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I have always had nightmares (I'm with plastic on death and injuries front) and used to be really affected by them when younger. I think I have just accepted them over time. I now try to treat them as just weird dreams with slighting more anxiety related subjects in them. Try analysing them. If you wake up in a panic, rationalise what was going on. This usually kills the anxiety a bit and stops you drifting back into the same scenario. Another thing that sometimes works is to picture the scenario you have just woken from, but then manipulate the situation into one that results in a calm outcome. Doesn't work often but can disrupt the nightmare when I get back to sleep. I usually find they have a connection to either things stressing me, the days events, upcoming events, or often dodgy Sci-Fi Horror films watched before going to bed. One vital tool for me when it is on is watching snooker in bed. I know they say not to watch television in bed when trying to sleep, but this is better than anything else for me. Calming, but just enough physics going on to keep me interested. I also don't like complete darkness and have always had a light on outside the room, although not bright.

I have always had nightmares (I'm with plastic on death and injuries front) and used to be really affected by them when younger. I think I have just accepted them over time. I now try to treat them as just weird dreams with slighting more anxiety related subjects in them. Try analysing them. If you wake up in a panic, rationalise what was going on. This usually kills the anxiety a bit and stops you drifting back into the same scenario. Another thing that sometimes works is to picture the scenario you have just woken from, but then manipulate the situation into one that results in a calm outcome. Doesn't work often but can disrupt the nightmare when I get back to sleep. I usually find they have a connection to either things stressing me, the days events, upcoming events, or often dodgy Sci-Fi Horror films watched before going to bed. One vital tool for me when it is on is watching snooker in bed. I know they say not to watch television in bed when trying to sleep, but this is better than anything else for me. Calming, but just enough physics going on to keep me interested. I also don't like complete darkness and have always had a light on outside the room, although not bright.