stop having nightmares

every night i have nightmares, and its not just one nightmare a night. its nightmare after nightmare. i am up every hour on the hour, because they wake me up, i am so tired, and need help getting rid of them.SOMEONE PLEASE HELP!!!!

but more than usual thought stopping needed today

need to try EMDR

I have night terrors. These aren’t your garden variety nightmare. I mean, think of nightmares and sleep walking rolled together. It’s incredibly scary.
When I get stressed out and start worrying about various things, they usually start up. The worst part is that the lack of sleep makes the stress that much worst in the end. I know to stop the nightmares, I need to handle my stress better. But I just want them to stop…

I’ve been having nightmares for about 10 years, usually they’re grusome with lots of blood, sometimes related to work and sometimes I can’t believe my brain can come up with these things! Someone is usually trying to kill or hurt me or someone I care about, either that I or I can’t stop doing everything wrong. More often than not I seem to get really stressed and pass out in the dream. They’ve increased to at least 2 different ones a night sometimes 4, I always wake up with this stressed feeling, like I’ve not slept. If I can’t remember what I dreamt in the the morning images from the nightmares keep coming back to me during the day or over the week, making me feel the stress all over again.

I am on an SSRI, and am hoping to stop taking it as I don’t feel it helps, seems to be more to do with the way I think. I am having cognitive behavioural therapy for depression, but only a few sessions. I read somewhere (on a website about depression) that nightmares are to do with stress during the day, i.e. the fight or flight reaction sends adrenaline round your body, but you never actually run away or fight, so the nightmares are a way for your brain to complete the cycle for everything that has stressed you out. Apparently they prevent you from falling into deep sleep and so you wake up tired. So far the advice I have been given is to do deep breathing exercises. I am also going to take up Tai chi and hopefully change jobs to see if this helps!

I used to have dreams about vampires frequently. Most of the dreams were of being bitten and not being able to move or scream until they left at which time you wake up out of breath.

The only time they didn’t take blood from me they still managed to scare me silly.

I was on the bus and all the sudden poofs in magic genie like VAMPIRE! Unable to scream you look at the guy frozen in place. He grins showing his fangs. Your eyes widen as he taps a fang in a mock salute. When your own finger taps on of your teeth you realize you’ve just copied him.

He grins more shaking his head before getting up to leave. A little redhead follows him off the bus. You’re surprised that your still alive and feel relief fill you. It’s over

It has been getting worse lately, with all dreams ending in the same way again. It’s so horrible! I admit I’ve had rather a stressful time recently, but after a couple of good weeks, I’d been hoping that I was beginning to conquor them. A little. But it’s not to be. Woken up screaming a couple of times, and apparently have been talking and crying in my sleep. I hate it, hate it..

i feel like i have too many long-term goals right now, and i would like to focus on the shorter-term goals, and/or other related goals that may precede the success of the longer-term goals such as this one.

i may never be able to utterly ‘stop’ having horrific or at least negative dreams, but the best i might be able to do is to cultivate other goals that could minimize those types of dreams. as a result, i would like to focus on my goals that specifically target facets of my mental-emotional, intellectual, physical, and ‘spiritual’ health.

I don’t know what to do, I have creepy nightsmares almost every night, about be abuse, canibuls, being burnt alive, seeing my friends and family being torchered, and being traped in twisted games and always losing. I’ve tried thinking of peaceful thoughts before bed, falling asleep with someone and more, i don’t know what to do.