How to deal with bad dreams
I was molested and manipulated by a friend for 4 years (COCSA) and for the past 7 years, she’s been in my dreams almost every night. It’s a different dream every time, often we reconnect with each other, and this either goes well or horribly. Sometimes I get mad and yell at her and get physically violent because my waking body remembers what she put me through. and sometimes she’s so nice to me just like before, so I push aside everything. Often she’s molests me again after gaining trust.
I usually have extremely vivid dreams regardless of if she’s in them, but this makes the bad stuff particularly worse. It feels like real life interactions every time, and I get so scared and have to hide it.
Last nights dream was particularly awful, we were hanging out as friends, doing crafts. She didn’t make any sexual jokes or anything and I’ve been quite lonely lately so I was happy to have a friend. Then when we’re watching a movie she grabs my torso and whispers in my ear, and tells me every traumatic instance. She tells me private things that I never knew, with dates. I tell her she ruined my life and I can never be intimate with someone. She molests me again and tries to rape me multiple times. Each I am fighting with all my strength to get her off.
I am tired. I don’t know how to cope when I wake up from these dreams. I feel like she is sending them to me to fuck with me. I don’t know what to think, I’m scared to go to sleep. I can’t live while remembering these dreams through the day. And it’s so awful, I feel every touch, every single one.