The Psychology of Nightmares
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- Nightmares. We all have them. But what exactly do they mean? Why do we have bad dreams? Is there any psychological meaning behind them? Nightmares are the source of much of the horror we see in stories, myths, movies and games. They are an encounter with the dark side of the unconscious, which often includes facing some of the most painful aspects of who we are. And one does not know what that part of oneself is, until one confronts it.
Nightmares are the most substantial and vitally important dreams, and are of therapeutic value. They wake us up with a cry, as if all our repressed content forms a bubble which expands until it bursts one night, and we experience a nightmare. They are the shock therapy nature uses on us when we are too unaware of some psychological danger, and shock us out of deep unconscious sleepiness about some dangerous situation. As if the unconscious says, “Look here, this problem is urgent!” The psyche tells us to “wake up” and face what we have neglected. The majority of nightmares represent opportunities for personal healing through much-needed emotional release.
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- Jones, E. (1910). On the nightmare. American Journal of Psychiatry, 66(3), 383-417.
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⌛ Timestamps
(0:00) Introduction
(3:00) Dream-Motifs in Nightmares
(3:37) Lilith: The First Nightmare
(5:07) The Origin & Folklore of Nightmares
(9:09) Non-REM Sleep (Night Terrors)
(10:36) REM Sleep (Nightmares)
(11:43) Nightmare in Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment
(15:40) Fever Dreams and Franz Kafka
(17:36) Post-Traumatic Nightmares and Recurring Nightmares
(19:00) Precognitive Nightmares
(20:36) Carl Jung and The Meaning of Dreams
(26:07) The Shadow and Nightmares
(28:32) The Devouring Mother Archetype
(30:39) Active Imagination
(33:08) Lucid Dreaming
(36:14) Nightmares and Artists
(37:40) Nightmare Artists: Beksiński and Giger
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I don't know why anyone would steal this. It's utter garbage and just lies.
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Whats my dream meant to mean i get chased by 2 entities in a dark half way where i get out into a forrest of the abbadonde house i hide behind a bush but i wasnt alone in the dream my best frend was there we both were running away but he went a different way in the end one of the entities tries to kill me or kills me after finding me a last hope that my frend is still alive was all i was thinking befor the end
My mom was placed in a 3 month coma following losing her arm and nearly her life in a catastrophic car accident. She said she was in a constant cycle of nightmares and says the coma was more traumatic than the wreck, she remembers less about the wreck than the coma, and I believe her. A regular nightmare can put a pall over you for a week, i can't imagine constantly for months.
This is so scary. I couldn’t imagine. I hope she’s healing❤️
@@lareinabrown yeah she's better now. The brain damage was the thing that took a long time for her to recover from. She was pretty mentally deficient afterwards and is now back to a relatively normal state. They say brain damage doesn't heal but your brain definitely finds ways to adapt if that's the case.
Damn, I can't even begin to imagine. I'm glad she's doing better now. Much love to you and your family.
Liar. Stop lying on public platforms
@@spookyskelly5276 well said!!!!
“The dream is a little hidden door in the innermost and most secret recesses of the soul, opening into that cosmic night which was psyche long before there was any ego-consciousness” -Jung
We don't have to learn this from a woman 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
Hmm
or the brain. not the one in my plate tho. it cannot dream anymore.
let me dream why i buy dead animal by the tousand.
my right to dream while i remove their right to live
nvm animal dont have right to live, or not be forece impregnated without concent by the billions every years
but my dreams are more important than cruelty in my dinner.. before my dream.
as long as i dont dream, a nightmare, about the victim in my nutrition, that i daily support
I always sleep with my door closed, and the TV on. It helps keep the shadow man out of my room. But sometimes.....sometimes.....he still makes his way in.
@@jaythenihilist4689 😅
My worse nightmares are the ones where i am stressed out about being late to work, or missing an exam in college, and worrying about failing and being a failure in life. Waking up is always so relieving.
Your worst nightmare is not making it on time for your appointment with an apparatus of control. Thank goodness you get to wake up and Goto work for them to sit around and accumulate
Yeah, I'm currently 20 and have been having those nightmares since childhood...
My nightmare is having to go to work
@@zxera9702 god what age did you start working lol
Yeah why is this a common experience lol.
Picked this one for my sleep ambience tonight, happy nightmares everyone
Same
Pleasant screams🌙
I had a recurring nightmare as a child (think I was 8 years old) that I think encapsulates the point in the video about "confronting monsters" in a nightmare:
I was walking up a stone, narrow staircase (like I was in a tower) such that I could not see much beyond what was in front of me. Then a "monster" would appear before me (like Frankenstein or Dracula from black and white movies), and I would retreat and move back downstairs so I would end up in a dark basement. While I could not see much in that dark setting, I felt being surrounded by various monsters and woke up terrified.
Eventually, after having this dream numerous times, I thought of turning on a light in that room. Once the light came on and I could see everything clearly, the room full of monsters started dancing around like it was a party. Instead of fear, the mood shifted immediately to happiness and instead of wanting to escape I was enjoying the experience.
As an middle aged adult (46) this dream still seems profound to me in that fear is something to be confronted. Instead of presuming the worst case scenario, perhaps turning on a light to the situation (see things clearly) can show that what appears to be initially scary could actually end up being a fun experience.
Once again, thanks Eternalised for another thought provoking experience!
We all had similar experiences, i think that nightmares are generally similar in persons
Lights can't be switched in in dreams ...fact
@@netcurtains What is the source for this "fact"? How can any one person validate and be in a position to say what happened in another's dream? Unless you were one of those monsters from that dream way back in 1980 something...
This reminds me of the story "Where the Wild Things are" the book and movie where a little boy runs away from home and plays with gigantic hairy monsters on an Island
@@covenawhite4855 I do think I was at least familiar with the book by then, so mix that influence/inspiration with the aforementioned storyline presented in maybe a MTV music video format and there it is!
I struggle with incredibly graphic nightmares (bloody to put it lightly) and it is a crazy thing to wake up from something like that. The panic and the feeling that I’m not safe lingers
Stand firm in that no one or no thing (but God) can remove you from the grand or grotesque seat of existence.
Dissociate yourself with even your own fear, and just observe things without the understanding that it is either good or bad.
Same…. Last one was very vivid and extreme. I have been smoking Cannabis for years and it’s almost as if the weed has held back my dreams and when I stopped for two months I had trouble sleeping because I had these intense nightmares where I was literally living other peoples horrifying lives.
