Diamondec
Beth has always had trouble with her dreams as a kid. They were always so real; but that was the problem. For you see most of her dreams were nightmares. When she told people about her dreams they would just tell her they were just dreams and to make up a happy ending. How many times has Beth just wished they would offer a real solution. Happy endings? That was a joke. You try to make a happy ending about thousands of spiders are crawling all over you and actually feeling them as they run across your skin. Maybe the spiders thought your body was a stage and was practicing tap dancing on your skin. Yeah like that would help with the creepy sensation that you feel for hours after a dream like that. Oh what about the one where a person in your dreams throws a circular saw at you and you can feel it graze your skin but don't feel the pain. I guess one could just image it was really a Frisbee. Even if she made up a happy ending it still doesn't do anything to stop the nightmares. What's worse is that the older she got the worse it got. She couldn't continue it had to stop.
This story is not made up and is in fact all too true. As a young child I had trouble dealing with realistic dreams. They were disturbing, they were torture, they were horrible, and worse they were frequent. I can tell you right now if you know someone or a child who has realistic nightmares that telling them to just come up with a happy ending doesn't help. It might help them to forget about the dream or lessen how the dream made them feel but it doesn't make it stop or help prevent the nightmares from occurring. At least it didn't for me. So what can you do? How can you stop the horrible nightmares? The sad truth is you can never really prevent yourself from having nightmares for the rest of your life. However, there are methods a person can try to make the nightmares less frequent. There is also many methods a person could use to know when their dreaming to lessen the effect of nightmare while still asleep.
Before, I start discussing the methods I use to help with my Nightmares I like would like to state that I am not an expert. I am only mentioning past experiences and current methods that I use to either prevent nightmares all together or to lessen their effect by changing the nightmare into a nice dream.
First, I like to talk about to main factors that make a nightmare more realistic. First there's fear which although obvious is important to mention none the less. The main reason for this is that while most people know what fear is, they don't realize that their are different kinds of fears. One the the most strongest fear in a dream at least for me is fear of the unknown. In other words not knowing what is going to happen. If I am being chased I am less afraid if I see who is chasing me then if I know something is following me but don't know who or what. This is a problem for me as when I get more afraid the more real a dream gets. Another common fear is fear of getting hurt. This doesn't affect me as much as fear of the unknown but still is one that is worth mentioning.
(This journal will be continued...) For now those of you suffering from nightmares that are too realistic some quick suggestions to try. Learn how to become lucid within a dream. Lucid is a term which basically means that you realize your dreaming and gain control of your dreams. There are several methods but there is one that seems to have success more then others. This is to tell your self out loud " I will know I am dreaming tonight" several times. To have a method to wake yourself up from any nightmare. Some of which include to while dreaming shaking your head back and forth, pinching yourself, or creating a method to wake your self up. The easiest method to create a method to wake up is to say out loud several times "when dreaming if I (action here, example tap my wrist three times) I will wake up from my dream. This talking out loud is a form of self hypnotism that has been to work on most people. However, it normally takes many times of this self hypnotism talking before results are seen. There are other methods too and I plan on adding these at another time.
Some helpful sites:
https://www.sleepfoundation.org/articles/what-lucid-dreaming
https://www.tuck.com/how-to-lucid-dream/
Proof that being able to be lucid helps:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8996716
I have also seen many forums about Lucid dreaming that show it helps reduce nightmares.
Library Puns
If a librarian is pulling a cart instead of pushing it ...... would that mean you put the librarian before the cart.
If a book about glass got stained.....would that make it stained glass?
Librarian A took a book that was going to be recycled and tore a page out of it she promptly threw it at librarian B. Librarian B asked "what are you doing". Librarian A responds.... paging you.
If a male rips a book does that mean the book just got another.... Chap-tear.
A customer complains about the image on the front of the book immediately the librarian takes the book and hides it another neath of another book. When asked if she took care of the book problem she responds I got it...... covered.
Jokes With Diamondec
What school do all rocks go to.......sedimentary school.
What did the one sedimentary rock say to the other...... compound it how do we end up in the situations.
One day two rocks went down a hill on the way down one rock turn to the other and said hey at least were ...... on a roll.
If any rock could grow from a tree you can bet it would be...... lime stone.
Any laws made by rock would be called......statutes.