Learn how to Stop PTSD Nightmares with Dr Justin Havens
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- Опубликовано: 19 сен 2024
- Watch this 5-minute animated video to learn how to stop nightmares and return to peaceful sleep using The Dream Completion Technique. If you would like further information about stopping your nightmares and want to access the full 60 minute programme (the most comprehensive treatment programme for nightmares in the world) go to www.stopnightmares.org
If you are a therapist and want to attend a 3-hr webinar on how to use this technique with clients to achieve the best outcomes, go here: justinhavens.c...
This film has a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No-Derivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). This video is a free resource to help those suffering from nightmares. It can be used in therapy sessions or shared in organisations, but it cannot be sold.
Dr Justin Havens
Psychological Therapist
EMDR Europe Accredited Consultant
FdA BA BEng MSc PhD MBACP (accred)
mail@justinhavens.com
www.justinhaven...
I literally cry when he say “you don’t need to explain to anyone”
Yes. I had a nice revenge ending. It felt good to allow that feeling, rather than feeling guilty about it.
It's 1:02 a.m. where I am, and I am literally going to try this tonight. I have been avoiding sleep because of the nightmare I had last night. I have CPTSD. Thank you.
if you need a little extra help, have a look at tiny.cc/stop-nightmares-extra or get in touch directly
I'm gonna try this tonight thanks!!! It's 2:30 am and I couldn't go back to sleep.
My problem started after a heart attack. I am going to try.
Me too. Last night was rough. I can have it back to an interaction with a few people. I had another bad interaction today. Makes me sad, and makes me angry. So, while I remove myself from the toxicity, I want a good dream tonight. Wishing everyone here a good dream.
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One dream idea that I have found works well for many situations, is to ask the question ‘what is the funniest thing you have ever seen or experienced?’ And then go to sleep thinking ‘this is what I want to dream about tonight’. Have tried with several people with great results!
Quote from a therapist "Hi Justin, just to let you know, I have shared your dream video with lots of my trauma patients and it has been life changing for many - Thank you for sharing"
I just wanted to say that reading back through these comments, it really makes us feel proud to have worked on this project and I know that the artist, Sarah Burgess, is also really happy to have been involved. I hope this goes on to help many, many people!
Thank you for this piece of work and your contributions. I'm a therapist working with people with trauma and it feels like this could be really helpful. Thank you for making the method so accessible.
I've gotten 3 hours of sleep in the 72 FUCKING hours I'm fed up no matter how much Cannabis I smoke i don't get hungry anymore. I've went from 180 to 134 LB 😤 2nd time I've been shot hit in the stomach 4 times with a .25 this time, then i cant even take enough hydrocodone to not feel the physical or psychological and emotional pain. Somebody with me didn't make it home on the 28th either so how the fuck..I can't even keep I can feel my guts move inside of me feels like a baby fucking alien is tearing out of my stomach if i do. I'm incapable of being friendly right now. How the fuck am I supposed to be grateful. Either way I have to out live my parents & that's the only way I can forgive myself and them lord have mercy🤦 feel like a sitting duck all fucked up like this. Like might as well go to sleep WTF am I gonna do I can't even get out of my bed in under 4 minutes. What if I have a nightmare again of me waking up by someone coming in my room seeing the hole of the barrel and shooting me in my face then wake in real life everything black thinking I fucking died then being incapable of sleeping with light or sound.
I want a different brain, this one is seriously damaged. Guess at least I'm alive.
Just know there's someone that WISHES they only had your problems.
Fucking cowards.
I have CPTSD and have lived with traumatic nightmares my whole life. I have slept alone in my 31 year relationship due to my night terrors and disturbances to others. My Psychologist showed me this video. It has helped me beyond being able to tell you. First night in my life i woke up in the same position I went to sleep in.....and that has happened many times since. Thank you Justin from the bottom of my heart. Thank you.
Hey Mandie. That is amazing to hear. How soon after trying this method did you see results?
