A Night Of Nightmares... Again

[piratelady]

For a while I was doing a lot better with my nightmares and sleeping. Then I started dating someone who was not good for me. I finally took all of the great advice I was given here and ended it.

I ended it and yet my nightmares have not gone away. Originally, I was struggling with insomnia and nightmares. Given what was going on in my life with him, I realized he was the problem. I thought ending it would end the sleeping problems. Well, now I am able to sleep but am having worse nightmares than I have had in a very long time.

I don't know if I am over-tired, but normally if I have a very bad dream, I will wake myself up from it. Not last night. I slept until 9 in the morning (which is very late for me) and had the worst dreams. I am still struggling to deal with it today and just can't seem to shake it.

I really thought dealing with the problem that was triggering me, my sleeping issues would go away. It seems I was wrong. :(

 

[therapybankrupt]

So sorry piratelady you are dealing with those night mares. I have no answers to why they are still there. Mine come out of know where. It does not have to have any reason. Take good care of yourself and hopefully this to will pass! Sending a gentle hug if you will accept!

 

[Phenioxrising]

This takes awhile to do, but if you spend some time each day thinking of how you could turn that situation around in your favor. It's called a lucid dream when your able to do this. Since then I have nightmares but they don't bother me, though some are pretty disturbing. It took me two months to do this thinking bout the reacurring dreams each day.

 

[samson]

I think it might be in the water or something right now. I haven't had nightmares in a couple of months. I had three back to back in one night this week. It was exhausting. I had a rough session on Monday with my T and I got stuck in EMDR. Couldn't get through the memory we were working on. So, I'm not surprised the nightmares have returned. It's my brain's way of trying to work this out.

I'm sorry you are struggling. Not sleeping well just makes everything harder to deal with. I hope they go away soon.

 

[piratelady]

Thanks for the support everyone. I didn't have nightmares last night, but only got a couple of hours of sleep. Hopefully it will get better soon. I think part of it is that this reinforces the feelings that I've taken a huge step backwards.

 

[BloomInWinter]

I only slept a few hours, with many nightmares.

I was glad to wake up today.