Emotionally-Charged

I have been having a load of emotionally-charged dreams of late. Not surprising when you consider that I have a lot on my mind. What does come as a surprise is that these dreams aren't always made up of negative emotions. I am not only being consumed by negativity and fear, I am also being haunted by thoughts of future happiness, about the things I could come to have:

(a house, a car, a job, holidays, nights out, new friends, opportunities for social outings).

So, every time I sleep, I end up in the throes of heightened feelings. It is startling to be crippled by an emotional tumult in the middle of sleeping, especially ones that come on so strongly. Each night goes a little like this:

I'll be dreaming about something irrelevant, something not memorable in the slightest. I'll know I'm asleep. The next minute the dream flips and changes into something a little more charged. It could be a positive or negative emotion. More often than not its negative. The sadness will feel like a weight on my chest, one that I'm really aware of even in the middle of deep sleep. If I cry in the dream, I'm crying in my sleep. I can wake up some nights and find tears on my cheeks. I'm surprised I haven't woken someone else up with my crying.

Either way, I don't like this. It's surreal, being aware of your emotions and knowing that it's the dream causing the pain, but being unable to quench it. Worse still is waking with the emotions still raging around your mind. It's like waking in a bad mood, except you've gone towards a specific end of the scale (sadness, anger, happiness). It's like having your mind pulled in different directions.

As for the cause, it could be real life bleeding into my dreams. Whatever unsatisfied desires are kicking around in my unconscious during the day are thinking its acceptable to raid my dreams and emotionally attack my sleeping mind. Not cool.

The only foreseeable solution: sort out my life so that my mind stops screwing with me.