Thread: Friend's reoccuring night terror

This is a guess, but could there have been something that scared him badly in that room in his old house, since all the dreams are so associated with it? Was the house itself kind of creepy and scary? If he was young enough and scared badly enough, he might remember and still dream about it. I wonder if it could be something about the mirrors? Possibly he saw something in the mirror that made it look like someone (his mother since she was in the earliest dreams?) has the hole in her chest.

I grew up in a creepy old house myself, and for a long time living there and years after, I had nightmares about something scary trapped in the attic and myself being lured into toward it because there was supposed to be a doll hidden away and going looking for it and getting closer and closer and about to open the cubbyhole where the scary thing (never clear what it was) was trapped because that's where the doll was supposed to be - and knowing all the while that I was being lured there and something terrible would happen when I let the thing out. But that house also was extremely weird - my parents painted over some occult symbol scratched into the walls when they moved in, and years after we had moved, my mother told me she used to be convinced there was treasure in the house and had actually pulled up floorboards looking for it; sort of a disconcerting real-life twist on my nightmare but with a prize an adult rather than a child might go opening up cubbies to find, only my mother bought into it and didn't share my sense that it was bait. She didn't look in the attic and never found anything; maybe that's a good thing! I have some of the fear of the dark, too: the basement in that old house was pitch black and frightened me so much I'd check the door several times a day with literally heart-in-mouth terror to make sure it was still locked. Fuses blew fairly often in that house and my dad would have to go into the basement to change them, and as horrifying as it was down there, I'd always go with him just because I had this gut-feeling something very bad would happen if anyone, even my dad, was down there alone - especially if his flashlight went out.

Maybe your friend could talk to his mom about that old house? See if she remembers anything creepy about it. If your friend is a spiritual/sensitive person as the flying dreams indicate, then maybe he picked up some sort of vibe in that house that scared the beejeezus out of him; maybe something focused around those mirrors.

Thanks loads for the advice I will tell him. I still wonder if there's any way to stop the nightmare completely but it's a start

Something that he might try is a ring of salt. Now, it doesn't really matter whether he's the spiritual type of person who believes in warding away negative entities or if he's a more rational type who wants to call it a psychosomatic placebo to convince himself he won't get nightmares. Either way, it's not gonna hurt and it might help!

Have him take some salt with him when he goes to bed and he can sprinkle it in a ring around the bed with him inside it, and the whole while he does it, he should visualize a great wall going up where the salt falls. He can do that anyway he wants - ring of thorns a la sleeping beauty, giant fort walls, dome of what light, whatever works for him. As he closes the ring of salt, he should pause for a minute and close his eyes and really concentrate on visualizing that wall and on it being impassable so that nothing negative can get past it; no harmful or negative energies or entities of any kind. When he's got it really clear in his head, he should state it aloud in very certain terms. Then go to sleep. If he wakes up and leaves the room for any reason, on returning it'd be good to reseal the circle again in his head; visualize a gate closing behind him and melding into the wall or whatever works for him.

Can't hurt, right?

I'm wondering if your friend should sign on and post it himself - I mean, this may be something he has to go through, to talk it out with the rest of us. I know this forum has helped me a lot, so maybe he should come here too.

He doesn't have internet access, at least for now anyway.

To be honest I'm not sure whether he really believes in negative entities and demons or not. He is open minded and such a method might work (through placebo effect at the least).