Thread: Your Evil Alter Ego.

After I read Musashi Miyamoto's book of Five rings, I had a dream where I went around challenging people in sword duels. If they resisted me, I'd slice them up. If they fought back, I'd slice them up. I remember the dream being really long, and killing many people. It was actually kindda cool.

I've had one like you are talking about that I can remember.
I was looking through a airvent type situation into a room where all of the males from my past, ex boyfriends or just people who caused me grief and and a few anonymous faces and my current fiance were sitting around on broken pipes talking very intimately about some stuff that made me mad.
I got so mad that I snuck into the room and started snapping necks and ripping off heads and castrating everyone I could get my hands on, I even caught my current fiance and ripped off his left leg (left him alive). The rest of the dream was me hunting down the survivors and murdering them, I was really terrified about the whole situation when I woke up but at the time it was pretty satisfying.

But on a different possibly related topic, I think I met my shadow-self (as in Carl Jung's shadow theory) in a dream. In fact I think that my reoccuring nightmare is me trying to flee from my shadow.
It shows up as a shadowy pale little girl or sometimes grown woman with long black hair and creepy noises (think "the grudge"). I usually am terrified either way, but usually I try to help out the little girl and sometimes she is almost benevolent but when the adult comes around I always just bolt and try everything I can to flee (most of the time when I lucid dream it's to get away from her).
When I read about shadow selves the other day I just about facepalmed. It's so obvious now!
Anyways, I couldn't find another topic for shadowselves and this topic was almost related. Sorry if I got off track.

I could say that I have NEVER dreamed of killing somebody or doing harm to someone intentionally, but when I start getting lucid, my wishes become very dark (not killing somebody, but other things that I am too ashamed of to say).

Lucid dreaming brings an other me, an ruthless and psychotic asshole that doesn't care about everyone else.

I don't know what would cause this mentality while lucid, because that's definitely not my real personality.

Once I had a dream about killing some guy (drowned him in a swamp), but I think there was a pretty justifiable reason for it.

Recently, though, I had a dream that started off with me choking the life out of this puppy. It felt really good in the dream, but when I woke up, I was kind of just...yeah.

I've had lots of experiences like this. Most recently, I dreamed I was a serial killer, killing random people for no good reason. I have a feeling these types of dreams are just our subconcious' way of venting.

My alt. ego usually involves me beating the crap out of people.

What I find interesting is that a lot of people wish to believe that their darker tendencies come from an "alter ego", or "other self". Whether or not that can be definitively proven is up for debate, but the wish to separate evil from the self is quite apparent, even when "evil" is observably coming from the mind of the individual. Subconscious venting is another proposition I've read amongst the replies, which sounds like as good a guess as any.

All the same, I've enjoyed reading what has thus far been shared, and I've taken each post into account with just as much interest as the next. I appreciate the time those have taken to type out the more extended explanations as well.

I'd like to hear more.