I hope you're keeping well ✌️
@@CK51515 results can happen after 1 night, believe it or not....
great news Mandie!
Hi there did you just write down how you want to end the dream or deal with the dream.?
I have the same thing! Will try this tonight.
Take care n sweet dreams..
Sharing this everywhere I can, thank you!!
Thanks for sharing!!
I have been suffering nightmares; I am reliving a bad incident from my past. I am going to try this method tonight.
let me know how you get on!
@@drjustinhavens5919 The dreams seem to have stopped.
I haven't worked up the courage to go back to sleep yet, but this video instantly made me feel better. That paranormal activity 4/ex machina dream now has people being tickled and everybody else laughing. Thank you for this simple and elegant solution. Thank you.
Im autistic, and i have a lot of nightmares over things i hyperfixate on. I have a PSA hyperfixation, and sometimes its hard to not watch them (even though im aware they scare me).
This helped me a lot. I used to sob and just wait till i wake up when im aware im having a nightmare.
Thank you so much for this.
Have you given psychedelics a trail , there are alternatives that works best magic mushroom, DMT , MDMA, LSD, it has helped me tremendously to defeat depression and anxiety also ptsd
I get mine from an online vendor that delivers discreetly
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He’s on Instagram and telegram
@@stockgrain8653 I personally don't really want to get into drugs and stuff. I get that some aren't dangerous, but I just don't want to get hooked just incase. I'm keeping to natural solutions to things I struggle with :)
After a few weeks of terrible sleep after watching something that was a bit too hard core for me, this was the only thing that helped erase it. Thank you dearly.
crying after watching it, because it reminds me of all the nights I woke up in a horrible state or feeling. it sucks not being able to sleep. especially for so long. no one could ever give me an answer unlike YT.
For me it's been a very long journey of self medicating in order to sleep... even avoiding sleeping at night. I hope this can help me from tonight.
Dreams offering help, instead waking up in sweats and heavy breathing. Though these things never last, thankfully, just random occurrences, but not enough to make me lose it. Anyone with trauma or PTSD/CPTSD understands.
The animation is so bloody good!
Quote from an outward bound coach "2 years ago I learnt about the Dream Completion technique - I just wanted to say it has had amazing and immediate response with the majority using"
This is brilliant. I be home aware that I am in a nightmare and it takes a while to know what is going on. Now I will be prepared. It doesn't matter what the nightmare is, I will be ready for you. I know what I am writing down. Thank you kindly for the video. It has helped before I have even given it a go. 🙏🏽
Its 1:16p.m. and i just woke up from a terrible dream, that too after lot of trying because i was unable to come back to reality and when i finally woke up my father saw me and as a typical indian brown family he started scolding me that im awake till now 'because i was on my phone', i was already shaken from that dream and just wanted a hug :( nvm i just finished crying and calmed myself down to watch one of the youtube videos and i feel so much better now after watching this vid.
A very useful technique to share with clients and now this short video is available- a really useful resource. One of my clients had had the same terrifying dream for many years, almost nightly. In a few minutes I explained the dream completion technique to him, he created a different ending, put it into practice that evening and the nightmares have stopped. Thank you for generously sharing this technique for people to use for free!
Thank you so much for showing me this video.
First night and I had no nightmares and woke up actually feeling refreshed!
A pleasure to help you! You were the first client to see the video - I'm glad it helped!
