Hi all. I am new to this message board and wondering if maybe someone can help me. I have been having recurring nightmares for the last two weeks, and the theme has always been the same. I am out or at least with my best friend and something happens that he winds up leaving me. And I am all alone. Or when we are together he winds up yelling at me, telling me that other ppl are better than me. But the thing that is most disturbing to me is that not only the only way for the dream to stop is that i have to scare myself awake. Also when I wake up I feel like crying and feel so depressed and it has been staying with me. Even when i am with my best friend i still feel sad, alone and depressed. I dont want to tell him what my dreams are but he does know i havent been sleeping cuz of them. I live with my best friend, so i see him every day, i dont know why i am having these dreams. But also he has offered to either sleep in the same room as me or have me sleep in his bed with him, cuz usually when i have nightmares it makes me feel better, but i am afraid that if i have him around me when i sleep, it will make the dreams worse. Should I try and sleep in the same room with him? So that way when i get up i am not alone? Anyone have ideas as to how i can stop being scared to sleep cuz i hate feeling so alone and having to keep scaring myself awake?

If your dreams are making you so depressed that they are affecting your sleep, you should make an appointment to see a counselor right away. I don't think it's just the dreams that are making you depressed, I think something in your life is depressing you, and your dreams are just bringing that out.

If you just let your depression continue without treating it, it can get worse.

Please write again and let us know what is happening with you.

Thank you for your concern. I will try and get the therapy I need .

I do have another thing i hope someone can help me with. I had a dream last night and I can only remember certain things that i wrote down after it woke me up and I cant find what any of it means. I dreamnt about red scorpions fighting, a faceless person that was half tiger grabbing me,threatening me and trying to scare me but then as he was still holding me threatening to eat me a balloon came by and popped onto my back and he/she tried to eat it off of my back.
Any ideas on what some of this could mean?

Scorpions sting, tigers eat, and you have a faceless person trying to eat something off your back. My guess is that you probably got "stung" recently by someone and it is "eating" away at you. Perhaps you have not consciously acknowledged this, which may explain the "faceless" entity.