I am a thirteen year old female, who need some help with a dream problem. Lately, I have been having very disturbing dreams of saddening memories from my past. These dreams always take place from my point of view as I remember them. I have even been avoiding sleep because I am terrified of what I will be forced to relive during sleep. These memories include my sister being in a nearly fatal car crash, my mother on her deathbed, my mothers funeral, fighting with my best friend, vicious rumors being spread (it's middle school..), my father fighting depression, and that sort of thing. I have been taking some of my sisters Lunesta to help myself fall asleep, and I always fall into a dreamless sleep when under the influence of medication, but I am, of course, terrified of becoming dependent, but I also feel that medication will only be putting off the inevitable of these dreams returning.

Does anyone know what this could be? I doubt it has anything to do with stress, everything with my family has been fine, same goes for my friends and school life.

One thing, however that I do believe is crucial to mention, is that the anniversary just passed of my mothers death, which would make sense for the dreams about her, but for the other topics, I don't know what to think.

If anyone has any suggestions with how to either cope with this problem or ideas of how to get to the bottom of it, please reply, every minute of having to deal with this is worse and worse. Thank you.