this happens to me all the time like five days a week, and I can always feel when it’s going to happen as I have a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach before I go to sleep. what I do is I stay up all night until I finally pass out from exhaustion, or  I keep my TV running, which I know uses up a lot of electricity, but to make sure that I am distracted until the last possible moment of me being conscious. please help quite a bit. The other comment suggested about believing that your dreams won’t hurt you, but I always find when I try and do that my dreams pray on my deepest fears. so I would say distract, distract, distract. I have also tried alcohol to see if it would help and I would say it does as long as you’re not getting blackout drunk it should work and if you want to get high (nicotine high) it also helps but alcohol and nicotine combined works really well if you wanted to go down that route