I think something is deeply wrong with me

[Prussian to the Iron]

only 7 years away from legal drinking...

[Rhyfelwyr]

only 7 years away from legal drinking...

You have to be 21 to drink?

[A Very Super Market]

Dreams tend to have little meaning in themselves, and the ones that can be analyzed usually aren't directly related to the psychological diagnosis. For example, dreaming about a deceased loved one is widely said to be the last stage of grief, not a recurrence. Dreaming about horrific brutality doesn't make you a homicidal person, nor does dreaming about frolicking with bunnies make you purchase obcene amounts of small rabbits and prance with them.

Though your's has been recurring, it's most likely an abstract representation of something that's affecting your sub-conscious. It could really be anything, as our minds work in silly ways. If you aren't bombarded by thoughts of brutally beating someone during consciousness, it isn't something more serious like Schizophrenia. What you are being bombarded by are memories of the dream, which is strange in it's own right.

Night terrors tend to be the most memorable dreams, simply because you associate them with dread and fear, the more memorable of emotions. I remember posting on the dream thread about a dream in which I was sleeping next to a large whale, and waking up totally disoriented. I have weird dreams all the time, but I only remember them as being "Weird" and having no memory of anything that actually happened in them. Again, the only reason I remember the whale is because of the intense fear I experienced.

Were you sobbing when you woke up?

[Sheogorath]

I once had a dream where I was in the civil war, only the Confederates were zombies.

It was actually pretty awesome.

[Hax]

I watched 300 last night

One should avoid this. If movies were living things, this guy would be somewhat of a deranged monkey.

When I asked why they weren't moving, they pointed to my 9 year-old brother and a similar sized child, who were beating something a few feet into the woods. I moved up to it, and saw the mans barely alive body. Furious, I grabbed a log and repeatedly bashed his face and chest with great joy until his body was barely identifiable with a human.

Taking pleasure from murder and torture is something that should avoided, always. The fact that you responded in a very stressful manner when you woke up only shows the fact that you are not psychopathic. If you did not have fits of crying, you would be nothing short of a psychopath, probably.

However, there is something I'd like to ask. Do you experience a lot of anger in your life, and anger that is difficult for you to restrain.

[Centurion1]

*sigh* i am a few years older than you and a hormone drunk football player and i have dreams like that all the time. Some of my favorites are mma fighter, living in books that i love, historical events like thermopylae, hmm, oh and i like when i have dreams about being a marine infantry officer.

Dude, these things are normal and while i am loath to say something this cliched.... your body is changing (good i feel like a school nurse). you are starting to pump out more testosterone. The fact that you cried definetly tells me that you are not psychopathic. Hell in real life i would probably bash someone's head in if they shot me. Gah, you are probably kinder than me, i wouldn't even have cried. you have morals and know the difference between right and wrong, embrace this as knowledge that you are not a sociopath. As a boy who loves war, and violent video games, especially ancient war it really isn't surprising you had a dream like this. Seriously i would not worry about it, the dream barely made me blink. up until the part where you talked to his skull i didn't even notice anything weird for a fourteen year old boy. And the skull thing wa just your body creating mental imagery you knew was weird so it was easier to reject the dream.

Oh and p.s. i had dreams like this when i was like 11 if it makes you feel better. Than again i was sure that my family was descended from william the conqueror and i was a lord of battle. and my ancestors had taken many saxon heads. When i played football i even had a flipping war cry. So trust me you aren't even a 3 or 4 on the violence scale.

So dream kill on my brother in arms.

[Prussian to the Iron]

However, there is something I'd like to ask. Do you experience a lot of anger in your life, and anger that is difficult for you to restrain.

No. sometimes I get pretty annoyed, but I am usually a very calm person.

[Megas Methuselah]

So, *ahem* you wanna tell me about the hot women in your dreams?

[Fragony]

Though your's has been recurring, it's most likely an abstract representation of something that's affecting your sub-conscious.

Yes. Dreams are weird, it's what keeps us sane, forget waterboarding the worst torture some can endure is the lingo that is depriving someone from sleeping. It's completely normal to have violent and sadistic dreams, but when they still bother you at daytime, that is not supposed to happen.