Psychology 101

So over the past month or so I have been having such vivid terrible dreams. Dreams where I wake up in a cold sweat with my heart racing and have to allow myself a few minutes to just be able to settle down. I hate these so bad, and the odd thing is that they do not have a common theme. In the past, if I was having nightmares, they would generally be about something in my current situation that I was struggling with. These are about everything in my life, my work, my relationships with my family, my divorce, everything. I am so tired all the time, because I have a hard time getting back to sleep after waking from these dreams, and they are usually in the middle of the night and so I am waking up usually around 3 AM, and just sit there staring at the ceiling just wishing I could forget what I had just dreamed, and go to sleep and not dream.
It is making me a bit crazy, and yes, my life is changing is many aspects, but I am generally a person who can see the good in everything, and believe that things happen at certain times for very specific reasons, and have faith that I will make it through and be better for it, so why am I having such awful dreams, when I really do not feel that way in my hours I am awake…hmmm. I wish I had paid more attention to my psychology classes !!! lol