Thread: Attempting to speak to my subconscious mind. (Got DARK fast)

If you talk to your subconscious and you get something dark, that's your subconscious telling you that your head is in a dark place! Even if you don't notice it!
This is an encouragement to start thinking more positive. You're torturing yourself. It can be difficult to get out of patterns of torturing yourself, I know because I've been there. But it all starts with opening yourself up to positivity!

Originally Posted by slash112

If you talk to your subconscious and you get something dark, that's your subconscious telling you that your head is in a dark place! Even if you don't notice it!

Yeah, or possibly this. Negative expectations can turn dream imagery nightmarish—and that could be the case here. Again, I wouldn’t think a simple inquiry would receive such a dramatic response, and that would be consistent with negative expectations at work. But, as with pretty much everything that have the potential of helping us, working with dreams has the potential to hurt us as well, and anyone who’s trying to explore the deeper levels of the psyche ought to be aware of that going in.

I strongly suspect the psyche has its own ways of keeping our conscious selves from unintentionally causing damage when our power exceeds our knowledge, and pretty robust ones. (In part because I was constantly rubbing up against them when my own explorations were in their early stages—but that’s another story.) As lucid dreamers, or aspiring ones, I’m sure the training of most of us here have undergone was heavily focused on how to achieve greater control over our dreams—that is, power. Which is just fine as long as we see ourselves as playing around in a self-created simulation, but if it’s meaningful intra-psychic interaction we’re trying for, we’re playing by a different set of rules. But I don’t want to write an essay here—just draw attention to something that might otherwise get overlooked.