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?
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?
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, 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
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.
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.
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.
searches
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!
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.
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.
Used to have such thoughts only when I was a kid
you need some help
Sadly, stuff like this does happen in real life. I usually only think about it shortly after seeing news stories where this stuff happens, though.
