Normal sleep for me was, thinking about tomorrow til all of a sudden I open my eyes and now it's tomorrow. It's been a long time since those days, I guess age

Normal sleep for me was, thinking about tomorrow til all of a sudden I open my eyes and now it's tomorrow. It's been a long time since those days, I guess age is bad that way. For some reason in my early 30s I started having very realistic and very, very bad dreams every...single...night. I'd spend time startled, then relieved, then basically afraid to fall back asleep every night. By accident I found something that helped...I had an old DVD player that would keep looping the intro if you didn't do anything. I'd put in a movie called 'Winged Migration' and fell right to sleep. I don't know if it's because I recognized the sounds and it grounded me, or because it's an awesome peaceful soundtrack, but it completely helped my dream problem! I'm not one that listens to music to relax, or work, or anything. But to this day I'll play that soundtrack before bed if my brain is acting up again. I guess I now see the value in all those natural sound CDs that were all the rage.