I had a lot of vivid nightmares after my concussion too! Many times I will dream of a fight or something and someone hitting my head. Then I would suddenly wake up feeling like my head has been hit!
This could be due to the stress of doing a phd thesis at the same time though. The nightmares lasted about two months

It's been about 3 months since I received my first concussion. I kinda remember how it happened, but it's all so blurry. It all happened so fast. As a goalkeeper in soccer, you dive for the ball constantly. I never thought that something like this could happen to me. One minute I was in set, and the next thing I knew, I was on the ground with intense pain in the back of my head. As soon as I was cleared to play, I was ready, yet nervous to go back to the field and play again, as anyone else would be. But lately things haven't been in my favor. I've been waking up in the middle of the night, basically trying to wrap my head around what I had just witnessed in my dream. The nightmares are quick, but vivid. I'm seeing how I got my concussion, and it replays over and over and over again. I haven't been able to talk about this with anyone, because they may say it's too crazy or too serious to have an actual discussion with. I just don't know what to do anymore.

fabfalk18,

Welcome to NeuroTalk.

Your nightmares could be due to a number of things. They sound like PTSD but you don't sound like you are a candidate for PTSD.

There is a lot more information about your injury, diagnosis, treatment and such that can help us understand more. Can you tell us more about yourself and your injury. Did you hit the goal post ? Did you injure or end up with a stiff neck ?

How long were you kept off the field ? How many other concussions have you suffered ? How did they clear you to return to play ?

Fab,

I had crazy dreams too.

They were vivid and startling but they went away...don't give them to much credence.

Bud

Dreams are necessary to survival. I believe they consolidate recent experiences into a highly structured memory in a way that's meaningful to us. People don't necessarily remember their dreams. Dreams are symbolic and can be interpreted usually. It's not uncommon to be disturbed by the images but it's best to just accept a dream as something you went through and now is over and to forget it, unless you specifically want to try to analyze it for meaning. If you keep having the same dream over and over again that is similar to PTSD like Mark said but you don't seem to have gone through as traumatic an experience as someone in combat etc.