ChildofGod
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I hope this helps someone. I realized I was setting myself up for nightmares, because I conditioned my thought process to do so.
What I do now, and may be helpful to some, is to tell myself I will have beautiful, peaceful dreams. I tell myself that a few times a day.
I think nightmares are a mechanism into learning/understanding what happened or how we feel about ourselves and trauma.
I used to have a concurring nightmare for a long time, but I finally fought back in my dreams and defended myself. At first I learned to find or use items as a weapon, in my dreams. And it got to the point of kill or be killed so, I would save myself.
I did lucid dreaming before as well.
I think nightmares are not always literal, although that's what it shows, but I think they are figurative sometimes.
For the many that have nightmares and still feel the effects waking up, may I suggest changing your perception by telling yourself every day and night, especially right before bed, that you will have peaceful dreams.
I hope I am being helpful with sharing my experience with this.
And to think of pleasant thoughts before you go to sleep, wanting a nice dream instead of expecting nightmares.
I don't mean to be offensive with this, just I know the anxiety and the realness I feel when I have a terrible nightmare.
What I do now, and may be helpful to some, is to tell myself I will have beautiful, peaceful dreams. I tell myself that a few times a day.
I think nightmares are a mechanism into learning/understanding what happened or how we feel about ourselves and trauma.
I used to have a concurring nightmare for a long time, but I finally fought back in my dreams and defended myself. At first I learned to find or use items as a weapon, in my dreams. And it got to the point of kill or be killed so, I would save myself.
I did lucid dreaming before as well.
I think nightmares are not always literal, although that's what it shows, but I think they are figurative sometimes.
For the many that have nightmares and still feel the effects waking up, may I suggest changing your perception by telling yourself every day and night, especially right before bed, that you will have peaceful dreams.
I hope I am being helpful with sharing my experience with this.
And to think of pleasant thoughts before you go to sleep, wanting a nice dream instead of expecting nightmares.
I don't mean to be offensive with this, just I know the anxiety and the realness I feel when I have a terrible nightmare.