13 Yeats later.....still a couple times a month often same week I relive it. The rushing weight that smashes sole the moment what last little bit of fleeting and false hope is ripped away and I watch my father take his last 3 breaths. #3 almost like a long deliberate but hesitant inhale followed by a somewhat longer much more commitment exhale as if he made his decision to take a very jump of a high cliff to an uncertain landing. #2 much shorter breath with just a shallow intake and a very soft exhale. Finally #1, the final breath. The movement of his diaphragm that I had been watching with painful attention and unblinking eyes noticeable only by the slight movement of his upper torso. My heart and hope held on to the.breath for what seemed like an eternity but was barely a.blip. As my aunt, his sister, our family and local hospital head nurse said he was gone. I remember starring, I don't know wht direction. just looking off into the emptiness I was feeling. 3 days went bye. I wept. I sobbed. Now its 2:56 a.m. I woke my daughter briefly with my screams. She sleeping now. I'm still sobbing. I don't know what to do so I'm doing this. Describing the way I feel when that memory has been triggered by a dream, a sent, a memory, hell even the first three digits after the area code of a god damn cell phone so unique at the time to his nexttel number. 13 years have past and I've rebuilt the life my PTSD destroyed over the 7 years following his death and I still feel like I did in that chair beside his hospital bed brought in by hospice set up in the living room For the various nursing staff that would come and go at all hours. I'm still that 33 year old volatile man. At least now instead of hiding the overwhelming grief for days.and weeks at a time. I know where I am and can bring myself together in a few hours. Sometimes less. It hurts and the pain is the same the wound its so fresh. I feel like I'm right there all over again and my mind...it wants to keep me in that moment forcing me back after I've rationalized my emotion into submission. This is the hard part. Nothing and nobody can tell you how to do this. You learn it, you tolerate it, or you take yourself out.
sounds like you have have been incredibly courageous in facing this pain. It is entirely possibly to resolve the nightmare, even though of course you cant change the past. I would go to sleep thinking of a really positive memory of your dad that you want to dream about...bring it to life in the same vivid way you describe the trauma. And then see what happens. Good luck
Already using this with clients & very impressed with the results! Thankyou for making it freely available
I've suffered with nightmares my whole life due to CPTSD. I don't know if my therapist got the idea from this, but he has helped me flip my nightmares into empowering dreams. This just reminds me a lot of what we've worked on to get there.
Thank you! I have had real scary nightmares last few days. It then turns into severe sleep paralysis followed by more scared figures . This is happening due to stress and I think I am on the right track as I stumbled on this video.😊
have you been able to improve your sleep? The paralysis is waking up in REM sleep during dreaming. You want to use technique to stop yourself being woken up
After all the therapy I’ve been through for ptsd, no one has ever thought to mention trying this out. Will let you know if it works for me. Thanks!
if you need a little extra help, have a look at tiny.cc/stop-nightmares-extra or get in touch directly
Did it work?
Fantastic and very useful indeed thank you. Our young daughter has also watched it and tells me she used the technique and it worked very well.
Thank you, my psych recommended this to me.
This is brilliant; simple and optimistic. I know someone who's had the same nightmare for decades and is out of ideas. This is lovely in its simplicity and even playful presentation. Thank you.
I look forward to sharing this with my clients who have PTSD. Being able to sleep is such an important part of mental health.
Justin, many thanks for this wonderful resource. Have already shared it with a few clients and will definitely be sharing it with more I am sure. Regards, Ana
I accidentally cured my nightmares and night terrors that had tormented me for 63 miserable years.
I was simply going to try "mouth-taping" to help with my dry throat.. reducing how much water I had to sip throughout the night.
I haven't had a nightmare since I have trained myself to use the tape.
Thank you #JamesNestor and
#PatrickMcKeown.. you two have saved my life.
Thank you this really helped me avoiding the girl in my dream who keeps running in the hallway and wearing an old dress
I'm so glad I listened to this.
Will be sharing this.
Thank you so much 🥰
i hope it has helped...
Anecdotal results from NHS trauma therapist - of the 10 patients he gave the video to before their first session, 2 had resolved their nightmares before this session, 6 needed 20-30 mins coaching in first session and were then successful, and 2 needed more input. That is what I would have expected - that extra bit of coaching can be very helpful to make sense of the video and help someone come up with an idea!
Great resource! Thanks Justin
I look forward to sharing this with clients!
Great self-help video. Thanks Si
Congratulations on producing this video, Justin! An engaging video that we are looking forward to seeing translated into other languages so you can take your research around the world!
Thank you this is brilliant. I know it's 2 years later but I am so glad I found this video.
