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    1. 12-10-2004 08:13 AM #1
      mandybear610
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      introduction post

      hey everyone!

      i actually stumbled upon this site while searching for a site on how to stop dreaming, but i found this fascinating.

      now, you may ask... why would this girl want to stop dreaming?

      i dream nightly, vividly (but not lucid, as far as i can recall)... so often, that honestly, it has become a bother to me. i never feel rested when i wake up from dreams. i often have to wake up in the middle of the night numerous times because my dreams are too frightening or too repetitive, or i'm too frustrated.

      i dream in color, i smell, feel, taste... often have very gruesome dreams, i can't understand why!

      i was just wondering if anyone here has any tips on perhaps making my dream experiences more pleasurable rather than horrible.

      -miranda
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    2. 12-10-2004 08:25 AM #2
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      Hey miranda - Welcome to DreamViews

      Yes - highly disturbing/emotional dreams do leave you feeling very tired.
      Now, negative things in dreams are caused by negative thoughts/feelings in waking life.
      Fears, Guilts, Worries

      There are a 2 ways I know of to deal with it:
      1) You can figure out what these negative things are, and find a psychologist to help you deal with it And spend big money and time. And probably make a mountain out of a molehill.
      2) You can learn to lucid dream, and confront those problems in your dreams. Its been shown time and time again that confronting eg a nightmare causes the cause of the nightmare to be greatly alleviated, or destroyed completely.

      Ive used (2) myself - as a child. I used to have irrational nightmares, and eventually confronted them (in a lucid dream)
      Those nightmares stopped

      Good luck

      PS: If you find that stopping the negative dreams doesnt stop the problem of waking up exhausted, I would suggest seeing a sleep therapist. Or try something like melatonin, which is a fairly natural way of restoring your sleeping cycles and patterns.
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      Unless otherwise stated, views expressed in this post are not necessarily representative of the official Dream Views stance. Hell, it's probably not even representative of me.
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