When you are awake, during the day, write your nightmares down in a journal. Keeping a good record of the details, themes, images, and dialogues of your nightmares will help you examine them and possibly find any causes in your waking life. Get as much detail as you can when you write your nightmares down. Look for any relation to your waking life. For instance, having nightmares about someone yelling at you or hurting you might be related to a hostile work environment. Writing down feelings, even if you cannot remember why you felt that way in the dream. Knowing that in your dreams you are feeling lost is important. Tell anyone you trust about your nightmares. The support of your friends and family can also help bring comfort to you and reduce the likelihood of nightmares occurring. Talking with others about your nightmares can help you recall details and come to better examine your dreams for any links to your waking life. Only speak to people you trust and feel safe describing your nightmares with. Nightmares can be caused by a number of activities and removing or altering these behaviors can put an end to the nightmares. Examine your daily actions and look for anything that might be causing your nightmares, which may include: Extreme stress in your life. Any source of stress in your life can carry over into your dream life and cause nightmares. Look at your daily routine and see if any part of it is overly stressful. Try to improve that situation, making it less stressful, and see if your nightmares are reduced. A traumatic event or PTSD. If you have experienced a traumatic event in the past, this may be responsible for your nightmares. Generally, nightmares stemming from trauma will have elements of that trauma within them and are often repetitive. Stopping or starting a new medication. Talk with your doctor to learn more about any prescriptions you may have been given, or ordered to end, to learn if they might cause nightmares as a side-effect. Abusing alcohol or drugs. Alcohol and drugs can interrupt sleep mechanisms and patterns, resulting in nightmares. Examine your consumption of substances such as these and their possible relation to your nightmares. Speak with your doctor for help ending substance abuse. If nightmares persist more than once a week or are preventing you from getting good sleep, call your doctor and schedule an appointment. Prepare yourself by expecting the following questions and procedures during your visit. When and how often do your nightmares occur? How well are you sleeping? Do you often awake suddenly and have difficulty returning to sleep? Does the nightmare cause intense fear and anxiety? Have you recently been ill or under a great deal of stress? Which medications are you currently taking? Do you use any drugs or alcohol? How often and how much? Do you use any alternative medicines or therapies? You may be given a physical and a neurological/psychological examination. This may not be the best approach for people with severe trauma, such as PTSD without professional guidance. But for many, examining dreams through expressive art can help you examine, understand it, and express it enough to let it go. This includes: Expressive art: Painting, sketching, sculpture Music: Composing, music Performing art: movies, dance, theater Creative writing: poems, short story, novel, blog.
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One-sentence summary -- Journal your nightmares. Talk with trusted friends and family. Look for any causes of your nightmare. Visit your doctor. Try approaching your nightmares with art.

If your divisor has a decimal, move the decimal to the right until it's a whole number. For example, if the divisor is 0.05 move the decimal two places to the right to get 5. If you have more than 1 number after the decimal, keep moving the decimal until the number is whole. For example, with 43.52 the decimal will move 2 places so you get 4352. If your divisor is a whole number, you don't need to move the decimal. If you moved the decimal for the divisor, you also need to move the decimal for the dividend. Move it the same number of places. This may mean that you'll need to add zeroes if necessary. For example, if you have 4.5 0.05 and you move the decimal by 2 places, you'll get 450 5. Consider rewriting the problem so you don't make simple errors. Place the decimal point right above the decimal point that's in the dividend. So if you moved the decimal 2 places to the right, it would be above the bar and right after the 0 below it. Work from left to right and see how many times the divisor can go into the dividend. Place the quotient above the line and don't move the decimal point. For example, since 5 doesn't go into 4, see how many times it goes into 45. Because 5 goes into 45 nine times, place a 9 above the line followed by a zero. If you need to show your work, multiply the quotient you got by the original divisor. You should get the original dividend if you've divided the problem correctly. For example, to check 4.5 0.05 = 90, check to see that 90 x 0.05 = 4.5.
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One-sentence summary -- Move the decimal if the divisor is a decimal. Move the decimal for the dividend if necessary. Move the decimal point directly up above the division bar. Divide the problem as usual. Check your work with a calculator or by multiplying.

Distance yourself from your cell phone, the TV, and other electronics. Don't surf the internet, either. If the internet is still too distracting, turn off the Wifi and don't turn it back on until you've finished your work. Download an application that blocks distracting websites, such as SelfControl. You could set your cell phone to Airplane mode, rather than turning it completely off, so that any incoming messages will be blocked until switching it back into its normal mode. Cold air will help to keep you awake, while warm air will make it harder for you to stay awake. Think of the nights you can't sleep because of being cold compared to the nights when the cozy warmth of a room causes you to nod off. If you find the cold air is effective in keeping you awake, you can even go to the bathroom and splash your face with cold water. Not everyone improves their alertness in cold air. For some people, it works the other way around; Warm air causes them to stay awake and the cold makes them fall asleep. Choose whatever works best for you. Don't set up a workspace on your bed, on a couch, or on the floor. If you work in any other place than a cold, hard table and chair, you will feel very tempted to sleep and the more comfortable the location, the worse you'll feel. If possible, work somewhere far away from your sleeping area or bed, so that it's an effort to try to go back and sleep. Try to be around people. Knowing that others may be watching you may motivate you from sleeping in your chair. Be careful of slumping! When you're tired, slumping your body becomes a natural habit. However, make yourself sit up straight. It increases your state of alertness and helps you to feel better. Try sitting in different places around the room. Don't lay in bed with your eyes closed. You will fall asleep, falling into a crazed dream state in which you convince yourself that the work has been done already. If you can't remember what you've just read or you're nodding off involuntarily, you need to listen to your body and go to sleep. Sometimes it's better to get 3 or 4 hours of sleep. rather than be in a complete daze the next day.
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Turn off all of your devices. Work with the windows open. Avoid working in comfortable places. Maintain an upright posture. Acknowledge your limits.