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ever since i had a VERY detailed dream about a plane crashing near my house i get such a fear when a plane flys over my house and i feel i just cant bring myself to breath, and this happens alot as i live not to far away to a R.A.F base. does anyone else have this sort of fear? and whilst im posting anyway i just thought i would ask if maybe the symptoms im having has nothing to do with anxiety but depression as i have not long had a baby and wondered if that is the cause. although i have had these for nearly three years but it all started after i had my first child and then came back realy bad after i had my second which was in febuary.
dmcgovern
This is a funny one (not funny ha ha) but I too have had bad dreams concerning planes many times over many years.
I loathe flying fullstop but thats more of a fear that coincides with my fear of lifts ie: claustraphobia and because I don't have to do either on a regular basis, if ever, it doesn't really affect me overly much.
The dream one is a little different - we used to watch planes taking off at the airport when I was a kid and even then I used to watch with horrified fascination, at the whole process. I have often dreamt that while I was watching, the planes would crash etc etc. When 911 happened I was scared/shocked/saddened etc on about 10 different levels - the images were all like some terrible dream that coincided with mine (although mine were always genuine accident situations).
I have to say despite this incomprehensible happening and all my many years of dreams of planes crashing I can still retain some sort of perspective on it. I do realise that these things are incredibly rare (proper statistics show this) and the fact I have nightmares of this kind is only indicitive of my personal anxieties not of a very real danger. Thats the whole point of anxiety -- we are responding as if the threat is there and real when in actual fact so much of the time it isn't.
I see the scary stuff as a focus outlet for our anxiety which will obviously be different for different people. For instance I am not at all scared of spiders so I don't have bad dreams about them nor imagine scenarios involving them when I'm awake.
Remember Denise its just a scary thought not a real thing and take comfort from what Lucy's hubby has said.
Love Piglet
"Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?" said Piglet.
"Supposing it didn't," said Pooh after careful thought.
yeah, thanx you guys for making me feel "safer", its helped alot.x.
dmcgovern
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