Common experiences

[Daphnes]

When I have nightmares, I'm usually running from something, or late for something. I remember being chased by a velociraptor a few years back. No matter where I hide, the monster always knows exactly where to look first. In some dreams, I'm late for school or work, and I frantically try to get there, but stuff goes wrong. In good dreams, I either have a very valuable item that I've always wanted, or I'm hanging out with people in a public place. Sometimes I dream about people wanting my help with something. I think my good dreams are about my desire to fit in, and because I think about buying something so bad that I dream about it. I'm not really sue what the nightmares represent.

[Leo Volont]

Originally posted by Daphnes When I have nightmares, I'm usually running from something, or late for something. I remember being chased by a velociraptor a few years back. No matter where I hide, the monster always knows exactly where to look first. In some dreams, I'm late for school or work, and I frantically try to get there, but stuff goes wrong. In good dreams, I either have a very valuable item that I've always wanted, or I'm hanging out with people in a public place. Sometimes I dream about people wanting my help with something. I think my good dreams are about my desire to fit in, and because I think about buying something so bad that I dream about it. I'm not really sue what the nightmares represent. It seems counter-intuitive but in these dreams where you are being chased down by a ferocious monster or another, probably the wisest course to take would be to turn and face the Danger and to let it kill you. In waking life that would not make much sense, but Dreaming, such a choice would bring you to a very important pivotal point. You see, if you can die... be killed... in a dream and stay in the dream, without waking up, for only about 20 seconds, you will find that you come back to life. What this does is that it teaches the Dream Persona that it can't die, or rather, that it won't stay dead, no matter how extensively you are killed. Indeed, when I finally turned on the Danger and was killed and came back to life... for the next week I had dream after dream of being killed in various ways, but I would not die. Here it is that the Dream Persona realizes its Immortality. There is something of a paradox involved. Just at the stage in Life where the Waking Self acquires a sense of its own Mortality, so it is at approximately the same time the Dream Persona realizes its Immortality. But only if you have the intuition to turn on the Danger and be Killed by it... and then the courage and steadfastness to lie dead for 20 seconds without being so frightened or disturbed that you wake up before you come back to life.