@@jackieclaps5575 unfortunately for me i smoke like a chimney and STILL dream, but apparently im not supposed to be able to.
@@jackieclaps5575happened with me too after quitting weed shit was scary but they went away
@@jackieclaps5575weed absolutely suppresses dreams, there’s some interesting studies on it! I’ve used it for a long time partly due to this reason because I suffer from awful nightmares. When I had to quit from being pregnant (pregnancy dreams are already crazy af because of the hormorones), they came back with a vengeance. SO vivid and real, and very lengthy.
I only have nightmares. I can’t remember ever having a dream that was pleasant, or even just Not Stressful. I’m diagnosed bipolar and have often wondered if my relentless nightmares are considered part of that pathology, but most therapists only want to talk about conscious life, not the absurd world of dreams. It’s crazy to think of what a mystery dreams still are.
my friend who has bipolar said the same about frequent nightmares. you're not alone. health articles say there is a link aswell.
I'm sorry to hear that for you it sucks ik :(.I've currently been stuck in a cycle of nightmares every night has been for at least 4months now I'm 14 years old and don't know what to do any advice.
The dream world exists…
I get followed and can never get away no matter how hard i try to hide or run, i usually end up getting killed in a brutal manner and then somehow i am once again back in the chase, to then get killed again, head chopped off, impaled on a fence, bee attack, spear through chest, usually i die multiple times each night. Depending on how much it scares me I can wake up but when I fall asleep again for some reason i am being chased by the same things instead of being in a new dream, it can be exhausting
I seem to always be running from something or someone, i do enjoy it but it can be tiring and stressful
Also when i die a lot of the time i see myself from a grusome 3rd person view and when i wake up i can feel the pain on my physical body where i was hit/hurt
maybe its not as easy as it seems but you need to confront whatever is making you terrified in the dream that has you labeling it as a nightmare, life is all about how you think about things, i love things that are considered terrifying but thats because i think its interesting like for example watching a comedy for me is usually boring but a horror movie has me wondering whats going to happen next, its all about how you think about it so next time you go to sleep be interested in how the dream is making you scared and become that thing. I don’t get nightmares my nightmares get me
Psilocybin mushrooms healed me . I can't explain it but my experience has been spiritual and eye opening . I also started micro dosing . It really helped me get rid of depression and anxiety .
I've been looking to get my hands on shrooms for my anxiety and stress levels . Any one knows where I can source ?
@@Helen-sz2ocYes dr.johnsonshroom 0:03
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@@Alex-ik9pdYes he's Dr.johnsonshroom 0:02
I've always found my nightmares to be fascinating. I prefer them to normal dreams, mostly because they tend to be more bizarre.
I tend to dream in black and white. My nightmares are in color. And I can remember some dreams from childhood. It is extremely mind blowing we can dream.
I relate to this.
i have frequent dreams of my ex they make me feel sick and disgusting but i secretly enjoy them idk why tho it’s weird
You don't have real nightmares then
@@Brutalismus_ They still make me jolt up in a cold sweat, sometimes with pillows and blankets thrown about. I just think they're interesting
Razkolnikov's dream still makes my stomach hurt to think about. One of the most vivid and brutal scenes in literature, even if its contents are relatively tame. The old mare, brutalized by ignorant and broken men. Horrible.
I swear I had to rewind 3 times cause I heard "fucking the mare", and was finally like "OOOOH... FLOGGING the mare."
Yes very sad
FR makes me want to cry LOL embrassing since its a fake dream but wtvs
Same, it really makes the heart ache. I recall seeing that humans generally have a greater response to animal suffering because of the sheer helpless, (like how we hurt more seeing a child hurt than adult). The idea of the mare helplessly trapped not just physically while enduring such a pitiful, painful end, but the helpless we know she can't understand why her master and these strangers are doing such a thing and the inability to comprehend it. My eyes sting just thinking about it.
@@mspaint93 I think also something to do w it being like drunk men really upsets me LMAO
In 2013, my mom was killed in a drunk driving accident. (Only hurt herself, nobody else was harmed.) 13 at the time, did not get to see her at her funeral - as all the damage went to her face. However, I was given a very detailed description of what my mom looked like. One of my first nightmares since was of the entire accident played out, and seeing my mothers face up close. Woke me up, and immediately felt a coldness run from my shoulder down to my hand. I’ve had many other nightmares, but that has never left me.
I'm sorry for your loss. That sounds horrifying.
Spirit maybe
@@jasmine31507please help please I can’t do it
Why would someone give you a detailed description of your mom's damaged face? That seems pretty cruel. Sounds like they were trying to give you nightmares.
I am so sorry and I pray she is in heaven . Sending you my love and prayers .
Man, the amount of tooth loss dreams I've had... I got chills when you mentioned that
do you have a time stamp
Bruh I swear. I have these dreams that me teeth just fall out one by one. And I will be in complete normal situations in the dream and I wake up really feeling like I’m missing that tooth. There’s never any blood or pain. It just falls out
@@Jerseyhoogie714i have it too but not often. I have Normal Drama Like iam at work and all the sudden i find myself in a high place like a ledder or a high building and i cant get down and If i try i fall and then usually i wake up on Impact. I have Sometimes the feeling i know its a Dream and that the Impact wont hurt me. Its wierd.
Super Weird thing that I just experienced. I've always had these type of dreams among others and just recently got socked up and had my teeth busted in. Feels like a premonition especially because the feeling felt exactly the same as my in my dreams
I have this crazy dream at least once a month of me running from something and then ending with this woman half of her face is ugly and the other half is so beautiful and her body is too she always tries to seduce me as well as other kinky things.
This morning I woke up from a deep sleep and starting contemplating dreams vs nightmares in more detail than I ever have. Then, a few hours later I see that this video. Everything always makes so much sense
SAME!!! It is incredible in general how I've been having thoughts lately that turn into full fledged videos talking about what was previously on my mind. It's uncanny and I bet you see it a lot too!
@@kg_nyconly on this channel tho. Pretty much every video he releases makes sense at that time
It does, doesn't it?
Had dream too weird
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For the first time in my life I stopped running in my dreams. I confronted what I was running for. This feels like a huge breakthrough.
me too i just started doing this i’ll face whatever i’m running from
Nine ten Freddie’s coming for you
I did it the second time I encountered my sleep paralysis demon. I confronted the demon and I immediately woke up only to find myself floating above my bed and being thrown brutally across my room. That's when I really woke up...
