Nightmares

[crossheart]

Hi everyone,

Please i need your opinion on how you handle continuous nightmare and after comes severe headache.

Thank you

[Hb2003]

Hello have you went to the doctor for it. ? Also do you know what’s causing those reoccurring nightmares ? . - Hiba

[JeremysJourney]

i myself have bad nightmares and wake up extremely depressed. i have trouble falling asleep at night do to racing thoughts and the fear of feeling so... out of myself every morning when i get up. takes me a good hour or so till i feel i guess normal for me. i do get migrains but ive had those befor i recognized my depression and anxiety. this is my first time being public of this . i feel lost and it scares me to think it will never get better. i know this is little help but your not alone and as i scroll through this site i can see im not as well. does give me some comfort but saddens me that ppl feel like this. its horrible. i just want to smile again but it to be genuine

[Gentlespirit]

Do you journal or focus on breathing to calm yourself or watch tv or listen to music or watch a funny video. Theres warm helpline or crisisine if you need to talk to someone. A funny movie or a movie you enjoy can help

[TheGalician]

Have you tried to engage with your nightmares? Try to understand what your unconscious is wanting to say to you and be known. The more you resist, the more it responds and you never fight a tiger by its tail (unless of course you’re an elephant in which case you can get away with almost anything until you meet a man of course). What strange bedevilled creature this Man is. Anyway, I digress so let me get back to your question.

I suspect, but do not know, that the beginnings of an answer probably lies in how you describe yourself - hard love I think you said - and call yourself - cross heart. A cross heart is not going to get you anyway other than a place of pain and anger and frustration (often gripping tightly to fear like a ditched lover to the remembrance of what was his or her dream) for you or others. A heart is meant to be open and loving and kind and giving. Then it is the other person’s karma how they respond not yours. You can walk by as light as a feather since the greatest love is to love yourself and use that love to love others as yourself. Love really is a glorious thing when free and ungrasped - rather than projected onto others what should be in love’s heart held. Put another way, you never give your heart away for if is your most sacred whole. For if you do......then without that heart and love the path to sadness, hate and anger lies. And, you never journey to that side of dark within without a trusty steed, a friend whose love embrace and, above all, your helping heart. And, of course a light can be quite useful otherwise you go round in circles until you know your way in and out by rote. In the end, there is pain in unwrapping the Love Onion grown hard as a life sucking Bunion. Not at all pleasant, brings tears to the eyes (and often the nostrils and sometimes the throat) but when you get to the heart of the Love Onion..... it is like reaching nirvana - a sweetness and pure joy that is to live and love and truly cry for. With love xx