How to Prevent Nightmares:

Try Prayer: "Dear Lord, Please Let Me Sleep Peacefully Thru the Night." - Say That Right Before You Go to Bed... Might Work!

One thing that causes a lot of nightmares is watching the TV NEWS... They broadcast bad news, hate speech and danger - danger... All about subjects that you can't do anything about and don't really affect your life personally... For example: There's a horrible war going on in the Middle East... How is it important to me? It's crazy what those people over there are doing to each other... But there's nothing I can do about it... And knowing what's going on, watching them... Has no benefit to my life. 

Local news has some value but National is just crazy talk... Especially Fox News! Also CNN & MSNBC - they are all in the infotainment business... And we'll say whatever is needed to attract market share...

We've started watching gentle instrumental Christmas Carol music on the TV while they're showing pictures of houses all decorated with Christmas lights... I can watch that for hours... It's very peaceful... 

On a related subject... Quite often something on TV will trigger a memory of some horrible event in my past... And then when I realized that I'm reliving that event, I force myself to remember a pleasant event... Focus my attention on those good times... 

Step One: realize that I'm reliving a horrible event from the past. 

Step Two: think about something else... A Fun time!

Disclaimer: I'm an atheist 99% of the time but... During an earthquake I'm of True Believer! "Please Lord Make It Stop!" My brother said: "There are no atheists in foxholes." - and I replied: "That's mainly because they're packed with foxes! And they'll bite you if you get in their hole!" [FYI: a foxhole was a defensive hole in the ground used during World War I and World War II... You could prevent bullets from hitting your body if you had a bunch of dirt protecting it.]

THE MAYO CLINIC SAYS: 

If nightmares are a problem for you or your child, try these strategies:

1. Establish a regular, relaxing routine before bedtime. A consistent bedtime routine is important. Do quiet, calming activities — such as reading books, doing puzzles or soaking in a warm bath — before bed. Meditation, deep breathing or relaxation exercises may help, too. Also, make the bedroom comfortable and quiet for sleep.

2. Offer reassurances. If your child is struggling with nightmares, be patient, calm and reassuring. After your child awakens from a nightmare, respond quickly and soothe your child at the bedside. This may prevent future nightmares.

3. Talk about the dream. Ask your child to describe the nightmare. What happened? Who was in the dream? What made it scary? Then remind your child that nightmares aren't real and can't hurt you.

4. Rewrite the ending. Imagine a happy ending for the nightmare. Encourage your child to draw a picture of the nightmare, "talk" to the characters in the nightmare or write about the nightmare in a journal. Sometimes a little creativity can help.

5. Put stress in its place. If stress or anxiety is an issue, talk about it. Practice some simple stress-relief activities, such as deep breathing or relaxation. A mental health professional can help, if needed.

6. Provide comfort measures. Your child might feel more secure if he or she sleeps with a favorite stuffed animal, blanket or other comfort object. Leave your child's door open at night so that he or she won't feel alone. Leave your door open, too, in case your child needs comfort during the night.

7. Use a night light. Keep a night light on in your child's room. If your child wakes up during the night, the light may be reassuring.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/nightmare-disorder/diagnosis-treatment/drc-20353520

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A friend of mine was suffering from PTSD caused by his time in Vietnam. He went to a sweat lodge with his tribe and ate peyote. During his meeting with Mescalito, he realized that it was not really his fault that the men under his command died... The real fault was with Lyndon Johnson... Because none of them would have been in Vietnam at all if it weren't for the insanity of the United States President... Did You Know? JFK got us into Vietnam but he set a date for leaving in 1965. Then he was assassinated and so we did not leave... I think one group of people that had a motive and opportunity is the Military Industrial Complex... Specifically: Monsanto and Bell Helicopter... They made a fortune selling Agent Orange, Napalm and Huey Helicopters... And if we had ended of the war in Vietnam in 1965 they would have missed out in all that profit... 

When I'm watching TV I always mute the sound during commercials... Because they are annoying and I never have a need to know what they say... Especially frightening are the medicines that have horrible side effects spoken about by a voice-over announcer while they're showing film of people dancing... And doing other fun things... Playing with their children... Marching in a parade... While the voice-over announcer is talking about the side effects like Suicidal Thoughts... I don't need to hear that crap! It's like pouring poison right in your brain...

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This question is the headline of a Common Dreams op-ed by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies earlier this week, and it touches the furious heart of who we are. I would put it this way: As long as 60 percent or so of our discretionary spending is diverted to militarism; as long as there is no official acknowledgment of the horrific and pointless hell our wars have created, with no benefits even to our “national interests”; as long as we refuse to face our own history of genocidal behavior and our addiction to “conquest” . . . we will not change, we will not grow, we will not survive.

Obama was the best President of my Lifetime and a classic example of Nature vs Nurture. Born Half White and Half Black... He was Raised in the White Culture...

https://www.amazon.com/Dreams-My-Father-Story-Inheritance/dp/1400082773
His autobiography of the early years up until the time he became a senator...

He was raised by a White Mother and Two White Grandparents in Hawaii. He went to school and was educated with White, Japanese and Hawaiian students and exposed to the cultures and belief systems of those people. His father went back to Africa and did not have any influence in Barack's childhood. Obama also lived in Indonesia for three years in his childhood with his mother's second husband...

After high school he went to college in Los Angeles at a liberal arts school called Occidental for two years then he went to Columbia University. So, in general, he was raised in the White Culture and trained in White Values.

Then he worked as a "Community Organizer" in the South Side of Chicago...

One mystery of his early life is "Who would pay to have the South Side of Chicago Organized?" He was hired as an assistant to a man (Jerry Kellman) who was a community organizer already working there... He needed a Black assistant to help him talk to the Black Residents...  Who paid their salaries?... Who valued an organized community in Chicago enough to actually pay money for it? Answer: The Roman Catholic Church... They fight poverty worldwide.

Obama was successful in having asbestos removed from The Projects (Housing that was paid for by the Government for Poor People to live in.) The safety and health of the residents was very low priority to the people who ran The Projects and often they would promise to remove the asbestos and then do nothing... hoping that the people who lived there would give up their efforts and remain silent. That way the Government would not have to pay any Actual Money to fix a health problem.

He was unsuccessful in bringing jobs to the Black Community.

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“Barack had been very inspired by the civil-rights movement,” Jerry Kellman, the organizer who hired Obama, told me recently. “I felt that he wanted to work in the civil-rights movement, but he was ten years too late, and this was the closest he could find to it at the time.” Obama, in his memoir, put it more simply when he said he went to Chicago to “organize black folks.”

Kellman, a New Yorker who had gotten into organizing in the 1960s, was trying to help laid-off factory workers on the far South Side of Chicago. He led a group, the Calumet Community Religious Conference, that had been created by several local Catholic churches.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2008/09/what-did-obama-do-community-organizer-byron-york/

He worked with the Calumet Community Religious Conference, which was a recipient of a $40,000 grant awarded by The Campaign for Human Development, a nationwide Roman Catholic antipoverty program.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-obama-early-years-tribune-met-20170110-story.html