Dark, but not scary... I need opinions

This is my first post here at dreamviews.com. I stumbled over this site while trying to figure out how to stop having the same dream all the time. Let me start with some background...


I am 19, and I have been able to remember all of my dreams for as long as I could remember. I realise that I am dreaming most of the time, but find that if I try to control what happens something completely different will happen, or I will awaken. I am a rediculously light sleeper, I find sleeping difficult and always have. It takes me on average over an hour to fall asleep, and once I am sleeping I wake up every 90 minutes or so for the first half ov the night, and then every 45 minutes for the second half of the night. The last 2 hours I am in bed I awaken ever 15-20 minutes. All through the night when I wake up I roll from my left side to my right or visa verse and fall back to sleep immediately. Now on to the dream...


Every night for the past 6 days I have had the same dream every night, multiple times a night, with regular random dreams thrown into the mix. Today is the first day that I recalled having this dream so many times. I just remebered thinking about the dreams while awakening and rolling over to fall back to sleep.


In this brief dream it is night time. I am at the neighborhood that I was raised in. I have not lived there for 2 years. The first thing I recall about the dream is that I am running towards my old home, I am aware of the fact that I am being chased, and I keep looking back towards the sky behind me for my pursuer. The feelings that I have at this time are not fear, but excitement, like when you were playing tag, and knew that the "it" person was close to your hiding spot. On the ground running after me were small fox like creatures. What was odd about this creatures is that fact that they were the color of pitch, so dark, that they stood out in the darkness of the night, like the light from the moon didnt reflect from their fur. These creatures had no featured, no texture, no eyes, no mouth that I could see. Still I didnt feel fear, but excitement. These creatures were catching me and biting at my ankles, not painful, but annoying, it slowed me down, I kept kicking them when they tried to bite at me, but they kept returning.


I was still running towards my home, as I turned to search the sky for my pursuer I spotted his outline in the night sky. It apears to be the shap of a man with a large wingspan. I can feel it closing in on me at an alarming rate, and when I turn again, it is just about to land about 20 feet behind me. As it lands I find myself marveling at how its wings grow out of his back and down his arms separating at the elbow his forearms and hands from its wings. As he lands I again notice no other features, just the pure black color, no face, no features, just black. I still am not afraid, but I can now here my heartbeat and feel my excitement throbbing in my veins. Im so close to the house and I dash up the front steps of the bi-level home to the front door, I open it and run inside; as I close it Iook toward my persuer and watch as he crosses his wings in front of him. Had I not seen it I would think his wings had dissapeared, instead I knew that they were wrapped in front of him. Since he was pitch, it now appeared that a man with a cape tighly drawn to his body was slowly walking towards me. His stride was long and wide, yet slow, like he didnt need any sense of balance.


At this point I get a desperate urge to have light. I dart up the stairs, into the kitchen and hit the switches, move into the dining room and again hit the switchest, down the hallway, into the bedrooms, flipping switches as I go, filling the house with light.


Now I wake up from my dream, my heart is beating harder than it does after a long sprint. I am swaeting profusely, and my limbs are very cold. The dream is over. I roll over from left to right, or right to left and fall back to sleep. Sometimes I have this dream once a night, sometimes I have it time after time, always starting for the same point and ending at the same point. I am not coming to any conclusions, and I just want to get a good nights sleep. I keep waking up tired from all the running I do during the night. My calves are getting sore, and at this rate I feel like my heart is going to beat itselft out of my chet while I sleep.

I know that was alittle lengthy, but anyone have any thoughts, Im open to and ideas or suggestions...

thanks,

cforgo7499

Whats up, cforgo? Welcome to Dream Views. 8)

First of all, your being a light sleeper may be helping you have the vivid dreams and great recall that you seem to have. However, I might suggest trying melatonin to help you get through your sleep cycles and might make your dreams last a little longer, and may even increase their vividness.
Anyway, as far as the dream, I'd have to say I'd love to have a crack at that guy in my dreams. I bet it would be a fight for the record books. :evil:
In your case, though, if going one on one with this guy isn't your thing, you might want to just try asking him why he's chasing you, or turn it around, and start chasing him. :wink: It depends on what you're ultimate goal is with this character/scenario. Try visualizing an outcome, and just willing it to go that way.

