Thread for helping sleep sufferers

[The Evil Overlord]

Following a conversation posted in the 2015 pic, and text thread, I got thinking. There are users who have confirmed they've suffered sleep paralysis, and I mentioned that I don't have that problem.
Don't laugh, but I learned to control my dreams after watching a movie, I basically taught myself to 'snap myself out of it', so to speak.
Which got me thinking, I know how I do it, but before I learned, I also used to be a passenger in my own dreams, so I thought to start up this thread, a place where members and staff alike can share their experiences, and little 'how to's' to help other members who might be suffering from anything sleep related
 
Nothing is off limits so long as the House Rules are observed and respected, and posts are family safe, I didn't open this thread about wet dreams, it's about helping those who need help in sleep related matters.
 
So my 'how to' like I mentioned I learned watching a movie,
 
I learned to tell myself during the dream that this is a dream and isn't real, soon after that, I began willing aspects of any nightmare I was having to change, before I knew it, I could control my dreams and make them anything I wanted them to be
 
The trick was to just remind myself that 'It's a Dream, inside my head'
 
So my advice is to try and take control by reminding yourself of this.
 
And feel free to share your tips for others who may not know.

[Xahid]

Actually, you never had experience of sleep paralysis, it has nothing to do with normal dreams or daydreaming or anything you can makeup in your mind for visualizing pleasure.

I never experience "dreams" in my life which i can't control, so I called what I visualize is daydreaming which is perfect term. only Once experience  about sleep paralysis, it was horrible, you can't move or control your body or even your brain to change the topic & the bad thing is, it's very clear then normal daydreaming visualization.

[The Evil Overlord]

I said 'never' as it is a correct term, have I come close? Yes. Did I wake up feeling paralysed? No, but from an early age I learned, by waking myself up, eventually getting to the point of controlling it

You can call it daydreaming, and by definition, this may well be a correct term, but I would disagree, as part of the characteristic of a dream while sleeping (REM Sleep), you have little to no awareness of immediate surroundings for the next 6 plus hours, I don't have an issue with your post, but I find it hard to understand how a person could be 'daydreaming' the night away