I am so sorry you are going through a difficult waking and dreaming life. |
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Hi. |
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I am so sorry you are going through a difficult waking and dreaming life. |
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I agree with Slash. I've experienced with what I feel is terrible night anxiety that I had to overcome little by little. However, if you keep in mind what slash mentioned you can still have a great lucid dreaming experience despite the fears. Although, there have been times when I couldn't focus on lucid dreaming because my anxiety had kept me up. At that time my sleep was more important so I just relaxed and thought positively about the good non lucid dreams that were to come. Even if an anxiety dream popped up I accepted it as a sign of my fear and found ways to diminish the scary parts into mediocre or funny parts. Its kind of how in scooby doo the gang is all afraid and running around till they uncover that its all special effects and just a guy in the mask. Reminding myself of all the other wonderful dreams I had before helps too. |
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DawnEye11: I love that way of looking at it. Could make the scary parts seem more trivial, creating a comedic twist to them. |
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I'll tell ya a wee story then. |
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That sounds like a very frightening experience, especially since it doesn't sound like a typical dream. Very impressive that you faced it so directly though, I think many people would do the opposite. I will write this down, just need to have determination and some real confidence in it, I suppose. |
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I have had many frightening experiences. But facing them head-on has always saw me through it very well. And this always affects me extremely positively. |
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Hey Humla, sorry to hear about your nightmares. A lot of good replies on here. |
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Hi Goldenspark, thanks for the reply. |
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If you are worried about lucid dreaming in your current state of mind, maybe just give it a rest for a while and concentrate on positive affirmation to try and ease yourself away from your nightmares. Perhaps try mediating last thing before going to sleep for about ten minutes or so, and tell yourself that you will have happy, positive dreams. If you try to imagine yourself actually in one of those dreams, it should bleed over into your dream experience. Hopefully you will see an improvement, then you can get back to thinking more about lucid dreaming, knowing that you won't be having lucid nightmares. |
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Goldenspark: Great idea. The last time I had a lucid nightmare (a few days ago) I actually meditated for ca 30-40 minutes before falling asleep, but I wasn't necessarily thinking positively. Might have even come across some negative stuff online earlier that day, so that might have affected me on some level. |
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I have another question related to this. If I have one of those terrible nightmares, should I still write them down? Is it possible my mind will focus on more positive dreams in the future if I don't try to remember the bad ones? Wishful thinking maybe, but sometimes I read my dream journal when practicing LD, and the nightmares can give off a more eerie vibe when reading them. |
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There's actually two different ways you could look at that. |
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I think it honestly depends on what's causing the nightmares, or what they're symbolizing. If they can be successfully interpreted and it's discovered that they contain symbols pointing to some psychological issues that can be worked out, then by all means proceed that way. But if they're just from stress then probably best to forget them and work on developing more positive habits of thinking. Apparently one avenue for depression is simply that people develop bad habits of negative thinking, though of course it could also be caused by psychological issues or chemical imbalances. The thing about dreams is, often you don't need to interpret them - they can still create the transcendent function and bring growth and healing even without interpreting them, though if they are caused by psychological issues then interpreting them can obviously help to diagnose the issues and point the way toward healing. |
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Slash112: I was thinking about what you said about facing my fears when I made that post and felt that it was conflicting, without a doubt. And I know I do need to work on facing them, so I think I will try that for a while, and see if I get anything out of it. Confront it and then ''leave it''. |
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Ah, ok - I see where you're coming from. Yeah, I've learned a lot of the same lessons when it comes to modern medical science and the scams it promotes in the name of making money. What I've found is that you can't just trust a doctor or a hospital - you want to go online and do some serious deep research. If there's a scam or something that you're being led into you might be able to find message boards where people have discussed it at great length and sometimes people have found the solutions. Often the solution is not even known to doctors, who these days aren't taught anything about natural remedies or healthy living - they're simply taught a list of symptoms and which medications to prescribe for them - they don't really even learn about exercise and proper nutrition anymore. They've essentially become pushers for big pharma companies and they're being dumbed down in the medical schools. But the real wisdom is online in secret little enclaves of message boards. If you do enough googling and following obscure links to other discussions, you can often find the info you need. So you might be able to find some cure for whatever poison they put into you that way? Often other people who have had the same problems have already done massive research and laid out their findings online, sometimes after desperately self-experimenting. |
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Darkmatters: Spot on, I agree with everything you said. It's nice to see someone who gets it. What's a shame is that I thought I had done the research before I took this medication, I read a lot before actually going into it. Still there is so much on the surface to go through (articles and sites that repeats what the doctors say, usually) until you by chance or luck find those message boards as you said, that will give you some really important information. But in my case it was very late, too late in a sense. |
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I know, it is off topic, but it was an example of how finding info online helped me in a somewhat similar context, plus I think it's important for info like this to be posted somewhere so people can see it before it's too late in their case. Though I do understand many people would just call me a conspiracy theorist, until they or someone they know experiences it. At least if they've already read about it then they can have an idea of what to do. Unfortunately for most people they don't discover info like this until as you said, it is too late. I was very lucky in that what I experienced was painful and was getting worse, but I was able to learn and change my habits in time. I wish there was a way we could get the info out so people can learn the truth about these institutions they naively trust. |
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Absolutely, I think it's important as well and don't mind it at all. It's up to other people how they want to take it, but I think a few thousand people with similar experiences might change their mind, if they take the time to look it up. |
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In regards to positive thinking: |
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Very nice thought, I think I will borrow that one for when I need it. |
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Indeed one should be grateful for oneself. It can even start with "I exist!" or "I Am!" These are extremely powerful mantras, in fact. Pick one. Random times through the day, just take a moment to say to yourself "I Am..." or "I exist...", nothing else, just that, then move on. Heck, if you wanted, you could even take a moment to sit and absorb yourself into the mantra. Really feel it when you say "I Am". |
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I will try that! Thank you for the advice. I think I heard a similar phrase in a meditation practice that I did a few years ago. |
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Yeah it's very popular in meditation circles and spiritual circles. The reason is because "I Am" gets to the core of your very being. |
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