Help Anyone else find it way harder to wake up from nightmares?

[ArteriesBindEveryon]

Whenever I have a bad dream I find it way harder to wake up. Even if it has a "good ending" it doesn't matter because the damage has already been done. If I don't have to wake up for anything it can cause me to sleep for 12 hours straight. It throws off my sleep schedule severely. Any tips for preventing this?

 

[Csmith8827]

Dude I don't really have nightmares honestly. My psyche destroyed all that shit somehow. I've had some really bad sex dreams before that I might consider nightmares...but they were completely fucked off. These nights if I dream there either decent sex dreams where I have a "nocturnal emission" (it's actually pretty cool cause your having sex in your sleep and getting off. My psyche is bent/slanted/attuned towards that...) Or a regular dream...pfft. Hahaha...

 

[Kurushii]

Nightmares aren't very fun in general but them being harder to wake up from... Once I was stuck in an inception false awakening dream and it was DREADFUL. I could not wake up no matter how hard I tried. So when I stopped trying I woke up. So I can understand it being harder to wake up from a bad dream. If sleeping too much is your issue, then perhaps an alarm might help? There's a lot of general advice online for having better sleep in general too.

 

[lionetta12]

Whenever I have a bad dream I find it way harder to wake up. Even if it has a "good ending" it doesn't matter because the damage has already been done. If I don't have to wake up for anything it can cause me to sleep for 12 hours straight. It throws off my sleep schedule severely. Any tips for preventing this?

I can't wake up from my nightmares usually and I've had PTSD nightmares almost daily for 13 years, would like any advice on this too.

 

[missingpeace]

I suffer from affliction of demonic oppression, I regularly get nightmares where I am in situations of distress, meeting long forgotten old acqauintances, revisiting places of my past, in all dreams I realise I am trapped and I can't get out and there is a very low miserable in my heart. My whole existence has been taken over by these entities, every morning I wake up and think - AM I STILL FUCKING HERE. I constantly feel like I'm nothing and I'm not here. I know noone is going to kill me for me, but this suffering is extreme and I wish I were just taken out already. I'm prevented from trying because my family is always home and I'm starting to resent them for keeping me alive.