Shekicromaster
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Well no one can really know what is going on inside you. Especially we that are not qualified besides personal experiences. The obvious thing is of course to deal with the source of the problem, but how I certainly don’t know.
Personally as long as I tried to deal with "ghosts from the past" I never succeeded, when I had my attention going towards other things all was left behind, you just grow up stronger and what was looking as a giant when younger looks like a dwarf later. I could even dare to say that being over-concerned abut “what is wrong” and making too much of an issue of everything can make you more self-absorbed and closed in the “victim mentality”. So I’m not even sure how good is to mess too much with our minds at all. I is a change our focus (somehow) in life that works end other things follow the curse naturally without too much digging into the subconscious. But we are no therapists here and can not know what is good for someone else.
So aside that main issue maybe there are things that could help with sleeping. Petitespitfire64 already mentioned lucid dreaming and it might be a solution if you want to work a little on it. But before that I find a few things influencing sleep. But again that's me, you shoud experiment to find what works for you.
Keeping a diary can be usefull in evaluating over a longer period how different circunstamces are affecting a problem. Actually keeping a diary can be a good exercise in self controll on it's own.
Anyway I find that food affects the dreams a lot. If eating heavy, spicy food etc I tend to have more confused dreams (I don’t have nightmares at all for a long time and can’t talk about that) than when not eating at all a few hours before going to sleep and the last meal a light one. I also like to keep a natural rhythm of going to sleep early and getting up early as I fell more refreshed and needing less sleep that way. When going to sleep after midnight I always feel tired no meter how much I sleep. But people with nightmares agreed here upon sleeping in daytime so I don’t know abut that in your case, but I’m rather convinced food has some influence.
The atmosphere, activities before going to sleep etc also…
Now for working with dreams you will again have a good use of the diary (a separate one) . Keep it near the bed and develop the habit of recording the dreams as soon as you wake up. Soon it will become natural and you will find out that even just by paying more attention to them through this you are remembering more and more dreams (we usually have different successive dreams but remember mostly the last or often not even that) .
And recording the dreams can be a useful self-analysis tool on it’s own. Even at this stage as one is paying more attention to them lucid dreams might occur more often. Btw lucid dreams are dreams where you are aware that you are sleeping and eventually through practice get more control over you dreams. That is an obvious tool with this problems, but can be a therapeutic tool also as it is an active contact with the subconscious.. I believe C.G. Joung had some interesting works about that, I never read these books but if someone is interested in using dreams this way it could be helpful to read them.
After this first “stage” of getting to memorize dreams better and became more involved in them there are a number of exercises helpful in inducing lucid dreaming. I won’t write about them now, the post is too long anyway. We can talk about them later if you want, but I believe it should be easy to fid such info online too if you are interested.
Btw generally speaking the best way to deal with nightmares in dreams themselves is to confront them. This implies a certain amount of awareness and control in dreams. I don’t know your specific situation, but I had a friend who had constant nightmares of being persecuted by monsters. Finally he started to turn back to fight them instead of running away and at that moment they would become small and weak. As it is not real, just a manifestation of our fears and phobias once you confront it without fear the “monster” dies.
I do believe that dream work might help, but it requires some discipline and regular practice first only with the diary and analyzing in the morning, but after that when lucid dreaming exercises start every evening too. That requires some regularity in sleeping habits if possible (considering the situation) and of course your master’s support ;) Though one of the tricks for inducing lucid dreaming consist of breaking the sleep at certain periods of night to be able to do even that there mast be regularity at the first place. But if it is not possible for fear of nightmares no big deal, that is just an aid and there are many methods to induce it. But if it is possible it could be useful.
Hope this helps a little :)
< Message edited by Shekicromaster -- 4/6/2008 1:24:13 AM >
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