Scared to go back to sleep after a nightmare

I used to feel like that a lot when nightmares were a constant experience for me. I have experiences like that all the time now, which started again when I developed multiple chronic illnesses 6 months ago. The dreams are not as intense as they used to be, but they're still bad. I try to just tell myself that nothing else matters when I need sleep, so delaying/dreading sleep because of fear of a bad dream is not going to make myself any less tired, only sleeping will. The dreams also can't hurt me physically, and whatever happens in my dreams is probably because of what I'm dealing with in real life which means they will pass as time goes on.

yeh it happens a lot to me. I usually have really intense nightmares that terrify me and when i wake up i become too scared to go back to sleep. I try to distract myself from it, because the more i think about the dream the more anxious i feel

I do this often and when a nightmare wakes me up I can never go back to sleep. I get up and work on my craft projects. (Knitting, diamond dotz, whatever)

Yeah it happens to me sometimes, get so spooked i just give up on sleep for the rest of the night

I'm about to crash out... Myself... I hope this helps