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How to stop having weird dreams?
Hello there,
For the past week, I've been having the weirdest dreams. I'm not going to go into detail about them, but they're always very weird and effect me the next day. When I wake up, I feel very weird and am just out of it most of the day. I heard it may have been caused from a change in diet; I have been starting to eat healthier recently, if that matters.
Anyways, I just don't like having these weird dreams. I'm often awake late at night because of this, and I hate that. What can I do about this? Any advice appreciated.
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There's a few things you can do to help dream-activity tend to be less vivid. Or more 'not do'. Watching tv, playing computer games and even amusements/games on mobile phones will stimulate certain areas of the brain that come into play when we dream, so don't make these things the last things you do before you go to bed. Stop at least an hour before you plan to go to sleep. Loud music with fast beats can tend to make the situation worse (though nowhere near as much as visual stimulation from movies, games etc). Conversely, many people find low volume, slower music HELPS them get a less colourful dream-scape. Try not to EXPECT the vivid dreams, it will increase your anxiety and make your dreams more vivid and bizarre. Stuff to avoid drinking just before bed are coffee and energy drinks (sugar & caff. NOT your friends here!). Too much alcohol (we've all had 'whiskey dreams'!!) not a good idea. Warm malted drinks are popular and sold as 'night drinks' but I don't like them myself. Spring water (or good old tap water) are neutral and stop you dehydrating (which I DO like). Some dairy foods like cheese are notorious for increasing dream activity. And although they're good for us our bodies do 'work hard' to digest vegetables. And the stomach working hard to digest food will often stimulate dream-activity (but I've no idea of the medical facts as to HOW!). The golden rule is don't eat a big plate full of ANYTHING immediately before going to bed...give your body time to digest it and break it down. Let's say eat no less than two hours before bed...maybe three to four hours even better. Keep in mind we all have dream activity, all the time. Sometimes we remember them when waking. If they are particulalry vivid, amusing or (especially) disturbing and upsetting. They're not real of course, they are certainly not premonitions/predictions, or 'visions' or 'messages'. During times of anxiety they will often have a (coded, or 'scrambled') reference to the issue we're struggling with in our conscious, daytime life and thoughts. A classic is any problem that's worrying you that has an element of 'conflict' (you're trying to choose between some options, maybe 'fighting with your conscience' as the saying goes etc) when our subconscious keeps trying to force the issues up to the surface in an attempt to make us confront and resolve them. But even then, the dreams are NOT in any way predictions, or messages or 'signs of anything'. I'd personally try cutting out any/all of the things we've talked about that are not helping. Set aside a few relaxing hours after your last meal, turn the lights down low and really 'mellow out' before you pop off to bed and see how it goes. Sweet Dreams! X
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Dreams are thought pictures. They are nothing more than what you have been thinking about or afraid of while awake manifest in picture form when you sleep.
The only way to get them to stop is to confront or change what you are troubled by in real life. You see, your brain doesn't stop working as you sleep. They have no power to hurt or affect you unless you allow yourself to become affected.
Your diet likely has nothing to do with it. However, side-effects from certain medications can in fact cause these kind of dreams. You just need to remind yourself before sleep and throughout the day that they have no power to bother you and have no basis in reality.
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