Thread: Constant Dreams of painful tickling

Well I could only give you advise for recurring dreams. There are generally two ways of solving recurring dreams. The first is to face whatever it is that's attacking you. I know you said you become paralyzed so it does sound more difficult but I would say you have a moment where you know everything is about to go wrong and you could run up to that guy and grab him. I'd advise turning him around and shout something like "What the fuck do you think you're doing". I had a recurring nightmare about a witch chasing me at my primary school. She'd fly around in the air leaving a black trail of smoke hysterically cackling. Needless to say it was terrifying. However I solved it because she came down and faced me. Generally this is where I would look away and curl into a ball paralyzed but I turned around and looked directly into her eyes. She had a long nose and I remembered my grandad telling me that if anyone ever bothers me to hit them in the nose. It hurts and it won't stop bleeding for a long time. So I swung at her face and broke her nose. Moral of that story, I don't get that dream anymore. Not the exact one anyway and the others I've had far less often and they don't come back.

The other way to solve any nightmare at all is to learn how to force yourself to wake up. I just close my eyes and tense my head like all the muscles in my forehead and face. I just force myself to wake up. Whenever I get the feeling "Oh shit, everything is about to go very very wrong." I do it and just avoid the problem entirely. The downside is that you still get the dream if it's recurring and it doesn't always work 100% effectively if it's late.

I would say to get angry about it, be mad. It's your head and they have no right to disturb you, tell them get fuck away from you.