Trying to avoid sleep can never make the nightmare go away. The nightmares we see with open eyes are scarier. The dawn's first light can help you escape the looming shadows of your nightmares but what about the reality that you have to face with that first light of dawn.
We can pick our nightmares neither can we choose our reality. It's either the cruel reality or ruthless nightmares, both choose us. In that case, we can have only two choices; Either we let the nightmares or reality destroy our soul or we can make those nightmares our old friends, dance with those devils buried deep in our hearts and let the ghosts of past sing the lullabies for us.
But like every other thing in our life; it's easier said than done. Because the ghosts of past don't sing lullabies, they howl. They howl loudly to crush your soul. And we let them do it.