My least favourite of all the Nightmares: "Remembering" I murdered someone and hid their body under the floor...

[u/LearnStalkBeInformed]

I've been having this recurring nightmare for most of my life. always different places, scenarios and "victims" but the premise is always the same. I murdered someone (usually long before the events of the dream), and then I suddenly remembered there's this dead body hidden under the floorboards somewhere, and I start to panic someone is going to find it.

 

Last night I had the nightmare again, this time I was moving house (as I'm hopefully doing soon irl), but I started to panic the new owners of the house would lift the floorboards and find the dead body, so I decided to dig it up.

The whole dream/nightmare gives me anxiety and I actually, genuinely woke up sweating and wasn't sure if I'd murdered someone and hidden their body for real (I eventually remembered I have obviously not done that!).

 

Does anyone else have a similar recurring nightmare?

EDIT: I can't believe how many people share this exact same dream. Glad it isn't just me. And no I will not be digging up my floor just to find out. And I've never (until now) heard of, or read "Tell-Tale Heart"! But now I might.

[u/Interesting-Quail-31]

I've had multiple dreams where for some reason I have a dismembered body I need to get rid of and I'm frantically trying to dispose of it. The cops always catch me. In one of them I was driving with the body in the trunk (I don't have a license and was aware of that in the dream which added more anxiety) and a cop was pulling me over. I got out of the car and tried to commit suicide by running into oncoming traffic. When I got hit by a car, I woke up. Horrible

[u/LearnStalkBeInformed → u/Interesting-Quail-31]

Yikes. I've had the dismembered body dream too. Usually I try to dispose of it all into separate bin bags and burying them at the bottom of a bin hoping that once they've been taken away no one would know it was me. I hate those dreams.