hi everyone, I've had anxiety for less than a year now, but it's only been like 3 months that I see a connection between me having nightmares and me having anxiety in the morning. Each time I have a bad nightmare I always wake up feeling anxious. They are not life like dreams, in fact they are the oppisite, they are very fictional. They're full of things that could never happen in real life but they freak me out so much that I wake shaking and sometimes wanting to cry.
So what I want to ask a few things, does anyone on here have the same thing as me? Do you have nightmares that make you wake up anxious? And for those of you that don't have this going on, do you think it's the nightmares that create the anxiety or the anxiety that makes the nightmares?
My two nightmares, One of them I was bitten by a snake and another I was about to get shot and then I woke up.