How do you handle Nightmares and really bad dreams?

hello Gracie,

Nightmare could be caused by too much food just before going to bed.

Also when there is fear or other negative forces in your daily life, could be causing it, have to try to understand and finish this.

Or small chance; problems from previous lifes.

Doing the courses here can certainly shine light on this, and help you to get over it.

good luck, Peter

Hi Gracie,

Besides what was mentioned by Peter, my suggestion is to perfect concentration.
The stronger is concentration, the less likely it is to get stuck in a bad dream, the easier it is to get out of it, acccording to my experiences.

Wishing you nice dreams and great lucid dreams experiences!

Vadim

Hi Gracie,

I used to have nightmares a lot. There have been a few times in which I've been able to make it out of the nightmare scenes. It is usually when I have told myself to relax and calm down.

They say that intuition works really well there and by calming down, we can get a sense of what to do in the dream or nightmare. For example, in one nightmare, I was trying to escape something and it felt very real. Once I calmed down, a certain phrase just came to me and I said it and was able to get away.

But, as Peter said, the best way to get rid of nightmares seems to be looking into what we are doing, thinking, and feeling during the day. Doing this helped reduce my nightmares a lot. For me it was nervous thoughts and feelings throughout the day and as I fell asleep...but it can be different for different people.

Hi Gracie,

Just as well as everyone's suggestions, when I used to have nightmares and I wanted to get out of them, if I was aware of what was happening I'd try and jerk my body or throw it sideways or backwards quickly. That usually helped me wake back up in my body.

That's a bit of a bandaid fix though, if you can stop having nightmares via what everyone was talking about (which really does work) then you won't have to worry about getting out of them!

Hope you can stop having the nightmares soon.

David

I had terrible things going on when I was little, I don't even know what to classify them as. Not AP, not nightmares, I'm also not talking about it, but....

I do dream in color, and remember the dream every night. Sometimes I go back into a dream I had the previous night. Other times I have the same one at different times in the year.

Nightmares are never people or monsters or anything like that to me, they are always situations I can't get out of during a dream. Like the Twilight Zone usually. It involves me being "stuck" like in a prison or a school or something else.

I wonder if anyone else shares the same definition of "nightmares" and if I am lucky I don't have monsters chasing me in my dreams....

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Hello Gracie! 

The way I wake up from bad dreams is saying to myself I want to wake up now (sometimes I close my eyes so that I won't be distracted of what I see) and then thinking of going back to my physical body and trying to feel it.It always works.The problem is you can go back in that dream very fast if you feel sleepy.I have had a struggle to keep my eyes opened. lol Some suggests rolling to the other side which will prevent from going into the same dream,there were few times when I was walking in my room a little and then going back to sleep.

As it was suggested there is something you have to work on internally and the more you do that,the more those dreams will begin to decrease.

Goodluck! :) 

I've had dreams that were kind of like that before, Apakhana. I've never woken up in one though.

The twilight zone characteristics of the dream at least offer the chance to recognize how strange things are to prompt us to do a reality check.

Sweet dreams everyone!

Hi Apakhana,

I used to have nightmares like that too sometimes, where there weren't obvious scary things like monsters but where I get trapped in places and heard really strange guttural voices and stuff like that, or there was just a really strong feeling of fear.

Looking back I think they might have been about being trapped in the egos, but I didn't know what egos were yet then..

I have dreams without any monsters too and like David said I found myself in places with strong feeling of fear and sometimes it is like a death feeling and the vibration is so low.I had such dream last night and I was somehow aware in it and I felt that this is my own perception of the place there .... but when I have such lucid dreams I don't know how to go out of them and usually I let myself fall into a dream.

Usually i don't handle them i just wake up and get happy to know it was ONLY a dream!!!