Nightmares

[Curious_AJ]

I've been having the weirdest nightmares lately... but sometimes they couldnt even be called nightmares exactly, but they're so disturbing that they make me wake up with shock, or wake up in the morning not feeling at all rested...

These dreams are the kind that haunt you way after and you don't want to sleep again for fear of having them... they reach deep into your soul and lodge themselves there... they're the kind that make you cringe whenever anything reminds you of them...

Nothing I've done seems to help, and i've ended up getting to sleep REALLy late (or early however you look at it)... I don't know what to do.. i think its starting to affect me in reality... my moods tend to be VERY tempramental (cant spell, too tired) its like they're going up and down with every minute ticking by.. and sometimes its just nothing but blank...

That's why I'm awake now... fear of my subconscious...

[Panther]

Maybe when you're asleep your boyfriend is whispering sweet nothings in your ear...telling you that "you are nothing..."

[Curious_AJ]

lol, he'd have to travel here and back every night to do so.

but yeah... *sigh*... I think I'm going to have to go try and get some sleep now.. uni on monday.. have to get into the routine...

[Deviant Esq]

There are some ways to help stop getting so many dreams (good or bad). Basically all to do with what time you go to bed, which foods and drinks you're consuming before you do go to bed, and how stressed you are. Avoid any soft drinks like Coke or anything with high sugar or caffeine - it makes your brain too active and if you can sleep you'll likely get dreams. Same with other high sugar or high energy things like ice cream. Don't eat them before bed! I'm told cheese isn't so good before bed either. If you're going to snack, have a piece of fruit.

It'll sound rich coming from me... but don't stay up late, go to bed early. If you stay up late and you've got on your mind that you need to get up early, it'll be on your mind, you'll be wound up about how little sleep you're going to get and end up sleeping less still. I know, been through it a lot and I still go to bed too late most of the time. Better than I was though.

If none of those things help after doing them consistantly for two weeks, sorry, I'm no further help. But it's worth a crack if it's affecting your life that much.

[007XX]

Hi AJ...mmmm, bad dreams eh?
Yes, we all get these at times.Most agree the brain will be trying to "vent" some frustration during the night, hence the subconscious activity while you're sleeping...

I get these mostly around the full moon...*and for all the smartasses out there, yes, I have really long claws and sprout all over with hair too, so BACK OFF...the bitch bites*

Anyhoo...don't over think these dreams, as it'll cause you more stress and not make them go away. Try however to acertain whether there may be an easy answer as to why you are getting those dreams, and fix it or accept it if you can (it could be just stress of exams, or missing your man). Next, definitely what Deviant Esq said: watch you diet throughout the day and especially before bedtime.

there is an homeopathic product called " Rescue Remedy sleep" I have found to be very effective, available in most health shops, and doesn't even cost $30...give it a go, but make sure to take it religiously, as it won't make a change straight away. It builds up in you system over a couple of days....

Hope it helps, good luck.

[Deviant Esq]

there is an homeopathic product called " Rescue Remedy sleep" I have found to be very effective, available in most health shops, and doesn't even cost $30...give it a go, but make sure to take it religiously, as it won't make a change straight away. It builds up in you system over a couple of days....

Homeopathy ... Don't get me started. Every single remedy is effectively diluted water, a little salt, and other odds and ends to make it taste and look different. Placebo only! You'd be better to be reliably informed that a glass of water before bed each night would work wonders, it would save you a lot of money otherwise spent on placebo only remedies.

[yungatart]

Umm, nightmares! One of our kids had night terrors as a little one...poor bugger was petrified.
Try some lavendar oil on the edge of your pillow..and make sure you don't have too many blankets on...overheating does strange things to your brain!

[007XX]

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Homeopathy ... Don't get me started. Every single remedy is effectively diluted water, a little salt, and other odds and ends to make it taste and look different. Placebo only! You'd be better to be reliably informed that a glass of water before bed each night would work wonders, it would save you a lot of money otherwise spent on placebo only remedies.

Wooooowww...Easy little Horsey!

As much as everyone is entitled to an opinion (and I'll grant you yours very gladly), I'd have to disagree with you on this one....simply based on personnal experience, and maybe just a little education on the subject.

I'm afraid that I am of the stance that modern technology has placed us in a vicious "fantastic pills" circle, where a lot of people don't think they can survive without taking meds for as benign an ailment as a little cough...

HTFU is what I say and let's go back to basics...Countless generations of supposedly "less advanced" civilisations such as the aborigenes, or the tribes of Central America are still using plants for their wellbeing, and scientists are developping new lifesaving medications from their knowledge...

Placebo you say, I very respectfully disagree...But eh, it's a free country....

[Deviant Esq]

As much as everyone is entitled to an opinion (and I'll grant you yours very gladly), I'd have to disagree with you on this one....simply based on personnal experience, and maybe just a little education on the subject.

*snip*

Placebo you say, I very respectfully disagree...But eh, it's a free country....

Okay, at risk of taking this thread off topic, but since we're describing a potential remedy here...
I'd describe the principles it supposedly works on, but Wikipedia might give more credulance to the arguement:

Homeopathic treatment involves giving a patient with symptoms of an illness extremely small doses of the agents that produce the same symptoms in healthy people when exposed to larger quantities. A homeopathic remedy is prepared by diluting the substance in a series of steps. Many homeopathic remedies are so highly diluted that no molecules of the original substance are likely to remain after dilution.^[3][4] Homeopathy asserts that the remedy will retain a memory of the diluted substance and the therapeutic potency of a remedy can be increased by serial dilution combined with succussion, or vigorous shaking.

