Stopping dreams

All I ever have are nightmares, or those are the only dreams I can remember. It always happens when I sleep on my back, which is uncomfortable for me. Every single time I wake up from a nightmare I'm flat on my back. It has gotten to the point that I sleep on my side with a pillow behind me so I don't roll back, but I wake up with my arm killing me. If I sleep on my stomach, at some point during sleep I roll over onto my back and then the horror begins. I used to smoke marijuana, which stopped my dreaming all-together - but I haven't been lately and it is every that this happens now. Multiple times a night. I wake up repeatedly, probably 4 or 5 times a night. It happens to the point that I don't want to sleep. I don't have depression or anything like that. I'm perfectly content and happy in my waking life, but sleep is hell. Is there anything else I can use to stop myself from dreaming at all?

Just count yourself lucky your not me, I often get unwanted wet dreams, that leave me waking up feeling completely out of it rather than well rested. they aren't even pleasurable, i just live in a broken body that docent function properly, oh well.. something, something,watching to much porn from a young age is probably to blame.

I was going to suggest MJ- it turns off dreaming. Find a book called "The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep." I can vouch for the fact that when you perform the exercises correctly and precisely- fair warning a lot of them suck- your dreaming will change dramatically. The real upside of the practice is that you more easily recognize when you are dreaming, and have more control over your dreams. However, the downside here is that your dreams will become incredibly vivid and more terrifying at the beginning- you would have to push through that part which is unpleasant. No bullsoykaf, by the way, this is really the one woo woo crystal woo type thing that I can say works 100%, it's just not super pleasant to do.

>>2987 When I was a kid I used to have frequent nightmares, so I have kind of a history of developing methods of waking up. The most early method I had developed was killing myself, which stopped working in just a few uses. Then I started tried opening my eyes on real life (it sounds strange, but I tried opening my eyes while my eyes were already opened, which resulted in me waking up, although my eyes were still closed IRL). That worked for a while, but then stopped working. Then I developed a method that used to work consistently, now it still works but not that often. The method consists in me trying to move every part of my body IRL. My body doesn't actually move but it works after 2 or 3 seconds (my theory is that it either causes cognitive inconsistency, since I am trying to do something "illegal", or I cause a "sensory overload" or maybe both) (also when doing this the sensation in not pleasant, it is not unbearable but it is discomforting and sometimes it can exhaust you, but do not stop nonetheless otherwise this will be done in vain), in fact, I used this today to wake up from a nightmare. I have developed some other methods as well, but I can't remember them either because I forgot them outright or they stopped working. Also nowadays I don't have as many nightmares, and they are quite short, as opposed to my childhood where nightmares could take up entire plots of dreams. It's also worth noting that I can only really use them once I realize I am dreaming, which for some reason, unlike >>2989 said, my dreams do not become more vivid neither more terrifying once I realize it is a dream, so I mean, maybe this can be comforting to know.

>>2987 Apparently the best lucid dreamers (people who have thousands) are often people who had lots of nightmares and learned how to control them. Consider it a blessing, you have a reliable dream sign to trigger it once you gain the skill. >>2989 Are the practices summarizable, or do you really just have to read the book?

>>2987 can we swap? I NEVER remember my dreams, and when I do it's almost boring soykaf. I wish I could have some nightmares or things to actually make me feel x) Actually the thing I wanna try out the most is probably sleep paralysis. Everyone tells me how horrible it is and terrifying, but I really wished it happened to me cuz that soykaf looks wide af

>>3228 Had sleep paralysis once. It's really weird. There was this small (around 3-4' tall) pitch black figure sort of crouching in my window with its hand resting on the top of the frame. What was strange was that visually everything around the creature was this black cloud, completely impenetrable. I couldn't see the creature, but I knew exactly what its posture and position was. Also its shadow was not affected by the cloud. It was scary in the moment but the weird spacial sensing thing was unique and interesting enough that I sometimes want to experience it again.

>>2987 Do you have good sleep hygiene? Is the room where you sleep uncomfortable, or it is the same room where you usually are during the day? That stuff impacts your sleep a lot.

>>3232 I don't get that comic lainanon, where's the joke?

>>3233 I was wondering the same. The obvious take is that the Mom buys the dreamcatcher because his son dreams about being a musician and she thinks that's bad. So after the 'bad dream' is filtered, the boy discards the guitar and goes for something that mom approves. But again, this is too obvious, not very funny and considering it's PBF, there must be some shady and slightly twisted subtext. My twisted take is that while Mom thinks the dreamcatcher will filter what SHE thinks it's bad, the catcher is in the boy's room and it will actually filter what HE considers bad. Therefore the second panel is not a dream, but the third is his 'good' and kind-of-incestuous dream. That explains the "hotter" Mom, but not the guitar in the trash. But it's also the kind of taboo thing PBF wouldn't be shy about, lol. Sage for offtopic.

>>3233 >>3235 >But again, this is too obvious, not very funny and considering it's PBF, there must be some shady and slightly twisted subtext. No, it's literally just a pun. English has the same word for "dreams" (sleep phenomenon) and "dreams" (something you aspire to). Native American dreamcatchers are meant to catch bad "sleep" dreams, but the joke is that it protects from bad "aspirational" dreams instead.

>>3233 The joke is in archaic idea of "bad dreams and goals" that our parents don't want us to pursue. The idea that good dreams are being a lawyer or finance type person without personality, the idea itself is a joke.

>>3233 the joke is that his mom/wife actually lose weigh after getting the dreamcatcher. I didn't understand why though

>>3239 Stress can be a factor; for some people that causes weight gain. Now that she doesn't have to worry about her son anymore she has less stress plus she has time to finally worry about her own life again. Must be hard being a mom.

OP, what are the nightmares about? Ever been to a therapist? Any uh nasty events in your past that that might be haunting you? Or do you think it's just basically your brain being a piece of ѕһіt?

>>2987 When I was a regular weed smoker my dream activity was pretty nonexistent. I mean you still dream but it's more a background task so you don't ever notice it.