Quote from: Mr Psychologist on December 05, 2014, 08:20:18 AM

There are a couple of things related to how you sleep (i.e positioning/covers) that tend to affect your dreams. Pressure and temperature along with airflow and the like <.<

The blanket/cover could either be from psychological conditioning where you think you will have nightmares if you don't sleep covered up therefore you have nightmares if you don't sleep covered up, or it could be to do with things like core body temperature <.<

Ramble + Psychological explanation idea

I had a very similar situation with endless and recurring nightmares when I was younger, it was a few different things that caused it <.<
The first one I remember from when I was about 4-5 was a tiger coming into the house and eating one member of my family each night for a week until it ate me. Then it stopped and I found a new horror to screw with me but I can't quite recall that one (Thankfully). Then later on it was Gollum, no real idea why but in the first LOTR film his stalking/eyes wigged me the fuck out and it was driven home by the second film where he jumps sam & frodo. Over the years I got better at fighting back in the dreams and the gollum ones ended when I grabbed him by the throat, broke his spine over my knee and threw him off the bridge in moria, and that was that. Then there was the whole thing with 'The Grudge' and fuck whichever idiot decided that a life size cutout of the Jiangshi in a supermarket was a good idea.

But yeah, the loose point I was leading to was that the way I dealt with nightmares was to seize control and fight back inside the dream, eventually killing the tormentor >.> (>freud's face when) So if your psychological defence mechanism was the blanket then that might explain it <.<

The trouble is, an external defence isn't always completely reliable since it's possible that at some point you may have to sleep without the cover.

This is of course the psychological (Freud style almost) explanation for the nightmares and there is a possibility that it's a more physiological explanation <.<

Physiological explanation idea

This would look more along the lines of how you sleep, for example if I sleep without my head raised up quite a bit I end up struggling to breathe during the night. This of course leaves you feeling like shite in the morning <.<
In your case, it could be either to do with the core body temperature difference provided by being fully covered or perhaps a more specifically biological approach such as the levels of neurotransmitters in your system prior to sleep/shutdown >.>

This would kind of be dismissed if the factor of a blanket is something of an on/off switch though, but it's still sort of possible.

for what its worth, for as long as i can remember i tend to sleep on my side, slightly curled up

Quote from: Mr Psychologist on December 05, 2014, 11:23:05 AM

Quote from: Azumarill on December 05, 2014, 11:13:15 AM

Quote from: Mr Psychologist on December 05, 2014, 08:20:18 AM

There are a couple of things related to how you sleep (i.e positioning/covers) that tend to affect your dreams. Pressure and temperature along with airflow and the like <.<

The blanket/cover could either be from psychological conditioning where you think you will have nightmares if you don't sleep covered up therefore you have nightmares if you don't sleep covered up, or it could be to do with things like core body temperature <.<

Ramble + Psychological explanation idea

I had a very similar situation with endless and recurring nightmares when I was younger, it was a few different things that caused it <.<
The first one I remember from when I was about 4-5 was a tiger coming into the house and eating one member of my family each night for a week until it ate me. Then it stopped and I found a new horror to screw with me but I can't quite recall that one (Thankfully). Then later on it was Gollum, no real idea why but in the first LOTR film his stalking/eyes wigged me the fuck out and it was driven home by the second film where he jumps sam & frodo. Over the years I got better at fighting back in the dreams and the gollum ones ended when I grabbed him by the throat, broke his spine over my knee and threw him off the bridge in moria, and that was that. Then there was the whole thing with 'The Grudge' and fuck whichever idiot decided that a life size cutout of the Jiangshi in a supermarket was a good idea.

But yeah, the loose point I was leading to was that the way I dealt with nightmares was to seize control and fight back inside the dream, eventually killing the tormentor >.> (>freud's face when) So if your psychological defence mechanism was the blanket then that might explain it <.<

The trouble is, an external defence isn't always completely reliable since it's possible that at some point you may have to sleep without the cover.

This is of course the psychological (Freud style almost) explanation for the nightmares and there is a possibility that it's a more physiological explanation <.<

Physiological explanation idea

This would look more along the lines of how you sleep, for example if I sleep without my head raised up quite a bit I end up struggling to breathe during the night. This of course leaves you feeling like shite in the morning <.<
In your case, it could be either to do with the core body temperature difference provided by being fully covered or perhaps a more specifically biological approach such as the levels of neurotransmitters in your system prior to sleep/shutdown >.>

This would kind of be dismissed if the factor of a blanket is something of an on/off switch though, but it's still sort of possible.

for what its worth, for as long as i can remember i tend to sleep on my side, slightly curled up

That's usually a good posture IIRC >.>

Is the temperature of your room usually cold or warm when you sleep? (Roughly) because that could also play a factor in it if it is a bio/physiological reason. But from the sounds of it, it's quite likely a psychological mechanism >.>

i like to keep my fan on, and the thermostat-controlled temperature is generally around 72 F