Do you blame God for your nightmares?

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Waking up in a sweat and possibly screaming? Some magic that is.

ruveyn

My nightmares are always about school in one way or another. So I blame school.

I blame my nightmares on matthew mcconaughey, it scares me to death that people pay him to be in movies and that apparently other people are willing to pay to see him in a movie. Any time i hear about a new movie of his coming out, or pass one up channel surfing or see a commercial with a trailer for something with him in it I can count on having a nightmare that night.

Really? I had a lucid dream a few months ago. I decided to flying... that was awesome!! ! Then again I rarely remenber my dreams.

I no longer recall fancy nor terror in sleep. I sleep the sleep of the dead whenever I can actually get to sleep. I would wish it no other way.

The way to face your fears is to experience them in the fullest. To be in absolute control, a you seem to have managed is to cower in fear of the absolute horrors that the universe offers and never know what is there. Dreams offer the supreme experience that imaginative stories and films only timidly approach. Your whole attitude is one of total fear of knowing reality and you cower in your little safe spot like a dog chewing on a bone growling fiercely at the world and threatening absolute violence at anyone who comes near. Admittedly the universe is a cruel and unforgiving place but dreams offer the opportunity of looking at it straight, as scary as that might be.

I avoid pain and injury. How cowardly of me!

ruveyn

Jungian stuff and dream interpretation are perhaps pretty much my main obsession ... I never used to remember dreams at all so as a kid I was sure I never slept. One or two years into my first therapy I suddenly started to remember long clear dreams! I felt I was finally seeing a glimpse of the real "ME" .. I bought my first book on dreams and in it it was referred to Jung all the time. And ever since I feel the great J's thoughts and work crucial to me. To what extent I understand them

I feel it natural to await guidance from dreams in matters of big decisions. Also feeling inspired by Jung in this. I think he did that a lot himself. Wanted an OK from the dreams before going ahead in major matters. Seen in that perspective I guess a nightmare is only an especially important or dramatic message from the land of dreams.

Hmm... I have to agree with Henriksson, I blame school for my bad ones. (The ones I understand anyway. ^^)

Favorite one is when I fly. (Still hoping that one day I'll wake up with functional wings. )