How did you deal with it?

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What do you do when you know that the nightmares are getting worse but you feel stupid talking about bad dreams like they're important?

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[x-cable.livejournal.com]

There's nothing unimportant about bad dreams, Laurie. You know, for me, increasing nightmares are a warning sign - they tell me I need to pay attention to how I'm reacting to things, because if I don't, it's usually the start of something worse.

Sometimes your subconscious is pretty insistent about telling you that things are building up and it has to release the pressure somehow. What you have to ask yourself is whether talking about those things might not be be preferable to the nightmares.

[x-cypher.livejournal.com]

I'm with Nathan.

Granted, my opinion may be slightly biased given who I am dating, but it's been my experience that bad dreams aren't usually something to just be dismissed.

[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

Talk about them even if you feel silly and stupid and like you are going insane.

If you are seeing Dr. Samson, then rest assured, he will never tell you that you are stupid or silly for talking about dreams or nightmares. If you are not talking to him, please do. He is very helpful, and he is there at your school to help.

Your dreams are (I hope) not predictive, but dreams can be reactive. If you are having nightmares, it could be because something that happened to you is still hurting you, or scaring you, even if you do not realize it while you are awake. When you are asleep, your mind is trying to tell you that you are hurting still.

[x-penance.livejournal.com]

You tell me it is good to talk about the bad dreams when I am having them. Why is it different for you?

[x-wallflower-.livejournal.com]

I guess because I feel like I don't have that much to be having bad dreams about. So me having them feels like my brain is being silly.

You at least have some pretty profound reasons for having bad dreams.

[x-penance.livejournal.com]

Do I need to me making the growly face again? Just because I have the reason to be having the bad dreams does not mean you do not. Your mother is still getting better from the cancer, yes? This is, how you say... the stress?

[x-wallflower-.livejournal.com]

Yeah, she is. And I have to tell her about Dad, but I don't want to till she's better. I've never not told her something before.

And I almost killed someone just a month or so ago and in my dreams, well, in my dreams he doesn't get better.

It feels like I'm scared all the time and I just want something to be simple.

[x-penance.livejournal.com]

Then maybe the bad dreams are not so stupid after all? I think maybe you should be talking to Doctor Samson or Mr Haller about these things, they are the people who are here to be helping.

[x-foliate.livejournal.com]

Well, apparently my girls have this covered. So. I'm just going to go back over there, now.

[x-cypher.livejournal.com]

...wait, does that make me one of your girls? O.o

[x-foliate.livejournal.com]

I do believe I just said so, yes.

[x-cypher.livejournal.com]

...well, I do still have this picture from when I WAS a girl...

[x-foliate.livejournal.com]

I am the pretty blonde genius, thank you. Get off my lawn. Turf. Play on words?

[x-cypher.livejournal.com]

No, I AM THE PRETTIEST! ;-)

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

This calls for Kyle's Special Post-Nightmare Scrambled Eggs. KSPNSE!

Okay, I totally made that up, but I've gotta make some omlettes (Man, I swear, every time I spell that word it comes out different.) for cooking class and I need someone whose tastebuds can't detect like, .000000000000004 ounces of pepper to taste test them.

Also, cilantro tastes like soap. WTF?

[x-wallflower-.livejournal.com]

It will be nice to cooked for for a change. :) I'm up for that. By the way, that acronym can sound really bad when you sound it out, did you know that? *grins*

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

... oh god.

[x-wallflower-.livejournal.com]

*snickers*