I've had troubles sleeping for a few years now, and even with therapy there's no easy fix. I started logging in late 2023 and I'm not really consistent, but so far I wrote over 10000 words in a word document. I love data visualization and I figured it might be a way to exorcise some bad thoughts. I actually did go a couple days without nightmares after making this. It's obviously not detailed but it's not for a research paper, just for me. In the future I might start logging more metadata and some data about my personal health to see how things correlate

Posted by moodybiatch

17 comments

  1. *Data:* my own dream diary, but I’m obviously not gonna share it here
    *Methods:* Canva, Google Spreadsheets and manual annotation

  2. This is great infography I hope you are better with those nightmares

    I recommande you to read Matthew Walker ‘why we sleep’ chapter about them. Their purpose is to forget traumatic experience by reliving them in your head, but a nightmare is when it’s too much for you and you wake up.

  3. I hope you feel better and get some better rest this year. Super pretty visualization.

  4. gore as in “look here is a dead kitten that has been run over by a 40 wheeler” or gore as in “the persons chest is open, while his heart is still beating”

  5. Wow that’s a lot of nightmares, I rarely dream at all I wonder how that must feel.

  6. If you want to reduce the intensity and frequency of your nightmares, Image Reheral Therapy (IRT) is an effeciant method with a ton of clinical support.

  8. Lack of quality sleep = user name checks out. Sorry u have to deal with that.

  10. Which category did you put the “school presentation in my underwear” dreams in?

  11. Wow! My last nightmare was like 4 years ago. I very rarely have them—maybe a handful since adulthood. I usually just lucid dream out of them when I realize it is a dream. I’ve never woke up out of fear though.

  12. Cool concept. The presentation is a bit redundant and confusing.

    Having nightmares for a 3rd of your nights is a little concerning.

    If one dreams about a bear before one encounters a bear, one is less likely to simply panic, lose their mind, and suffer harm from the bear. The simulation of a dream allows one to practice hypothetical situations and build implicit reactions from them without any real world risk. This leads to a sense of having done something about the topic — that you are in some sense at least prepared for it. I think it’s a mechanism for reducing stress (even when dreaming about stressful things) and evolved in a time when you didn’t witness anything which wasn’t really a possibility for you. For better or worse, we don’t live in that time anymore and in content on the internet can screw up this mechanism.

    If you’re having nightmares for 1/3 of your nights, you should probably stop doing things like browsing thegrittypast. Filling your brain with that kind of content is going to prime it to prepare for those kinds of situations.

  13. carry a gun daily. Obviously you need to feel capable of defending yourself under danger on a subconscious level.

  16. Well this is awful. I don’t think I’ve had 135 nightmares in my life to date and I’m 33.

  17. Geese, this is dark, hahaha. I hope you feel better soon. I have to say, this is very original self-recorded data.

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