I have had many lucid dreams this year where the scene goes dark and I often feel a dark presence. At times this dark presence would cause me physical pain and this jolted me to wake up. It scared me at first and I tried to chase it away, I prayed to white light a few times and I even tried confronting it. The dark presence would leave for this particular dream, but the following week it would show up again in my next lucid dream. Finally, I decided to ask the dream what this was and it became clear to me that this was my shadow side. In the next dream I therefore welcomed it and asked it to show me what it was it was trying to tell me. The shadow presented itself as an ugly disfigured individual but it then gently took me by the hand and explained aspects of my character that needed to be embraced and accepted. So now when the lucid dream goes dark and it feels scary, I call out to it to show me what I need to see.

Amicus