How To Overcome Your Nightmares – Rescript Them

Anyone can have nightmares for any reason. But some things that can cause nightmares are anxiety, depression, medications, pain and even eating too soon before you go to bed.

Nightmares are common in people who have had a traumatic experience. In these cases, the nightmares tend to be recurring with either the same series of events happening each and every time or the same theme.

If you’ve experienced trauma and have distressing memories and nightmares, it’s best you see a therapist for trauma therapy. Trauma is best managed with specific therapy to help your brain reprocess the experience.

Here are the steps

Nevertheless, here is an exercise that you can do on your own. It’s called exposure, relaxation and rescripting therapy. It’s a type of cognitive behavior therapy and a technique that’s used in dialectical behavior therapy. Rescripting your nightmare is a way to retrain your brain on how to handle the traumatic experience that keeps re-visiting you in your dreams.

Here’s a guide to help you rescript your dreams.

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