Interpreting Nightmares
That Nightmare You Just
Can’t Shake
Ever wake up in the middle of the night from a bad
dream, and you just can’t shake its shadow? Some times does it that
haunting feeling stick with you for the rest of the day? Even after
you’ve told yourself a million times “it’s just a dream”?
Nightmares are the domain of the subconscious. When
you go to sleep at night your conscious mind takes a break, check out
for the evening. Then your subconscious kicks in and goes to work to
process all kinds of information your conscious just never got to
because it was so busy managing waking life. (Learn all about how the
mind works in
Life Shaping)
When you have a nightmare you’re working through
left over fears, things that aren’t simple and easy for your conscious
mind to resolve, and occasionally you are experiencing a glimmer of the
future with a message to help you.
During the day your conscious mind is very pre
occupied with your Ego. Your Ego has a very important job. The most
important as far as it’s concerned! That is to make things ok. All day
long, every moment of everyday
Ego is making sure that your mental, emotional, physical self image
and view of life is being maintained. That takes up a lot of you mental
and emotional energy and is actually draining, but it is all Ego knows
to do (learn all about the Ego and how it works in
Life Shaping). So you do it…all day long, no wonder you need to
check out and sleep for the night.
The subconscious doesn’t have to worry about making
things ok and making sense of it all, to fit your view. Your
subconscious doesn’t need logic. It works off of a different system.
Your subconscious uses the language of association to do its work. Its
job is to work with all the unresolved issues and use what you associate
to try to solve the puzzle.
For instance, I had a dream that felt like a
nightmare to me and left me out of sorts for a good portion of the day.
I dreamed I was back home, and on my land some one had built a small
village of buildings. In one of the buildings a holistic fair was going
on with vendors. My concern was who sponsored all this, and felt they
had the right to use my land, and make money doing so, yet I was
impressed with their ingenuity and thought they were doing a good thing.
Still I was left very uneasy about it. My solution was to go visit the
vendors, get to know them and how they’re doing business in the
community, then ask them how they got into doing this fair, which would
lead me to the “whom” that set it up.
The puzzle my subconscious was trying to solve was
the journey I am presently on. I am trying to find a place to call home,
and expand my business in that community. My subconscious setting up the
hypothetical fair, on my old home land, was a scenario made of
associations. The land was from the home I grew up on, and the fair of
holistic vendors were my association of business peers.
My subconscious was really running a drill. “Here
is the test run…what are you going to do?” My fears of moving onto a new
location and having to build a new personal, and professional life,
provided a need for practice. Scary, but better to face it in a dream
first, before dealing with it in real life. That was what the left over
issue my subconscious wanted to take care of.
When you have a disturbing dream you want to ask
yourself “what was really bothering me”? What was the situation that was
making you uncomfortable? Then identify what the core fear (learn what
the five core fears are in
Life Shaping) was that had you unnerved.
You have dreams and nightmares so you can continue
to learn and grow. That is what “being human” is all about, day and
night. If a dream leaves you uncomfortable it is just trying to teach
you something. The trick is figuring out what it is trying to teach you.
If you use your subconscious’ language of “association”, you can figure
it out. You can learn from your fear so you can resolve what in life you
are really concerned about.
Your resolution lies in asking yourself a few more
questions and recognizing your associations.
For instance, as per my dream I identified my fear
as being “unaware” or feeling like I didn’t know what was going on
around me. I could immediately recognize the correlation to my present
situation going into set up shop in a new place.
The big point to remember in interpreting your
dream is to look at “how” you handled things in your dream. How did your
way of handling work? Did it make you feel good and did it produce the
results you were looking for?
Now here is the magic question….”If you were in
real life and had the opportunity to do it again, and be
successful….what would you do?”
The learning comes in your answer to that question.
How would you do things differently? That is the point of the dream. If
it was a nightmare you really want to pay attention to your learning
lesson, for it can turn a physical nightmare in life, into an easy dream
if you understand how it associates to your waking life.
Your dreams and your nightmares offer you insight
into the solutions to the dilemmas you face in your waking life. It is
up to you to learn to interpret their language of association and relate
it to your life. It is up to you to ask yourself the questions that
unfold the solution.
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