New... but I have a lot of nightmares. Help?

[Icewall42]

Hello, I'm new here. I finally decided that I wanted some thoughts about a bunch of nightmares that I've had over the years. I wake up feeling like many of them were really, really bad, so read on if you're not faint of heart... moderators, if this is not acceptable, I really need to know. My dreams are R rated. I've tried to keep them as straightforward as possible.

WARNING! THESE DREAMS ARE GRAPHIC.

I'm sorry that they aren't very tame, but sometimes nightmares can be really bad, and I'd like to finally learn why I've been having them. I'll try not to get too deep into the nasty details unless someone needs to know them. If that case, just tell me you need more clarification, and I'll email you (or vice versa).

First dream:

When I had to move out of a house I loved and living in for 17 years, I later had this dream. I dreamed of my old house in its entirety, and there might have been other people living in it (the people that bought the house). However, inside the house there were raw animal skins on the floors and a couple animal corpses here and there, dogs and sheep (definitely sheep). Outside the house, there were more corpses of animals lying around, and some of the bodies were set up on stakes. I awoke from this feeling horrified and disgusted.

Second dream:

I was in a lurid, concrete complex sorta like a parking garage, but more open. In one room, which was lit by a lurid yellow like, there was a man that had killed a woman (not me, someone I didn't know) and I knew she had been a college student. This is where it gets ugly. I'll just say that the man was a cannibal, but he used a long knife.... I helped him stack the meat in another room, feeling like I wasn't in danger, but shouldn't have been there. I woke of feeling terrified and really disgusted.

Third Dream:

I was in a really dark place, almost like a vast cavern. There was a rickety house/shack that was decayed and had cobwebs. I went upstairs into a carpeted bedroom, no bed, but the floor was slightly caved in and there were balls of tinfoil all over the floor and in the closet on the top shelf. These balls of foil contained human flesh. Woke up disgusted again.

Fourth Dream:

I lived in a house with my parents. Normal house. But we had this really strange, massive basement system. Part of it was a dark, stone shaft with some lighting and a bunch of pipes. At the end of it was a small room, no windows. It had a yellow light. Just outside it was an empty dog kennel. We kept dogs down there for I don't know what reason, and one time we realized (my mom and I) that we had a pet dog but that we had forgotten about it for a couple months. We went down into the basement to that yellow room to find out what happened to it. In the room we had given the dog, a mastiff like dog, a double sized bed to sleep on. We found, that on that bed was not a skeleton, but a rotten and grimacing head of the mastiff. There's more that rather unrelated, but in the same house, but I'll hold on to that information. I woke up feeling terrified and bothered for days.

That's it for now. I've had "tamer" nightmares, but these ones have me stumped. I know I also had some other really terrible nightmares that left me feeling terrified for days, but I can't remember what those ones were about.

If anyone has any ideas... please let me know. During the span of these dreams, I was forced to move out of my beloved house, I got an Associates, I left for college in a big city, and have had some terrible coping problems with dorms and finances.