Dreams About Anxiety: Meaning and Interpretation

To feel anxiety in a dream is not uncommon. Everybody has had a nightmare once, from which they might even wake up in a sweat. Although one would of course prefer to dream of beach holidays rather than spiders and zombies, nightmares are important to be able to cope with our fears.

Intense nightmares are not so easy to shake off and often they haunt you for days afterwards. Therefore it is important to deal with them. According to the interpretation of dreams, anxiety dreams are usually the hint of something that is also occupying us in real life, or that causes us anxiety. It is possible that in the dream world the problems of the waking world are reflected in similar situations, because we deal with them intensively. That is why such a dream is good for processing our fear.

Fictional source of danger

But it could also be that this is a classic nightmare. This is usually the case in dream interpretation when the dreamer is exposed to a fictitious source of danger and therefore feels fear. This often happens when you have watched a scary movie or similar before falling asleep. In the dream the story is then made your own and processed again.

The interpretation of dreams says that frequently occurring nightmares can indicate that one longs for attention and care. Often the origin of the dream can also be the feeling of self-doubt, triggered by disappointment or unhappiness in love. It is therefore important in anxiety dreams to pay more attention to your problems in the waking world. In this way it is easier to avoid feeling anxiety in the dream.