Typical nightmare images are of snakes or spiders attacking, or some kind of monster chasing you. They can also be about riding in a runaway vehicle, getting lost, finding yourself in a scary dark place, or whatever situation seems scary to you in waking life. This type of dream feels so real that the dreamer may lie in bed for several minutes after waking up: the body trembles, the heart is pounding, the breath is out. Some nightmares are so terrifying that they are remembered for days, weeks, months, or even years. Some dreams turn into recurring nightmares and happen over and over again.

Why do people have nightmares?

Would it surprise you if I told you that these worst types of dreams are of great value? Would you believe me if I told you that there is a positive reason for them? Despite its strange and terrifying images, despite breaking your night sleep and waking up in a panic, the nightmare offers a gift.

If you’ve been prone to nightmares, you’re probably shaking your head right now and thinking, “How could such a scary dream be a gift?”

A nightmare is the messenger

A nightmare is perhaps the most misunderstood type of dream. It is often a deep cry from the subconscious to get your attention. The positive intention of a nightmare is to bring you an important message for your benefit and it insists on being felt, heard and seen.

The main reasons for nightmares are fears about something that has happened or is happening in waking life. Because most people don’t know how to release stress, it is internalized.

Some people tend to be stoic and repress or deny their fears. These emotions of fear get buried (repressed / repressed) within the subconscious, where they can fester and get much worse.

You could be in a current situation that you think you are handling well enough and not realize that you subconsciously have fears about it. When fears, anxieties, and worries get stuck inside, a scary dream shows how intense your fears really are.

Children rarely talk about what scares them. They tend to keep their fears inside. Children’s nightmares can be caused by fighting parents, an evil teacher, school bullies, horror movies, etc. A sensitive child can become fearful of something that would never occur to an adult. For example, some children may feel displaced and fear that they will not be loved because of all the attention the new baby receives.

The recurring nightmare usually begins in childhood. To end a recurring dream, parents must discover what intense fear or trauma the child has suffered.

In adults, nightmares can be caused by fear of stressful situations in life. Worries about work or money, serious illness, deep insecurity, possible loss of home; any of these can cause nightmares or bad dreams. The problem with understanding that your dream is addressing a waking day fear, is that the nightly ‘revision’ version is loaded with terrifying ‘substitution’ symbolism. If you are afraid of snakes and dream about it biting you, the dream does NOT warn you that a snake can attack you in your real life. The phenomenon of “sleep substitution” has come into play. Most of you will not Make the connection between the terrifying snake that attacks you at night and the worrying physical illness you suffer during the day. You may not realize that the dream monster that haunts you actually represents your fears of being out of work and not having enough money to pay your bills.

Other reasons for nightmares

A nightmare can raise buried fears about a distressing or traumatic situation that happened a long time ago. People with PTSD can have terrifying nightmares in which they relive the traumatic event. Fears trapped in the psyche that surface in a dream are a plea from the subconscious to resolve and let go of the past.

There is an interesting reason for some nightmares. For those who enjoy terrifying carnival rides or horror movies, your nightmares can serve the dual purpose of making you feel your inner fears and also help you release them.

The questions one can intuitively ask after waking up from a nightmare are:

What inner feelings, stresses, worries, or fears should I pay attention to?

What situation in my waking life feels as scary as this dream made me feel?

If there is no answer to these questions, try this one: What event from my past could continue to haunt me?

Reflect on each of the questions, pause and wait for an answer to intuitively “pop up” in your mind.

A true gift from the monster of dreams.

Anger, resentment, stress, or fearful emotions that are buried deep within the self can have a tendency to cause harm or illness to the body. Another very positive reason for nightmares is to show you what your emotions look and feel like. In your scary dreams, you can see your fears. They adopt symbolic images proportional to the intensity of the emotion. In other words, your fears become the monsters of your dreams.

A terrifying dream monster is called a “thought form”, that is, a symbolic mirror image of fear within you. If you had the presence of mind to face the monster of fear within the dream and ask what it wants to tell you, you could say something like this: “I am your fear. I am buried within you. I cannot get out, so I live in your body. I can make your body decompose. You could get sick. Or this is the reason you are sick. You need to see and feel it. intense that I am, recognize myself as your fear and find a way to release it. “

Using EFT to tap and release fear shown in a dream

EFT or Meridian Tapping is a wonderful tool for releasing stress, worries, and fears. You can tap and remove the fear of the “hangover” you feel when you first wake up from sleep. Then you can tap on the fears that are felt within the dream.

Even if you don’t understand the meaning of your nightmare, you can tap using the phrases: “Even though I don’t know what specific fear this dream is about, I am open to receiving the message in other ways and I choose to.” release this fear safely. “

Use Dream Decipher to interpret your dreams

Most people do not understand the meaning of their dreams because they are symbolic and often substitute one fear for another. You do not need to pay anyone to interpret your dreams for you. You can learn to do it yourself. The Dream Decipher process, an intuitive dream interpretation tool, works quickly to help you get the real message out of any dream.