stop having nightmares

there was a bizarre bit when someone was lecturing me about how to get a ripped body at the gym (just been emailing a former and even current exercise/ gym freak recently, he does my head in, he is so patronizing)

maybe even 2 but i can’t say for sure. in one of them i may have been awake.
in one nightmare i was at patong, phuket. a place i visited less than 2 months ago in real life. (even wrote a post about it here so that’s maybe why)

anyway i was in patong (in the nightmare) and everywhere was blue and flat, and the ground had an incredibly smooth surface. there were few people about. i seen a small group of asian people sitting in some sort of bus shelter and i overheard them say there was about to be a tsunami. nearby areas were devestated in real life by the 2004 boxing day tsunami.

suddenly it started to go all rainy and i could see the wave about to crash on the bus shelter – although the asian people seemed somehow calm, compared to me anyway, as if they weren’t afraid.

i had other visions and images of the footage i saw of the real thing in 2004. not nice

“wake up in the middle of the night sweating/ heart pounding/ terrified type nightmares..none the less i have plenty of unpleasasnt dreams while asleep..i have heard it’s caused because you aren’t actually fully asleep and you are simply hal awake and recalling waking images…i have no idea.

many of these bizarre dreams i have whilst asleep revolve around uncontrollable floating, i rarely if ever have a “nice” sleep dream. i believe we dream whether awake or asleep! i have had plenty about aircraft, although i fly quite regularly at the moment.

i have had dreams where i am in a plane that crashes (although i survive) - hardly fun when in reality you are going through a monsoon cloud over the andaman at 40,000 feet in the pitch black when the planne is shaking all over the place!

some of the worst involve pigs, for some reason… i have heard it said pigs symbolize laziness, but to my knowledge the pig is extremely intelligent and a very clean (if a rather plain looking) animal

i had one with a pig in the other night and it was thoroughly unpleasant – i daren’t even repeat it, it seemed to be a message that eating meat is wrong but it may have meant something else..i don’t know.. anyway..i wont forget it.

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