Lately I've been having absolutely wild, long, awful nightmares, and I toss and turn all night. Even if I set myself up to get 9+ hours of sleep, I wake up like I've been run through the ringer.
The dreams will range anywhere from having to go back to high school because I missed a credit, to my friends all dying in a tornado we were running from, to last night, where a group of us got caught by ISIS and they made us watch as they raped and beheaded one of our friends.
It genuinely is affecting my mood. Any way to stop this and get peaceful sleep?
the only thing I know of to stop dreaming is smoking weed. It doesn't work with everyone but me and a few friends noticed that we don't dream if we smoke weed. It also makes it harder for me to go to sleep though too
Other than that maybe a psychiatrist could prescribe something?
I usually dream of the apocalypse or near death experiences.
Try and think of something or do something positive before bed, that's my theory.
I suffer from the same problems.
>>18072301
learn lucid dreaming
also that going back to HS dream is super common
>>18072379
Yeah, I mean, the High School dream thing is the least of my worries, it's these violent or otherwise really traumatic dreams I'm having an issue with. I was just giving a scale of examples here, but they tend more toward the heavy side.