@@AngelGabriel-xm2opthat’s actually so interesting. I’ve only had one sleep paralysis moment where I saw a man standing by my bedside. I couldn’t imagine what that felt like, did it feel like you were 100% being thrown (like you could feel the force of the air breezing by you,) or was it kinda of fuzzy??
I could only stop the devil by calling on the name of Jesus. I knew when I was about to be attacked in my dream, I would flick a lightswitch, and nothing happens. I then knew the attack was coming
The scariest dreams are when they are extremely vivid. Quit smoking weed after a few years and let the nightmares begin
Smoke bud daily got nothing at all against it but it’s because weed blocks you from getting REM sleep which is where you have majority if not all dreams
When I was with my abusive ex I always had nightmares. I found out several years later many of those dreams were real - he cheated several times. When I left I still had nightmares for a while - and then nothing. I didn't dream for a long time - I think maybe this was a way of my mind protecting me from more nightmares. 2 years later I finally have pleasant dreams. This video made me cry it hit very close to home and it felt almost healing. Thank you for your videos!
I relate to this so much. My ex was abusive physically, financially, mentally, and emotionally. He beat me up and cheated on me at least once a month in our two year relationship. I was mentally so unstable I began to have nightmares every night, so i stopped sleeping because i was so scared and thats when i began to have major sleep paralysis when i would try to sleep. I was always exhausted. Its been almost a year of me being single now and i still get scared he’s sleeping next to me in my room.
@@mewtwo6784 I'm so sorry to hear that. It takes so much strength to leave so you deserve to be proud of how far you've come. You may feel alone but please know it will get better. Finding new friends helped me a ton and going no contact with my abuser. It took a while for the nightmares to go away but they did eventually go away. I take 2 magnesium and a zinc before bed - this helps a lot with mood and will ease you into sleep better.
Wishing you much love, peace and healing on your journey 🙏💕
@@a1i_star thank you 😭🩷
I remember multiple nightmares from my childhood. I had a few that were morbidly complex and horrifying. I grew up in an unsafe environment, and I know that was a big influencing factor. The back and forth pain like that for years was awful.
Here’s to anyone struggling the same.
I almost never have nightmares, my waking reality is more anxiety causing.
I remember how i was holding a grudge against my best friend. When dreaming i told her all things i wanted to say but after i had a deep regret and was asking for forgiveness, cried a lot. But then i woke up, i was so relieved!!! I decided it was a lesson. So i stopped being negative and appreciated her even more. To this day i never argue with her. She is my best friend of 14 years and we are both almost 21
I have had recurring nightmares, night terrors, lucid dreams, and even lucid nightmares on multiple occasions. While i associate a lot of it with trauma, as I do suffer from c-PTSD, i always felt like dreams while not always pleasant were always meaningful. It's like a small universe in your mind, a way for you to speak with yourself, in the deepest and most intimate way possible. While it may not stop the nightmares, I found that loving yourself, giving yourself the acceptance, forgiveness and compassion that you crave from others goes a long way in helping you weather the storm. Be strong, it can get better
Even after nearly two decades out of the military.
....i still have dreams so realistic that I wake up drenched in sweat with bruises and bloody noses, feeling completely exhausted.
But I have to say, that psychedelics legit saved my life, and that without psilocybin.... I probably wouldn't be alive.
Having nightmares was a frequent and unpleasant thing for me. But once I learned to live the nightmare as if it weren't happening, nightmares became extremely interesting. Registering them the moment I wake up helps to soften even more the strong emotions experienced when I was unconscious. I have been doing this and have started to use my own nightmares as literary material for fantastic short stories. What bothers me now is not having nightmares.
Funny how things turn out.
Thats exactly what I was going through. I remember being younger and having different kinds of nightmares (repeating nightmares, bizzare fever dreams and very vivid and specific nightmares) who would scare me to the point that I feared sleeping.
But things changed when I started looking at them from the perspective od a learning place. Even though I feel intense emotions when I wake up, they are something that helps me examine my current mindset and the things hidden from my concious.
It may sound strange, but I wish I had more nightmares.
I stopped having nightmares when I started considering them a positive occurrence.
@@jason19twofouryou came to peace with your nightmares
As an active lucid dreamer for me entire life, finally reading some of Jung’s work in the past couple years has really helped me make sense of it all. I didn’t know it as active imagination, I called it wake induced lucid dreaming. I do it almost every night. The thoughts and conversations with my own psyche eventually become visual and start developing storylines, usually within 10-20 minutes depending. If you practice this I believe you all can do it as well. Most of the time you’ll be lucid, since you just closed your eyes not long ago after all.
I had a nightmare where my mom was working like she always does around the house and her guts were falling out and she was stuffing them back in and kept working and I was crying and telling her I'll clean the house or whatever and she kept saying no its okay I can do it by myself go rest
After I woke up from that I legit felt depressed for DAYSSS after that.
God Bless You & Your Mother & Stay safe & positive ❤️❤️❤️
I experienced sleep paralysis twice in my life and the first time it happened when I opened my eyes I saw my mother sitting on my chest suffocating me. She is the devouring mother, left me so deeply traumatised I don't even know if I can ever heal the wounds. Thank you, this was truly moving. I have CPTSD and nightmares were such a common occurrence well into my twenties.
We’re you imagining your mother?
Weed takes dreams away
@@Bambino_60 sounds like his mom was trying to kill him, crazy
Wait, your mum was trying to kill you or you were dreaming her???
@@notorious264 no, it was part of the dream.
Your videos feel like essays turned into a visual format which in my opinion is a great concept. Thanks for the effort you put in, I enjoy watching your videos and the insight they provide.
I will never forget this prophetic dream. On a Wednesday night about 15 yrs ago, I had a dream that my good friend said, " I have something to show you." she brought me to a casket containing my ex-boyfriend, who I hadn't seen in years. That morning I told my friend about the dream, as we worked together. Two days later, on Friday, I found out he passed away. Had I not told my friend that morning, no one would have believed me.
When I was younger I passed out and hit my head (not super hard) in the woods alone, I was found an hour later or so. But I cannot explain how many terrifying nightmares I had for months after that. They were very gruesome but some of them felt like a psychedelic trip
Hmmm, that's interesting. So you believe there's a correlation between you hitting your head and having these nightmares?
Almost like insidious??
You visited the spirit realm. The bad part of the spirit realm.
I have ONLY nightmares. I would say I have one or two good dreams in a year and the rest are horrible and very strange.
