I've recently just realised something about dreams.
If you are having a shitty dream and you wake up, but you continue to feel stressed, throw your duvet off to cool down and get comfy again
it turns out for me that bad dreams are just my subconscious telling me that I'm too hot. The exact second my body temperature goes down, the stress goes away.
I'm kinda annoyed that it took me this long in life to make the connection, so see if it works for you
I like my bad dreams and I like my good dreams.
Especially when I wake up in the middle of a nightmare, I often try to go back to sleep as quickly as possible, just because I want to know how it ends.
I can't do that any more, I'm a bit more conscious of making sure I'm happy as possible by removing everything stressful
I do like that half awake feeling where the brain is still uncluttered from daytime trivia, it is just such a productive state for problem solving
Whenever I'm thirsty at night I'll have dreams where I'm chugging water, happens every single time. I'll chug a whole water bottle or even a gallon jug and get frustrated because it doesn't quench my thirst, so I'll get more water and keep drinking and feel weird because I'm still thirsty after drinking so much water. Then I wake up thirsty and feel amused about my dream, drink some water while awake, and go back to sleep and dream something else. It's so funny, like I stop whatever I'm doing in my dream to get water, and it doesn't work, so the dream becomes all about drinking more and more water.
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