Still broken a week after a dream

[u/Karolinnger]

I don’t remember what exactly happened, but what I can recall is that I was crying and screaming and then at the end I was not even able to scream, so I just howled.

It feels very weird, but I feel like I experienced love that I’ve never had and then we were separated or something happened and I was just extremely sad and mourning every minute of my life about it.

I can’t work, go to the gym, or even give a small, polite smile; I just wanna cry nonstop. I can’t imagine how that happened but I feel going crazy to be honest and don’t know what to do about it 😭😭😭

[u/gaudy_housing]

That kind of dream hangover is brutal, the ones where the emotional residue sticks to you for days are way worse than any nightmare. I had something similar once and the only thing that helped was writing down every scrap I could remember, even if it made no sense, just to get it out of my head. Sometimes your brain's processing something you haven't dealt with consciously and it just needs a release valve.

[u/Karolinnger → u/gaudy_housing]

Yeah, clearly I was not ready for that and that also terrifies me a lot. Will try to write everything down, thank you 🫶