Almost all people have nightmares occasionally, but sometimes they become so frequent and unbearable that it's time to turn to specialists. Before deciding on this, you need to try to get rid of the haunting nightmares yourself.
Instructions
Step 1
If the same nightmare repeats itself regularly, this is a sure signal that something is wrong in your life, and the cause of this dream must be found and eliminated in order to avoid more serious consequences. Let's try to consider what experts offer on this matter.
Step 2
There is no need to resist the nightmare. Accept its existence, as you acknowledge the existence of an unpleasant, but, nevertheless, a real disease that must be eliminated.
Step 3
Accept yourself in this dream - even if in a dream you did disgusting deeds or proved to be a coward. Roll the dream in your mind, accept the fact that you did this and believe that in a real situation you will behave very differently.
Step 4
Tell about your dream to someone you trust and who will always support you - your faithful friend or mom.
Step 5
Relax before bed. If you are tense and waiting for the next nightmare to come, it will certainly come to you so as not to deceive your expectations! Therefore, before bed, take a fragrant warm bath, watch a light movie, read an interesting book.
Step 6
There are also professional tips for relaxing before bed. The first is the slow breathing method: take a leisurely breath, and as you exhale, command yourself to sleep, trying to fully concentrate on the breathing process. The second is the counting method, which is probably known to everyone. However, you need to add a small nuance: when inhaling, call the next number, and when exhaling, give yourself a command to sleep.
Step 7
Try to create the nightmare yourself. Only with a different plot development. Those. imagine the beginning of your dream, and then carefully, in all details, compose a completely different, not nightmarish continuation of it. It may well be that after this you will dream of a nightmare again, and more than once, however, if you persist after each nightmare and before going to bed to “play” a different plot of its development in your mind, it will retreat.
Step 8
No matter how trite, read carefully the instructions for the medicines you are taking, and read reviews about them on the Internet. Some of them can cause nightmares.