The weirdest thing about this dream is that even though I know I am dreaming, I cannot alter the events at all. I can go along for the ride, or I can wake up. If I try to do something as simple as dont run, I wake up. I havent had that happen in any dream before. Everytime I have the dream, the same things happen the same way, never changes, and yet I always feel the same way, excited. over what i have no clue, excited that its close, it doesnt make sense to me. Why am I running if I am not afraid? What could I be excited about? I am going to try to remember more details tonight if I have the dream again. I want to get to the bottom of this so that I can go back to restful nights sleep.

Thanks for the comment Oneironaut

Not a problem.

I agree with Oneironaut about taking Melatonin, I have always been an insomiac myself until I started taking it, and it's cheap. I'll probably take it for the rest of my life.

As for your dream I think it's obvious that it's about sleep itself. The winged shadow man is sleep, the little shadow foxes are probably sleepiness. The house is you, and the desperation for light is the desperation to wake up. The key mystery is why are you running away from sleep? Some kind of misplaced feelings of sport chase? It's a bizzare problem. I suspect that oneself in dreams is not the whole self but just an apect or part of oneself. A part of you is misprogrammed somehow. My suggestion is visualization meditation, visualize yourself in the dream (many times) not running away from the man but just letting him take you. That may help to program your subconcious on giving in to sleep.

I would have never thought to look at it from that aspect. I am going to look into the Melatonin for sure. Last night I was waiting for the dream, and it never came. On one hand I am happy I didnt have to sit through it again, but on the other hand, I want to figure it all out. I sat and thought about why I would be running from sleep, but I couldnt come up with anything. Must be all of those scary movies :)

Thanks for the input Inspirer. Dreams are crazy.

Any updates on you?

You need to stop running.

You are almost at the age where you need to face your enemy and get yourself killed in a Dream. These dreams will continue to reoccur until you finally resolve it with Dream Death. The trick though is to keep in the dream for at least 20 seconds after you 'die', to give yourself time to come back to life. After this experience, of knowing that you are deathless in dreams, you will never run again.

Yes, the pitch-black fox things do seem annoying. To sly to stand up too, and so avoidance would seem to be the order of the day. But in cases like this at least try the power of your Dream Hands. Extend your arm and open you hand toward them, palm out, like you are indicating for them to 'stop'. Such a gesture, in Dreaming, has brought the downfall of more imposing monsters than those pitch-black foxxy things.

The Large Vampire can be dealt with in the same way, but in any case, stand up to it. If it kills you, then that is all good and well, since you can come back to life and resume the battle. Ordinarily one should be able to defeat these evils; however, some people have persistent Dream Demons that are difficult to deal with. If that is the case, then one needs to take a shopping trip to a Catholic Religious Goods Store and stock up on talismans, amulets, medals, pictures and statues that could augment the spiritual protections on your person and in the room where you sleep.

After talking about the dream here with all of you I had a new arsonal to use against this winged fella, and I went to bed with the attitude I am putting a stop to this... And I havent had the freakin dream since :eek: I wanted to settle things, now they wont come out to play... go figure... Ill make sure to post here If the dream ever occurs againt and how it goes. Thanks for all the imput though

cforgo7499

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Originally posted by cforgo7499
After talking about the dream here with all of you I had a new arsonal to use against this winged fella, and I went to bed with the attitude I am putting a stop to this... And I havent had the freakin dream since :eek: I wanted to settle things, now they wont come out to play... go figure... Ill make sure to post here If the dream ever occurs againt and how it goes. Thanks for all the imput though

cforgo7499

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Oh!

Well, what might be happening is that with your new resolution, your Dream Mind has to go back to the Drawing Board and create the Scenario for your Confrontation Dream. You know, Dreams are not created out of nothingness on the very instant that they are conceptualized. Like any other creative endeavor, they are the product of a deliberate process that transpires through time.

Give it a few weeks and you will have one hell of a Dream with that Dark Figure and his black furry little friends.... I almost guarantee it. Oh, and Good Luck!

Don't worry, EVENTUALLY they'll come back. I don't think they would disappear forever.

Well gret, now I have something to look forward to... The DREAM TO END ALL DREAMS. Shadow guy has gone into hiding to come up with a secret game plan to kick my butt in my sleep, and then he is going to sneak attack me when I least expect it.


Well at least you guys have given me some ammo. Who knows, maybe he just want to play a friendly game of "battleships" or "guess who," possibly even another old favorite "UNO." Whatever the case, IT is going down 8)

cforgo7499