I had a hugely distressing dream last night

[Neapolitan Ice Cream]

I suffer from mental illnesses; I make no bones about it, certainly no excuses. It's just how it is.

I dreamt that I went completely off the rails and was sectioned in an old, dirty, dingy psychiatric ward in a hospital. I was confined to a bed, surrounded by very disturbed people. On the walls were frozen faces of past patients who didn't make it, buried into the brickwork between beds. Eventually I escaped. But you know what the most disturbing thing was? I missed the attention I got in that ward. I missed the acute treatment, even if it was making me even more ill. And when I tried to go back, they told me my bed had been shunted. I haven't been reading distressing news articles, I haven't watched any relevant TV programmes. It was a total fiction generated by my own head.

The hell?

 

[fla4fun]

I suffer from mental illnesses; I make no bones about it, certainly no excuses. It's just how it is.

I dreamt that I went completely off the rails and was sectioned in an old, dirty, dingy psychiatric ward in a hospital. I was confined to a bed, surrounded by very disturbed people. On the walls were frozen faces of past patients who didn't make it, buried into the brickwork between beds. Eventually I escaped. But you know what the most disturbing thing was? I missed the attention I got in that ward. I missed the acute treatment, even if it was making me even more ill. And when I tried to go back, they told me my bed had been shunted. I haven't been reading distressing news articles, I haven't watched any relevant TV programmes. It was a total fiction generated by my own head.

The hell?

It’s amazing what the brain can come up with while we are sleeping. Last night, I dreamed I kept finding myself on a raised deck with no railings and terrified I would lose my balance and fall off. Each time I would just barely make it to safer ground, but then I would be back on it again, higher and narrower every time. The last time it was like walking the plank off the top of a skyscraper. I am not generally afraid of heights, and like you said, I haven’t been reading or watching anything of a stressful or similar nature, so I have no clue what it means.

I used to have a dream dictionary a long time ago, but it got lost during a house move.

 

[disneydreamer781]

Sounds like something out of an Amy Cross book.