Step by step in dealing with your bad dreams.

Sleeping helps us to escape this cruel world. Dreaming things that are impossible but felt real. Not all dreams are positive. Some are also negative and hurtful. COVID-19 also is one of the factors nowadays that affects stress and anxiety. In that case, it causes us problems in our sleep and has a lot of bad dreams as well.

There is a way that medical experts it is treated Imagery Rehearsal Therapy (IRT), A cognitive behavioral therapy that can be helpful in reshaping the narrative around a dream. “It’s a basic technique that can often be learned quickly, and only needs to be used for a few minutes a day for a matter of days or weeks,” Harris said. Not everyone is suitable for this kind of therapy. If you have mental illness this therapy may not work for you. You need to consult a doctor about that.

These are the step by step as for Harris:

1. Have a notebook beside you and write down your dreams every time you wake up. If it is a bad dream you can skip with that. Who wants bad dreams and it will stress you anyway.
2. Our bad dreams can’t change on its own also disturbing. Changing the way you think about the dream is possible. You may get rid of the few parts of that bad dream and changed it to good ones.
3. Do this every day so your brain will be getting used to it day by day. Take bad dreams into good dreams.

You can do this starting tomorrow when you wake up so you will get used to it along the way. You should also do exercising or things you love so it lessens your stress and anxiety as well. Being active is one great factor to sleep well and hoping to lessen bad dreams.