To be scared to death by these dreams !!

[Chickaletta16]

Sorry I'm absoloutely terrified. I've just woken up from a series of horrific and very vivid dreams. They were that bad that I've called my ex husband to come and sit with me .

I dreamt that I was being humiliated.by my brother in.law in the first one. The poor chap is lovely in real life. Then the dream moved on.to me and my ds (he is 4) stuck at the top of a building unable to get down.. with lots of milk flowing underneath..Then to someone abusing a man in front of his son...and his son being scarred for life..then finally a horrid man starving and abusing me and.me having to agree to it to keep my child safe. I woke up terrified and even though they were just dreams im horrified..i kept seeing images of a Pentagon flashed at me. Please tell me im bring silly. I can't go back to sleep.

Nightmares are horrid. I also had one in the night which woke me. I went back to sleep and all was fine. Unfortunately I have to get up now for work. Try and think happy thoughts and get some more sleep if you can. If you're in the UK it's beginning to get light so that night make you feel better - everything feels worse when it's dark.

Yes im in the uk. Thank you for tsking the time our to reply @onemorecupofcoffeefortheroad

Nightmares are horrendous. It might not work for you but when I get them I get up, put my dressing gown on, go into the lounge, put all the lights on, make coffee and put the TV on. It's effectively night over for me. Makes the memory of them go away more quickly. Please give serious thought before taking over the counter sleep remedies though. I tried these and they actually made the dreams worse. I have found a pad and pencil next to the bed where I write down everything that is worrying me or that I need to do the next day has helped. Perhaps a nice bedtime ritual might help if you are able to do this. Set a bedtime, warm bath with some nice smellies in it, cheapie face mask, nice jammies and easy to read beach chick lit. Keep phones etc outside the room and perhaps a small night light and eye mask so if you do wake you will have some light but aren't disturbed by it while trying to get to sleep. DH wears one of I'm going through a stage of nightmares. Hugs x

Thank you @Pugwash1 I managed to get to sleep and went straight into another horrid dream 😞

That's why I stay awake after! Sometimes I have even gone back on where I left it so now I just get up and stay tired.

I've heard before that if you change sleep position it's harder to return to the same dream , I sometimes have vivid dreams that I can't distinguish are real or not . Getting out of bed altogether works best for me

I usually get up and read a book or do something active with my brain to drive the dream thoughts away. Then when I'm sleepy, lie down and deliberately start thinking about something nice, perhaps about the book I've been reading, until I fall asleep.

The thing is..when you're in the middle of a nightmare or dream you can't actively leave..you have to sweat it out.

I've always had horrendous dreams since I was a child. I remember by mum being terrified by some of the things I used to tell her! she ended up buying me a book one Christmas to help me interpret my dreams...probably so I wouldn't talk about them to her anymore! This helped a lot actually as it helped me rationalise things.

My dreams are much more vivid at the moment as I'm pregnant, seeing lots of very gruesome, violent things done to people and also a recurring dream where I have left my toddler alone at home and gone off to do something, then am unable to get back to him. It's so upsetting some nights, I really feel your pain.

Just know that they are NOT real and they can't hurt you in any way.

You have my sympathies - I had an awful dream about something happening to one of my kids the other night that (unusually for my dreams) was very realistic, I simply could not get back to sleep for the rest of the night. The upset will pass though.

Thank you everyone x