How I Ended My Nightmare Last Night

Let me just start off by saying that I ate the wrong dinner last night, and I also ate too much. I thought I would be ok for sleep, because I went to bed way after eating, but I still had nightmares anyway.

They were the really vivid, strange type of dreams that had a lot of different plots from one moment to the next, always changing. I remember I was at my parents house and it was raining. I had made the remark that I didn't think there was going to be any really bad weather or anything.

Just then, I looked up at the sky and saw a huge thunderhead, and almost instantaneously, a tornado started to spin out from it. It moved really quickly and destroyed a neighbors house, a house which doesn't even exist in real life. Later, I saw the damage and almost the entire house was gone.

Then, the dream abruptly changed, and the sun was out. All of a sudden I heard a noise like a really loud, low growl. I looked over to my left and saw a big, black bear coming straight for me. Somehow even though I thought it was real at the time, I knew I could fly so I started to float upwards to try to escape. But the bear either bit me or grabbed me, I can't remember which. It was a really miserable experience!

Then later on, all I can remember is that I was in a room that looked a lot like my home, except there were these strange people I didn't know walking into the room. But the weird part was, I felt like one of them was supposed to be my brother, and I was freaking out because he looked totally different (yes, I know my dreams are odd).

So it was at this point where, out of a feeling of sheer necessity, I shook my head back and forth quickly, as if saying "No!". I guess it was just a natural reaction; perhaps deep in my subconscious mind I really knew it was a dream and had decided this was all I could handle.

After shaking my head, I woke up instantaneously. So give this method a try if you're ever in a dream you need to escape from.