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Originally posted by Renegade2283
I was also wondering if anyone knew of anyway to suppress dreams? Because I have been having a lot of horrible nightmares lately and normally I have no dream recall. So is there anything that I can do or take that will stop me from recalling my dreams?
Originally posted by Shadow Herder
The most profound thing about lucid dreaming is that your mind convincingly recreates the world and people who are individuals and even when you are aware that you are dreaming and are creating the people you are interacting with, they are real and have a personality, you dont know what they are thinking or control them.
If you are concerned that you might have a lucid dream-turn-nightmare, it has happened to me more than once and is an empowering thing. Talk about facing your fears without any fear of consequences! Just for example, I was being chased (in a dream) by a vicious creature, through a dark, winding, path thru the woods, with all kinds of obstacles in the way. The dream suddenly turned lucid and I shot up into the air by mere will, pointed straight at my foe and yelled, "Hey- this is MY dream! I get to decide what happens!!! So I'm gonna fly around and have fun and you're gonna stop chasing me..." (or words to that effect)
Originally posted by Renegade2283
reply to post by DarkKnight21
I understand that, but Im not really facing any problems if I am actively controlling my dreams. They are not recurring dreams either, each one is different and some of them are not even nightmares. I believe that the vivid dreams are a result of me recently stopping medication regiment that was suppressing my dreams before. My main fear is that if I get to a state of lucid dreaming again I might accidently let some horrible thought enter my mind that will then manifest itself into a nightmare. Im not the kind of person that can restrict my thought path, sometimes while I am trying not to think of something, I end up thinking of the very thing I am trying to avoid.
Originally posted by Renegade2283
reply to post by KhufuKeplerTriangle
Thanks, I will definitely try exercising and using a dream journal. The second dream I had last night was so odd that I cant really describe it. It involved a bunch of us being taught that we have to kill each other, then we were in a forest and had to fight each other to the death. I recall running through the forest really fast and dodging arrows and stuff. At one point, I threw ( yes threw) an arrow at someone and killed them. I did some other weird spin-like moves and killed some others with a spear. I remember there were Humvee's with machine-guns guarding the exits and we were all like living in a community out in the woods. I had formed a friendship with someone. I don't know, it was really weird and specific.
In all reality that is a pretty poor description, but it is just so jumbled up in my head that I cant really describe it well.
Edit: I found this dream particularly disturbing because I don't even like to kill a spider much less a human being. Does that make me like a psychopath or something? Im normally a live and let live kinda guy.edit on 24-10-2012 by Renegade2283 because: (no reason given)