My ex has been in my dreams almost every night for 2 years straight

I don’t even really know where to start other than I feel like I’ve accepted that I’ve lost my mind.

I’m gonna try to keep this as short as possible but I don’t think I can. So, sorry this is a long read.

I’m a fairly spiritual person and I’ve dreamt of things happening before they happened in real life on several occasions and sometimes I use my dreams to guide me in real life. I can tell when a dream is just random bullshit, I can tell what influenced my dream and I can certainly tell when my dream is telling me something.

So, I dated someone from summer 2023 - early 2024. I would consider them a significant person that I’ve crossed paths with in my life but I want to make this very clear, I am not in love with them anymore whatsoever. We aren’t compatible and that’s what made the relationship end ultimately and it was a pretty normal relationship compared to the ones I’ve previously had which were far worse. I’ve dreamt of exes before but absolutely nothing like this. No I do not keep tabs on them and we are not in communication but we have mutuals in the same industry/friend circles so we’re cordial if we ever do communicate or happen to be in the same room which has only happened less than a handful of times within these past 2 years. I honestly forget that we dated sometimes.

My ex is in my dreams almost every single night. Sometimes he talks to me in my dream, sometimes he doesn’t. Sometimes he stares at me in a crowd of people with a mean look, and sometimes he looks happy. He’s either just existing in my dream space, slightly aggressive, or cordial and nothing more.

Every once in awhile I’ll hear through mutuals or distant friends that he’s been speaking poorly about me to this day which I’m not surprised about because he would talk extremely poorly about his ex before me except they keep in touch (I found out after we broke up that’s a story for another day).

I have no emotional tie to this man at all and the only thing I can think of is either he talks about me constantly (which still doesn’t really make sense because I’m not actively feeding any energy cord to receive) or I’m just severely traumatized from him somehow.

Let me know your thoughts or if you’ve have anything similar to this. I could also just be mental.