Since its inception homeopathy has received significant criticism on scientific and medical grounds. The belief that extreme dilution makes drugs more powerful by enhancing their "spirit-like medicinal powers"^[5] is inconsistent with the laws of chemistry and physics and the observed dose-response relationships of conventional drugs. Several pro-homeopathic articles published in highly regarded journals were later withdrawn.^[6] Additionally, the use of homeopathic drugs to prevent malaria infection has had life-threatening consequences.^[7][8] Consequently, critics of homeopathy have described it as pseudoscience^[9] and quackery.

That pretty much describes what I think of it.

[Street Gerbil]

I guess it is just the way it is. We all have our deeply hidden insecurities that manifest themselves when our mental defenses are down.
My favorite ones are:
a) I am sitting an exam on some ridiculous discipline and have no idea how to answer a single question. It hasn't recurred since I went back to school.
b) My motorcycle gets stolen/destroyed. For some reason I never had a nightmare about something happening to my car. Perhaps I don't care about it as much.
c) My employer or customer goes belly up.
d) Volcanic eruption (This one worsened in NZ since now I actually live right next to a volcano).
e) My pet gerbils are hurt. This is the most ridiculous one, because they have all died of good old age years ago.

[007XX]

Okay, at risk of taking this thread off topic, but since we're describing a potential remedy here...
I'd describe the principles it supposedly works on, but Wikipedia might give more credulance to the arguement:


That pretty much describes what I think of it.

And you will try to convince me that this is an unbiaised take on it??? Invalid in my view as whoever wrote this obviously was prejudiced on the subject...

But anywallyhoo...(sorry AJ, but I need to calrify this one for a moment), I NEVER implied that homeopathy should replace entirely modern medecine

For more major ailments, such as malaria, of course a more aggressive course of action is to be prescribed...but c'mon, for lack of sleep??? whats your advice honnestly: start taking sleeping pills...?

One thought for you: homeopathy is not addictive....

I just think that some things are better tended to with a gentler hand, by encouraging the natural body's abilities to heal/sort itself out...

[Deviant Esq]

...the tribes of Central America are still using plants for their wellbeing...

Herbs are entirely different and unrelated to Homeopathy. We all know that plants can do some pretty powerful things to the human body and mind (Cannibis, Opium anybody?). I'm not discounting herbal remedies - though I have my suspicions about their production in over the counter bottles - just Homeopathy.

And you will try to convince me that this is an unbiaised take on it??? Invalid in my view as whoever wrote this obviously was prejudiced on the subject...

There's no point in even arguing with this. If you're going to decry a source of information as potentially false because "someone wrote it", then that throws doubt upon anything written because it's opinion. No, I never gave you any impression that it was biassed or unbiassed, but if you read the passage carefully, it is without bias or opinion on the part of the writer, sources are quoted in what they think of it, not the writer.

...c'mon, for lack of sleep??? whats your advice honnestly: start taking sleeping pills...?

My advice is listed in my post above - post number 4. Sleeping pills are quite bad for you in the long term, I'd never recommend those unless in a short term situation. I've had my own problems with sleep too, so it's something I've researched.

I just think that some things are better tended to with a gentler hand, by encouraging the natural body's abilities to heal/sort itself out...

Perfectly reasonable, but it's scientificially disproven that Homeopathy does anything to assist the body other than the placebo effect. Homeopathy "works" because happily for the remedy, "most people naturally get over most things eventually anyway." If that person takes a homeopathic remedy, then gets well... wayhey, it must've been the remedy!! Err... nup.

We can agree to disagree, if it works for you, wonderful, I'm not telling you not to take it - just giving you the information on the ideas behind it. I would not recommend it - I call it a waste of money.

[007XX]

We can agree to disagree, if it works for you, wonderful, I'm not telling you not to take it - just giving you the information on the ideas behind it. I would not recommend it - I call it a waste of money.[/QUOTE]

Right you...next time I'm in Christchurch, pub! LOL
This conversation is best be continued in an environment with consumption of plant based and fermented solution...Whiskey!!!

[Deviant Esq]

Right you...next time I'm in Christchurch, pub! LOL
This conversation is best be continued in an environment with consumption of plant based and fermented solution...Whiskey!!!

Hear hear! You're on.
Flip me a PM if you're ever headed down this way. Are you down here regularly... do you have any reason to be down here? Could be waiting a while otherwise!
Err, anyway, back on topic. Yes, um, nightmares. Hell of a problem, that. Lack of sleep too. Um, yes, very bad... Fuck it, run!! *Deviant shaped cloud*

[Sniper]

Im used to take sleeping tablets to help me get at least 3 or 4 hours sleep a night because of certain things I went and was going through.

All of the above are helpful suggestions, take from each and trail and see what works. Stress is a big factor in not sleeping, so make sure you check that out.

Failing that, heres a picture that was sent to me by a friend when I was having a really bad day. At the time it wasnt funny, now I chuckle everytime I see it.