posted on Mar, 5 2009 @ 04:05 PM
Ghost sickness. In some cultures.
Interesting, because I was just looking at something similar to this earlier.
This is a culturally specific mental state.
Night Terrors and other sleep disorders are more common in children. Some kids stop having them around 13, others start having them around 13.
Altered mental states are more common for children.
You probably are dreaming - you just don't remember the dreams.
Here is a pretty simple mental exercise for you to help you anchor yourself into yourself before sleep.
Sit on the floor, preferably a floor that has some connection with the ground. Or if it is warm enough outside for you do it outside on the ground of
the Earth.
See yourself inside yourself. Reach for the point inside yourself that is at you the middle point where your rib cage gives away to your soft
abdomen. Try to clear your mind of thoughts, and concentrate on one thought. This is giving yourself a mental point of focus - lots of people like
to imagine the colour rainbow (Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet) or do some sort of other focusing like humming deeply in your throat,
or counting numbers.
Imagine yourself rooted to the ground as a growing tree. Feel your leaves reach for the sun, and your roots inside the earth. This is a pretty easy
mental exercise for rooting yourself in yourself and your energy to the planet.
Once you have calmed yourself, tell yourself to put your worries and concerns into a safe place in your mind. Then give yourself some instructions.
No others are welcome to myself. I am myself. I will remember my dreams. Concerns my mind has unstated shall come to me, where I will be kind to
myself and work them out.
Then imagine yourself folding the tree back into yourself, or the tree becmoing you. Count yourself back out, or imagine the colour rainbow back up
through the levels of awareness (Violet, Indigo, Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange, Red).
This is a way for you and your dreaming mind to reconnect. In the case that you are culturally predisposed to something like ghost sickness, it roots
you and only you to yourself.
Don't be alarmed. You are young. Your mind does interesting things on its way to growing into who you are. Think of this as your dreaming self
trying to leave signals to your awake self that something is bothering you in a way that you aren't aware of.
[edit on 2009/3/5 by Aeons]
[edit on 2009/3/5 by Aeons]