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If you have managed to stop nightmares, please tell us how you did that.

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How to Stop Recurring Nightmares

If you have a recurring nightmare or night terror that is causing you anxiety, Dr. Phil has some advice:

* There is a difference between a nightmare and a night terror. Nightmares tend to occur several hours into the sleep cycle, and there's usually not any moving. Night terrors occur during the first hour or two of sleep, and involve moving around.

* Dreams of any kind usually reflect unfinished business from your life or from just that day. Thoughts and fears that you may suppress while you're awake reside in your subconscious and can manifest when you're in a dream state. For example, nightmares may evolve from feelings of inadequacy or of not being worthy.

* Nightmares that start after the birth of a child can represent mild postpartum depression.

* Nightmares that repeat a traumatic event reflect a normal psychic healing process, and should diminish in frequency and intensity if recovery is progressing.

* If you have unfinished emotional business while you're asleep, you can finish it while you're awake. Set up a ritual before you go to bed. Things that you can do:

1) Talk about the nightmare with someone. Give it a voice. Describe it fully, scene by scene, what happened and how you felt.
2) Write it out. Write out the whole scenario, including what happens when you wake up, if you sleepwalk, etc.
3) Act it out. Play all the characters involved.
4) Imagine a more pleasant ending. It sounds simple, but getting every neurological loop involved can help finish the business.

* If those rituals don't lessen the nightmares, take a closer look at your internal dialogue. What you tell yourself can have a dramatic influence on your subconscious.

The Association for the Study of Dreams offers additional information:

* About five to 10 percent of adults have nightmares once a month or more frequently.
* Many people experience nightmares after a traumatic event such as surgery, loss or an accident.
* Others experience nightmares when they are undergoing stress in their waking lives, such as a change on the job, pregnancy, moving, financial concerns, etc.
* Nightmares and night terrors arise from different physiological stages of sleep. Children who have night terrors also may have a tendency to sleepwalk and/or urinate in bed. The causes of night terrors are not well understood. Children usually stop having them by puberty. For adults, night terrors may be associated with stress.

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many people get nightmares.

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* Dreams of any kind usually reflect unfinished business from your life or from just that day
nightmares may evolve from feelings of inadequacy or of not being worthy.

* Nightmares that repeat a traumatic event reflect a normal psychic healing process, and should diminish in frequency and intensity if recovery is progressing.

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If you have unfinished emotional business while you're asleep, you can finish it while you're awake. Set up a ritual before you go to bed. Things that you can do:

1) Talk about the nightmare with someone. Give it a voice. Describe it fully, scene by scene, what happened and how you felt.
2) Write it out. Write out the whole scenario, including what happens when you wake up, if you sleepwalk, etc.
3) Act it out. Play all the characters involved.
4) Imagine a more pleasant ending. It sounds simple, but getting every neurological loop involved can help finish the business.

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f you have unfinished emotional business while you're asleep, you can finish it while you're awake. Set up a ritual before you go to bed. Things that you can do:

1) Talk about the nightmare with someone. Give it a voice. Describe it fully, scene by scene, what happened and how you felt.
2) Write it out. Write out the whole scenario, including what happens when you wake up, if you sleepwalk, etc.
3) Act it out. Play all the characters involved.
4) Imagine a more pleasant ending. It sounds simple, but getting every neurological loop involved can help finish the business.

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I think they wrote unclearly... they strung together a couple of ideas making it look like they were connected.

"If you have unfinished emotional business while you're asleep, you can finish it while you're awake." ...may mean if you didn't finish your dream, you can kind of give your own ending to the dream. Alternatively, he may be referring to nightmares in general being thought of as unfinished emotional business... so for example if you've been dreaming about your father, perhaps you need to talk with him.

"Setting up a ritual before you go to bed." ...i have done this. It's just to help you fall asleep and might offer a slight sense of security because of the familiarity.

"Talk about the nightmare with someone..." I can't imagine that being wise to do right before bed. Besides, it will be fresher in the mind after waking.

"Talk about the nightmare with someone..." I can't imagine that being wise to do right before bed. Besides, it will be fresher in the mind after waking.

Can you talk about it during the day? That helps?

For years now i've been trying to forget my dreams quickly when i wake, because i find it helps me improve my mood. But i might want to try "changing the endings" of the dreams to better outcomes, in which case, i'd have to start remembering them again. I can do that fairly easily if i choose.

What do you think, CD? Would you like to share your dreams too?