im afraid of sleeping now..... but i cant just not sleep what the hell am i gona do???

Question

i had posted a question earlier concerning dreams and sleep .
some people posted some creepy answers that may be true now im afaird of sleeping.
i feel if i sleeps something tereble will happen.
what to do now?

this dosnt have to do with the falling off buildings question.

ER IM NOT TALKING ABOUT MY DREAMS!

Answer 1

Its all in your head...go to sleep

Answer 2

I suffered from insomnia for many years, all starting with the belief of dying because of my dreams. It terrified me, and I'd often pass out from exhaustion in class while I was in High School.

However, I have had a great many horrible nightmares in my life, and many times, I, someone I love, someone on TV, or masses of people die, sometimes (in hindsight) comically, while others were disturbing or outright horrifying. Yet none of them have come true.

The way I overcame it, and it was quite by accident, was I had been sitting on my bed, in the middle of the day, yet I kept my windowblinds closed, and the lights off. I was in deep thought, letting my mind wander wherever it pleased. If I thought about something bad, I'd focus on something pleasing, like a cool spring breeze in a gentle meadow of flowers. I'm not quite sure how long I sat there, minutes... hours... I don't know. I just thought. Soon I felt very relaxed, my thoughts were dulled, my muscles didn't want to react, and at that moment, I can only assume I fell into a deep, dreamless sleep. It felt like a mere moment later (though I'm sure several hours had passed, as it was now dinner time), when I was awoken by my grandparents.

It is was the first good sleep I'd had since I was a child. At that point, the sheer comfort I felt helped me to overcome my fear of my dreams. And as I've grown older, and am well into adulthood, the concept of actually dying because of my dreams is simply illogical... the only *remotely* possible way it could happen is if your dream is beyond frightening in its terror, so much so that it makes the Cthulu mythos seem as innocent as Hello Kitty, makes Freddy Krueger as harmless as the local baker, and makes 9-11 seem as but a mere trip on an elevator... that you might die of a heart attack caused by fright. However, that is the penultimate of extremes, so much so, that it is not an occurance that ever makes it to the news...

Think of it this way... if people *actually* died *from* their dreams... don't you think we'd hear about it on the news? "John Smith, a perfectly healthy 20 year old male, on the College football team, was found today dead in his bedroom, with a toy football having grown a mouth and teeth and bit off his head. The toy was shot and killed, and dissected to determine the actual nature of Mr. Smith's death". Sounds a little silly, doesn't it?

Answer 3

Hi.

Don't worry, dreams can be like a vicious circle. They can't harm you, but once you have experienced one bad dream, you can go on a 'run' of them; - the stress from the first dream causing another and another, etc.

Wow! Good one.

dreams mostly do not have meaning, so don't worry. Dreams are haphazard and chaotic affairs mostly, although occasionally the part of our brain which likes to create a narrative, manages to produce a dream which seems as though it means something or has a message.

When we are asleep, we travel between various stages of sleep. One of those stages is REM sleep (Dream sleep). We have several episodes of REM sleep per night.

During sleep, the brain metaphorically 'tidies up' the brain; - it sort of files away all of it's experiences from the sensory stimuli which has imposed itself on our sensory systems and consequently our brains during the day.

When we are in REM sleep we can become semi - conscious and we become aware of this tidying up process. This is when we say we are dreaming. As I say, we experience several of these episodes in one night of sleep.

There is a processing system in our left hemisphere, which likes everything to be logical and to follow a linear pattern, so it takes our semi - concsious experiences in these episodes and tries to make sense out of them. (Sometimes failing utterly)

This is why dreams can seem so disjointed, because the tidying up process that you witness at the various points of REM may contain totally different information. This is why, in your dream you can be driving a car one minute and in another setting doing something else the next minute.

Try not to worry, you'll be fine.

Take care.

Answer 4

Firstly, rest (sleep!) assured that dreams can't kill you! Nor can sleep! Can't even hurt you. So, don't lose sleep over that. Don't ever! Secondly, bathing in warm water an hour or so before bed time, and, a hot drink of milk (with honey, if you can) closer to bed time, will promote good sleep: when you do want to sleep peacefully and restfully, listen to some soft, gentle, good music, preferably instrumental. And, don't ever carry your worries and problems to bed with you: read this over again, you'll sleep well!

Answer 5

I hope you're not concerned because the one person said that if you dream you're falling and don't wake up before you hit the ground you'd die? That's ridiculous - how would they know if anyone died that way? They couldn't - It's an old wives tale. Almost everyone has had this dream - that's all it is - a dream. You will not die from it - the worst that would happen is maybe you could fall out of bed if you're thrashing around a bit.

Answer 6

I don't know what kind of questions you posted before..but the best thing to do is to purify your room..and sleeping space. Put some mirrors up facing the doorway..sprinkle some salt around your bed and in all corners of the room..especially in teh closet...and drink some soothing tea and go to sleep. If your dreams are bothering you, maybe something is trying to tell you something...pay attention to what its trying to say, and then maybe they will go away.

Answer 7

Happy thoughts, scaredy-cat, happy thoughts! Worrying about bad dreams will do you no good. Ask yourself, how the hell did you reach your age right now while you must have had bad dreams in the past? You can fool yourself about dreaming something nicer before you sleep... say, walking in the garden with friends (or with your BF if you have one), that happy thought will eventually cause you to fall asleep.
Sweet dreams, scaredy-cat ^__^
Yeah... I like your avatar.

Answer 8

Sleeping is the best healing medicine in the
world, so gets lots of it. Hopefully you are
sleeping in a place which is safe and comfortable for you. Sleeping in a home where
there are others might also give you a sense of
security.

Answer 9

wear yourself out during the day. stand don't sit. run don't walk. walk the dog, or cat or something. exercise. be sooo tired that once your head hits the pillow your out. or you could read at night. get a flash light and read. i do that until it hurts to keep my eyes open. if all else fails, say the rosary.

Answer 10

remember you will never meet people here and they dont know you plus words arnt gonna hurt take some nightquill and go to sleep

Answer 11

so think of the funneist thing that happened to u and then u extend ur laugh and to that till ur can't think of the creepy answeres