Discussion Dealing with bad dreams

[lainduster]

Do you get bad dreams? The ones that ruin your whole morning, maybe day, perhaps even the whole week? If so, how do you deal with them?


I've had a problem with my dreams for years now and it feels like it is completely out of my control. I could be having a good streak of okay-ish emotions and then one unlucky night of sleep will have me want to completely fuck myself over or leave me feeling like i've been hit by a train. I understand that it might not be the dreams that are the problem but the way i react to them but i just cant get past those feelings when they are the very first things i experience once i wake up. It's especially bad when I've had a tough day and seek to sleep as an escape and a reset to the next, only to wake up continuing feeling the same or most of the times even worse. I'm really at a loss as to what to do about it, it just feels like there's something in me that will always try to scratch away at my insides and hollow me out and that there's nothing i can do about it. I don't like thinking that way because I know it won't get better if i do. Sometimes i even wonder if how i feel in those dreams is how i should be feeling all the time and doubt if anything else i feel is even real. Sorry i know im rambling lol

Sweet dreams everyone and stay safe :0

 

[Heavy_Metals117]

Only recently started having dreams after a long time of not having them I guess because my entire life got flipped upside down a couple weeks ago. And those dreams are always horrible and make me want to give up sometimes because they're about the life I just left behind. The only thing I can do to stop it is to distract myself, and the only distractions that have worked have been productive ones so I can feel a little less hopeless for the future, but it's really hard not to just feel bad or feel nothing at all. I try to tell myself that it's better that things are the way they are now and that helps sometimes.
I'm sorry you've had to deal with those for years, and looking up solutions isn't helpful because most of them are unhealthy. If only it were as easy as to just forget them.