Do you have nightmares?

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Rose65

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Lately I have begun getting such nightmares that I wake with a pounding heart and sweating. After a few nights I had to leave a nightlight on!
So I analysed the cause and realised it could be my reading matter. I have been heavily into apocalypse fiction for weeks. Since I am already far more prone to anxiety and depression due to the covid crisis and resulting health scares, these books have fed the idea of dangers and destruction.

So I shall immediately change to less disturbing, more pleasant books as reading is my main hobby. Hopefully to help me relax!

I avoid very violent films and certainly do not watch horror as I wouldn't sleep at all. I often look away or hide behind a cushion at anything to do with bloodshed, operations or other gross things. My husband sits there unmoved, I think he's showing off about having a stronger stomach.

I truly marvel at some people who can watch the most appalling horror movies. What on earth does it do to the mind? In my youth I watched The Living Dead and a few other movies, before I knew better, and I still remember being utterly traumatized.

So have you ever had bad nightmares and discovered the obvious cause?
 

I think nightmares are the result of fears that arise from trying to face and deal with the difficulties in life as someone other than your true self.

This can come about when you lack confidence in yourself and instead insist that you can't possibly deal with certain thing in life because you've accepted other people's criticisms of you and taken them to heart.

Once you have the chance to see that you're capable enough just being your true self, the nightmares fade away and your dreams reflect a calm that comes from full confidence in yourself.
 
Yep..I regularly have nightmares.

I don't watch horror films or Read horror fiction... I've always said I'm like a child when it comes to that, in that I will always have a nightmare if I watch even the slightest horror movie.

However my nightmares are caused by what's happening in my life... or... and this is absolutely true..if I eat Cheese.. or anything with artificial flavours like Crisps ( potato chips)
 

Do you have nightmares?​


Do I have nightmares, you ask???????

I have one of those recurring nightmares....

I'm locked in a huge, dark warehouse with freezers full to the brim with ice cream, but that's not the nightmare, it's the thought that the 2 hundred people outside are trying to get in. šŸ˜Š
 
jujube said:
I just woke up from one of epic proportions. I feel like a thousand buffalo have stampeded over my poor old bones. I wake up from my nightmares (which almost always occur in the mornings) a total wreck.

I should sell the plots of my nightmares to Stephen King or Dean Koontz......if I could remember them long enough...
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My husband used to say the same about my nightmares.. they are just beyond scary. I wake up thinking I'm about to have a heart attack, my heart is literally pumping through my chest
 
I donā€™t often have nightmares, with Covid and a past administration being nightmarish enough to exceed anything that I could dream up. My Closet of Anxieties, however, is usually open for business, and operating at full capacityā€¦ šŸ™€

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hollydolly said:
Yep..I regularly have nightmares.

I don't watch horror films or Read horror fiction... I've always said I'm like a child when it comes to that, in that I will always have a nightmare if I watch even the slightest horror movie.

However my nightmares are caused by what's happening in my life... or... and this is absolutely true..if I eat Cheese.. or anything with artificial flavours like Crisps ( potato chips)
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Cheese is well known to cause bad dreams. Must be that maybe hard to digest rich foods cause the body to struggle awhile. How that translates to bad dreams is a curious thing.
 
I have had nightmares but I don't have them regularly. I do have nights when I can't sleep.

I have done some things that help without taking medicines for it. I took the TV out of the bedroom and no longer watch the 10 pm news. I read a lot and read to go to sleep. I love mysteries but no longer read them in bed. I try to always have a nice happy story for my bedtime reading. The murder mysteries are for daylight reading. :)
 
Only rarely, no idea what the cause is.
Rose65 said:
Cheese is well known to cause bad dreams. Must be that maybe hard to digest rich foods cause the body to struggle awhile.
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Maybe...

Because a little thing affects them. A slight disorder of the stomach makes them cheats. You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato. Thereā€™s more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!

 
The closest thing to a nightmare I ever dream would be not being able to find my car within large parking lots. Have dreamed that so often that I usually recognize am in a dream then wake up. Caused by morphing as one's brain wanders inside the model of the outside world we experience. As a child had some dream nightmares but as an adult, dreams increasingly are reflections of my logical minded life activities, especially social. Our brains become what we do and experience due to neural plasticity. So yeah, stop polluting your mind as it becomes part of what one experiences.

Uniquely, I have always dreamed 100% of the time am asleep, even for just moments nodding off, not just REM sleep. Dream all night and always wake up from a dream. Something different about my brain versus others. Thus have a vast familiar dream life of such dream world memories. Favorite dreams are occasional skiing dreams.
 
Sometimes I wake up upset. I know something frantic was happening. Since I donā€™t remember dreams, I canā€™t define the problem. Itā€™s not like something out of a Stephen King novel.
 
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