Extremely Violent Nightmares

[Hollie14]

Hi, I'm new to this, but I joined bc I need advice? Or help with an explanation? Not sure which or both, but for several months now I've been experiencing incredibly violent nightmares and night terrors, I'm not a violent person, never have been, in fact am very passive and easygoing. But in these dreams I'm never the one being violent, it's happening around me, say I have a family in my dream and they're all brutally murdered, blood and gore everywhere. A lot of times these dreams involve children and it's horribly disturbing to me. Just last night I dreamed I was in a house and in an alleyway outside I could hear a man angrily yelling and loud banging sounds and a child screaming and I was running trying to close the shades on the windows trying to protect my own child who was in his bed asleep in the dream. Night before it was simply I was in a warehouse and there were corpses and blood everywhere and I was trying to get them all and burn them and the smell was horrible. Please I feel like it's getting worse and more frequent and I already have insomnia but when I do sleep this is happening. I also have a history of dealing with sleep paralysis and it's terrifying as well. If anyone has any suggestions they would be greatly appreciated. Even my therapist doesn't know what to say.

[ghuntington]

Hi Hollie, I used to have similar recurring nightmares for years. In my case, I was usually running away from people who were trying to kill me. For the last several years, I’ve never had them. I did this by learning to listen to myself via meditations and dream journaling. I’ve learned LOTS about myself, dreams and what I now call “The Mulitverse” we live in. In order for me to help you, I’d like you to select two dreams to work with me. There’s some work here for you to do. For each one I want you to go back to the dreams and put yourself in the role of an observer. Then I want you to answer, for each dream, as best you can recall, the following questions… Tell me the number of different scenes in your dream. Then, FOR EACH SCENE I want you to tell me the following: Location: I want you to look in your mind, as the observer, in the following directions and tell me what you see: 1. To your left. 2. To your right. 3. In front of you. 4. Behind you. 5. Above you. 6. Below you. It’s all right if you can’t recall much. Simply tell me what you see and make sure I know what direction it is from you the dreamer. In my interpretation, you’ll see how this is a symbol itself. When you are describing what you see, tell me in as much detail as you can recall about it. So things I am very interested in is what are walls, doors, windows, stairs, tables, etc. made of, age/style, colour, etc. The same goes for anything outside. You’ll see in my interpretations how all of this tells us lots about ourselves. Lighting: 1. Tell me what the lighting was like, i.e. bright, dull, black, cloudy etc. 2. Then tell me where the light was coming from. 3. Can you tell the time of day or season? Lighting is important in a dream because it’s a symbol of vibrational state. I’ll explain this during my interpretation for you. Objects: If there are any objects in a dream scene, then tell me about them as follows: 1. Shape, size, colour and what they were made of. 2. Where the object is in the dream relative to you, i.e. left, right, etc. I’ve found objects in dreams are usually symbols of things we first need to concentrate on spiritually. I’ll explain this in the interpretation if you had any objects in any of the scenes. People: For each person in a dream scene I want you to do the following: 1. Describe them to me in as much detail as you can recall. This includes age, gender, clothes, colour of the clothes, what the clothes were made of. 2. Tell me where they were in the dream scene relative to you, i.e. left, right, below, etc. 3. Tell me if they were lying down, sitting, standing, walking, etc. 4. Tell me what they did with you. Don’t skip the details. Simply tell me exactly what happened. 5. If there are any conversations or thoughts between you and the person or others, then tell me EXACTLY WHAT WAS SAID. This is important. 6. If there were others you couldn’t see but felt, then let me know where you felt they were in a scene relative to you the dreamer, i.e. left, right, etc. Animals. Etc.: If there were any animals, insects, birds, reptiles, fish or whatever in any of the scenes, then tell me. Describe them in as great as detail as you can recall. Also let me know where they were in the dream scene relative to you, i.e. left, right, etc. Then let me know of any thoughts that passed between you and them. Thoughts/Feelings: This is a very important part of every dream scene. Take your time, go back and tell me the following for each scene: 1. What was your first thought/feeling as the dream scene began. 2. Tell me of any thoughts/feeling changes as the dream scene progressed and let me know where in the scene this occurred. 3. Tell me your last thought/feeling as the dream ended. When you’ve done this, I will then happily give you an interpretation of your dream as if it was mine. With kind regards, Guy