Nightmares

[NOX]

Anyone else suffer boughts of nightmares, mine have been horrible lately and last night unbelievable. Anything help with this?

[albaqwerty]

Sorry to hear this Nox, I can only suggest some type of scented oils.candles from a health shop?

Hope they stop soon.

[tamborine]

I get them from time to time. Why would I dream of gnarled arthritic fingers & feet on a friend beats me. I think this website has a lot to answer for.

[Sqad]

Not my field NOXY.....I sleep like a baby.......but cheese, eaten in the evening, supper for example may cause nightmares.

Possible?

[tamborine]

or sqads threads can be nightmares

[emmie]

not so much these days, but have in the past, and some pretty terrible ones too. The medico that deals with this sort of thing told me it's your suppressed anxieties that manifest itself in dreams, nightmares, and i would say that there is a ring of truth in that. If you have fears, could be anything, try and address it in the day time, and stay away from cheese, coffee, wine if you can in the evening. Some medications can made your sleep disturbed as well, i could write a book about some of this stuff, rather too much

[Sqad]

tambo....LOL.

I used to have erotic dreams, but even they have disappeared.

[nohorn]

Hi Nox: This is my experience........I kept getting terrible nightmares, they became more scary, more violent....about the same time I was diagnosed with mild sleep apnea and prescribed a Cpap. I finally got used to and I now sleep soundly and without nightmares. I only have mild non-descript dreams now.
However, if I am some where w/o C-pap or I take a nap without one, I get terrible nightmares. So I think that my brain was not getting enough oxygen, and one brain cell buzzes the other to say, Hey there is a problem, make up a story! And since there is low oxygen, the poor brain comes up with a violent/story.

My theory anyway, so perhaps you should check about apnea.
Nohorn

[NOX]

I do eat a lot of cheese but not recently as I've been trying to batter them into submission ( the nightmares not the cheeses).
I've tried lavender oil alba and it gets me off to sleep a treat, I just get woken up by the most unpleasant and bizarre nightmares several time a night- then I'll go for years and never have one.
Mine are quite surreal, last nights being that I'm walking down my landing in the dark and something from behind starts to push me at great speed towards a full length mirror in my bathroom at the end of the landing, I'm terrified in the dream then I wake up and realise it's a dream and being a pragmatic sod decide to go down the landing, except I'm not awake and it's still the dream and the same thign happens again, so when I DO finally really wake up, I've got an uneasy, can't trust myself thing going on and spent five minutes eyeing up the landing before I just went to the bathroom. lol.

[NOX]

I can go with the suppressed fears, stress idea actually Em, but I'm quite a head on person in day to day things, and the things that bother can't ever be changed. I'm wondering also about what you say nohorn. I do have a brain injury from when I was a kid which doesn't cause that much trouble at the moment but does cause the odd glitsch here and there, so there might also be somethng in what you say.

[emmie]

definitely cut out the cheese, and perhaps as suggested look into the sleep apnea. it's a possible,

[albaqwerty]

Are you aware that it is a nightmare? Insofar as, sometimes one knows one is dreaming just before the alarm goes off and you say to yourself, darn it, I was enjoying that dream.
If you know it's a nightmare, tell yourself that it's a nightmare and stop, turn round and face the thing telling it to burger off as it's not real.
(I did that once, many many years ago when I was having recurring nightmares, the same one, it worked)

[emmie]

i had one where thousands of spiders were all over the room, woke up screaming, and the next door neighbours must have thought there was a murder going on, so can say that there is a definite link to one's fears, phobias.

[NOX]

No I don't know I'm dreaming til I really wake up, usually yelling the place down. I think it's linked to things that I don't like without a doubt and I have noticed it only happens if I sleep alone;(

[albaqwerty]

awww Nox{hugs}

[emmie]

Nox, try and see what it is, a specific perceived threat, and go over in your mind during the day time to bring it down to a level of low level threat, i know sound a bit pseudo, but it was how i was advised, to bring into your control. The other thing if they persist, can you do relaxation techniques, like in yoga, or meditation, they can help i am told..

[tamborine]

Mine are sqad and I blush when Mr Fixit shows up....poor guy is only 23 but his mum is fierce.

[NOX]

Thanx Alba:)

I think you're probably on the right track Em with it, as I've not had the chance to do any of the things I usually do lately for myself and they seem to have reared their ugly heads again.
I also think I'm going to try and have a sleep for a couple of hours as I find this time of day I don't tend to get them either.

Thank you all so far for suggestions:)

[LoftyLottie]

Nox I have dreadful nightmares most of the time and mine too are unbelievable. I am an anxious person and even take medication on a long term basis for anxiety. I often wake up in panic mode and have a pounding headache for the day following the worse nighmares.

I have no suggestions, but just want to say, that I often take a few hours sleep during the day and I don't get any nightmares at all and have a much more relaxed sleep.

I must admit that a lot of fresh air and exercise during the day so that I am pleasantly exhausted when I actually go to bed does help me to have a more relaxed night.

[jno]

when I have nightmares it's almost always because I'm too hot. Remove a blanket and I'm fine. Any possibility you're simply unncomfortable in bed?

[wolf63]

NOX - have a read of this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis