Get to the Root of What’s Causing Your Nightmares for Better Days Ahead
Sleep is a safe space for us to go to at the end of the day. We can close our eyes, set our troubles aside for tomorrow, and drift off to pleasant dreams. We wake up renewed, our minds and bodies recharged and ready for the day.
But what if your nightly respite is actually a nightmare?
Instead of feeling refreshed, you wake up feeling anxious and upset, with a knot in your stomach that just won’t go away. Those feelings follow you throughout the day at home and at work. When it comes time to hit the hay again, you feel apprehensive about sleep and dread the visceral feelings that may surface while in a dream state.
The good news is that hypnosis can help you put an end to bad dreams by getting to the root of what’s troubling you.
What causes bad dreams?
Dreams are where the subconscious mind goes to work out what’s happening in our lives. In our conscious life, perhaps you have an argument or even just a disagreement with a family member. In your conscious mind, it might bother you, but you go on with your life. When you go to sleep, it’s a different story altogether. That very same argument might show up in your dream in a very dramatic way, while usually not with the real-life cast of characters, but metaphors with the same themes.
This usually means that the argument that you blew off as something minor actually has more “weight” in your subconscious than you realized. Perhaps you carry feelings of resentment towards this family member and how they’ve made you feel over the years. On the other hand, maybe you’re using that family member as a placeholder for anyone with whom you’ve had a disagreement in your life. You may feel that you weren’t strong enough or didn’t stand up for yourself the way you should have, and are working it out in your dream.
There are so many different and upsetting scenarios that can play out in your nightmares, but they most likely are unresolved issues from your conscious life.
How hypnosis can help with bad dreams:
Our conscious minds will try to rationalize a dream and make sense of it. But there’s an inner wisdom contained within our subconscious that knows the origin of the feelings that manifest themselves in the dream state. To understand the message, the “why” behind a dream, you must delve deep into the hidden realms of the subconscious mind.
As we sleep, our subconscious works to sort through the day’s experiences, deciding what information to delete and what to store for future use, creating the complex narratives we experience as dreams.
Hypnosis works by accessing the subconscious, where we store our most intimate feelings and memories. By getting into a deeply relaxed state, a trained hypnotist can zero in on any negative issues, fears, or anxieties plaguing you by asking targeted questions. Then, they can peel away the deeply held feelings, triggers, and associations around these issues. Finally, they can “rewire” the subconscious with new, healthy, and positive associations so those triggers lose their sting.
Since you’ve now come face-to-face with the negative feelings and memories stored in your subconscious, you can release them. They lose their power over you and won’t come back to haunt you. Your subconscious no longer needs to work out these smothering feelings during your dreams. You can get a good night’s sleep and wake up feeling restored.
Hypnosis for better dreams:
We all lead full lives, and sleep is a sacred place for us to let go of the weight of the day. Each of us deserves to give our brains a break while we rest. Hypnosis can help stop bad dreams so you can feel more at peace during the night and the following day. Let’s lighten up your subconscious by freeing you of troubling thoughts and responses.
So, whether you’re looking for hypnosis in Dallas or on the other side of the world, the team at The Flow Center can help you change your life with in-person or virtual appointments.