as a child I had nightmares every night.
I would wake up in the middle of the night frightened to death,
what I did was walk to my parents room (which was a very scary journey, I was so scared that I ran as fast as I could sometimes crying from fear)
Then I slept in my parents bed.

I also had a lot of problems falling asleep.

My parents gave me medication that made me fall asleep, it slowly worked away the nightmares untill I got them on regular scale like normal people.

Lately I dream about dead people, sometimes it really frightenes me, but sometimes it doesn't frighten me at all. Usually when the dream frightened me I get scared to walk my house when it becomes dark.
With dead people I mean: about people that passed away, about people getting killed, about ghosts, possesed(by ghost) and depressed people.

My brother always has very realistic nightmares about getting killed, he feels the pain of the gunshots etc.. in his dream, but he never told me much about this. I think maybe he dreams about death a lot too.. He thinks in 3 years everyone is going to die.
I do know he made an appointment with a therapist...

Lately I also wake around 3 & 4 o clock midnight, but fall asleep directly after. This morning I woke up and walked to the bathroom, when I looked in the mirror I thought to myself 'you look like a dead person'

I think it's normal to have themed nightmares because of what the brain experiences as frightening.
Maybe I'm unconciously thinking about death a lot, I can also feel death, not pleasant.

1) Anyone else have themed nightmares? I'm curious..
2) Anyone know how to stop the nightmares, ore change theme?
3) Why do I wake up in the middle of the night?

I just really want to stop these nightmares, the images are digusting and the scary dreams make me frightened to do things in real life, when I wake up in the night I am scared to open my eyes, sometimes during midnight I'm really sweaty and warm.

Thanks for reading, please reply!!!