i don't want to describe it since it would probably make it stay longer. any tips..thanks
2007-06-27 22:10:49 · 11 answers · asked by Super Shane 64 3 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
before you go to sleep. tell yourself out loud for the image to go away. ask to sleep nightmare free.
2007-06-27 22:15:01 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
some images just stick. I can still remember a dream from when I was 7 (I'm 55, now.) But you can help yourself by reacting to the images drifting back into your conciousness with deliberately chosen images of things you would prefer to imagine. For example, the nightmarish image comes to mind; you love the mountains (or any other place or thing you love,) so you remember one of your favorite places. Examine it in your mind. See the trees, the fallen pine cones, the creek that babbles over rocks as it goes down hill. It won't be long before you have forgotten the image from your dream. The more you use it, the better you'll be at it.
2007-06-28 05:27:55 · answer #2 · answered by Jeanne B 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What I do: read Harry Potter, watch Food Network, go on Flickr and look at weddings/babies, put on club music and dance, go through each of my friends and loved ones and figure out why I love them... anything happy, routine, and comfortable!
The other thing - as soon as you wake up, to take care of that freaky disoriented feeling, tell yourself the who, what, where, and when - like, I'm Lisa MacGeorge, I'm on the living room couch in my house, it's 2 am on Friday, June 28, 2007, and I just had a nightmare. I think that helps to separate the dream and reality quickly.
Hope you feel better soon :)
2007-06-28 05:32:59 · answer #3 · answered by Cedar 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not all problems can be solve. some should be live. It might be a life for you due to your backgrounds since childhoods molding or a new surprising beginning experience.
No one can escape temptations but the matures just smiles
and don't mind and just keeping busy with their present occupation whatever never knowing that those haunting image just fade away.
Just go on to maturity and practice positive mental dynamic attitudes. This is how successful people live. Concentrate/focus your mind in your life's goal and purposes.
2007-06-28 05:25:13 · answer #4 · answered by periclesundag 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm a Psychologist, the best way to get rid of an image that has been placed in your memory from a nightmare or like i would call it "bad dream" is to think more and more about it and while thinking think of ways to overcome it.
2007-06-28 05:20:44 · answer #5 · answered by Abdullah C 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think if it's sticking in your head, it might have some sort of meaning for you. Try and think about it -- it will lose its power the more you review it, and you might find out what your subconscious is trying to say to you.
But if you can't find any meaning, just try to push it away for a half a day. I'm sure by noon, you'll find the scariness has gone -- and maybe the whole memory of it will be gone too.
2007-06-28 16:42:21 · answer #6 · answered by Madame M 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think the best way to overcome a horrible image or thought is to think about it more closely. Think "why are you thinking about it so much." or "Why am I thinking this? Is theire a story in it?" But a simpler way to delete it from youre mind is to watch spongebob and listen to Rihanna's "Umbrella" at the same time so you get humor AND soul music at the same time
2007-06-28 06:01:14 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
When I have something like that, I usually end up drawing it or showing it in any visual manner.
2007-06-28 12:31:08 · answer #8 · answered by WalshyFerdinand 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sleep it out, in a few days you'll easily forget it.
2007-06-28 05:19:44 · answer #9 · answered by Idyllic 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Watch TV, try do to other things to take it off your mind, and pray
2007-06-28 05:16:09 · answer #10 · answered by Cardiophobia <3 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