For example my father running after me with a knife. Me being horribly drunk and doing something bad. Me killing someone and trying to hide the body. Me being hunted by police. And on and on. I cant remember every one but they are equally terrible. I dont know why I have them, probably something to do with deep insecurities or fears which I have not confronted.
One recurring patterns in my dreams is that I always find myself in old hotels or old buildings (mainly hotels) and there are always people from different time periods there participating in whatever is happening in the dream.
I only have three types of nightmares now. 1. I’m being suddenly abandoned/rejected by someone I completely trust. 2. Someone I love has died. 3. I’ve killed someone, don’t remember doing it, and I’m about to go to prison. I guess those are my only real fears at this age. Abandonment, dying loved ones, and making an absent minded mistake that I can’t undo.
I often have dreams about my loved ones dying as well. The strange this is, I never die in my dreams.
i have ur third nightmare once every couple weeks/ months n shit horrifies me every time
I love nightmares! They are exhilarating; especially super realistic, vivid ones. It’s terrifying and I wake up sweaty but then relieved that it wasn’t real. But it’s like a cool, short, little scary movie that ACTUALLY scares me.
Weirdo
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@@Meeposaurus what?
Nah bro built different 💀
Just built different I guess 🫡
i want to mention how much i appreciate you listing your sources- along with their links in your descriptions. it gives so much more credibility to what you say and gives the opportunity to have an individual journey down learning it.
I’ve been looking for somewhere to share this true story of mine. Bit lengthy but hopefully should be interesting to some:
I ran (drove my car) away from my abusive fathers home in late 2020, come next January I was working just about every waking hour. Maybe for the last week or 2 leading up to one fateful night, I was getting this very frequent reoccurring dream; they could happen every time I would fall asleep in the space of minutes of each other. It was of me falling asleep at the wheel.
I would wake up at just the last moment before I would drive fully off course
Not only was I waking up in my nightmare, but I would wake up in real life as well. It was so vivid, the transition to reality was so seemless, and given the intensity of the situation without even thinking I would have this immediate almost involuntary reaction of trying to slam the brakes and correct the car back on track - only to realise after each near death experience with real emotions and the bodily reaction, that I had just dreamt that whole scenario, again and again and again. Next thing you know, that nightmare became reality in the exact same way I had dreamt of it countless times leading up to it. Was heading straight into a rail, woke up last second, reacted the same way, but this time the car was actually in motion and the car had indeed been totalled.
Made me question every dream or nightmare I could recall. Needless to say I have paid upmost attention to every dream and nightmare since that incident.
Kudos to those who made it to the end lol. Stay safe everyone
As someone avoiding my own nightmares and having been up for well over 24 hours....I appreciate this perspective dive into the mind. Most of my nightmares are about being abandoned, left all alone with just my own company.
@ThatVanceGuy 2:46 ❤
Same
I get followed and can never get away no matter how hard i try to hide or run, i usually end up getting killed in a brutal manner and then somehow i am once again back in the chase, to then get killed again, head chopped off, impaled on a fence, bee attack, spear through chest, usually i die multiple times each night. Depending on how much it scares me I can wake up but when I fall asleep again for some reason i am being chased by the same things instead of being in a new dream, it can be exhausting
I seem to always be running from something or someone, i do enjoy it but it can be tiring and stressful
Also when i die a lot of the time i see myself from a grusome 3rd person view and when i wake up i can feel the pain on my physical body where i was hit/hurt
@@THIRTEENTH13TH sounds like a shitty movie
@@THIRTEENTH13TH have you tried fighting back?
I never really have nightmares involving me anymore. Its always about something really bad happening to someone I care about and I can’t do anything to help them.
I have only had one truly frightening nightmare that re-occurred several times in my youth. Walking down a street alone I would look back and see a slender man in the distance. Every time I would glance back again he would be closer to me until I looked back again and he was running for me. In my panic a pipe would open up in the ground and I would slide down it belly first. This pipe would lead to my old home where I would walk up the stairs fearing the slender man would shortly follow me. In the first room up the stairs I would see my aunt lying on a bed with her stomach and chest open as a creature would pull out her guts and intestines. I would be horrified and frozen until the creature’s neck would snap towards my direction and I would close the door in fear I was next. As soon as the door closed the bathroom door on the 2nd level would upon up across the hall from where I was standing. An ugly witchy hag would be levitating slowly towards me. I tried to move again but I was completely frozen this time. I could not move my muscles as she approached. At this point I knew I was dreaming and I closed my eyes saying to myself “Wake up I am dreaming” but I would open my eyes and she was still closer. She was cackling like she knew I could not do anything. I could not even wake myself to leave. Her hair was down in front of her face. When she got to me she grabbed me and when I saw her horrifying face I woke up.
Yo dis man jus told a whole novel
Bro I believe you!!! When I was a kid I would always repeatedly say wake up wake up wake up anytime something had me in it's grip!
This is some creepypasta bullshit lmao
I am no dream interpreter, but I sense a common theme of feeling threatened by feminine characters. Did you ever at some point of your life experience some form of abuse or intimidation from a female? If so, you have a trauma that is now extending into your awake life. You see your aunty but but not your mother. That could imply either one of these characters who traumatised you was either your aunty or mother. If you had a good relationship with your aunty, the scene where a creature is taking out her guts could be an extension of the treat you feel directed towards yourself
And also, the slender-man chasing you, and other monstrosities seem to suggest whatever the threat is, it is one that is still present hence you are not able to attach a specific image on it. You had experienced the character(s) at some earlier point in your life, and have not encountered them again for a while, but know they are out there still.
There is however a part of you that wants to confront this fear and move on. It seems to say ”let us accept this and move on with our life” That is why the personified fear is chasing you in these dreams. That part of your personality is calling you to confront it. Recognise it. Acknowledge its presence. The creatures are chasing you but never hurting you directly.
I heard of a story where this man went into a surgery and the nurses gave him the drug to paralyze him but never gave him the numbing medication. So he was awake during 20 minutes of the surgery feeling every slice the doctor made on him. When they realized he was still awake and feeling everything they gave him lots of drugs to “forget” what had happened to prevent consequences. The guy had nightmares about it for 3 days before he took his own life. He had no idea this was an actual thing he endured but instead a horrible dream.
Incredibly thankful for your informed and coherent lectures. Good thing they are on spotify.
i had nightmares every night for almost a year after my dad was imprisoned when i was 17. i was waking up more exhausted than before i went to bed. i only didn’t have nightmares when i was falling asleep drunk & once my friend gave me a sleep pill - it was amazing to just sleep
I absolutely appreciate you works. your attention to detail to each subject while not coming off as overwhelming is a tricky balance and you are nailing it my human! your work has also helped me confirm things i have come to conclusions on my own, as well as teach me things about my own past, present, and future. You mention synchronicities very often and through one such subject have become a part of a synchronicity for me, further directing me through the chaos that is my spiritual journey. So again, thank you for your work and I hope you only the most success!
