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health advisory Hospital Mental Health 2007-11-15 19:00:27

I was just wondering what to do. Me and my husband have been married for almost 1 year (it will be 1 year this june), and sometimes he works in the mornings. The thing is, that when he goes to bed, I go into the bedroom also and watch tv till I fall asleep, but lately everytime I fall asleep, I have these really bad nightmares that scare me to death. The nightmares are usually of like deaths like you'd see on movies.

I've noticed that I only have these nightmares when my husband works in the mornings, and so when that happens, he goes to work and I am home alone. I'm to the point where I am terrified to go to bed and I've tried to pull all nighters where I sleep during the day, but I am too tired. I didnt want to go to the doctors and get medicine to take everday. What should I do?

Answer:

I would say, have your husband wake you up when he leaves. Turn the TV back on until you fall asleep. And don't give your dreams any special power in your head. They are just dreams. What are you watching when you go to bed? Maybe try reading or watching something positive or comical. The more good stuff you put in you head the more happy your dreams will be. Sometimes I watch a funny movie b/f I go to sleep and I dream I'm one of the characters. If your watching stuff like CSI your just asking for a bad dream. I have actually woken up laughing.

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There are certainly many ways to look at the fact of having nightmares. In old German fairy tales they are impersonated as a very wicked man, sitting on the dreamers chest and squeezing it - so, from a "awake" point of view... there could be physical conditions hampering away with a sound sleeping pattern (heart, lung, kidney dysfunctions or diabetes).