Back With the Abusive Ex No. 4?

1/3/2026|By sambro

So since the initial familiar dream about four weeks ago, I’ve had a flare of recurrent dreams about this topic for a few nights now. Once again after that, once while at my boyfriend’s, and once last night. They all surround the same topic. My ex is trying to get back with me, or I’m with my ex, and it’s as intoxicating at my mind can conjure it to be. There’s some point at which I leave or have to go, and there’s this element of him trying to retrieve me. My compliance ranges from frantic to even keeled, sometimes even positively. I’m not an active participant in any of these dreams, more like a bystander or sometimes I’m seeing things through my own eyes. But the decisions I make aren’t necessarily ones I would make consciously, but ones that my dream-self is making because it’s being actively lead to believe or tricked into believing a scenario. But less malice, like a play or a script playing out and I’m just the actor. Like a world of locked internal logic where I’m only this person, only at this time with this knowledge. And sometimes it’s not, sometimes it’s like I’m me, but with this scenario stuck around me. Sometimes I don’t become myself until about halfway through the dream, but I’m already stuck with the choices that actor-me made and now get to endure the consequences.

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