Do nightmares have anything to do with room temperature?!
Question: Since the past week I've been getting nightmares. Nothing specific. But Its not something that happens often with me. Last nite I saw an aeroplane nearing landing & instead it crashed into the house next to mine. It lifted then crashed again. It kept going on til the wall of my house, my car & both the neighbor houses fell apart.
Im alot in dream analysis so its been rather bothering me.
Can someone give a sensible suggestion to make em stop? No medication, thank you, Im a doc myself & Im also a psychologist so know myself & my troubles quite well. At the moment I dont have any.
Answers: Since the past week I've been getting nightmares. Nothing specific. But Its not something that happens often with me. Last nite I saw an aeroplane nearing landing & instead it crashed into the house next to mine. It lifted then crashed again. It kept going on til the wall of my house, my car & both the neighbor houses fell apart.
Im alot in dream analysis so its been rather bothering me.
Can someone give a sensible suggestion to make em stop? No medication, thank you, Im a doc myself & Im also a psychologist so know myself & my troubles quite well. At the moment I dont have any.
If you are living in congruence with your goals and objectives, and your family life is in order, and balanced with your professional life, then I would first look to your diet.
How late do you eat before going to bed and what kinds of foods do you eat? Do you drink alcoholic beverages before going to bed?
I have found that if I go to bed with a near empty stomach, or more than 3 hours after eating, I sleep better. If I eat a very light dinner meal or a salad in the evening I find that sleep is more restful. If for the evening meal I only consume fruits and vegetables my body responds even better.
How much cardiovascular exercise do you get daily - morning or evening? Have found that when I work out during the day, when it comes time to sleep I more frequently drfit into a quiet and calm sleep.
After examining those factors, and living in the tropics find that if I can get the room humidity around 70% and the temperature down to around 75 F, I sleep better than when the humidity is around 95% and the temperature is over 77 F.
When living in colder climes, if the temperatuire can get up to about 65-68F it was easier to sleep.
By the way let's not get confused by the person who stated that 70 degrees F = 29 degrees C depending on the humidity 29 degrees C is usually too hot for comfortable sleep.
What's your medical specialty?
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yup most of the nightmares are caused when we feel uncomfortable in sleeping..we mostly have nightmares when either we sleep hungry,we want to pee,we are thirsty and yes temprature are a good cause of nightmare's too..
My kids tend to have nightmares when they are overheated.
Ok you say you are into dream analysis then you should know that the type of dream that you have experianced is an anxiety based dream.Room temperture has nothing to do with dreams or nite mares but nite mares can cause you to sweat..thus giving you the feeling that the temp of the room makes them happen.
if you are into dreams then with time you can do what is called lucid dreaming and be able to make decsions in you dreams and be able to tell yourself that it is a nite mare...
Honestly i think that you really should try not to worry as this might make things worse for you...this will pass but there are no absolute answers good luck
I believe a meditation for a minute or two before you go to sleep, will help your sub-conscious mind to to relax.
As you are a psychologist u must be knowing how to meditate and what happens in your sub- conscious mind.
Try changing your room temperature if u think that's the reason, see if it changes the situation if at all!!
Tk cr.
regards,
Candy
When im unwell and overheating i have really bad nightmares so i personally think its something to do with temperture. The problem with dreams you cant control them they happen. SO if you think its something to do with temperture then sleep with less sheets and not with the heating on and see how you get on.
So, have you considered that you may well be in denial, merely thinking that you have no unresolved problems, when in actual fact they are the grist to the mill of your nightmares? A good sleeping temperature is 70 degrees Fahrenheit, or 29 degrees, Centigrade, but I am not aware of any connection between nightmares, and temperature. See sleep disorders, in section 3, at http://www.ezy-build.net.nz/~shaneris YOU are the aeroplane: why did you recover momentarily, then crash again? Is it symbolic of other parts of your life? I would have asked myself that question, immediately on awakening, while it was still fresh in my mind. Dream Interpretation is in the Social Science section: I have seen some highly perceptive ones. Generally, I fare much better with the dreams of males, though. From my Myspace blog: "DREAMS AND NIGHTMARES. First - HOW TO DEAL WTH NIGHTMARES: Visualise yourself, as vividly as you possibly can, confronting the source of your fears in the dream, demanding: "What do you want? Don't bother me again! GO AWAY!!!" This should be done every night, just before you turn off the lights, and I would reinforce the message to the part of my mind which is not conscious, but controls dreaming, by writing down three times, also just before bedtime: "Tonight, I want to confront my fears in my dreams!", and then say it aloud three times, and it is important to want it very, very much, as you do so. Repeat until you notice your dreams changing, and then again if the problem recurs. For females in particular, it may also be beneficial to undertake a course in self defence, as the mental control techniques learned can help reduce fears in waking life, and this may well carry over into the dream state. In those situations in your dreams when you are tied down, or powerless to resist, as with alien abduction, it is important to protest vehemently "You have no right to do this: STOP!!!", and struggle as much as you can. Certain foods, usually eaten late in the evening, such as cheese, or even chocolate for some people, can trigger nightmares, so try avoiding them for a while and see how it goes, then eating them earlier, at least 6 hours before bedtime. Second - DREAM ANALYSIS: Apart from hypnotherapy (which works much better on those people who are suggestible, and not so well on those who are untrusting, skeptical, highly self directed and/or cynical), or psychotherapy, there are the techniques of dream analysis and dream direction. It isn't quick or easy, and requires discipline and perseverance. It took me several months of keeping a dream diary at my bedside, and forcing myself to get up and write down every dream that I had, in detail, including emotions and colours, even going to the extent of setting an alarm to wake me up after a few hours, when I would most probably be dreaming, just so I could get out of the habit of sleeping straight through, and rarely being able to remember more than flashes of detail here and there. Then, as soon as I woke up in the morning, I performed an exhaustive analysis of each dream, asking myself various questions about the elements of it: what did the horse do? what did the bull do? what did the horse want? How did it feel? What colour was it? What was its relationship to the bull? Then I would say to myself: "You are the horse; describe it."And so on...... Then I would perform my first analysis of that dream, while it was still fresh in my mind, returning several weeks, then several months later, with more experience under my belt, and greater knowledge, from having read more books on the subject, to review and add to, or correct points here and there. Dream direction is about communicating with that part of your mind which is not conscious, but which has enormous power to shape your emotions and actions, and is best done by means of visual imagery. You have to imagine as vividly as you can, what it is that you want to dream about, and really, really want it very much (not what you don't want to dream about: it doesn't cope well with negatives). For example, if you have been experiencing dreams that you are falling, I would advise saying loudly a few times to yourself before turning off the light " Tonight I want to fly in my dreams!" and visualise in your mind's eye yourself initially falling, but quickly opening your dream wings and flying, as strongly as I could, and with as much desire as I could muster. I would even go so far as to raise my arms and flap them, simulating a bird flying, to better communicate that muscular memory of what I want to my unconscious mind: this may seem silly, but the unconscious is that part of you which existed before you were the educated, civilised person you are now, before you learned to read and write; before you even learned how to talk, and it doesn't operate on logic and rationality: you need to learn how to communicate with it in terms it can understand! I found the work of Fritz Perls on dream analysis quite useful, though dated, but based on rational scientific principles, and suggest going to the psychology section of your library, or your local bookshop, or online to Amazon.com."