1) discuss it again with doctor. Pubmed found one article that suggests sleep disturbance might be related to coexistent attention deficit – which you would know if you had it.
2) reasonable security options.
– lock your door at night.
– don’t sleep with murderers
– can you afford an alarm?
– don’t live in gangland
– don’t take a room at Bate’s motel.
3) reasonable insecurity options
– it is a dream, not a contract
– sleep function usually reflects trying to get over something.
– the repetitive nature makes me wonder about PTSD from the dream itself. – would be worthy of a publication if so.
4) Pascal’s wager
– can be rephrased into – it is better to take precaution on the possibility that dreams may be prophetic…
Along those lines, there is a bizarre story to tell…
An employee working in a doctors office has a dream about another employee. The office receives a box, and on opening, a huge boa constrictor comes out. Every one runs to the back. One employee angrily ignores the commotion, bustling past, and sitting down at the computer next to the snake. The first employee, the one having the dream, (call this one Jobe) tries to shout, and warn the second one at the computer (call this one Cain). Jobe is ignored.
The snake moseys on over and wraps himself around Cain, biting large gashes into cains face. Cain angrily carries on, ignoring the snake. Jobe tries harder to call for help yet nothing comes out.
The one dreaming is Jobe.
The next day, a letter is received regarding the real world “Cain”. For more than 6 months 11 felony counts have been perpetrated. “Jobe” had no way of knowing that would happen. “Cain” confessed that day when confronted.
5) remember – prophesy ALWAYS serves. It has a function, whether it arose by Darwinian selection, biblical creation, or my imagination. In the story of job – who probably did not live in a whale – he was punished for NOT revealing his prophecy. When he succumbs and obeys, the peoples respond and on a bright side destruction is evaded. Prophesy is not a death warrant, it is a warning, and a demand for action.
This is provided you are not buying into the literal translation of Revelation.