nightmares

[seXieleXie]

nightmares suck. i have terrible ones. i wake up crying and sick with fear. i tried to take a nap today (i finally had time!) and it was ruined by a bad dream.

does anyone else have bad nightmares? how about just strange vivid dreams? what do you do when you wake up from a bad dream? any advice?

waiting to see who will indulge my curiosity...

 

[lovetoread]

When I have them,I usually cannot go back to sleep. I usually have my heart feeling like it is going to jump out of my chest and I am very scared. Then I get up and start my day. I have very vivid dreams, good and bad. I just wish sometimes that they werent so vivid.

 

[Willing and Unsure]

i have nightmares when my puppy (stuffed) falls on the floor or gets more than arms lenght away from me at while i'm sleeping.. its really weird.. and it isnt just your normal make you cry cuz you're scared nightmares.. its the ones that seem so real that it could really be happening and it freaks the crap out of you type

 

[Mellon Collie]

Ever since I was like 10 I've had this nightmare where I bite into something and my teeth break in half. Sometimes they fall out and my mouth fills with blood. The dreams are so vivid and I can taste and feel the warmth of the blood in my mouth. It grosses me out and I still have them at least once a week.

 

[Guest]

i hate um

 

[Moridin187]

Mostly I have night terrors.. Those are the dreams where you wake up at three o'clock in the morning choking back a scream, soaked in sweat, but you can't remember what you were dreaming about..

I also have a reocurring nightmare that I've been having for years.. Where I'm in a medieval battlefield, fighting thousands and thousands of soldiers, all of them these faceless shadow monsters. They threaten to overwhelm me, but I kill them, one by one, and after what seems like days, the last one falls. Then I suddenly become one of the shadows.

 

[Rubyfruit]

Fear of Public Toilets

My longest running reoccuring nightmare is that of dirty public toilets. Seriously. I have to go really, really bad and I walk into the restroom, which is enormous, wall-to-wall toilets, but they are all filthy and I won't go near them.

Odd.

 

[KillerMuffin]

Nightmares are one of the indicators of unresolved trauma. Particularly if they are recurring, they could be problematic. There are some others, like hyperawareness-- being on guard without a real reason for it-- distrust, anger, fear, trouble sleeping, and depression.

To get rid of the nightmares, you don't necessarily have to identify the trauma, but you have find a way to resolve it. Something that helps is meditative imagery. Breathe deeply, exhaling completely and then inhale, fill your lungs with clean air and exhale again, imagining that a warm, golden light is gently pushing all your trouble, stress, and bad feelings out from the top of your head to the soles of your feet. Then imagine a safe place where no one can ever hurt you, like a plexiglass wall around your heart. Make it as big as you want, fill it with whatever you want, no people or no weapons, but animals are good. Imagine what it feels like, what kind of sounds you would hear, what the smell is like, what it looks like in such a peaceful place, and what something in it would taste like.

Do it before you go to bed, it helps with the sleeping thing. It gives you an immediate "safe" place to go from everything. But don't do it for hours on end, it only takes a few minutes. After you've had a nightmare, just lay back and do the imagery, it will help push it away and calm you down so you can go back to sleep.

 

[fgarvb1]

you guys & gals do know you can control them right?

i mean you can guide them to whatever ending you want.

how, you ask. i don't know that. but once knowing you can or such a thing is possible i started changing mine. i have not had a bad dream in over ten years.

No more sitting up in bed in the middle of the night, heart racing covered in sweat, freaked out for me!

 

[Avery_Chisholm]

How i hate nitemares sooo

When u wake up in the wee hrs of the morning silently screaming your heart pounding so fast ya think its gonna come out of your chest the reaccuring nitemares that i have are of appearing in graveyards at the site of some of the graves of my family Eeeek hope this doesn't mean i'm next...