For as long as I remember I have been plagued by nightmares. It's so bad sometimes that I wake up sweating and scared shitless. I usually have terrible sleep to because I wake up a lot during the night and have trouble falling back to sleep. Most of my nightmares deal with me dieing or someone close to me dieing, but a lot of the time they also deal with condemnation from someone or ridicule. I remember waking up as a kid yelling, though thankfully somehow I've learned to stop that. This has and is starting to impact my life more and more. I wake up in the morning usually from a nightmare and it just starts my day off horribly. The only thing I've found useful for treating this is Cannabis. It seems to make me forget my nightmares if I even have them. I don't drink any caffeinated beverages other than a cup of Green Tea or Oolong Tea in the morning, I heard somewhere that sometimes caused nightmares. I was just wondering if any of you had suggestions on dealing with this and maybe helping to stop the nightmares. Any replies would be much appreciated.
Hi, had really bad problems with bad dreams and someone suggested a dream catcher to. I brought one and haven't had one in a few months now. Its worth a try, either it really does work or its just in your mind that it works, but for me it did.
part of the problem i think, is cultural. we create monsters by naming things monsterous instead of accepting that diversity is inhierent throughout all of time, space, and spirit. by this i don't mean we should ever stop diciplining our own action to avoid causing suffering and harm, but i do mean we need to avoid labeling things outside of ourselves that do not observably cause them as somehow negative or to be shunned. the closest thing to nighmares i've had since i was very little, is that on very rare occasions, i might find myself in a dream thwarted from acting or behaving in a way i would consider appropriate and rightful in the context it has presented me with. when i was very young, i think i was in maybe first or second grade in school. about 7 years of age, there was something sort of scary that rather then fighting or trying to harm, well it was a really horrible sort of thing really, like a skull with kind of like another skull plate in place of a lower jaw and it skittered accross the floor by rattling that up and down. well anyway what i did, i mean i had to kind of hold it down because i was afraid there was nothing else i could do to keep it from attacking me. so anyway, i somehow managed to do this and at the same time get ahold of a bottle of rubbing alcohaul and q-tips and i started cleaning what appered to be four virtical deep scratches on its upper jaw. as i cleaned flesh returned. if i tried to stop cleaning even briefly it would start to revert, but as long as i kept cleaning, like nurturing, trying to heal it, then it became less and less this monsterous thing and became more and more like someone very sweet and attractive and attracted to me. so that's how it ended. but more then that, so did pretty much entirely my having nightmares as such, or anything i've since been willing to call or think of as one anyway. other then just those times when clearly there is someone from this world, somehow negatively influencing then, like an outside influence of one kind or another. one that may believe in what its doing and that its right, but not seeing the harm in the arbitrariness of what its attatched to. =^^= .../\...
