nightmares

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does anyone know how to get rid of nightmares? i need help

I keep praying to God to make the nightmares go away, but they always come back, every time i fall asleep. they are awful!!! I am afraid to go to sleep now

I ask God to help me but He doesn't make the nightmares go away. i don't know the difference between what is real and what is not real anymore.... sometimes i think it's another time in my life and something bad is happening to me. it is terrible... I ask God to make it stop and He doesn't. the nightmares just come back.

I get this feeling that God wants this to happen to me... i ask Him to stop and i keep wondering if there's a special prayer I could say that would make it all go away... it worries me that God would want this to happen to me, it is really scary and traumatic..

i need sleep really bad, please pray that i sleep

[philothea]

Put "getting rid of nightmares" into google. There's a lot of stuff, and some of it may be useful.

I hope so, at least.

And God does NOT want you to have nightmares! I am certain of that.

[Christie_M]

My sister was going through the same thing alittle while ago. Angziaty attacts and such in the middle of the night. Now she sleeps with the night light.

Try listening to you're favorite music befor you go to sleep. Pray the rosary while you sleep. I don't know any special prayers though. but hopes this helps. :

~Christie

Edited December 6, 2005 by Christie_M

[Tony]

I can't imagine what that is like.. but I don't believe God would want you to dream these nightmares..

maybe bring it up to a priest that you trust and see if he can advise anything, or give you a special blessing of some sort.

I am praying for you Peace of the Lord be with you

[photosynthesis]

I am going to try to talk to my priest on thursday when he will bless my Marian Consecration... I googled "getting rid of nightmares..." looks like there is a lot of stuff about lucid dreaming and trying to control what happens in your dreams.. it sounds kind of weird. I wonder what the Church has to say about this.

it's so different than when little kids get nightmares. I got nightmares when I was little too, about the end of the world and all the people dying... i would have dreams where the entire earth would be engulfed into the flames of the sun, and every person died... and it made me wonder, what happens after you die? It was then that I realized that there had to be a God who would still exist even if I were to die...

but there's no hope in these nightmares.... they make me feel completley powerless. I constnatly feel like I am being strangled and beaten and hurt when I sleep, and I wake up and I am not sure where I am, and I hear people saying things, and I feel things,a nd I can't move...

if God doesn't want me to have the nightmares then why do they always come?? I feel like He wants me to be miserable and scared all the tiime

[missionseeker]

Hey, I just wanted to let you know that all this weekend, though I haven't been on, I've been thinking about and praying for you .

~Catherine

Edited December 6, 2005 by missionseeker

[photosynthesis]

thank you!! i really appreciate all the prayer

[prose]

I posted this in your other thread, but I will post it here too:

[quote]Whenever I am having nightmares, I pray that the Lord takes anything around me that is not of him away. Believe it or not, it frequently works.

This is a strange question, but, have you ever had your home blessed? You can just ask a priest if you haven't.

We were having problems with sleeping and the such and we had our home blessed, and it really did seem to help a lot. Also, if our family seems to be "off" we sprinkle holy salt or holy water in all the rooms and pray for protection over our home.
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Edited December 6, 2005 by prose

[RC_]

I have at least one virtually every night. You get used to waking up in a cold sweat after awhile...

[daugher-of-Mary]

I used to literally douse my bed in Holy Water, then place myself in Blessed Mother's arms.

I don't know what to tell you, but I sure have been praying for you hun!

[The Joey-O]

I used to get nightmares REALLY bad. Nightterrors, technically. I started listening to Christian music as I slept and they went away. I still have a nightmare occassionally, but they're quite rare and more like old ones.

[little_angel202]

put a rosary under your pillow!

[RC_]

I pray the rosary every night before I go to sleep!

[little_angel202]

^same here!

[RC_]

Doesn't help with the nightmares though.

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i hate that.. sometimes I wake up screaming, and I think that the nightmare is still happening. sometimes it goes on like that for hours, where I am half-asleep, I can't move and I feel completely powerless.

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I am going to start doing that.

last night i got 6 hours of sleep... that's a LOT. I feel so much better!!

the nightmares still came though. lately it has been really difficult to trust God because people keep telling me that God has good plans for my life and that He wants to give me a future full of hope, but it really doesn't seem that way because right now He is giving me a present full of horror. I feel like I don't have God's favor because I KEEP ASKING for Him to take the nightmares away but they won't go away!! I keep asking Our Lady to intercede for me, and I know she does, but the nightmares don't go away...

[cmotherofpirl]

is this a new thing?
Do you have a cold or sinus infection?
Are you taking any medications including OTC stuff?
Do you have any sleep apnea?

[tojo]

Hmmm..... Well, I'm glad you managed to sleep some.

[Lil Red]

it sounds like you are being spiritually attacked. i asked a friend who deals with this a lot and this is what she suggested:

bless your room, bed, house, every opening (window, door, etc.) in your house with holy water.

get to Confession.

get St. Benedict & St. Michael medals and put them in your room, house, under your bed.

pray some Spiritual Warfare prayers (i will post some tomorrow for you) before you go to bed.

[Piccoli Fiori JMJ]

Bless yourself before going to sleep. Keep Holy Water near by as well. Also, invoke the Holy Name of Jesus. He will always come to your aid. It may be a while, but He will help you. There are several stories about those who devoutly prayed "Jesus" and used it to help with sickness, help with getting to sleep, and help with a great variety of other things. I pray that the Angels may protect you as you sleep. Also, have you tried the Pray to Saint Michael before you try to sleep?

In prayer, you must be able to trust completely. 100% percent.