Do the opposite of everything I suggested... get stressed, sleep at odd hours, drink coffee or tea right before going to sleep, read/watch a bunch of weird stuff. That does it for me, anyway.If I drink caffeine before I go to sleep, especially if I've been up for less than 17 hours, I won't be able to sleep. Perhaps some irrationally set up movies would help.
One thing I did try to encourage more dreams, and succeeded at doing, was keeping a dream journal. I would wake up in the morning, hop on the computer really quickly (Within 10 minutes of waking up) and type out every last detail I could remember. Looking back at this dream journal, I noticed that the dreams became more and more frequent, I remembered more from the dream and the dreams became more vivid. It was my most successful dream experiment.Did you get excited to go to sleep? Your mind will dream more if you connect it with good feelings. The trouble is starting it up in the first place.
I think it's something anyone can try and get results from.
i used to have a recurring nightmare where i broke my arm in some, horrible fasion... i started having them because i broke my arm in a horrible fashion. :(Judging by your avatar, all of your limbs went away
thank god they went away
... Weird. I didn't remember any dream tonight, so I count that as success.*in a mortal kombat announcer voice*
I love nightmares. They allow you to experience feelings and situations you rarely get in life.While the sleep paralysis is scary I don't wish it didn't happen. It doesn't ruin my day but makes it more interesting.
One thing I did try to encourage more dreams, and succeeded at doing, was keeping a dream journal.This works wonders.
Relating to this, Does anyone know of a good way to get rid of nightmares relating to a real life experience from a few years ago? Cause that would be most helpful.I'd come to terms with it. If you know it won't happen again, or if you have a plan the next time it happens, you can turn the dream meta and make it go your way.
I've been wondering if you guys have any experience some truly terrible nightmares.Difficult because different people consider different things to be nightmare quality. Generally i've had:
I don't think being in a more lucid state would make it any better. IMO
Hmm. That sounds like hard work. I'll take waking up screaming for a while longer I think.
I dunno. How does one achieve lucid dreaming?
Hmm. That sounds like hard work. I'll take waking up screaming for a while longer I think.
... It's your nightmares, hon, but I'd take the hard work over the PTSD any day.
Strange. I woke to someone jingling keys in my dream, cold sweat and all. How would key jingling scare me awake from inside my dream? It was the same kind of waking up you'd get when you get killed in a dream and get shocked awake.They don't really have to make sense. Just recently I dreamed that in the wild I hunted and consumed my friend's poodle.
Though you still had the valid fear of being hunted and eaten. I just have something completely random shock me out of a dream...Strange. I woke to someone jingling keys in my dream, cold sweat and all. How would key jingling scare me awake from inside my dream? It was the same kind of waking up you'd get when you get killed in a dream and get shocked awake.They don't really have to make sense. Just recently I dreamed that in the wild I hunted and consumed my friend's poodle.
I'm sure the poodle wasn't happy about it, but I had no stress over it.Oh. Thanks. I will definitely keep that in mind.
In your case, I know your mind tends to mix things in dreams, so you could have been having a panic attack while dreaming about jingling keys...the keys didn't set it off, the attack that would've happened anyway did. Like when your dreamy mind turns to erotica, so it puts that tag on whatever you're currently dreaming about, with hilarious results. If that panic attack was staved off for a fraction of a second longer, you could have possibly had a panic attack from hearing the sound of your kitchen's toaster ejecting toast.
Think of how stressed the magma furnace dwarves are, they deal with that every time they work.