Thread: subconscious, psychoanalysis and dreams

hey i'm new.

i recently started having hypno therapy and my therapist who is also a powerful reiki healer asked me to remember something quite painful. i remembered my 21st birthday party. i was living in a 3 room basement apt. at the time with 7 other people and it was a pretty chaotic place to live. at the party were other friends and some people were on mushrooms. i was absolutely wasted on buckfast, a tonic wine that is about 1/3 alcohol, 1/3 caffene and 1/3 sugar. it makes me violent and angry. i remembered that my friend who was on mushies broke my coffee maker. i stomped on the broken glass in my bare feet and ran from the apartment down a lane. while i was in the land i began weeping and had the most empty, desperate feeling. i was crying for my mother who had died 6 years previously when i was 15. i wanted to know why she left me.
during the hypnosis, my therapist asked me to imagine that my mother was in the lane with me and to ask her whatever i wanted to know. i asked her the question and she answered.
after the session, my therapist told me that my mother would come to me in a dream and that she had a present she wanted to give me. the therapist said that that message had come from my mother and that she had felt my mother's energy in the room during the session.
i went home and began keeping my dream diary. three nights after the therapy i had sleep paralysis. i've been having it since i was 12 and a few times i have had lucid dreaming triggered by dream signals, usually electricity, like a fuse board or an electric shock. every time i become lucid it soon becomes paralysis.
i'm wondering if anyone could help me. i think this is my mother telling me to face my fears. if i can face the demons of sleep paralysis maybe i can get some answers and recieve the gift from my mother?? any help would be greatly appreciated!! thanks.

Welcome to DV!

Unfortunately, I can't help you. I hope someone else can. Maybe your therapist can?...

yeah she will, i think you misunderstood what kind of help i was asking for. i'm not upset or feeling depressed or anything, i'm just trying to figure something out.
basically i wondered if anyone else on here had any experience of "healing" through dreams.
i was also looking for info on sleep paralysis and people's interpretations of it. my hare krisna friend believes that it is ghosts or demons feeding off the energies that we give out. i think that it is our own negative emotions bubbling up, but i'm not too sure. i was really looking for people who had a greater understanding of this stuff to talk with because i have had some pretty intense sleep paralysis experiences and experienced lucidity by accident. i'm now begining to realise that maybe it wasn't accidental and that i need to learn more.
i would also like to know from experienced dreamers, what benefits lucid dreaming and such has brought to their lives, other than fun dreams or greater control or fighting night stalkers? has it enabled anybody out there in any other ways? i find this stuff pretty fascinating, but there is a lot of random stuff on this forum to dredge through to find info.
i've read a lot of castenadas books, but not "the art of dreaming"....i'm currently reading "out of body experiences" by janet mitchell. can anyone reccomend any other reading material that is beneficial for understanding this stuff?

sleep paralysis is something I have since I knew myself.
It can be pretty frightened if you don't know what it is.

Actually it is very easy to explain:
Your body is already asleep, while your mind is awake.
Hell yes, it is a weird feeling! But that's all.

Please for your owns sake, stick to the books which are taught in schools and universities.
I know you may feel insulted now, but forget all this mumbo jumbo from reiki and similar esoteric stuff.

You can heal yourself in your dreams, that's plausible. Everything else is far fetched and belongs more to religious thinking.

Stick to the facts and leave a "but maybe..." in the background.

take care

no not insulted, i'm already aware of your explanation of what sleep paralysis is, and sorry those 10 words are not enough for me. i would like to ask if you have ever experienced any "mumbo jumbo" like reiki? it's not really esoteric...and i'm agnostic...don't believe in "religion". i believe that there is more to this universe than what we can see or rationally explain, and i'm interested in discourse not advice. oh. and honesty.

honesty swings with every word I say.
You got your answer to my point of view in term of "sleep paralysis", which is by the way an experience it took me 30 years to find out, before I read about it in some books.
It is just that and nothing more, if you're comfty with putting other meanings into it, I'm fine. All I offered you was what you asked for: the info and explanation of some other people.

I also gave you my experience and oppinion an healing yourself in dreams.

If you are interested in OBE, please check this site: http://www.lucidcrossroads.co.uk/

I think there you'll find more answers.

take care

Originally Posted by dweezil

...basically i wondered if anyone else on here had any experience of "healing" through dreams...

Yes, absolutely! True healing occurs in the psyche and dreams are a very promising place for that to be able to happen.

Regarding the SP - I definitely think you should regard that as an opportunity. As far as the "nasties" - We could probably debate and speculate and theorize for quite a while about what they are and never all agree, but I think the consensus would be that they can't hurt you, that it is only a matter of overcoming your fear.