I have nightmares all the time. I have no idea why, but I’ve had them since I was little. Of course I’ve had some good dreams as well, but most are bad. Back then they were recurring and nothing necessarily “scary” happened, it was more like psychological horror and anxiety-inducing. When I got older, they started turning into demonic/ghostly stuff, or my fears/trauma. I’ve grown so used to it that it doesn’t bother me. I don’t wake up from them, and when I wake up the next day, I don’t think anything of it, even if it was the most eldritch thing I’d ever seen lol
Didn’t appreciate how quickly the video breezed by reoccurring nightmares. I had the same nightmare for over a decade as a child. A tall thin scraggly man with long thin black hair would come outof a card board box in the apartment I lived in as a kid. He would pop out and tell me I had 30 seconds to hide. If he found me he said I would die. I would run down the hall go to the left room and hide under the bed. Each time he would lift the bed sheet and see me and then I’m transfer into another dream. I’m telling you this happened every night for over a decade. My reoccurring nightmares now don’t follow such a rigid routine. They do although have current themes. Mainly me saving my dogs life from extreme situations. Gunfire, sinking ships, coyotes, etc. I’m always saving her life, another reoccurring dream is flying off the rails of a roller coaster. Another is being stalked by sharks in various ocean situations. I call it hardcore nightmares because they are terrifying but I’m so used to it now that it doesn’t disturb me so much. I just try to find the meaning
I hade a night paralysis moment and saw an old woman sitting on my chest smiling. Say what you want but I began to pray. She started to twitch and shake til she disappeared. She then appeared by the side of my bed. I promise you that I just couldn't move but I was wide awake. Terrifying.
I love your videos man. Make more about THE SHADOW. I swear it makes me happy for some reason when I hear you say THE SHADOW
love the videos man, i’ve been watching almost all on carl jung. It’s quite astonishing and intriguing how one can correlate his well-being with carls words. the way you explain and go in depth is amazing, please keep them coming. much love to you, you have a good gift and this is by far one of the best youtube channels on this algorithm. Also what books would you recommend?
I dream almost every night, having night terrors and sleep paralysis for the past 12 months since being involved in a home invasion, while i was asleep, a man in a balaclava ran at me and i woke up as he grabbed me. Experiencing sleep paralysis most nights since. Id wish it on no one. Im aware enough when they are happening now that i scream at myself to wake up, but its an excruciating terror scream.
We are so vulrunable while we sleep, its such a difficult thing to try and "cure"
The most terrifying nightmares to me are recurring. I am often in a city I don't remember doing things that any normal person would do with some things just being palpably off. Some places have random standing water that shouldn't be there. People occupy buildings unfit for activity in droves and don't seem to care about the never pleasant weather. Certain places shrouded in darkness, some of the residents find too much comfort and everything feels like danger. No one is ever harmed. Just the constant feeling of being watched and followed, by entities I can't ever quite fully see and knowing where I am has to have some bad shit going on in the background messes with me. And I hate the way I feel waking up wondering if what I've seen has any type of meaning or if I'm just experiencing a mental break who knows. But I hate whatever city I go to in those nightmares.
I love your videos! Perfect mix of being fascinating while also relaxing. Great voice and art choices.
Uhh.. wow. Thank you! This is THE quintessential breakdown of nightmares and paralysis. Never has there been a better and truer explanation. I have had god awful sleep paralysis for 30 + years and it’s only now starting to slowly diminish.
I had really bad sleep paralysis as a kid and it slowly went away once I learned to move my fingers/toes when I feel myself falling into it. I have it about twice a year now.
I can get out of it really fast by imagining that i am balancing my body, like making a pendulum movement i hope this helps
I am crying because how beautiful this video really is.
My nightmares used to be so intense as a child that my mother would have to hold me down while I slept or else I would hurt myself. She often had bruises on her legs from me kicking her. Even as an adult I still wake up in a panic, and or am woken up by family members because I kicked something down or knocked something off my desk in my sleep. I normally don’t remember the nightmares when I wake up, but there are a handful I’ve had ranging the ages of 5-19 that I still remember and think a lot about it to this day because of how traumatic it was to experience it. It’s interesting how we can be in so much pain and stress in our waking moments that our brain will actively traumatize us in our sleep to force us to confront those stressors. My dreams themselves, or nightmares, are often very gruesome or so stressful and depressing that I wake up having a panic attack.
Now to share a dream or two of mine that still lingers with me to this day.
When I was maybe 6 years old, I would constantly have to sleep with my mother because I’d have horrific night terrors consisting of me screaming and crying, kicking and choking myself. Through out my life I have been through many things a child should not go through, so naturally my dreams were more mature and disgusting then most, I’d even frequently have sleep paralysis as a kid which would cause me to not sleep in fear of experiencing it again, I once went a whole week without sleeping and I still remember the odd hallucinations I had during that week.
Dream 1: The worst dream I have had physically yet the dream itself wasn’t that bad would be the time that I dreamt a furbie (the toy) had vampire like teeth and was trying to bite my neck inside of a van. As a kid it was scary but that wasn’t exactly what stuck with me since the details of said dream are now faded, but it was the aftermath. This was the one time my mom did not notice what was happening and caused her to start holding me down while I sleep. In the dream, no matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t get the furbie off, until I woke up. There is a window right next to the bed I shared with my mother, and I was, in my sleep, shoving my own throat against the sharp edge of the windowsill, in other words choking myself.
Dream 2: When I was 7 years old, I had a dream I was locked inside of a dark office, the door itself had a yellowish window with light shining through and there were people talking outside, potentially arguing. I was scared to be seen and was hiding in a dark corner until I noticed there were chains on my ankles and a large rusty nail going right through my right hand. When I tried pulling on it, it would just hurt and I was too scared to see what would happen if I remove it. Then I woke up, and that entire day my hand would hurt where that nail was.
Dream 3: when I was 16, my dad was in a relationship with a very abusive woman, mentally and physically abusive. I’d often have dreams of trying to express how I feel about the situation but the odd thing is, I was the only one in color, everyone and everything else was black and white. Everyone was positioned in certain ways like mannequins and were completely unresponsive. I proceeded to yell at everyone, telling them in great detail all the horrible things they have done to me and then I got to my dad’s ex wife, the abusive one as I stated. For some reason her silence bothered me the most and sent me into a meltdown, pulling on her shoulders and screaming in her face which followed me waking up, sitting up quickly while screaming and crying.
