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Nightmares?
10 years ago
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Question to the general public about nightmares.
How often?
How intense?
Night terrors?
I've had mine for years... almost every night (nightmares that is, not terrors I think)
I've always had trouble sleeping & understandably
do not like going to sleep.
They went away for a while....like two years
Now they're back.
Doesn't matter if I limit what I see/watch/read listen to.
I cut myself off from horror movies(which I actually enjoy)
for a long time & it did absolutely zero to lessen them.
I was thinking about starting a dream journal
to try & see if I can pick out any patterns
Or see if drawing awareness to them
Could maybe give me better control
aka lucid dreams.
It's not that I can't lucid dream,
It's just...I'm usually so bent on survival in the dreams
That I never have the presence of mind to change the setting.
I don't like taking sleep aids as I am tired the next day &
If I do get bad dreams then, I can't wake up.
Suggestions, comments, stories of your own?
How often?
How intense?
Night terrors?
I've had mine for years... almost every night (nightmares that is, not terrors I think)
I've always had trouble sleeping & understandably
do not like going to sleep.
They went away for a while....like two years
Now they're back.
Doesn't matter if I limit what I see/watch/read listen to.
I cut myself off from horror movies(which I actually enjoy)
for a long time & it did absolutely zero to lessen them.
I was thinking about starting a dream journal
to try & see if I can pick out any patterns
Or see if drawing awareness to them
Could maybe give me better control
aka lucid dreams.
It's not that I can't lucid dream,
It's just...I'm usually so bent on survival in the dreams
That I never have the presence of mind to change the setting.
I don't like taking sleep aids as I am tired the next day &
If I do get bad dreams then, I can't wake up.
Suggestions, comments, stories of your own?
As vivid as it gets without being reality
Oh yes
I've had nightmares ever since I was about 6 years old. It's just repeating all of my life experiences. Every beating, every time I've been raped. Being kidnapped, watching my best friends die over and over. All of it, everything. All the pain, the hurt, the terror. And when I wake up, I wake up cry, with claw marks all over my body from thrashing around in my sleep. It's like winning the lottery if I don't have a nightmare at all.
There's a reason I don't like sleeping unless I drop from exhaustion. I stay awake for days at a time so I don't have to experience every all over again...
Dreams journals and attempting to lucid dream all sound like solid ideas. Unfortunately, I can't really help you with lucid dreaming..
I don't know why I keep having them. I'm sorry that you do.
If I have any luck, I'll let you know, it's worth a try I guess.
I wouldn't mind that.
The only dream I had where I died, I would jump into a new body & die again
& it just kept looping like that until I woke.
Start a dream journal and maybe go to water lilies for advice/help interpreting those dreams? They seem pretty knowledgeable over there. Also, maybe try using your oracle/tarot cards? Ask them for insite. Do you have a dream catcher at home(not sure it would help but it's worth a try)?
There's this calming tea called "dreamers tea" at a shop down here if your interested in trying it. it's quite calming and tends to help give you calmer dreams.
How intense?
Night terrors?
i got them pretty frequently and ive had some really,REALLY intense ones to the point of sleep paralysis.
i think ive only had 2-3 night terrors, BUT i have learned to lucid dream. Whats cool is my dreams *or should say mind* taught me how to escape and wake up from nightmares or a dream that is to become one.
i had a small fox lead me to a big red oak door and it said that if i ever was dreaming or in trouble and i see this door i need to wake up.
sure enough when i looked at the door i woke up. now i rarely have nightmares cause of this, but the door tends to hidden alot XD.
sometimes your mind will find ways to ease itself .