I do not know if anyone can help me or not but i need a little insight. ever since i was alittle boy i have had terrible dreams. some of these dreams still have an impact on my life today. does anyone have any insight on possible past lifes or ideas on how to do a past life regression myself. now my dreams have gotten less or i just do not remeber them but every now and again i have some very vivid dreams. i have looked at dream dictionaries but i have never came up to any conclusions. if anyone has any insight for me i would be happy to hear from you.

BLESSED BE

Dreams are mostly about our own unresolved emotions from our conscious state.  The scenes are used to help you understand these emotions to work on them consciously.  

There are 2 windows of time in our sleep patterns that actually allow psychic type of dreams...precognition, prophecy, etc.  They are when we are crossing the line between just relaxing into sleep and actually attaining the sleep state and again when we are coming up from sleep state to slightly altered and not yet awake.

If we take your nightmares to occur in the dream state of REM it is in the largest time of your sleep pattern.  Your sleep pattern may be an hint here.  We all need 7-9 hours of sleep per night.  We need to fall asleep with a clear mind.  And we need to find our own peaceful mind space to go into sleep.  

The nightmares are about unresolved emotions form your conscious state.  Take them symbolically and use the message to make your life a better place in mind.  Even when we think they are precognitive and/or prophecy we must remember that they are not occuring in the time for these skills to occur.  Even when we think we have visits from spirit, it is an emotional issue to resolve.

Relaxation exercises before you are lying down to sleep.  No reading in bed...that is keeping the mind open and active.  A white night light often helps to keep the mind focused in sleep. Keep a glass of cold water beside the bed and if you have a dream or nightmare wake yourself up to the state you can take a drink before returning to sleep.  And then, do not allow the mind to replay and continue the past dream or nightmare.  it is important to start the sleep pattern over.

I keep hearing that dreams are about trying to resolve unresolved emotions, but what about dreams when you die? I did not think about dieing when I was younger, or killing others, or worry about other dieing themselves, so what could it mean? And why did it have to hurt in my dreams?

Death in dreams is endings...it has nothing to do with your own or someone else's physical death.  That is the symbolism.  Dreams are in the language of symbols.

So perhaps the pain in the dream when I died meant that something would end, and it would hurt me?