Dream 4: I had a dream around 14 of me as a kid, there was a party going on but a tornado coming towards the house we were partying at. The house itself was made of glass. Everyone was leaving and I went looking for my father who was getting into another person’s car. I asked him where he was going and he said getting out of here before the tornado hits. I asked him “what about me?” And he said “what about you? I don’t care” that made me snap and I started attacking him and hitting him as hard as I could which resulted in me waking up having a panic attack once again.
Thank you so much for this, this is so beautiful ❤️
Nightmares and sleep paralysis have plagued me since childhood. Since my father took his life, my nightmares have become traumatic. They affect my emotions when I'm awake. One recurring nightmare I try to save my father but he kills himself, time keeps repeating itself and I always fail to save him. I know he would be very sad to know that his death haunts me constantly
I had a nightmare tonight, and it left me pretty shaken up. I don’t usually dream, so it was shocking to me that I had a nightmare, especially one so gruesome and left me feeling emotionally suffocated. This video popped up on my RUclips feed shortly after. Everything always makes sense.
What was your nightmare
@@AndresGarcia-dr1mn the muffin man
Loved this one. May be your best work yet, Eternalised. Thank you!
i love your videos man, they’re the perfect videos to have in my airpods while i work, keep making them and keep having fun ❤
Outstanding!!! I really enjoyed that! Thank-you for posting!
I genuinely wonder if my normal dreams would be considered nightmares to many. Have very bizarre vivid dreams often, and they can get quite horrific, but don’t effect me like similar dreams would have when I was a kid. I also get sleep paralysis fairly often, to the point it USUALLY doesn’t phase me, but the monsters and stuff are pretty disturbing so I just keep my eyes closed when I realize what’s going on. Now I want to catch a Mara
me too! i have no idea why my dreams are so horrific, but i don't react to it like a nightmare.
@@quinnywinny3 its messed up but just normal for some of us
Wow. Wow-wee-wow wow!! Trap a dangerous hottie in your bed, have your way with her, get tired of her and throw her out of the house through a hole in your door?? This is nerd porn😂
I wonder if there's a connection between the sleep paralysis and vivid horrific dreams. I have both very often.
I experience the same thing as you , my sleep paralysis would happen so often that I learned how to wake up from it , after that I have to stay wake for a few minutes if not I’ll fall back into the paralysis. I never look around I keep my eyes closed and try to move my body to wake up.
When I heard you talk about the ego, id, and super ego, I came to a realization of a dream I had many years ago, and I believe I understand at surface level what it was telling me. I remember walking down a small hallway with someone else. I was leading ahead only slightly, and seen at the end of this small hallway was a vault door that was slightly open. Peaking inside, I seen what looked like a morgue. Dead bodies everywhere, blood all over. And a man in the corner with his back to me, preoccupied with something. I was instantly terrified, and he then turns towards me and started running. All I remember is running away from him. I believe my ego and super ego had come across the id and weren't very happy about this. The id is usually associated with the evil. A sort of devil on our shoulders. I know mine is corrupt in many ways, but I try not to listen to that voice.
The "id" also represents the child - childlike, or infantile, immature behavior. Needy, impatient, demanding, impulsive, recklessly playful, irresponsible.... Naughty perhaps, but not necessarily "bad".
I'm absolutely speechless. The section on the Terrible Mother Archetype really hit something deep in me. Seeing that made me realize that THAT is the elusive pattern that has haunted me my whole life. All my negative dreams are related to the Terrible Mother. Another form of the Terrible Mother that is shocking to me is the Hindu goddess Kali. The patterns and presences I feel in my dreams are absolutely Kali's work. My worst dreams are awful. I actually think I'm traveling to another dimension. Sometimes, when I'm going through some anxiety in my life, I will close my eyes and awake as myself, as my current age, but in the situation I was in let's say, 10 years ago. The thought of going back to a life I grew out of is terrifying to me and has been a big driving force in reaching for success in whatever ways I could achieve it. I confronted my demons, especially Kali and gained an understanding of them. Now, these dreams have disappeared and I feel confident to walk into the future. It is TRULY LIBERATING. Thank you for your amazing videos! I eagerly look forward to your new content!
how were you able to liberate yourself from these nightmares of yours?
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You know when you read a comment and from the first few sentences you can somehow just tell its gonna be some schizo shit?
God bless everyone who suffers real night terrors..I know them well..I have to sleep separated from everyone..it's terrifying
In the early 2000's, i was in state prison as a young man in my 20's. I had a recurring nightmare of escaping prison. It was quite exhilarating & a welcome change from the monotony & constant "on guard" mindset i had adapted to survive.
The nightmare was, i would eventually "wake up" to find myself either free or in a dystopian, sadistic prison. Then, once i had "awoken" either in relief that my incarceration was a nightmare, or in great disappointment that my escape from prison was a dream & i found myself yet again in an even more dystopian, sadistic prison. This could go on for 3 or 4 false "waking up" scenarios. It got to the point where when i would actually wake up in state prison, i was relieved that the rollercoaster ride of freedom/sadistic incarceration was over & i found myself in my familiar cell, with no hope of escape or immediate freedom but also relieved to find myself in a prison i had become accustomed to the monotony & familiar dangerous daily ongoings.
I still think sometimes i must have been sliding through the multiverse experiencing different realities due to the prison psyche meds i had been given to aid in sleeping...
My most meaningful dreams have always started as nightmares
Excellent video!
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@newman lol its true, literally and figuratively ;) ... learned how to lucid dream thanks to a nightmare
@@samuellhemon6319 brilliant. Put it on your cv
As always great theme, because of your art displayed in earlier videos i got acquainted with painters as Beksinski and just purchased a reproduction of one canvas today 🙏
This video is wonderful. I learned a lot! Thank you!! 😊
The craziest nightmare I had was terrifying. Aliens had abducted me and had me on a table cutting my face in such a way to peel it off, then one of the aliens morphed their face to resemble my mother to calm me down. It was bizarre.
