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Q&A with Australian Health Practitioners
What tips do you have for dealing with recurring nightmares?
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- Don’t keep the nightmare to yourself and dwell upon it throughout the day.
- Dealing with this mentally on your own can only serve to inflate the problem and blow it out of all proportion.
- Try talking to someone you feel comfortable with and you can trust and work through the nightmare with them.
- Bringing the nightmare out into the open can be a valuable exercise to highlight the reason for it. Whether it is a recent ‘bad experience’ or something more deep routed from your past.
- Engaging in some cognitive behaviour therapy and thought training can work wonders and is often very successful with this particular problem.
- Of course there are other methods like meditation prior to going to bed.
- Setting up the bedroom to make you feel secure.
- Taking a nice warm bath, winding down, listening to calming music and recalling happy events in your life as you get to sleep etc.
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- Don’t keep the nightmare to yourself and dwell upon it throughout the day.
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A nightmare, in my experience is like snoring. It's the person trying to sleep beside the man having the nightmare that is most affected. Some of your suggestions could work for me though.
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