Because everything seems more dramatic when you awake I often just get up and snap out of it! |
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*to the tune of Mickey Mouse Club*
M-O-N-D-A-Y S-U-C-K-S!
Because everything seems more dramatic when you awake I often just get up and snap out of it! |
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After a nighmare I habitually wake up and get out of bed, pace around in the dark for a bit. It's the only way to calm down quickly. It seems to shake off the feeling of terror or sorrow or whatever feelings are left lingering after the dream. |
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Along with half your brain cells |
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Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity.
Upon waking from a bad nightmare, I usually sit up, breathe deeply and tell myself to relax. I then write down my nightmare and concurr that I wil try and make sence of it in the morning. It usually works. |
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Shine on, you crazy diamond!
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Adopted: MarcusoftheNight
Just in general, taking a nice (long) walk always calms me down. I can hardly think of any times it failed me |
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"You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection."
~Buddha
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*to the tune of Mickey Mouse Club*
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If i have a really big, huge nightmare, i have to get up and turn a light on, it seems to chase the ghosts away. Have a cup of tea. Sit up for an hour. Because i'm alone, it takes me a long, long time to get over a nightmare. |
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'all of the moments that already passed/
try to go back and make them last.'
Luckily, I don't get plagued with too many nightmares that will stick with me throughout the day. On the Rare occasion that I wake up immediately after a nightmare, I'm usually in the mindframe of "whoa....that was fucked up..." and go on about my day. Hehe. However, most of my nightmares have gotten me lucid, and I'm able to deal with them in whatever way I chose, while I'm still asleep, which is good. ^__^ |
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I had a dream last night where my dad told me to kill my dogs, so I suffocated one and then I had to break the second ones neck. |
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Cheis. Dailo.
It's tough to bring someone back that never really lived.
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Typically it has to be really bad to unhinged me that much....when you have the nightmares i do you quickly learn to dismiss all but the worst immediately.....well most of my nightmares involve losing a loved one or close friend to some enemy.....one of those "If i had just been stronger, faster, smarter..etc" types. Now i doubt many do something like this... but i find it calming to practice my swordwork...more specificlly a low speed blind-drill....very slow, very precise. I just go through the motions with my eyes shut and try to move like i would in a fight without losing control of myself or my blade...an exercise in control if you will.....if your completely in control of yourself, fear and anger have no power over you that you dont give them. |
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"and when he reaches Heaven to St. Peter he will tell..one more soldier reporting sir...I've served my time in Hell"
I agree. Not gonna say with who. But I agree haha. |
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*to the tune of Mickey Mouse Club*
M-O-N-D-A-Y S-U-C-K-S!
I almost never have a nightmare. For a dream to be a nightmare to me, when I wake up I don't want to go back to sleep. The last one I had was on Halloween night after watching "Saw" (a stupid thing for me to do). And it wasn't so much that the dream was scary, but the voice - and if you've seen it you know what I'm talking about - was stuck in my head and I couldn't get it out. In those cases, I have to find something that will occupy my mind so I can stop thinking of what I dreamed. |
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"If there was one thing the lucid dreaming ninja writer could not stand, it was used car salesmen."
I dont do anything I just say "O, it was just a dream, that was wierd" |
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Cheis. Dailo.
It's tough to bring someone back that never really lived.
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I haven't had a decent nightmare in years. Just a bunch of weird dreams. |
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"I'm not lucky to be alive! I'm lucky to be not dead!"
Lucid dreams: 3!
I havent had many nightmares that I remember in my life, but the one thing that has always calmed me before or after anything, has always been music therapy. |
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When I have a nightmare, there's usually nothing I can do to calm down until about five minutes later. Getting out of bed is probably a good one, because it forces you to become properly awake. However, I can offer advice for how to make sure you don't go back into a nightmare when you fall asleep again, which used to happen a lot to me. |
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What calms me? I like the sound of rain, and I guess fortunately for me, I live where it rains A LOT! |
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I usually lie still and aknowledge that it was just a dream, until the fear or sadness passes. Or depending on the situation I may run to the toilet or vomit (it happened when I had flu) by then I've usually forgotten the dream. |
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Recent Dream journal note : I was swallowed by some kind of sea-snake thing
1. cooking calms me |
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