I have a reoccurring nightmare but my problem is this nightmare really stresses me out so that it's hard to fall back to sleep. Writing in my dream journal right after i woke up really helped me fall back to sleep (i don't know why). But since i had the same dream so often and it was so terrifying it became hard to write over and over. I would fall asleep and struggle to remember details.

Is there anything else i can do or does anyone have any other tips about how i can retain stuff from the dream and write. anything that would help me avoid the post waking stress mainly.


thank you