Thread: Reverse Engineering my Success

My advice for fighting insomnia is exercise especially yoga, at least that's part of what helped me. The nice thing about yoga is that it encourages one to work on one's mind working together with one's body. Also excercise could hopefully reduce some tension and tire your body out. You may say that you do not have time to exercise, but it does not have to be long. Try to exercise five minute every day, and see if it helps. If it seems to help, try increasing the time spent if possible.

Also in my case insomnia was caused predominantly by stress. Once I worked on reducing the stress, my sleep got better. I bet with all the work and a small child, you probably have plenty of stress in your life. There are many ways to reduce stress, and I cannot tell you which one will work for you, but here are some possible ones: if you can have an occasional evening out with a good friend just being carefree together; fiction books help me reduce stress too; singing and music help me; daydreaming also helps me relax; talking things over with my priest (or if you are not religious any other person you know who is a good listener). There are many other ways to reduce stress. Of course, it could be that stress is not your only problem or that you do not have stress in your life after all - you know that better than I do.

By the way, welcome to DreamViews!

EDIT: Another couple of thoughts: What if the lack of control in dreams was not caused by the medication as much as by the lack of sleep and stress (or whatever caused your insomnia)? Another idea, what if your expectations by now are contributing to the control problem: now that the issue has been going on for a while, it may be that your subconscious mind expects that it will be like that, and in dreams expectations cause dreams to be as expected usually. Anyway, I would probably work on the insomnia first and ideally on the cause of the insomnia (whether it is stress or something else), once you eliminate the cause of the insomnia and get some rest hopefully, if your problems with dream control still continue, then we can brainstorm more of course to try to figure out what else to try.