How can I stop having nightmares?

Dreams are nothing but your thoughts and feelings stored in your unconscious mind. You are unaware of their existence within you. So when you tend to overly think about a situation you are afraid of, your unconscious mind makes a note of it and release the feelings of fright while you are asleep (in simple words, your body sleeps but your mind stays awake).

Well, what I did to stop nightmares was just going to sleep listening to music. You plug your telephone/ Ipod/ music device near you and then just wait until you fall asleep. This is useful as a distraction because it helps your brain to get focused on the music playing instead of the bad things. Good luck!

Try watching or reading something happy before you sleep. This will make you dream of happy things while you sleep.

Write them down, and remember that they are just dreams that you made up. They are all in your head.

Yes you can stop having nightmares. Nightmares really depends, sometimes it's because of a traumatizing situation that you experienced or maybe you're toostressed out. You can ask for a professional help to now the cause of your nightmares if it's constantly bothering you every night. :)

I had nightmares every night for most of my life until I worked on my emotional stability. For me what worked was meditating and journaling on a daily basis. Once I started feeling better during my waking hours my dreams reflected that - now I rarely, if ever, have nightmares.

When I used to have nightmares, i bought LED lights that had a lovely soft glow for my bedroom,i hung it around my room . I then used to drink something warm and would say to myself nothing can hurt me...slowly i realized my nightmares disappeared.

Sometimes when I have nightmares I take time to envision an alternate ending to my nightmare. A friend of mine started running for cross-country and said exercise can help as well as not eating before bed.

To stop nightmares I would advise listening to some kind of visualisation recording or meditation cd to help to calm yourself for bed. This will tell your body that it is time to sleep. Think about everything you are looking forward to the next day or things that have gone well recently (Happy thoughts) before bed. If you do continue to get nightmares keep a drink and a relaxing recording by your bed to help you go back to sleep and sometimes writing down about the nightmare can help. If these persist you could consider seeing a counsellor to help to dig a little deeper into why you may be getting nightmares.

Nightmares can be caused by things that you have looked/watched that is scary or scares you. For example watching a ghost movie can cause paranormal types of dreams. Eating food before bed can also cause nightmares, cheese apparently gives you nightmares. Illness and your emotional state can also cause nightmares. So if you have seen something throughout the day, avoid watching it. If you have eaten, eat several hours before bed. Go to your GP and get medication if you're ill, and maybe see a counselor to help with your emotional state and you might find that you'll be sleeping better without the nightmares of course.