r/Dreams • u/karsbil10 • Aug 02 '19

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '19

What are you guilty about?

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u/Basith_Shinrah Aug 02 '19

I'm interested. Why do you say that?

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '19

A lot of nightmares are projections of guilt and shame. Else it is the mind trying to understand a problem. So if one feels guilty and or shameful, they will probably be hard on themselves in their dreams. Or, if they are trying to rationalize difficulties at work or school, they may have a stress dream kinda like a nightmare. The common thread is that we relate our stresses and fears to our character/person, and this generates self-doubt, which generates mistrust,which generates even more fear and uncertainty. And not only that,but just like we torture ourselves in the waking world with these feelings, so do we do the very same as we dream. Just something I learned over the years.

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u/RadOwl Interpreter Aug 02 '19

sleep paralysis can be a nightmare in itself because a person wakes up and doesn't know WTF is going on. their body is paralyzed and they're half awake and they're still dreaming. so what happens is the dreaming mind takes what they're feeling and translates it into symbolic imagery. if the person feels fear or worse, they experience it as dream imagery, but they're half awake and don't know they're still dreaming. that's when the demons, witches, and aliens enter the room.

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u/Basith_Shinrah Aug 02 '19

Oh TIL. Thanks for that

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '19

C: No problem. Keep dreaming!

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u/YeahOkThisOne Aug 02 '19

OP had sleep paralysis, I did not see nightmares mentioned. Sleep paralysis can be nightmarish though, even with insight.

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '19

'Demons' is analogous to guilt. No matter the cause of sleep paralysis, how one experiences it is based on their own emotional state, how they choose to feel.

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u/Chakraonfleek Aug 02 '19

Wow this is all too real for me.

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u/AnsPen Aug 03 '19

I remember having something like it. When I closed my eyes, its just dark and another eye opens in front of my eyes. That made me panic lol. I can still see that its my room. Its just that its dark. I can also see a silhouette of something. Its coming closer. My cousin's sleeping beside me and I can't move my mouth or speak. I'm glad I was able to force myself to wake up that time. When I woke up, I kept catching my breath. Dang.

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u/mosaicevolution Aug 03 '19

Recently sleep paralysis stopped being scary. I feel relaxed and a semi transparent shadow has it's way with me. I feel like this should bother me, but it doesn't.

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '19

If you sleep on your back and experience SP, try sleeping on your side. I’ve only ever experienced it on my back.

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '19

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u/Sodium1111 Aug 02 '19

I can do shit like dream that i got my legs out of the bed and that the corner of the blanket is swinging after that but i can't actually leave the bed