write it down so you have a good story of what it is. >> steve: so i write down had that dream again where i was naked in public. >> exactly. are there people there? are they laughing at you? what's going on in it? >> steve: people are always laughing. why isn't he wearing clothes? okay. step two is change the nightmare. >> right. so i tell my patients, change it any way you wish. i don't actually give you the new story line. i want you to come up with it. so you can change the time and piece of it. you can change the entire thing. >> steve: okay. show us how it do that. >> someone might be, you needs? i just wake up and i'm standing and fully clothed and i'm giving a speech to a lot of people. or could be i wake up and i'm naked, but no one else is around and it's fine. so you can change it so it's not scary or frightening. >> steve: you think a through a couple times and eventually it sticks? >> you don't think it through, you manual it, you close your eyes and imagine the whole season do that twice a day for five minutes and then if you have another nightmare in a few days, you do another one and change it any way you want. usually in a month, the frequency for many people, if