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Beating Myself Up in My Dreams ~ Good Lord What's Next?
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<blockquote data-quote="trinityroyal" data-source="post: 575823" data-attributes="member: 3907"><p>Barbara and RM, first off, many hugs to both of you. Sending strength your way to deal with these struggles. It's astonishing what can come forward in dreams, and how the vivid ones stay with us for so long.</p><p></p><p>Barbara, it's interesting that you mention entering your dreams and changing the outcomes. I've always been able to do this. Until recently I thought everyone could, but realized it's not that common. I was a very anxious child, surrounded by people who didn't understand me at all. It wasn't an abusive environment, so much as a neglectful one. I was left to my own devices pretty-much to raise myself. Being an at-the-time undiagnosed aspie, life was strange and confusing, and I had recurring, vivid dreams. </p><p></p><p>One I still remember is being at my school, lying down in the cubby where we all used to keep our lunch boxes. The cubby was quite deep, and I was tucked way in the back in shadow where no one could find me. I LOVED that dream and felt so safe. I had lots of other dreams where monsters of various sorts would chase me, and I couldn't run fast enough or fight hard enough to keep them at bay. One night, in my dream, I ran away from the monsters and hid in the lunch box cubby. I used the boxes to hit the monsters until they left me in peace. At that point I realized that I had some power over the images in my mind, or "pictures behind my eyes" as easy child used to call them when he was little.</p><p></p><p>Ever since then, if I'm having a dream the unsettles me, I go into it and change it. Sometimes all I can accomplish is to shake the sleeping me awake so that I stop dreaming such horrible things. But other times I've been able to affect the action within the dream itself. Dream-Trinity is like a little elf, a but like Tinkerbell (but without the tarty outfit) who can flit around, whisper in ears, move things around etc. Dream-Trinity can't do much, but even that little bit of control seems to help me feel more empowered over my dreams and my life in general.</p><p></p><p>I wonder if you meditate on it, you might be able to learn to do it? I don't know how I learned or I would explain.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="trinityroyal, post: 575823, member: 3907"] Barbara and RM, first off, many hugs to both of you. Sending strength your way to deal with these struggles. It's astonishing what can come forward in dreams, and how the vivid ones stay with us for so long. Barbara, it's interesting that you mention entering your dreams and changing the outcomes. I've always been able to do this. Until recently I thought everyone could, but realized it's not that common. I was a very anxious child, surrounded by people who didn't understand me at all. It wasn't an abusive environment, so much as a neglectful one. I was left to my own devices pretty-much to raise myself. Being an at-the-time undiagnosed aspie, life was strange and confusing, and I had recurring, vivid dreams. One I still remember is being at my school, lying down in the cubby where we all used to keep our lunch boxes. The cubby was quite deep, and I was tucked way in the back in shadow where no one could find me. I LOVED that dream and felt so safe. I had lots of other dreams where monsters of various sorts would chase me, and I couldn't run fast enough or fight hard enough to keep them at bay. One night, in my dream, I ran away from the monsters and hid in the lunch box cubby. I used the boxes to hit the monsters until they left me in peace. At that point I realized that I had some power over the images in my mind, or "pictures behind my eyes" as easy child used to call them when he was little. Ever since then, if I'm having a dream the unsettles me, I go into it and change it. Sometimes all I can accomplish is to shake the sleeping me awake so that I stop dreaming such horrible things. But other times I've been able to affect the action within the dream itself. Dream-Trinity is like a little elf, a but like Tinkerbell (but without the tarty outfit) who can flit around, whisper in ears, move things around etc. Dream-Trinity can't do much, but even that little bit of control seems to help me feel more empowered over my dreams and my life in general. I wonder if you meditate on it, you might be able to learn to do it? I don't know how I learned or I would explain. [/QUOTE]
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