to avoid returning to the same nightmare when you go back to sleep
b.q. Do you have a lot of these nightmares? Is it more or less frequent than when you were younger?
ChemoAngel
I usually get up for a cup of herbal tea then sit at my computer for awhile and watch funny videos, etc.
then I slowly return to bed and force myself to dream of something I want to dream of. It usually works.
Dede H
I have always had very lucid dreams and nightmares. Even when I wake up I am not sure if it is real life or a nightmare. If I am really scared I will make sure I do not go back to sleep anytime soon because there would be almost 100% chance I would go back to the same nightmare right where it left off. When I was a child I would try to think of something pleasant like bunnies. Now that I am older I prefer to do something else like watch tv, or read a book, or go online, anything to stay awake and get rid of the dream in my head.
Sometimes I will stay up for the rest of the night and pretend like I am an early riser.
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I have a recurring nightmare where I leave whatever setting my dream takes me to and I can't find my car. This is a nightmare I've had more or less occasionally for years now and I believe it stems from an incident in my long ago past where I was leaving my girlfriends house and discovered my car wasn't where I parked it. It turned out that the police had impounded it because of a bunch of parking tickets I'd accrued and not paid. And yes, it was parked illegally when they impounded it. I didn't learn they had it until 3 days later.
RB
Liz,
I don't even remember the last time I had one.
I would suggest that you would read or watch a video, something uplifting.
BQ: I don't have as many as I used to, and then hardly any at all.
Chetak.
I find it rarely happens now, but a visit to the bathroom and then I sit on the bed, most often with a cigarette and try to reason it out.
That is better I feel than returning to lying down to think of it over and over
I have found the best way to get to sleep is to imagine cooking a meal. If I get past the stage of thinking through all of the ingredients, I revisit it from the start and thing about it step by step
Chetak