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Bothersome Dreams
I have recently been suffering from a disturbing and reoccurring dream, where my mother is unfaithful and my family falls apart. The dreams are incredibly detailed and extensive, though not traditional nightmares. As a result, any time my parents argue or have the slightest disagreement, the dreams are brought back, and make me very uncomfortable. Sometimes I am even sickened with myself for considering them.
My parents are happily married, and I really have no concerns about the status of their marriage. (So PLEASE don't suggest that the dreams are a subconscious suggestion of this!)I only wish to stop thinking about them. Any advice for getting rid of these dreams would be so appreciated.
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Well, I certainly hope your dreams aren't a subconscious suggestion of what's going on in reality, or my reality is about to get a whole lot weirder. I have some odd dreams... It's fairly common to have experiences like this when you're experiencing stress.
What I do to conquer my absolutely terrifying dreams is to practice what's called lucid dreaming.
Basically, you can't prevent a dream from starting, unless you were to stay up all night. What you can do is manipulate where the dream is going while you're in it.
It's sort of hard to explain, but you have to do a few things.
- Figure out ahead of time where you're going to take any dreams that promise to be negative. For instance, decide that if your parents start to fight, you will end the fight quickly and they'll get along better than before.
- While you're asleep, realize that you're dreaming. Tell yourself that it's a dream, it's your mind and your dreams will darn well do what you want them to.
- Exercise free will within your dream. Don't let it lead you around. It's easy to just sit back and follow it, but you can avoid negativity pretty easily by just refusing to acknowledge it and replacing it with something fantastic.
If this doesn't work for you, try looking up "lucid dreaming". There are other methods; this is just one that's tried and true for me.
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