While I haven't had any tornado nightmares, my own mind is warning me about a doctor visit after I was found to have high(er) blood pressure than normal. While I don't have disastrously high blood pressure it's on the higher side of normal. My mom has a genetic condition that makes her body automatically produce too much cholesterol which can cause high blood pressure (cholesterol oddly enough IS GOOD for us in the normal range, and more severe if it's too low) and I have to go in for a blood test tomorrow *shudder* I HATE blood tests…and my dreaming mind is NOT cool with that.

I do wonder if the severity of the nightmare could be telling me that I'm dreading the issue a bit too much, as in this case, it was a doctors office run by needle wielding children who were stopping me at every turn and, in one scene forced me into a "pool" of literally millions of needles. Like I said, I HATE, HATE, HATE, HAAAAAAAAAAAATE blood tests, so in going through with it, it's brought up a childhood fear, thus manifesting into all of the children who were attacking me with them. It's really "needling" me and by the intensity, I'm clearly on "pins and needles" about this, but it's "needle"ss for me to worry as much as i am. The nightmare scenario, if brought into the physical would be ten times worse than what is likely to happen. Also, my dreaming mind could be making me realize the fear is not as bad as i;m making it out to be by presenting a worse situation, and making me face my fear…only…about ten times worse! lol

However, the other dream I think it is warning me of the possible outcome of the doctors situation (as after seeing her she appeared in my nightmare as a deranged psychopath running an "asylum" in which i was sent for pulling a tooth out to ensure a crooked one would grow straight) and, in the end, I was forced into suicide. I know things in nutrition that are actually GOOD for us that many doctors take for granted are "death foods", when, just like nightmares, they seem bad, they have a bad reputation, but are not bad for us in the right amounts! Not a tornado dream, but quite a disturbing one…one that I've found has many meanings, and as far as me poisoning myself in a suicide attempt, literal ones too! Just like you've said, a disturbing dream is a GOOD dream once we learn what it is trying to tell us.

I had this nightmare not just after my doctor visit for a rash i had (and found out my blood pressure was a little on the nigh side), but after i read a report on people who were two times as likely to take their own lives due to taking cholesterol lowering drugs (thus lowering mood regulating serotonin!!), something my inner mind obviously telling me to be cautious about, and to get out of if it gets "out of hand". Not only that, but a reminder to take the matters, for better or worse, into my own hands and to poison myself at my own will, either from fright or peer pressure. Don't let the doctors take away what's really good for me in an attempt to meet their requirements for things they think are bad.

Again a perfect example of how nightmares are actually our best friends offering a supportive pat upon the back. If I do see a tornado, I'll be sure to make changes, and rapidly.

Good for you!