I also want to say a HUGE thank you for making this video available. It's a really helpful resource, and I will signpost to anyone who I think will benefit. :-)
Glad it was helpful!
Really useful video to use with my clients. Thank you for sharing it with everyone.
Awesome explanation and illustration. Thanks for allowing people to share it.
Thank you very much sir for sharing your valuable information with those people who suffering this type of problems.
I think your way of explanation things in very easy, for understanding the reason why this type of dreams are come and how to solve this issue.
Have a healthy, wealthy, and happy life from India.
thank you for your kind words. If you are interested in developing a version for India, let me know
Thanks for taking the time to make this video. Don't know whether it works yet but very much appreciate the intention. My trauma centers around having lived in a country where my ethnicity was reviled (was brought there as a child). I went from a middle class background (in land of origin) to living in virtual untouchability. I was also very naive and unmalicious as a teen, so I ended up in relationships and situations that were deeply abusive (made exponentially worse by my untouchability). My dreams tend to center around my latest relationship but I know there is more to the trauma than the treatment I received from that particular person.
I've been having nightmares ever since I got out of a mental hospital on the second. I'm going to try this tonight, and see if it works!
If it doesnt work, it just means your new dream idea needs to be more powerful
Amazing video. Thank you so much so well put together so well explained. I can change the dream! The whip has no leather only a handle. The bully is my friend. The weather did rain. I didn't change the weather with my dreams. The list goes on. Thank you again,
sounds like it worked for you?
Thanks for the sound advice. Great animation!
Thank you Dr 👨⚕️ 💜 helps with meltdowns ✅
Hi Justin. I finally got round to watching the video. Very useful. I may come back you in the future when a veteran client returns to see me face to face.
That's very helpful thank you so very much!
Glad it was helpful!
This helped me so much! Thank you so much 🙏
that's great news. Well done. Are you sleeping peacefully now?
The animation is wonderful!
Thanks!
Waking up from a nightmare, heart racing, feeling stalked..I have trauma related to severe anxiety, health anxiety of my parents significant health issues. I am retired as a RN who worked mental health for 37 yrs. I recognize every single thing happening to me, but cry as I know feel it myself. Watched this video..I hope it helps.
It will only help if you put the skills into practice- what do you want to dream about instead and prime your dream with that
I just had this happen the other night.. I woke up shaking, in shock, I almost couldn't breathe, I felt physical pain in my body and couldn't stop crying.. It's horrible that the one thing, sleep, should bring comfort from real life but instead reliving past events over and over, even in new ways. I wish it would just stop. :'(
Thank you for this 🙏
This works. Don't give up. Be as creative as you want. Have a superhero or perhaps an archangel.😊
great - well done!
Thank you so much for this valuable resource Justin.
My son is a military veteran, was injured and struggles with PTSD. He says he sleeps alright but I will send him this video in the hope that it may help his PTSD?
many people either accept the nightmares as normal, or something that cant be changed. Not all those with PTSD will experience them, but its worth asking. If his PTSD is having a big effect, I would thoroughly recommend EMDR therapy
Waking up with dreaded cold sweats almost every night. Thank you.
can you say a bit more about the new dream idea you used to stop the sweats?
I have been trying to sleep at 10:00 and I was crying but then this helps a lil and I am still crying right now but still I can sleep now thank you.
Thank you so much. I am 12 years old and have dealt with a very traumatic past and now its been almost a week in arow of dreaming of my past.
1st dream: My 2 younger sisters (3 and 4) were being tortured by my step mother and mother who have cause alot of pain in my past. I dont see my sisters anymore because my mothers are withholding them.
Last dream: My mother was going around trying to k*ll me and my family. She crashed her car into my aunty, she squeezed me to death and hit my father in the head with an axe. It was the most haunting dream I have had in YEARS.
That sounds really difficult. Have you been able to stop the nightmares and sleep better? Please reach out to me if you want further help.
@@drjustinhavens5919 Thankfully I've been able to stop the nightmares from appearing as often, thank you so much it really helped me out. I appreciate the video
@@Chlo_Bow211 well done - hope you are still having better sleep
great job with your video!
