Thread: Often dreaming in a dark environment

Hi there. I love dreaming and such but I want to ask if dreaming in a dark environment most of the time is normal or not. It is scary, you know especially when I'm alone there.

I often dream being in a dark place and mostly being alone there. It happens frequently to me so I feel bothered if I did something wrong in real life that affect my dream.

Do you often dream about being alone in a dark place and if so, do you think this as normal or not? Thank you.

Darkness is synonymous with ignorance, the subconscious, evil, death, and fear of the unknown. If you feel safe in the dark, then it suggests that you like not knowing about certain things.

To dream that you are lost in the darkness denotes feelings of desperation, depression, or insecurity.

To dream that you are groping around in the darkness symbolizes that you have insufficient information to make a clear decision.

To dream that you are alone indicates feelings of rejection. You may be feeling that no one understands you.

This is normal.

Agree that this is normal, but thought I would chime in with an alternate point of view. Darkness is also associated with the Goddess, the moon, rest, sleep, renewal.

You say that you are alone in your dream. How do you feel when you're dreaming this? Are you lonely, or simply in solitude? Are you in an empty building, a void, or an outdoor space at night?

If you feel lonely in your dream, then you may feel lonely in your real life. Do you? There's nothing wrong with you if you do; it's just a feeling. You haven't done anything wrong; your subconscious is just trying to get you to pay attention to something. You can pick up new hobbies and do new things with new people, and this dream might stop taking up so much of your attention.

Or are you simply afraid of being alone, even though you aren't lonely at all?

It's also likely that if you're thinking about and worrying about this dream a lot in waking life, that's what's causing it to stick around. If that's the case, you can either try to put it out of your mind, or try to notice when it happens so that you can realize that you're dreaming and focus on the more soothing elements of your dream (damp grass under your feet, the faint scent of campfire smoke, crickets in the distance.)

Choose whatever path makes the most sense to you, just remember that you're not being punished: your brain is just doing some problem-solving in your sleep.

Here is a totally different take. The nature of each dream relies heavily on sleep phase. Some sleep phases are going to offer dream in which the nature is less life like. Do not think of it as dreaming of a dark place. Instead realize that it is a simulation inside your brain, and that in this phase the brightness has been turn down to conserve energy. It is not dark, as in a dark scary basement. It is just a dream in which the graphics have a low level of vividness and brightness. try this, in the dream imagine thta you see a small point of light. Maybe you could pull out a tiny pen flash light, or maybe pretend that a candle is burning in the next room. I you can summon this small focused light, then start looking at the details around the light. You may be able to give yourself enough light to feel safe and explore with out over whelming the graphic rendering capacity of that sleep phase. That is what is really the issue. Brightness equals more input, and the brain/computer is lagging, thus darkness. Being alone fits right in to this. DCs take up alot of your rendering capacity.

@dolphin. Everything that you described was accurately just like how I'm and how I feel. O.o
Are you guys the dream specialists or something?

@Samael. I always scared whenever I dream being in the dark place. They're mostly happened in a building, forest or streets without light. They're creepy as sometimes scary creatures appeared within the dark places.

I won't forget being chased down by Nemesis in RE:3 twice. I do feel lonely and depression in my life along with negative thoughts where I'm scared of being insulted by people.

Thank you guys. I'll see how my dreams will turn out after following the advice.

Hey HelloBro, another take... dream interpretation is like horoscopes - it can be a self-fulfilling prophesy. Someone says your dream means X so you then make the association and it becomes true. The problem is that approach is neither objective, nor subjective, i.e. the reason why your dreams are dark could be down to any number of factors that are unique to you. As Sivason says, you can influence your dreams and you are not a passive observer. The best way to do this is while lucid, but if you can't do that (yet), try waking life affirmation. Maybe direct association could work, like turn on a bright light and illuminate a dark room a few hours before going to bed and really imagine that happening in your dream. Alternatively, just try to imagine it happening as part of a short meditation session before you sleep.

Quite a lot of my dreams are dark, and occasionally I'm alone, so there's nothing unusual about that. There may be something in the "graphic rendering" explanation as well, but I think when lucid you can do something about that, with practice.

I would say almost all of my dreams employ dark, sometimes depressing or cruel themes. So I can say that that is normal. However, I have a creatively inclined mind with a love of all things dark and scary, so that comes naturally to me. It's the reason I love having nightmares (most of the time) because they provide excellent material for my creative works and after a while my mind just began to spew these assembles of dark images. If you read my dream journal you'll see that there's always some kind of dark theme. Although on a rare occasion I do receive a serene or happy dream, usually a love dream or some sort of pleasurable alternate life. So no, you're not alone.