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Bad daydreams?
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Ever since I was around 13 (I'm 21 now) I've had pretty vivid daydreams. I just slip into them several times a day, but if I need to be focusing on something I can stop them and am very much in control that way. I've read online that daydreams, in moderation, are healthy and encourage creativity and motivate people to achieve whatever it is they are daydreaming about.

The problem is, while most people daydream about happy things they would like to happen, my daydreams are always sad and sometimes violent. I'm always the victim or friend of the victim, and I personally never do anything violent. Terrible things happen though, people I'm close to die and get hurt, etc.

However, when I come out of the daydreams, for whatever reason I feel better than before I started. Is this really weird? I just started seeing a psychiatrist for relatively severe anxiety issues. I don't know if that's related at all but I figured I'd throw it out there.
Do you think it's normal?
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violent10dency (10988)
2008-11-23 14:31:22
I daydream about bad things too. Things like what it would be like if a family member died, or being murder, kiling someone, or even being a hero in a hostage situation and saving people. I think it's just your imagination, don't let it get to you.
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MapleSyrup (17767)
2008-11-23 23:16:10
agreed
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GreyScale (18039)
2008-11-27 22:00:30
Become a writer.
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Ledria (18155)
2008-12-01 11:12:36
it is so normal.I do it sometimes ,too.
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WoahCURRY (18482)
2008-12-13 03:17:20
Same problem.
When I daydream its so horrible
& depressing,saddening.
But when I try to think of good,positive
things it always ends up in the opposite
direction.

I have nothing to tell you.
:
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spyderr (19660)
2009-01-24 17:04:40
I have bad daydreams too. I run from people who are trying to commit me to hospital, you know like in those white padded rooms they're all white and the doctors keep you locked up in there because they think you want to kill yourself.
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cjwright79 (20324)
2009-02-17 13:43:59
Your subconscious knows what it's doing. And if you feel better after these daydreams, well so much the better. The idea that dreams are always supposed to be pleasant is wrong. They're useful.
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qwertycrazy (21025)
2009-03-17 15:43:22
Dreams can be a significant way of showing your innermost feelings. It's good that you remember and recognize these dreams because it shows you have no problem facing it.

Maybe try to think more positively and listen to happier music and see what effect that brings about.
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Kat444 (27378)
2009-09-11 14:50:46
I do the same thing. I have these daydreams where I'm the tormented heroine, and really bad things happen to me and I just try not to break under the pressure. I think it makes me feel brave. But at the same time kind of vulnerable and sexy, like a strong man could come and save me!
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