This helps
Great vid Justin! Really impressive all the work you've done in this area.
Great video 👍👍👍
Fantasic resource. Thans Justin!
thanks
Praying for peaceful sleep, it’s already midnight and I’ve been avoiding it again. ❤
Have you given psychedelics a trail , there are alternatives that works best magic mushroom, DMT , MDMA, LSD, it has helped me tremendously to defeat depression and anxiety also insomnia
You can get it delivered to you discreetly
He’s on telegram and instagram as
*Formulah01*
@@stockgrain8653I haven’t no, but I have started the technique and noticed some changes in my dreams….
Thankyou I need this rn, will try when I can fall asleep next
This is really clear and it is easy to see how it would work. I found myself almost wishing that I had nightmares so that I could try it out! A moment on, I am glad I don't, and will remember this as a resource and pass it on. Thanks
When I get a ptsd nightmare I usually run at the person and go attack them and then I wake up screaming
Thank you so much 🙏🏾
Thank you!
Thank you. It’s a start.
Thank you for this
My therapist has recommended this for me.
Very nice !
Just wanted to say thanks. It makes alot of sense. Will try it. Sounds logical. I've already decided what im do about the last part of my dream . I do believe that ppl can get a stroke during this. Please comment and let me know if you've ever seen or heard of any cases like this.
Hi, first I want to you Dr. so much this been a big help for me I immediately stop having nightmares. My question is how do you treat good dreams? Should we believe in good dreams?
yes, why not... Glad your nightmares have stopped. PEaceful sleep is the goal
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I don't know how to apply these ideas. Maybe someone can help?
I don't wake up when my dreams scare me.
I react more with a shutdown like response. When waking up, I already am highly stressed and when getting out of bed I experience physical pain from a not healing inflammation of the big tendon plate in my right foot.
I fear getting to sleep, it's just stressful not restful, and then I am tired and feeling defeated by the pain I experience for already five month. I tried to get some help, went to the doctors but nothing I did worked and now I feel defeated and am losing the sense of joy in my life.
I don't have a reoccurring dream to change. It's more like pure chaos leaving me feeling a mix of overwhelm, shock and confusion. The or the brain runs out of answers resonated with me. And some of those questions do have it's offspring in traumatic events. It's a huge pile of those unfinished experiences.
The comments make me really hopeful to use this tonight.
i hope it was successful
I will try this
I always had dreams aka nightmares but last 1 month they are increased so much that i start to see dreams everytime i put my head on a pillow, sometimes they are about my fears, mostly seems unrelated but still endless long and disturbing, I dont even know if I can ever stop them:( i will try this method, i will remember the last dream and write an alternate ending to it if i am correct ❤ thanks for this amazing video I will let you know after I try 🍀🥳
hope you have been successful
Here is my insight Dr. I understand through your studies you have inquired an insight, but as an actual test subject through 20 years of the same repeating nightmare I can tell you that you don’t learn how to imagine a jet pack to fly you out of a certain situation because that doesent work, even when you know it’s a dream their are certain limitations as their are in the real world. It feels like your in a sadistic version of the reality you remember so well, but in this dream realty the devil is in most control since your literally in his playground, the only thing that experience truly helps you with is the ability to be more calm and find simple situations to grant you enough time to hide and wake up more efficiently, I remember when I was younger I would always get caught no matter where I would hide even in the most unique of places, but as I got older I rarely get found anymore and am able to outwit and wake up before the devil uses his sonar to sniff me out. I believe we live in a low vibrational earth, honestly at this point we probably are all in hell but some have nicer houses and cars ect.. but that’s not my issue. My issues stem from the root of wanting to know how I got here because I have a good soul. Just seems like I’m being experimented on and observed as I react to different levels of fear and trauma. If I had one wish I would want to cease from existence and go back to source when their is complete nothingness but an overall peace, like the first minute when you wake up before all the shit kicks in and you realize your back in hell. I know no one is going to understand this as it might be to deep down Alice rabbit hole, but just know all this is real because I seem to resonate more and more with the origin of this evil. Glory be to god❤️
thank you so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Great, just discovered this. Thank you! Very helpful! :-)
if you need a little extra help, have a look at tiny.cc/stop-nightmares-extra or get in touch directly
thanks for sharing...need subtitles
there is a subtitle version. some people find them distracting....
