Are your dreams always depressing?

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For some reason whenever I dream it's always negative and depressing. I used to have good and bad dreams but now they're always just bad.. Whenever I wake up from a deep dream I get even more depressed, what about you?

Maybe because I think my life sucks and I haven't succeeded yet.

Not always, but often.

I often have dreams of being socially isolated or severely ostracized, and that I'm trying to speak and nobody's listening to me, and I'm crying intensely and nobody cares. Also the girl who socially isolated me (form of bullying really) through high school often appears in my dreams and is doing the same thing.

I hate having those dreams. Sometimes I'm having a dream where I'm screaming, but nobody's listening which makes me scream even more. I don't scream in my sleep though, although I think I toss and turn when having these sorts of dreams.

Not exactly depressing, but I often dream about having trouble getting from A to B in time, losing possessions, and my home being invaded or the walls being broken in a way that would allow intruders to get in. It probably reflects the fact that in normal life I'm more anxious than depressed. The scary feelings associated with such a dream soon dissipate when I wake and realise that the crisis was imaginary, and the sense of relief is often quite pleasant.

My dreams are nightmares - never a good one in the bunch. Someone is either trying to kill me or someone I know is dying. I've had one dream at least 10 times and it scares the crap outta me every time and it's where I will set my purse down for two seconds then turn around and it's gone. The whole rest of the dream I'm panicking trying to find it and trying to remember what cards to cancel and what things I had in my purse that now someone else has - especially my cell phone too. And my car and house keys. And my purse is expensive. Jesus, just thinking about it is scaring me all over again. I read online that that dream means you are getting ready to make a big change. I just don't want to dream that dream ever again. Ever.

I always have dreams of either fighting a boss battle with evil (and ultimately dying) or Jumping of a Orderly cliff into chaos, Only a few dreams have I remembered, but they we're all very frightening.

No, I dont think I have ever had a depressing dream.

Sometimes yes, sometimes no.

This has happened even before, I turn three (The supposed turning point for autistics) Always some sort of life changing event or 'Boss' Battle with evil. Like SSMB style, Like me vs the world style, that or me choosing Psychopathic chaos over order.

Nope, never.

All my dreams are lucid dreams, which means I'm always fully aware that I am dreaming and can remember them after I've woken. Now the level of control that I have over my dreams while dreaming is a much more hazy concept. If I really don't like how a dream is going and I can't steer it in a different direction, then I just wake myself up.

As a person, I'm very high on life, getting depressed isn't something that routinely happens to me. However I can feel depressed when I think about problems bigger than myself, like those that are affecting other people.

Recently I've been having nice dreams for the most part, and as I awaken to my life as it is now, I can become depressed.
This is however better than many years of dreams were for me. It used to not matter, most of the time, what I would dream about, because they would all just feel the same. For years my dreams were emotionally devoid, much like I felt like in my life. Now I am glad that I can have good dreams and enjoy them, alongside the occasional dark one.

No, my dreams are not depressing to me. Annoying sometimes, but not particularly depressing. Most of the time I am solving various problems or inventing things in my sleep. Occasionally they can be disturbing to say the least. I found a way to lock those out of my conscious mind, so that I do not dwell on them during the day. The key to how I dream is in the mood that I am in right before going to bed. I have learned to control that part much better over the years.

Mine are often scary, especially if I had a bad day. I've got a few recurring ones, like being chased by monsters. Another one is in which I am trying to convince my family that something terrible is coming, like a tornado, nuclear missiles, or enemy soldiers. I'm trying to get them to leave NOW, hurry hurry hurry, but they ignore me or spend endless time packing useless things like photo albums.

I've been having extremely vivid dreams lately, largely involving things from my past, like living with my mother again, being back in high school, etc. When I dream it's like I revert to a younger state... but not in a good way. These dreams always tend to feel quite f****d up, and I feel terrible when I wake up from them. I also have dreams fairly often about seeing and doing cool things, and when I wake up I'm sad because those things aren't real.

I wish I knew how to lucid dream so that I could escape into a private wonderland, as opposed to the boring, depressing world I live in now. I'd probably end up sleeping over 12 hours a day just so I could.

I now rarely remember my dreams because I rarely have a "normal" awakening without some kind of outside disturbance.

But when I do remember a dream it's usually depressing or unsettling, yes.

I used to have massively interesting dreams that seemed long and eventful and were often happy or at least interesting in a positive way.

Funny thing is that some of my dreams involve creating monsters when I tap into my Dr. Frankenstein side too much during the day.

My dreams are all over - some are fun and cool and awesome, some are great but make me sad when I realize it wasn't real (like when a dead pet is alive & well in a dream), some make me angry, some are scary and some are sad.