Controlling dreams – how I managed to overcome my repeating nightmares

When I was young, I mean really young, each night I had the same nightmare: a werewolf or a witch is chasing me, my family, and my close friends through an endless system of tunnels, catching and killing one by one until I remain alone with my father; my father runs a bit slower than me, thus increasingly lagging behind since I can’t slow down as I sense and hear the best approaching; I keep asking him “are you there” and he keeps on replying “yes, continue running, don’t worry”, but his replies become more silent (distant) each time, until the werewolf/witch catches and kills him and I remain completely alone, still chased by the creature; the creature runs closer and closer to me until I feel his/her breath on my neck and claws on my back; sometimes I put a little fight, sometimes I get frozen by fear – in any case I get brutally killed.

This nightmare has haunted me for years. Every night, I was afraid to go to bed and fall asleep. I was always awakened by the nightmare. After being awakened, I was afraid to fall asleep again, as the dream would almost always come back. It was a mental and physical torture, probably caused by my fear of loneliness.

As the years were passing by, I became more and more aware during my nightmare that I’m only dreaming and that I’m not in real life. This ultimately allowed me to get rid of the nightmare by dream control: when I, during the nightmare, realized that I'm dreaming, I would force myself to stop running, turn towards the werewolf/witch, say I’m just dreaming you, and fight. Whether I would win or lose, I would wake up with much less horror and sweat. After this kind of waking up, I usually managed to get back to sleep again without the nightmare repeating itself. Over a couple of months since my first dream control, the nightmare became rarer and rarer, until finally stopping completely, which marked my glorious victory over the werewolf and witch.

Please let me know:

• Have you ever had a repeating nightmare?
• Did you ever manage to control your dreams?

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