Thats scary
Thats a good one
oh god that’s terrifying yet also so interesting
I had a nightmare then series of lucid dreams which proved to be very therapeutic and purging. I think the events in the nightmare, signified how I felt about my life psychologically and spiritually. For example, experiencing sleep paralysis and a dream about suffering locked in syndrome, after being drained of blood has quite a simple explanation to me. I felt stuck and paralysed in life, due to my energy being drained. I felt helpless and at the mercy of life. At the time I was actually suffering from anaemia. The following lucid dreams were about taking back my power with the help of others, releasing pain and trauma, and learning unconditional love.
i have always had extremely vivid dreams and i somehow have been able to remember almost every single dream i’ve ever had including nightmares. a lot of my nightmares are pretty traumatizing usually having to deal with abandonment, betrayal or extreme embarrassment and they’re never recurring (but i have had some that will be continuations of dreams i had ten plus years ago) so idk it’s pretty crazy to find out some people have nightmares about doing a presentation
You probably live a relatively boring real life so that your dreams are to compensate on what you haven’t done! Get out into the world and adventure what you don’t know!
My most common nightmares are of harm coming to my youngest brother, or some other child, either my own (I’m child free in reality) or one I am responsible for. Mostly my youngest brother though. A relentless battle of trying to save them from being kidnapped, violated or murdered, from hurting/killing themselves, or to save them from something supernatural, or even just a struggle to provide basic needs like we’re starving and I’ve nothing to feed them. Some of the most vivid are of fighting against forces like a monarchy, or dictatorship to try and find my brother, only to find he’s been killed. The anguish I feel as I wake is so real and the grief sits with me for days even though I know he’s okay in waking life.
when i was a child, up until i was around 12 i would have nightmares every night without fail. It was nonstop. I remember crying every night to my parents that i was afraid to go to sleep. They abruptly stopped when i was around 12-13, but to this day i still have trouble giving in and falling asleep at night.
I always got time for a new eternalised vid ... best channel on the tube
The magical animal or object and the divine fool are the archetypes I wish you'd investigate in your next video. as always you have a sense of uniqueness and originality in your works, in it's own right: a masterpiece.
Wow this was a really excellent video. I'm so glad that I took the time to watch it. Thank you
brilliant vid thankyu for the educational and provocative insight,, i appreciate the load of information as well as the thought provoking concepts, definitely plesantly unexpected as someone with clinically diagnosed severe night terrors from 9 weeks old until now, its been rough having so little to really intake from the educational or informative side of things rather than just the therapuetic and treatment side.... as time passes and with maturity ive really grown to appreciate the idea that knowledge is power and anything about my life struggles that i can absorb that i havent oredi been exposed to is of deep value so again thankyu much c;
Loved your exploration of trauma and nightmares. I experience nightmares only 3 or 4 times per year at this point, and I appreciate your points about PTSD from 17:41 onwards. Healing our unconscious trauma in a wakeful state makes such a significant impact on our dreamscape - I've noticed this healing firsthand, and also in client journeys. Healing is paramount for anybody who suffers from chronic nightmares - well said.
Indeed!
I found that healing is an active effort.
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I struggle with nightly nightmares, also have ptsd. Its as if every situation is potentially dangerous; so the nightmares are not related in situation or even my ability or nationality. Every normal situation becomes a nightmare as the worst possibility happens, or it shouldn't be scary yet, I wake up screaming.
Trying to re-write the dreams so I get control of them is.... not doing much. I'm not exactly sure what to do. Do you have any thoughts about this? I've almost just accepted nightmares are just my life now.
I was like you. I only had nightmares, as a result of and related to trauma.
I can tell you that in my experience long term healing is what not just helps, but actually solves the problem.
I get followed and can never get away no matter how hard i try to hide or run, i usually end up getting killed in a brutal manner and then somehow i am once again back in the chase, to then get killed again, head chopped off, impaled on a fence, bee attack, spear through chest, usually i die multiple times each night. Depending on how much it scares me I can wake up but when I fall asleep again for some reason i am being chased by the same things instead of being in a new dream, it can be exhausting
I seem to always be running from something or someone, i do enjoy it but it can be tiring and stressful
Also when i die a lot of the time i see myself from a grusome 3rd person view and when i wake up i can feel the pain on my physical body where i was hit/hurt
As long as I can remember I have had very vivid nightmares and dreams and I can remember them extremely well. This video makes me wanna try to apply the stuff you said to my dreams
thanks for shedding some light on my life long night terrors...
The nightmare that scared me the most, probably because i was young, was basically a never ending black room with one little lightbulb suspended in the middle over a slide (like one of those ladder slides for children). If i walked too far from the bulb i could still see it afar but i could never leave. There was a man with no face chasing me around the room and all I could do is try to escape from him by sliding down the slide or going under, went on for the whole night.
Lucid dreaming is actually the most underrated skill in the world.
You can use it for so many things. You can experience pretty much anything and it feels indistinguishable from reality sometimes other than the fact you know it's a dream.
It also has many resal world benefits. Getting rid of fears or anxieties, getting better at other skills, solving problems, ect. It can help in many areas of life if not all of them
Lucid dreaming...is it not shouting down the subconscious and running the show with pure ego?
@IanSmith804 Well not really. You can use it for ego or spiritual practice though. It's ultimately what you make of it. The subconscious is still in control of most things but you can gain a good amount of control depending on a number of factors, however to be lucid is only to know you're dreaming. For some people it takes a bit of practice to gain any control
It is to everyones benefit
that you are shining a torch
on these much more powerful
inner works than the outer work
that came from ego, negativity.
It struck me as such waste of energy.
Only by re aiming you have made
action that will echo through the
hall of mirrors. ❤
On Behalf of Essence
Thank You
I onlly dream in nightmares. I smoke pot and do not dream. I quit smoking and enjoy the nightmares. I'm not kidding. Thank you for helping me think things thru this evening, I ve been in PTSD mode so long now I forgot how much I love and need thinking. But as Plato pointed out we can not really see our own eye, we need others to think clearly. You speak my language. Thank you.
My nightmare is always the same. Carl would be proud
The common types of dreams I have include feeling trapped/running away and being caught and loved ones in danger, dying, or have died. Also, the ocean appears in my dreams sometimes because it terrifies me.
Pro tip for monsters in nightmares: if you’re being attacked and can still move, attack it. Don’t think about it just attack it. I did it once where a corpse came back to life and was about to attack my cousin in a dream and I freaked out for so long I switched fight or flight reactions and beat it with a clipboard. After that every time I saw a monster in that nightmare I just beat it and it’d go away.
i used to just close my eyes towards the “peak” of my nightmares, n usually wake up immediately, but imma try this now. beating the shit out of my inner demons
@@user-in7bu8jk8vnot all of them are inner, some of the entities you encounter are individual, disembodied personalities. Assuming that they're not or weren't formerly human, they're demons.