I am going to sleep better from today.
I've had these reoccurring dreams where it ends with me having this impending sense of doom and it feels like my soul is getting crushed and then I wake up. It doesn't happen very often but it always sucks when it does. I've had a Near Death Experience many years ago when I was younger and I get to relive it every time I get one of these dreams. Definitely not a fun thing to experience again...dreams feel way too real. It's silly, a recent dream I've had I looked at the moon shining at night and I felt nothing but pure terror and woke up. Still gives me the creeps thinking about it.
what does feeling 100% alive look like? Conjur it up and thing about it before sleep
Sometimes I'd also kind of leave my body. Not by choice...
It hasn't happened in awhile though. It used to happen as soon as I lay down, even wide awake.
Stop nightmares with this, it works. Sleep with a LED flashlight 🔦 in your hand or in your pocket, have it off (not on). I had nightmares every single night, and now after a year of sleeping with a flashlight 🔦, I only have nightmares once a month or so. I found I’m no longer in dark scary places when I dream, it always bright and lots of light. Often the dream characters turn on flashlights so I can see clearly in my dreams. It takes a bit of time, but believe me this works, many people do this.
You can share this link with others tiny.cc/stopnightmares. Please do comment as well, especially if you have had direct success like Hannah below, or used it with your clients.
What if i don't have any motivation or confidence? Too insecure or depressed where it seeps in the dream and i feel powerless? Or just hating yourself so much, for whatever reasons, weakness, regret, insecurities, etc., that nothing you seem to do helps ..I need help.
My problem is these are not nightmares or dreams. I lived these things. So even though you state the event was in the past it was not just an event, i lived it. I was a NYC Police Officer for 21 years. 9 of those years were spent in one of the most violent precincts in NYC. I witnessed homicides with knives, guns, machine guns, people tied to a chair and lit on fire. Then came 09/11/01. I saw 3500 people die in one day and was part of a bio-warfare tee. So you see I have lived these moments. They are not meerly dreams or nightmares. Any suggesttions as how i might plood foward.
Kevin. I hope this gets to you. Yes, you have lived these events, but they are now an imprint in your subconscious, which is why you are dreaming about them, and this process isnt working hence nightmares, which can be fixed. reach out to me at mail@justinhavens.com and i will talk it through at no cost.
Nightmares are a reflection of the unprocessed trauma - if we can get our dreams to 'complete' and not be woken up, then our minds start to clear up the trauma from the inside out. This 5 minute animated video shows how this can be done in just 1 night ruclips.net/video/lv38dzpcxfA/видео.html
3:03 for the actual technique
Hella Hella Hella good
Thank you, so simple so effective
thanks - please do share with others
I had such a terrible nightmare last night. I was at the shopping centre when two boys were playing on the escalator. I told them they should probably stop, but it was too late. One of them was running down the escalator backwards and he fell over and his arm started getting shredded and I was SCREAMING AND CRYING and he started getting shredded up and all that was left was his head, which rolled down the escalator while I was standing there petrified. I woke up and it was 2am and I was too scared to get up to open the door so I ended up lying in bed until I fell back asleep and then I woke up in daylight. It was so traumatic.
I dont even have ptsd but it was still traumatic. I guess now I sort of do, but fortunately it was just a dream
@@SpacyDragon I hope you havent had this again....but the dream completion technique would work on this too...
I haven’t slept for the past 3 day cause of a nightmare that was caused cause of my schizophrenia and I can’t sleep even after watching hundreds of videos about how to get rid of it still nothing hope this video will help me
Didn’t help me