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bad dream (vivid-be forewarned)
So last night I had a terrible dream (actually it was this morning, after DD's first feed) that was very vivid. It involved a man that for whatever reason I understood had work done on his motorcycle by FI (FI doesn't know the first thing about working on motorcycles, but he does work on trucks, and FI also doesn't do work like that for people... he does security on our naval base). So it's super late in my dream and this guy rolls up in an old-ish Ford pickup with his motorcycle on the back like you would see a regular pedal-bike (lol). Some time passes and guy never gets out or even turns the headlights off. Then apparently I believe him to be gone and I go to bed. Next thing I know apparently dude is coming up the stairs and... (here's the bad part) I shoot him point-blank with my 12ga shotgun. Wtf kind of dream is this? Then it gets worse... fMIL's room is right behind where I shot the guy and she comes crawling out bleeding. I made myself wake up at this point. I had already been trying unsucessfully. Now I'm scared to death to go to sleep... 
and no I'm not crazy, but this house has always scared me. FI volunteers once every other week at our local rescue squad overnight and I'm always scared those nights... well last night was that night. This is the only dream I've ever had like this. And I'm already on zoloft for ppd and anxiety. Once when I was like 5 I had a dream about a male intruder in the apartment my mom and I lived in. He was trying to peel my scalp off! But I was 5. This is a little crazy... I've been so much better since starting the zoloft a few weeks ago. I wonder if this is still anxiety-related?? (I often worry about nearby trees falling through the roof onto DD, SIDS, and such). Sorry this is so lonng and unformatted. I'm on my droid.
and no I'm not crazy, but this house has always scared me. FI volunteers once every other week at our local rescue squad overnight and I'm always scared those nights... well last night was that night. This is the only dream I've ever had like this. And I'm already on zoloft for ppd and anxiety. Once when I was like 5 I had a dream about a male intruder in the apartment my mom and I lived in. He was trying to peel my scalp off! But I was 5. This is a little crazy... I've been so much better since starting the zoloft a few weeks ago. I wonder if this is still anxiety-related?? (I often worry about nearby trees falling through the roof onto DD, SIDS, and such). Sorry this is so lonng and unformatted. I'm on my droid.
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Re: bad dream (vivid-be forewarned)
My MIL used to have nightmares and has sleep apnea. Her doctor advised the nightmares were due to loss of oxygen. She's been on a breathing machine at night and she's said it helped.
My nightmares are the worst. They never go away and even though I know they aren't real, my imagination is very vivid and it's as though I can't escape them. I think my job as a cop has contributed greatly to the nightmares. I've witnessed some really horrible things involving children and the first thing that comes into my mind is "What would I do if that were my son/daughter(s)?" Then my mind takes over from there.
Understand it's a dream and only that. It takes time to be ok with the nightmares when they happen but I still wake up in the middle of the night scared to death sometimes.
Do you not feel safe at home? If that's one of the things that makes you anxious and have nitemares, I'd say look into sprucing up the locks for your own piece of mind. At least you'd not be thinking of people coming in your house for you to shoot.
My mom was always paranoid about people breaking into the house, people following her, having nitemares...everything. She probably still is. Made it a hard childhood to have to deal with my mom going off on everything because it scared her and she had it in her head that it was really going to happen. I hope your medicine helps your anxiety and its great that you're trying to make yourself feel better about things. My mom would never admit she had problems :-{
I also have some vivid nightmares, but when I was a kid, I was told a trick to make them less upsetting. I just make up a new ending to my dream, and although it seems childish, it helps. Some nightmares are more difficult to make up 'happy' endings for, like yours- its never a nice ending to shoot someone. Your ending could be something like: the cops show up after you shot him and congratulate you for stopping a murder. Although you didnt know it at the time, he was wanted for murder and you saved countless future victims.
Hope that helps!