Do you blame God for your nightmares?

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Do you blame God for your nightmares or do you realize that you are dreaming and take matters in your own hands. Do you ever think that life is like a dream? If lucid dreaming is tough, try real life. Oh yeah, dreams are meaningless like brain farts. haha So is life then...

I must say this OP is rather... confusing.

Anyway, I don't believe that this 'god' character exists, so no.

I blame even though many high paying 'Male philosophers" will tell you that there is mostly a scientific and logical basis for these reasons....no matter how much influential power one has toward another.

In a scenario I was threatened with a bullet now matter what I told my strupid "moral" family. The only ppl who act like they seem to understand this hard and difficult situation was my half brother and middle sister.

I still f*****g hate X -mases and I don't want my f*****g family to know. The only few ppl I tried to still tell or get away from at were idiots. I in fact no longer wanted nothing longer to do with my "sisters". They had stuck to their guns with so many addicts and as*holes, I no lonter caresd. I began to realize like most "roughtens"...no matter what you did you were still a loser. Still.....I wish there was something I could've done.

Yours always

Alice

The premise is a rather ridiculous idea. We cook up our own nightmares without any help from a Deity.

ruveyn

Joseph Campbell liked to refer to "the dreamer being surprised by the dream." I think he meant the mystery of the human mind, the subconscious etc. He said something about it being ourselves who make the dream, but we surprise ourselves (or frighten ourselves) with it.

Anyway, I agree with him. I use Jungian analysis of dreams, it makes the most sense to me.

Last night I dreamt I was trying to get ready for work, but my mother hid the soap, my brother hogged the shower, my sister insisted everything was just fine, then they gave me the soap and shampoo and shower but all broken, and then all my cousins were there too, also getting ready for work, and we tried to take a taxi but there were none - etc etc etc.

The thing is that if I figure out what that dream is trying to tell me, then it will go away and not come back some day as a nightmare. I believe that absolutely, it's been true so many times.

I can't say I even have nightmares...or at least what should qualify as such.

I have dreams. Some pleasant, some distressing. I find meaning and purpose behind all of them.

Why should I blame God for any of them?

No, I blame my stepdad for the ones I've been having recently. 10 years under his tyranny is enough to drive anyone bonkers.

Physical abuse for the first three years until I was strong enough to defend myself. Destruction of my property. Constant threats.


No, I don't blame God for nightmares, a man named Gary can take plenty of it though.

From my experience my nightmares mostly come from my hidden fears.

I have had some pretty horrible nightmares. Eaten alive by insects, drowning, falling to my death etc. And I have had some very amusing dreams. Flying, watching the universe collapse around me. And I have constructed pseudo versions of New York and Helsinki that I revisit and see some fantastic marvelous and highly detailed architecture. And dreams of fear, of being trapped in totalitarian states, of losing all my valuables, of failing at projects I am responsible for. All of these dreams are explorations of what if. They are useful to discover what I might do in different extreme circumstances. They are a way of thinking out all sorts of solutions and emotions.

I blame my nightmares on my diet (not deity) - whenever I eat too much before going to bed I have really weird and scary dreams :p