For about a week now, I feel like I can't rest anymore.  I often wake up at night from terrible nightmares or strange dreams, or suddently wake up in a gasp, completly startled and for no reason. 

I've always had very vivid dreams, my imagination is extremely "powerful" if I could say so, and my brain often creates recurring places representative of my subconscious ; these days, I mostly see extremely gory, creepy and disturbing places. It helps me understand how I feel, but because of this I feel so emotionally and physicially exhausted. 

 I feel trapped in my own head, and I'm pretty sure I have maladaptive daydreaming (I planned to talk about it to my psychologist), which doesn't help. My brain is a terrible place nobody would like to know about, and has been this way since I was a child. 

I'm not seeking for advices (of course if you have some I would be happy to hear them tho), I just needed to talk about it. Thank you for taking the time to read this.