Blaaaaaaaah. Bolted awake at 4:30am for no reason, cursed the universe, eventually went back to sleep but had a conga line of very vivid and humiliating work-related dreams. Then bolted awake again at 7:20am in the middle of a particularly anxiety-inducing sequence. Ugh. I’ve folded my anxiety around uni into work and it’s pretty shitty but w/e. Have accepted there will be lots of Yucky Feelings over the next two months but i just need to try and do my best with it and shit out something at the end, accept the criticism and move on.
Sometimes when I wake up in the middle of a anxiety dream I grab a soft blanket and wrap it around me and lie on the floor with my legs up on the bed. And I lie there and breathe. It lets your back really flatten out and stretch and helps me feel attached to the ground. Sometimes I literally also touch the bark of one of the gum trees on the way to the train station after a particularly bad night. YMMV so just putting it out there. Anxiety dreams SUCK especially when you wake up in the middle before your brain has finished filing whatever it is its trying to file. Go gently today.
Blaaaaaaaah. Bolted awake at 4:30am for no reason, cursed the universe, eventually went back to sleep but had a conga line of very vivid and humiliating work-related dreams. Then bolted awake again at 7:20am in the middle of a particularly anxiety-inducing sequence. Ugh. I’ve folded my anxiety around uni into work and it’s pretty shitty but w/e. Have accepted there will be lots of Yucky Feelings over the next two months but i just need to try and do my best with it and shit out something at the end, accept the criticism and move on.
Sometimes when I wake up in the middle of a anxiety dream I grab a soft blanket and wrap it around me and lie on the floor with my legs up on the bed. And I lie there and breathe. It lets your back really flatten out and stretch and helps me feel attached to the ground. Sometimes I literally also touch the bark of one of the gum trees on the way to the train station after a particularly bad night. YMMV so just putting it out there. Anxiety dreams SUCK especially when you wake up in the middle before your brain has finished filing whatever it is its trying to file. Go gently today.