What do my morbid nightmares mean?

Question

I've had dreams for the past couple of years, where I will be skinning people alive. It sounds sadistic, but I can remember seeming to enjoy it. When I wake up, it's in a cold sweat. I do not have this kind of mentality in my awake state, so this is really disturbing to me.

Answer 1

Do you think you are losing your mind? Or maybe you aren't fit to be in society?

Well that is how I felt when I murdered my family in my dreams, these dreams were nearly 30 yrs ago and I can tell you exactly how I killed them, where I buried them and so on. I can even draw you a picture.

ok I have come to the conclusion that repressed anger caused this. Its like a pressure cooker, the excess steam has got to be released somewhere. You either can't or it's not appropriate to release at that time.  You obviously know right from wrong or have fresh blood on your hands right?

Anyway this is how I released the pent up anger. Did you by chance have any traumatic things happen to you lately?

It took alot of years to actually come to terms with the source of the anger, so take a deep breath and do some soul searching.

My traumatic thing was that my dad was murdered, I was 10 at the time.

Good Luck to ya

Eventually you to will realize you aren't nuts

Answer 2

I'm thinking in terms of a metaphor here. What I see is that you're trying to get to know people at a deeper level, but something is frustrating your attempts to do so. Frustration breeds anger. I don't know if that sounds like a correct interpretation of your nightmare, but that's how it comes across to me.  

Answer 3

Your brain runs amok during your sleep.  Dreams mean nothing.  Everybody has nightmares and great dreams.  Your brain paralyses your body before it goes into a nightmare state.  This is to protect you from hurting yourself by bouncing around and banging into something.

As you mature they may slack up.   Pop

Answer 4

Well if you don't have that kind of mentaily why are you worrying about it?

Answer 5

No one can interpret your dreams or tell you what they mean. Only you can do this. Never mind those who say they can tell you what your dream "means." It only means something to YOU because you give it your personal meaning.

Don’t bother with dream books, dream dictionaries, internet sites that tell you to look for codes or symbols or hidden mysteries in dreams. Dreams do not contain such things. Dreams are straightforward, just like your waking thoughts.

There is always a purpose to a dream. Everything that human beings think, feel, or do has a purpose. It is part of what Dr. Alfred Adler called "the psychology of use."

Dreams don't come to you from outside yourself, nor do they arise from your "subconscious." Once you become aware of having a dream, it’s conscious. You make your dreams up. You create them, just as you create your thoughts.

The purpose of your dreams while you are asleep is the same as the purpose of your thoughts while you are awake. That is, to solve your problems.

Figure out the purpose of a dream and the problem it is trying to solve, and you have its meaning. Dreams are thoughts while you sleep, attempting to solve your problems.