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Mental Health Support

fierywoman

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3. You can control where your dreams/nightmares are going if you are

Reply to Tobin S. (Original post)

Wed May 8, 2019, 03:19 PM

May 2019

conscious enough at the time you're dreaming; you can stop it like a video, "rewind" back to where it started getting gnarly and demand it go in a direction YOU want. It can be done, I've done it. Sweet dreams!

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I wonder how much control we have of our dreams? [View all] Tobin S. May 2019 OP

I noticed a trend like that a few years ago. It was not long afterward that I was diagnosed with dameatball May 2019 #1

Before I was diagnosed with sleep apnea, I occasionally had dreams of a huge bomb falling, No Vested Interest May 2019 #6

I do have sleep apnea, but I've been using a CPAP for over 5 years. Tobin S. May 2019 #7

I still have the dreams but in general they are less alarming and they tend to dissipate sooner dameatball May 2019 #8

There is a thing called Lucid Dreaming. Buzz cook May 2019 #2

You can control where your dreams/nightmares are going if you are fierywoman May 2019 #3

See The River May 2019 #4

Some people claim to be able to control their dreams. PoindexterOglethorpe May 2019 #5

At my worst, my nightmares will merge into daytime hallucinations, a 24/7 hell. hunter May 2019 #9