Recurring Night terrors - Increasingly violent - Please Help!!

[Arranell]

I posted this under dream interpretation before I found this section...I think it's more fitting to be posted here. Sorry for the double posting.


I am usually pretty good at dream interpretation. I have several books on recalling and interpreting your dreams, the psychology of dreams, and even a a Carl Jung Dream Psychology book. I even have a couple of friends that have a mild obsession with dream interpretation. So the fact that I am here posting about this shows how concerned I am with it.

Since I can remember I will go through periods of time where I will have nightmares for a couple of weeks at a time and then they go away. they start off as just a bad dream and end up in a very violent extremely frightening night terror that bothers me tremendously for several days afterwords.

I haven't had a nightmare that I can remember in nearly 4 years but last night I had a pretty frightening dream. usually when I start a cycle of nightmares they start off mild...If this one was mild, I don't ever want to go to sleep again.

WARNING: This is extremely violent and graphic....If you're easily offended, i wouldn't continue reading.


It started off with me finding an extremely large sword that had blood and a burned image of a body on it. Someone said "Must have been a hostage situation from last night." I agreed and said we needed to take it to the police. We put in the backseat of my dad's old Ford LTD and I covered it with a blanket and we headed to the police station.
Somehow we never made it there but the police were searching my car and found the sword. They arrested me and I had to try to convince them that I wasn't the one that did it, I had only just found the sword. I was talking to a female cop on a raised balcony in an outdoor shopping center that reminded me of the Ewok village in Star Wars.
Suddenly out of nowhere this guy comes up from behind the female officer and grabs her. He had a large drillbit in his hand and was repeatedly punching her in the face with it...Blood going everywhere, her teeth flying out of her mouth, huge holes in her face errupting bone. Some of the impacts were so hard it powdered the bone under her skin and when he punched her again dust from the powdered bone flew out. Then he just snapped her neck and started running. Another officer charged him and he grabbed him, looked into his eyes and smiled, snapped his neck and took off.
After that I was in a bathroom washing my face trying to shake off the fear of what I had just seen and when I looked at my reflection in the mirror my skin was melting off of my face. I had a huge place on my face that was bloody sticky muscle and you could see bone underneath it and then my tongue fell out. I tried to put my tongue back in my mouth but it felt like a wad of cotton balls. I had a strange thought that if I couldn't get it to work right I would end up swallowing my tongue and choke on it. I looked at my hands and my fingernails started to pop off and my skin was turning blue and shriveling and cracking right before my eyes. I started to scream, and woke up.
When I woke up I was so terrified that all I could do was sit there and cry for about a half hour. I didn't want to go back to sleep.

My boyfriend also had a bad dream last night, but I don't know if it has anything to do with mine. His wasn't violent or anything, just negative.
(He told me about his dream when I was telling him about mine)

Can anyone help me figure this out? It's starting to interfere with my daily activities, I can't concentrate on anything. The image of that police lady getting murdered in a horrible way right in front of me is stuck in my brain and I can't get it out. I have had a constant lump in my throat and feel like I am about to bust out in tears at any moment all day long.
Any help at all would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.