wouls bring him in August. I told her no that he was my baby and she needs to give him back to me. She refused and I asked her why. All she said was "because". I don't really remmber anything else. These two dreams happened one after another tonight. Is tehre some kind of issue that I can confront so these dreams will stop?

I was wondering is there is there something going on in you waking life that is causing you to feel troubled. Maybe something you haven't looked at or tried to fix or don't know how to take care of and you ignore it or don't give it full attention. I'm seeing that there is turmoil in your life but you are splitting your attention and not focusing on fixing it at all and you have to. You have to really go at it and take care of this problem that is chasing you and when you do your dreams will stop.

Let me ask this... are you taking any medication? Certain medications cause nightmares.

If not, it sounds as though you have added stress in your life lately. You need to focus on what is going on in your life that is causing the added stress and see how you can get this back down to a minimum.

I am a single mother with two kids. Their fathers are not around. I live by myself... no boyfriend. I work, go to college, and take care of my kids. I am only 21. I have more issues than have time to write about. I haven't been happy in a long time. Not even when I was young. I love my children, and I do not resent them, but its hard to be so tied down. There is so much pressure. And Im lonely. I won't let myself connect with anyone. My inner conflicts cause me so much anxiety. But Ive always been this way. Im not taking any medication, I don't think I need to. But I guess no one thinks they need to... My dreans are so real. They are really scaring me. Especially because a lot of time they come true. I don't think I am a psychic. Just sometimes I can feel people. And I dream certain things and they end up to be true. I think its just my intuition. I just wish I knew which issues were causing me to dream like this...

This is going to seem abit off topic but does the way people feel around you affect you like maybe you feel what they feel? Do you feel like you are different from everyone and that you don't feel like you belong here? There is a very specific reason I'm asking this so please answer honestly. Also when you are in crowds or a party for a little while do you suddenly feel the need to have alone time?

I keep having dreams that I too am about to be murdered. Its so strange. I've been having these dreams almost every night. I don't know if its because of stress. I'm not more stressed than usual. I don't know if it has anything to do with the fact that my best friend was murdered in front of me... Or if its because a guy I dated last year also was murdered a few months ago at a club. I'm not sure. When I wake up from the dreams I'm usually just thankful that its not real. I don't wake up in a panic or anything.

The dream symbolizes your fear, anxiety, feeling vulnerable and your issues and doesn't have anything to do with actually being murdered. As J_9 says too medications can cause and intensify dreams.

before I start a bit of background;
I'm 13 (yeah yeah underage but I signed up just for this so don't remove it)
and I'm in a school with 4 halls.
5 months ago I was in a hall with all my friends, over time I notice my friends started drifting and turning againest me within a month everyone I knew and liked was agaest me in everyway possible (as well as the whole class).
then my teacher started victimizing and ostracising(seperating me and picking on me).
by now my bullying had got 100x worse and there wasn't a single place on my without a bruse,
and every night when I went to bed it took me hours to go to sleep (even though I was hurting everywhere) and once I did I wished id wake up.
since I was being bullyed and victimized you would have though my dreams would have been about bullys wouldn't you?
much like you I was getting the same type of dream,
one of the ones I remember was ;
I was running down a long ally for what seemed like hours, not knowing what I was running from,
every time I turn it was my best friend wielding a buchers knife and throwing them infitively at my head until one hit,
I FELT myself hit the floor and being stabbed.
they where some of the worse dreams of my life.
then,
I changed halls, to class with only 1 of my friends in.
a girl id know since play school ,
we got along perfectly, and we still do,
all me dreams have stopped and now I'm getting ones of running past flowers in an ifative medow for ever running with this girl.

and that was how I stopped it, maybe you just need some-one else in your life (apart from your kids)or a change of life style
, it helped me tons(im not and adult but oh well)
anyway thanks for reading and to all the mods out there: I'm 13 and have only signed up for this post, don't delete it

,Kiran

Sorry for double post,

I used to feel like that and worse,
If that's how you felt maybe your hanging around with the wrong people or trying to be something your not

The part of your mind that makes up dreams gets input from a lot of sources. But one of its functions is to help you deal with stuff. The very reasonable and realistic anxieties you have about your family's safety and security are a constant pressure on your mind, and so your "dreammaker" tries to cope with them, explore them and try to find a way out of them. I can offer two suggestions: First, do the things you can to be safe. Have you considered one of those "life alert" buttons that older people who live alone wear? They only cost like $30 per month, and I would recommend them to almost anyone who is the only grownup in a house, because accidents or other things can even happen to someone young and healthy. Once you have taken the reasonable steps you can, tell your brain, "Ok, I've done all I can. I can let go of these anxieties and I am letting go of them, because they won't do any more good for us." Then take a few deep breaths and let them go. And talk to people about them. Friends, a counselor. Pray about it, if that's your thing.

Second step is taking control in the dream. When you wake up afterward, remind yourself that this is your dream, and belongs to you. Don't "try not to think about it" because that is pushing it back into the subconscious where the dreammaker can make it even more intense. Do just the opposite. Accept it. Maybe even write it down, and then write down ways that the dream could have come out in a positive way: What if you and your family just flew away? Or you had strength like Wonder Woman to just knock the bad guys across the room with a flick of the finger? Or the ax man chopped you into little pieces and you just pulled yourself together and laughed at him? It's your dream, you can do whatever you want. Then, during the day, from time to time, stop and ask yourself, "Am I dreaming?" Doing that can train you to be a lucid dreamer, to realize you are dreaming while it is happening. Then you can make the ax murderer harmless, and in so doing you demonstrate to the dreammaker inside you that you have solved the problem. After all, that's all the dreammaker wanted, was a solution. So once you give it one, it will let it go.

When I was a child, I had those dreams everyone has about being chased by a bad guy, and only being able to run really, really slowly. Those dreams always scared me silly. Then one night I was having that dream and the guy who was chasing me called out to me, "Look how slowly you are going! It's pathetic! I could walk slowly and still catch you. Why don't you just give up and let me kill you?" And I called back, "Maybe so, but I will never give up, I will never stop trying to run." Then I woke up suddenly, and unlike every other time, I didn't feel scared. I had given my brain the right info to deal with the stuff it was trying to deal with. And I never had that dream again.

Blessings to you and your family. Best wishes in connecting more of a support structure of friends, family, school, church, community, whatever around you so you can be more secure. There are a lot of folks like you out there, and if you can join together, you can be strong.

Alder

Let me answer your ? That you are thinking , you are a good mother. Life is hard and sometimes you would like to take the easy way out.if in your dream you confront the killer you will see his face is that of someone you feel hatred to. This person you fill has held you back from your dreams for you and your children. Once you relize your dreams the death of the old you, and a new one is born. Look in your dreams for the sign of birth. You can go to school, and get the bettter job. Your children will be fine. Those who sometimes do without now will be stronger.

I agree with the others too.
And as Kiranjp said often changes in your life will bring changes in your dreams. New friends, new projects and new hobbies are good.