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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Simplicity" data-source="post: 3408551" data-attributes="member: 1496">If the problem is merely recurring BAD nightmares, I know a number of techniques which can help with that.  I used to have bad nightmares as a kid, and so I picked up quite a few tricks.When you go to sleep, there's a stage where the pieces of the story start to assemble in your mind.  If you don't like the way things are going, roll over.  You'll find that the dreams you have laying on your lefthand side are not the same dreams you'll have when you lay on your right.  In fact, you'll find it hard to even REMEMBER what you were dreaming of on that other side. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile    :-)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" />  It's a great trick that I still use.A slightly more advanced technique...  is to modify those story elements and create your story as you go to sleep.  You can basically set up the dreams you want to dream this way.Once you're good at both of those, you could try full lucid dreaming, which pretty much feels like godhood, and is significantly better than bad dreams (but it turns out that being in total control of your dreams becomes quite boring after a while). Lucid dreaming takes some practice though.  Some people recommend creating a dream journal (writing down your dreams right after you wake up)...  But I personally found it easier to just cling to keep an idea of a dream "script writer" in my head as I slept.  If the problem is just a fear of being crazy though.  Hell, everybody goes through that, don't they?</blockquote>

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