Thread: What kind of dream was this?

A couple years ago, my family found out that my mother had a terminal brain tumor. We were told that she would have 6 to 9 months to live, but it turned out that she only had 3 months left with us. During those three months, I took off of school so I could help out because she wanted to be taken care of at home and to have home hospice care. A lot of other events were happening with me, my family (excluding my mom and dad), and my boyfriend at the time. At night, I was having horrible nightmares of a man who was out to kill me. In my dreams, every single night, I would be in a different setting, but the man would always be the same. It was always the body of a bulky man, wearing all black clothes, but his face was always just a big black blur. I never ever saw his face. He was always chasing me in my dream, trying to attack me and kill me, once he even grabbed my ankle and when I woke up the next morning, my ankle was throbbing. These continued every night, until my counselor put me on anti depressents to help with my depression and anxiety. After my mom passed away, I stopped taking the medicine because they made me feel like a zombie and I didn't like the way I felt. I started to get the nightmares every night again, but then the night before I was supposed to go back to school after winter break, which was also the beginning of the new semester. I was actually pretty nervous about it because I had taken the previous semester off and it was my senior year of high school so anxiety had struck me full force. I had a dream that the man was chasing me in an abandoned school, there were cracks in the boards over the windows with tiny rays of light coming through and I was running toward the light to get out. I was hiding in a corner and I could hear the man getting closer to me, but then all of a sudden I felt something push against my shoulders and heard someone whisper in my ear, "You're going to be fine." and then I woke up because I had actually felt like someone had pushed against my shoudlers and I had actually heard the whisper so clearly and could feel the moist, soft, air of the whisper in my ear. After that night, I've never had another nightmare of that man trying to kill me. Actually, I rarely ever have nightmares now and it's been almost 2 years. What do you think this was? I always thought that my mother had come to me in my dreams to help me.

I'm sorry for your loss, it must have been very hard for you As dreams are heavily influenced by life and what's going on at the moment, it's no wonder you had so many nightmares as you did. Stress, anxiety, dread, fear. All those things increase the chances of having a nightmare. I would interpret the scenario the nightmares had as feeling helpless. Something awful was about to happen and you couldn't do much to avoid it happening.

The thing about nightmares (and especially recurring ones) is that the more you fear having them, the more likely it is that they will appear. If you see a man in a dream and you think: "Oh no, I hope that isn't that murderer who was after me last time," your mind will probably make him into that person.

The dream that changed it all for you sounds amazing. The things you felt almost as real could be some effects from SP. What you did was believe that the nightmares you had have been beaten. It might have been your mother, if that's your belief then why not? Whatever it was, it clearly left something behind to protect you in the future.

This is something you can do by learning how to Lucid Dream really. You finally face whatever's been chasing you or troubling you and find out why. That usually makes those recurring nightmares go away when you've gotten an answer to the "unknown" that we fear so much. The brain is amazing at making things up, the good and the bad.

If you have any more questions, don't hesitate to ask!

Wow, I wasn't expecting a happy ending to that series of dreams. I'm glad you were able to overcome the nightmares. You are lucky to have such an intuitive understanding of what is going on with your self.