Great job I would surely like to pick your brain. Got me hooked on the first video I saw of yours. Great work... ...
this is a great channel
You interpret and communicate Jung very well.
I've always had this one nightmare since I was a kid. I'd be stuck in this room and there would be one door to leave. Every time I touched the door I would freeze up and see a smiling face off to the right of my perififreal vision. I've had it enough to were when it usually starts I immediately get terrified in the dream because I know what happens when I touch the door.
My worst experience with this was 1 year ago when I was fresh out of the marines, I hadn’t been having dreams, but out of nowhere I’m sleeping in my bed and I’m forced into a hellish scape and I see one of my old friends from the marines, he had blown his brains out with his rifle 2 years before, and it was horrible, he was still in the same state I had seen him in last, his Kevlar was hanging off his head with 2 holes in it with his brains hanging out of the left side of his head. It hurt to have to see again, so I begged for forgiveness telling him that he shouldn’t have done what he had did and I was always going to be there for him, and his speech was a disgusting gurgle, but he said something along the lines of you’ll join me soon enough Rook, soon you’ll look just like me. It scared the fuck out of me I had no idea what he was talking about I felt fine, never had I thought I’d ever kill myself. Before I could be consumed by the dark fog that was halfway up my body I was yanked away. It was my uncle dragging me away, he died in a fiery accident in 2016 at the age of 21 and I never got to see his face again, but he pulled me to face him and these are the words he said that stuck with me. There are going to be things in this world that are unfair and unjust, but they will never break you, your body is a temple that has been disciplined over the years, your will is stronger than that of the thoughts you may have. I saw his face and it was just like I remembered, there was my uncle looked fit as a fiddle and it brought me to tears since I knew he didn’t look that way anymore, I kept saying his name and saying “I miss you”. The last thing he had said was something I had said when I had been shot a few years back “And with my dying breaths, I become a Phoenix and I am born again” I was then awake my eyes red and my pillow soaked with tears, I got up and asked myself multiple times what the fuck that was all about. I still don’t know, but I don’t think I want to know.
The mind is an absolute powerful place. Far more interesting then that any galaxy can stretch.
@@crespoopserc something we can’t possibly fathom understanding but we have it, the mind is truly a powerful thing
I really appreciate the Crime and Punishment dream recap and explanation. I didn't quite understand it on my listen of the book.
I still vividly remember a nightmare I had at 4 years old that felt very real. I spent the night with my grandmother and in the dream I woke up in the middle of the night to almost a pitch black room and I got up out of bed, walked over to my grandmother's closet which had a hanging mirror on it, what I saw has never left me, looked a scaley goblin with horns and a huge grin looking back at me and it was the same height as me. I woke up absolutely terrified and screaming and my grandmother tried comforting me. All throughout my life that memory has remained and still spooks me.
How interesting this popped up after a week of horrendous nightmares 😂. Legit haven't slept at all. This was a good listen. Thank you!
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During my dark night of the soul (my deepest depression), I had such terrible night terrors that I was too afraid to go to sleep at night, and if awoken by them, too afraid to go back to sleep. This didn't help that I was already suffering from insomnia and sleep deprivation. A compounding downfall. If it weren't for my athletic endurance from my sport (which was affected by my poor sleep) I don't think I would've been able to function during the day without collapsing
Hows ur sleep now
@@layoramirez4993 Much better thank you :) very few nightmares and now I dream a lot more. Much harder to decrypt them all tho
You call that a depression? I've been so depressed that even my nightmares carry no weight.
@@kiavaxxaskew May God bless you then
Nightmares make me feel good
It replays scary moments in my life & to me it feels good
I feel a “vibe” going back in time
I feel like i don't have nightmares anymore. Maybe it's the fact that I read and listen to so much horror. Things can get stressful, but I am amused or excited at the same time.
At one point in my life I started having only one type of nightmares - the one with a Japanese spirit of revenge, a girl dressed in white with a black hair in front of her face. She always did one thing that made me wake up and it was that creepy noice from the movie “Ju On” (“Grudge”) that Kayako, the main character, did when her husband broke her neck. Anyway, pretty much every dream was the same: at one point in a dream I start to realize she (the spirit) is there, I try to avoid her but she always ends up catching me and starts to make the noise and then I wake up from feeling chills of fear all over my body. After reoccurring many times I started to tell myself WHILE in a dream “ok, it’s only a dream and I will not wake up, I will defeat you”, I basically did a staredown contest with her and resisted waking up for as long as I could but so far I haven’t “defeated” her yet, the noise/her presence is just too powerful and too horrifying. Well, I hope she doesn’t come back tonight cause I was feeling those chills all over my body while writing this comment.
YES THIS IS EXACTLY THE SAME METHOD I USED AS A KID.
I had some of the worst nightmares growing up everyday because my dad forced me to watch scary movies with him and my sister. Haunted me for 2 decade. Now I don’t have them at all
I got goosebumps in my scalp listening to this
What a masterpiece channel,
keep the great work❤️
when i was very young ( around 4-5)
I had reoccuring night terrors almost every single night.
the imagery you used at ( 10:07 ) with the drawing of the owls and the big eyed cats all staring at the back of that sleeping man REALLy hit close to home as this is essentially what my nightmare consisted of.
i remember them vividly, as i often woke up quietly crying, paralyzed with fear, trying not make a sound or move or else the "Owl" would kill me instantly.
I had this feeling of being stared at on my back.
an intense and uncomfortable tingling sensation of being watched.
the culprit was a blackened out silhuette of an owl with HUGE red eyes and the tiniest slit pupils.
its stare was pure hatred. daggers in my back, too afraid to ever turn around and face it.
i am legitimately still traumatized by that dream that i must've had for at least a few months and across 2 different houses.
my mom had to take me to a therapist/ spirit healer (????) where she apparently hypnotized me.
my mom was not allowed inside in our session, and oddly enough i don't remember it ever happening.
ever since then i never had that dream again.
but it still haunts me and I still don't understand the meaning of it...
i was just a young kid with no significant worries, my life was good...
what would cause such a HUGE surge of negative emotions within my subconcious?
Tapping into something in the "collective unconscious" mind, perhaps?
I believe in evil spirits, like demons for example. So that would be my guess, especially because as I have grown in faith it seems like I've been experiencing progressively more intense, vivid, and distressing dreams and even a greater degree of difficultiy in waking life.