1) Learn how to lucid dream.
- Increase Recall.
- Learn Lucidity.
- Learn Dream Control.

2) Research sleep phenomena.
-Learn about SP.
-Learn about HH.

3) Use recurring nightmare themes or characters as a dream sign.
-Visualize the dream sign, while awake. Say out loud: This is a dream.

4) When you have a nightmare, and become lucid, instead of running away from your enemy, turn around and defeat your enemy. You may do this by fighting them, killing them, eating them, absorbing them, hugging them, telling them you love them, or giving them a gift.

- If your nightmare is a situation and not centered around a character, simply say, "This is a dream." Then leave the situation, and go somewhere else.

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Visualize yourself having the nightmare, while awake. Before anything bad happens, say, out loud, "This is a dream." Then, defeat your enemy, or change the situation in the visualization. Do this at least once during the day, and right before you go to sleep.