While going through my divorce, I had the most vivid dreams of my life. I used to joke that they were all movies, but without the credits. One night I actually had the credits appear. I thought it was pretty funny. Of course, the nightmares at that time were very intense and also way too real.
Last night I started to have a nightmare, then somehow woke myself out of it. I woke up with a start, thinking, "No more nightmares!" I had no idea such a thing was possible.
I always say that I never get sick, and I don't. Maybe I have also convinced myself to have no more nightmares. If so, I will get to work on this damn insomnia thing!
Repeat after me, I do not have a sleep problem.....
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When I was no longer a child, I realized that I could think myself out of nightmares by telling myself, "It's only a dream.....it's only a dream." I've dreamed some pretty scary very real things and right in the middle think, "This is all GONE!" and wake up. Every so often I can be dreaming about being very high up and force myself to FLY (I kid you not). Sometimes when I realize I'm dreaming I'll take some wild car rides. I guess it must take the art of not being a very deep sleeper.........
I am glad that you were able to wake yourself up. Maybe you can continue doing that and overcome it!
hugs,
Kathi
I remember my divorce vividly. The nightmares
were awful, especially since my ex was threatening
to kill me it seemed daily. <sigh>
I wish you nightmare free dreams my friend!
Connie
There is a lot to be said about positive thinking. I believe. Most of my nightmares involved my children ... basically they were fears that I was facing in real life haunting me at night. Each night I go to sleep thinking "sweet dreams" ... I'm not sure if I have sweet dreams each night as many times I don't remember any of the dreams but, I haven't had nightmares in a long time. Hope I didn't just jinx myself!!!
Monica
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Sometimes sleep is like a Funhouse of Mirrors at an amusement park when you're troubled with nightmares. I feel like my brain's on a backup generator even though the main power is shut down. Perhaps the brain is doing the janitor work that's prohibited during our waking hours? Like disk cleanup or the disk deframenter on our computer, compressing and cleaning up files?
I dream or have nightmares every night nearly, while John rarely remembers his dreams...he says he doesn't dream, but science says we do.
Suzy, I hope you have sweet dreams instead of nightmares, and hope everything is well with you and yours!
Best wishes,
Debi
Yeah, but a dog might pee on your leg.
Once upon a time, I had a recurring nightmare that always started the same way & ended with me driving off a cliff. I thought about the dream A LOT, and what it meant: losing control of my life. So I decided to take back control. The next time I had the dream, it proceeded as normal, BUT when I drove off the cliff I 'created' a red button on the dash, and when I pressed it, WINGS popped out of the doors, so I could soar happily above the cliff and down into the city. I never felt so good as I did when I woke up from that dream. You can change nightmares into other kinds of dreams, simply by training yourself to notice that it IS just a dream. I hope that your 'no more nightmares' trick works for you, but if one starts, simply pinch it off by making the big hairy spiders [my childhood nightmare] grow wings and fly away lol
Are your nightmares meaningful in some way--pointing in some direction? What would Freud or Jung say? --Albert
i wake myself all the time - at some point, when the dream stops making sense, i get irritated and say - "this is stupid - i must be dreaming" and then i wake up.
it works.
try it with a time to get up - that works too. tell yourself what time you have to wake before you go to sleep - most of the time, i'm within 10 minutes or so..
now if i can just remember where i left my keys..
I will repeat after you. You don't have a memory problem and you don't have a sleep problem.
Many lucks to you on this to you.
Hugs,
Anita
A dream is nothing but something that u want to come true or something that already has. Yours u say are nightmares , u r wrong , they are only that way b/c thats what u want then to be . You never wanted your divorce to happen. Your mind doesnt want it . That it why u think of it. Your mind doesnt want to stop thinking about him. So it doesnt not even when u sleep. Who knows maybe faith is telling you something. But the question here is , will u be smart and lestin to faiths call ? Or convince your self your whole life was a lie , and never try u and him again? Faith brought yall together , were do u think it went ?
xoxo- Some1
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