I have this scene in my head that goes something like this:
Mom: “Good night, my lovely son”
30 minutes later
Mom quietly enters my room
Pets me on my head for a good few seconds
Suddenly pulls out a knife and stabs me
I struggle to say with my last breath: “Mooommmm… why? 🥺”
Does anyone else have a brain that just think weird shit like this?
Yeah sometimes, I mean not specifically that, thats pretty specific, but i think getting thoughts like that is fairly common.
When im the passenger in a car I think theres nothing actually stopping me from just grabbing the wheel and swerving us into oncoming traffic. Im stronger than the driver and have the element of surprise. I could end so many lives and ruin countless more in about 2 seconds of a really easy move.
Then I shit myself because every single car could do that at any moment.
Yeah, it was worse when I started to live alone.
Every little unfamiliar noise would wake me up.
Eventually I convinced myself I would be fine. But sometimes it’ll come back if I had a rotten day.
Back when I still had roommates off craigslist the thought was semi regular, yeah.
Not really. I mean, what are the chances there are two murderers in the house?
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That that specifically, no.
Yes I do, but only rarely, and for each time I do, I have 100s of thoughts where they are just good and kind. Having them frequently or having an intense emotional reaction to this thought can be a cause to seek out a therapist
No. Never. Of course we all have weird and shocking nightmares from time to time, but during the day? Definitely not.
Are you ok? Do you feel safe at home and around the people you live with? How vivid are these “intrusive thoughts”? Could they be categorized as hallucinations?
Even if you think it’s not a big deal, you might want to talk to a professional therapist about that.
no never, thats not normal. there was show in 2000s, where this girl(ocd) was obsessed with using a knife on other people, but she never actually wanted to do it"the show psychologist" was testing her for it. should get tested by a therapist/psychologist or psychiatrist, for some kind of OCD-like behaviour.
This is a pretty common for people with OCD. She wasn’t obsessed with wanting to use knives on people. She had an irrational fear that she somehow would use it on someone. The treatment in this kind of situation is exposure therapy. Basically your therapist gives you a knife and makes you spend an hour holding it.
Do you have OCD? This is what it’s like for me, albeit the roles reversed. Also, even people without OCD have these thoughts occasionally. The difference is people with OCD tend to hyper fixate on these thoughts. Maybe i’m projecting though. Do these thoughts cause you distress?
I don’t think I’ve ever dreamed of being murdered in any way.
Get some therapy just in case it’s a symptom of something, if not: enjoy the horror.
Intrusive thoughts are a pretty normal thing. Therapy is only necessary if it causes the person significant distress.
Therapy is only necessary if it causes the person significant distress.
I’d interpreted OP’s post as ‘yhis is bugging me’ and didn’t explain well that I meant some therapy to explore if its a problem.
I don’t think I’ve ever dreamed of being murdered in any way.
Though memories of dreams tend to be pretty spotty unless someone wakes up during REM sleep, the “mode” of sleep where we do most of our dreaming, so there’s probably a lot of dreams that we’ve had that we just don’t remember.
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https://www.mattioli1885journals.com/index.php/actabiomedica/article/view/11218
In the course of their studies, medical researchers have demonstrated that about 80% patients, woken up at their Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep phase, can remember their own dreams, whereas, in clinical practice, young adults can remember their dreams on their awakenings only once or twice a week.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_eye_movement_sleep#cite_note-Solms_1997-42
Rapid eye movement sleep (REM) has since its discovery been closely associated with dreaming. Waking up sleepers during a REM phase is a common experimental method for obtaining dream reports; 80% of people can give some kind of dream report under these circumstances.[42]: 10, 34 [15] Sleepers awakened from REM tend to give longer, more narrative descriptions of the dreams they were experiencing, and to estimate the duration of their dreams as longer.[16][43] Lucid dreams are reported far more often in REM sleep.[44] (In fact these could be considered a hybrid state combining essential elements of REM sleep and waking consciousness.)[16] The mental events which occur during REM most commonly have dream hallmarks including narrative structure, convincingness (e.g., experiential resemblance to waking life), and incorporation of instinctual themes.[16] Sometimes, they include elements of the dreamer’s recent experience taken directly from episodic memory.[8] By one estimate, 80% of dreams occur during REM.[45]
Bro wat
Jesus fuck, no!
When I was a kid, there was a period during which I was convinced my dad was planning to kill me (or have me killed). I’d have regular nightmares about it.
I have one [non-dream] memory in particular where we were walking through Belfast on a sunny Sunday afternoon, it was pretty much empty except for us. We were walking along a path holding hands (I was like 6 or 7), and an alleyway opened to the right of me, and I thought “this is it…” and was expecting a masked gunman to come out, and for my dad to let go of my hand and step aside, his job now complete. Genuinely thought that was about to happen and almost had a panic attack. No idea why I thought that, or why I eventually stopped thinking it.
I was later diagnosed with all sorts of neuro/psych shenanigans, so I guess it was probably that. I still have intrusive thoughts, but I’ve had therapy so I’m a bit better able to manage them. CBT might do you some good if you have access to a shrink. You can even do most of it on your own, or with a bit of guidance from someone else who’s already done it.
Yes it’s pretty normal. You can kind of train yourself to look at the thought while it happens and say wow, brain, what was that? And your brain will say I have no idea, and eventually it will stop happening.
eventually it will stop happening.
Unless you have OCD.
