Thread: Why Not Nightmares? (not That I'm Complaining)

Hmmmm... I usually jump from the middle of my floor to my bed in order to avoid getting near the side of my bed. I think it may be some childhood habit that went to far... I dunno though

i know what you mean. i've been doing stuff like this ever since i was a little kid. i usually do a "fast walk" to get to my bed on a bad night. most nights i'm fine though. maybe i should stop watching scary movies.

In my own dreamtime work, the nightmares are typically about personal fears or suppressed anger or other emotion that I don't feel safe to express. Each person's dream terrain is unique to them and yours may be different but in all the people I've worked with, on dreamtime interpretation, I've seen a definite value to what might be called nightmares and do feel that such dreams help us relieve stress, work through anxieties and work out worries and cares of the day.

Your complete absense of such dreams, combined with the persistent worried state you talked about, suggest there may be some unresolved issues in your life that are trying to come through and receive attention in dreamtime.

I know about illogical fears too. I remember, after I saw Jaws, I went home and had to look under the bed and in the closet. Bizarre. But I was that afraid of that shark. Later, years later, when I finally started healing some of the trauma of my own childhood that had been suppressed, I suddenly realized what the shark had represented to me in that movie theatre.

It seems the worries of your mind could be interfering with quality of life. If that's true, I'd suggest seeking out counseling of some type to help resolve any issues that might surface.

They are in no way taking over my life. They are kind of habitual fears.

I don't hallucinated, I don't hear things, I don't see things, nothing like that. I only have random thoughts of scary parts from movies, et cetera. I don't feel that in any way its affecting my life style.

Waow i used to do the same thing all the time( jump from the middle of my room to avoid stepping near the bed.. now im not soo afraid anymore to stand beside my bed in the dark.. actuallly now i kinda do it for fun..because i know that theres no such thing as monsters and theres no one under my bed .. its just stupid ,, try doing it

You do not need to be crazy to be taken over by fear.

Your life is already being taken over as I'm reading that you show ''cautious behaviour'' even when it's in a shower in which NOONE ELSE is or just in the dark, which may cause some to think you have a sort of paranoïa, to what EXTENT you get influenced is a different matter.

I remember seeing some documentary about a kid that had a similiar fear.
Except that this wasn't about men plotting weird stuff, but she always feared in the dark that someone might be around the corner to kidnap her, no matter where it is, as silly as it might sound.

I don't remember how they "fixed this" though.

I myself, have long been a sort of "afraid of evil stuff" that might lurk in the dark (You can't really see anything in the dark so it could be there) whilst it didn't even make sense.

The way I solved that was by using my imagination to ''protect myself''.