Lots of times when I’m dreaming I dream that I am a mentally ill person. I would sometimes dream that I have returned to work and that my co-workers and boss are all very accomodating because of my mental illness. I sometimes dream that I have great difficulty to cope in society because of my MI. I was wondering what other people on this forum dreams are like. Are you normal in most of your dreams or does your real life struggles with MI reflect in your dreams?
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I am normal in my dreams.
Sometimes I’m ill in my dreams. Usually if something is really bothering me it’ll show up in my dreams. But a lot of the time I’m fine.
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That is very interesting. Maybe it is because you are more open about your MI as I have read in one of your posts. I have told only a handfull of people about my sz. I think that I have a lot of conflict in my mind about it and that is why it manifest so much in my dreams.
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Sometimes i’m ill, other times perfectly fine. But my dreams are very obscure and nonsensical, I don’t credit them with much attention.
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I have had lucid dreams for a very long time, they continue from where I last left off, kind of like when you wake up in real life. Therefore it kind of is like having a second life, but I am mentally ill in both; that is one thing that doesn’t change for me, it’s always there, awake or not.
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I have lucid dreams as well
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Lucid dreams…often with super powers…
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Sometimes I’d have nightmares where my psychosis would become much worse or I’d lose control over it and just go completely insane. Back when I suspected I had a psychotic disorder I’d have nightmares where I found out I was schizophrenic.
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I keep having this dream where I am back at school and I am searching for Dr Daniel Jackson from Stargate SG 1. I have been dreaming this for years now.
They say that when learning a language you know you’re fluent when you dream in that language. My mind is the same awake or asleep. In my dreams I’m myself.
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Last night I dreamt that I was vacuuming for older people. I thoroughly enjoyed it. If that’s not mental illness then I don’t know what is. 
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I’m normal in my dreams too.
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Sometimes I’m ill in my dreams. I am usually chased and locked up. I try everything I can to escape. Or other times my voices torment me. I keep my hands on my ears but they keep screaming. I hate those dreams.
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I dream I am. It’s very confusing because sometimes I’ll dream something is one way but the next it’s completely different, then I’ll get all lost and confused and start feeling anxious because I don’t know how to get home, or where home may be.
Then there are times when I see or hear things in my dreams and no one else in the dream experiences it.
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Sometimes i act in my dream like i am deluded, weird. Most of my dreams are very weird. But ussualy i am healthy
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Sometimes I dream I’m psychotic or in hospital. Last October I counted six dreams like that. Still get it sometimes.
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My dreams are usually not good at all, have to get up and let my head clear before going back to sleep.
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yeah, I’m mentally ill in my dreams but I feel people are a lot more understanding in my dreams too; else I wouldn’t have been able to date someone in my dreams.
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No, in my dreams I’m usually a dog who can’t find a tree to relieve himself on.
But seriously, when I first got ill I had nightmares almost every night for months. In a lot of them I was mentally ill, a common theme involved being in some dimly lit institution, alone and wandering through dark hallways. Or being lost on foot in some city alone that I had never been in before, scared and lost.
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