Well, I was really depressed for some years and am still a bit depressed now, and I had nightmares every time I fell asleep (for years). After I stopped eating white flour and sugar I stopped having nightmares, and I also was able to fall and stay asleep more easily. Before, I also had the problem where I woke up constantly and slept too little overall because I never felt tired.
Now, even if I have a "bad dream" it's not a nightmare and it can barely be classified as being bad, more like uncomfortable, ex. I'm sent back into high school and can't remember my class schedule or locker combo and have to fake everything and make it through somehow, but there's no real feeling of fear like there would be in a nightmare.
I think that dreams about sex, blood, the human body in general can be loosely connected to random other fears or problems. Ex. if you dream about bleeding everywhere and then wading through a roomfull of your own blood, that can just be linked to your everyday general lack of privacy or your hate for yourself (blood everywhere = everyone can see your innermost "secrets") lol. Though once I had a dream that my best friend "didn't love me anymore", and then a year later it turned out that did begin to hate me thanks to his girlfriend who hated me...
Just guessing based on my diet change, but I think that when your body has stuff to work through (poison food) and so does your mind (stress), your body can't handle both at once and so it develops into things like sleeping problems and nightmares. My general life situation has gotten a bit better since I quit eating that stuff in some ways, but in other ways it's gotten even worse, so I don't think it has anything to do with my stress level actually changing.
My wife, after having sugar in the evening, always ends up with a panicky feeling that night or the next night and is unable to sleep because she feels like "if she falls asleep she'll die". After I started paying attention to sugar for my own diet, I started noticing it in her, and I had to tell her about it several times before she started believing me... Now she's quit eating white flour completely but hasn't yet completely quit eating sugar.
As for writing down dreams, I did it for a long while just because I though if I wrote enough of them down I could publish a book with them, or I could use them as some sort of fanfic fodder. It was good but then I got too lazy (and also, writing down similar nightmares over and over gets pretty boring).
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Date: 2015-09-15 10:13 pm (UTC)Now, even if I have a "bad dream" it's not a nightmare and it can barely be classified as being bad, more like uncomfortable, ex. I'm sent back into high school and can't remember my class schedule or locker combo and have to fake everything and make it through somehow, but there's no real feeling of fear like there would be in a nightmare.
I think that dreams about sex, blood, the human body in general can be loosely connected to random other fears or problems. Ex. if you dream about bleeding everywhere and then wading through a roomfull of your own blood, that can just be linked to your everyday general lack of privacy or your hate for yourself (blood everywhere = everyone can see your innermost "secrets") lol. Though once I had a dream that my best friend "didn't love me anymore", and then a year later it turned out that did begin to hate me thanks to his girlfriend who hated me...
Just guessing based on my diet change, but I think that when your body has stuff to work through (poison food) and so does your mind (stress), your body can't handle both at once and so it develops into things like sleeping problems and nightmares. My general life situation has gotten a bit better since I quit eating that stuff in some ways, but in other ways it's gotten even worse, so I don't think it has anything to do with my stress level actually changing.
My wife, after having sugar in the evening, always ends up with a panicky feeling that night or the next night and is unable to sleep because she feels like "if she falls asleep she'll die". After I started paying attention to sugar for my own diet, I started noticing it in her, and I had to tell her about it several times before she started believing me... Now she's quit eating white flour completely but hasn't yet completely quit eating sugar.
As for writing down dreams, I did it for a long while just because I though if I wrote enough of them down I could publish a book with them, or I could use them as some sort of fanfic fodder. It was good but then I got too lazy (and also, writing down similar nightmares over and over gets pretty boring).