Nightmares/Vivid Bad Dreams

I am going through a phase again of having horrible, vivid dreams every time I go to sleep, even for naps. :(  I wake up feeling horrible and unrested.  I have a headache due to not sleeping and feel yucky.  I don't want to go to sleep because I know the dreams will be there.  However, I have to sleep because lack of sleep brings me down hill super fast.

How do you all deal with these horrible dreams?  They are tiring. :(

Keane

BP, OCD, PTSD, Gen Anxiety Dis. 

Nightmares used to come to me everynight. A third of the way through my freshman term at the university I attend I began having really scary nightmares - the type where I'd all of a sudden get up feeling my entire body drenched in perspiration.

Crazily my scenario would frequently be the same: I'm climbing the stairs when all of a sudden flames would flood me. I would then wake up panting and petrified, too afraid to try sleeping again.

It sounds like a joke now, but back in those days I trembled at the thought of sleeping. I would try crazy sleeping schedules to avoid nightmares, but I frequently forfeited the fight against my urge to rest.

In any case following a ominous dream I was skimming Google in search of possible treatments when I noticed the idea of lucid dreaming. I noticed many Internet "books" with many techniques for lucid dreaming. However, after attempting them methods for about two weeks I still had no control over my nightmares. I finally discovered a product review on one method - http://www.reviewspanel.com/lucid-dreaming-fast-track/ - and due to resentment decided to try it. Doing so was an amazing decision - After just over two months I observed great authority over my nightmares. My experience makes me conclude that it is owed to the potent technique in the Lucid Dreaming Fast Track course.

Anyways, hope lucid dreaming helps.