nightmares

[craven]

when i was younger 4 till the age of 15 i had a recurring nightmare which was a big house floating above black water like oil or silk all around the house there was chains hanging from the sky id like to explore the nightmare find out what its about can you do that with hypnosis.

[willingsub]

when i was younger 4 till the age of 15 i had a recurring nightmare which was a big house floating above black water like oil or silk all around the house there was chains hanging from the sky id like to explore the nightmare find out what its about can you do that with hypnosis.

You probably can, but not with one of the files on this site. I think you would need a real life session with a hypnotist. No file can ever respond to what you tell in trance about your dream, a real life hypnotist can use your responses to decide in what direction to take you in your exploration of your dream.

[willingsub]

You probably can, but not with one of the files on this site.

On second thought, you might be able to get some results by using the lucid dreaming file on this site, but you would have to be willing to relive your dream in your sleep. However, especially because you're talking about a nightmare, not a pleasant dream, I would advise you to explore your dream with the guidance of a hypnotist. After all, if you muck about with a file and only get a partial success, you run the risk of just inviting the nightmare back in without being able to resolve it.

[aeroue]

However the nightmare itself may trigger a lucid dream if you were to have it from listening to curse lucid dreams 2, or if you were to have it randomly. So you would realise it was a dream and be able to explore it.

[craven]

thanks for your response`s i dont have the night mare anymore and havent for a long time im 28 now nothing about the dream is remotely scary now but i do remember it very well, so well i could paint it and i intend to. has anyone explored a nightmare before? what was the result.

[willingsub]

thanks for your response`s i dont have the night mare anymore and havent for a long time im 28 now nothing about the dream is remotely scary now but i do remember it very well, so well i could paint it and i intend to. has anyone explored a nightmare before? what was the result.

When I was a child I had a recurring nightmare which led me to rather spontaneously learn a form of lucid dreaming. In retrospect the nightmare wasn't that scary: I dreamt I was babysitting in a strange house (I was actually much to young to babysit) and when I opened a kitchen cupboard, a big scary lion jumped out and chased me all over the house. When someone suggested to me I might change the dream's outcome, I simply did (I didn't know lucid dreaming can take some work, so for me it didn't take much work). I don't remember exactly how I changed the dream, just that I confronted the lion instead of running from it and wasn't bothered by the dream after that. But I didn't explore the significance of the dream. Just a childhood fear I guess, like the 'monsters' under the bed.

As an adolescent I was haunted by a different dream, but it's significance was so clear It didn't need much exploration. I was struck by a mysterious illness at the time, there was no certainty whatsoever how that illness would progress, if it would get worse or if I would ever get well again (by the way, I did). It didn't take a hypnotist to figure out why I was having dreams about walking along in and unexpectedly seeing a deep ravine (think Grand Canyon kind of deep) open right at my feet.

If reliving your dream wouldn't be traumatizing, it might be a good idea to try and learn lucid dreaming, 'conjure' up the dream and explore it with your adult mind. Dreaming it instead of remembering it might lead you to new insights, especially if you have enough controll over your dream to, for example, explore rooms in the house, or the environment of the house, you haven't been before.

I don't have experience with the lucid dreaming file on this site, but I can recommend the book 'Lucid Dreaming' by Pamela Ball, which aside from giving instruction on how to achieve lucid dreaming also gives some pointers on how to interpret dreams, lucid or not. Maybe you could use a book like that and use the lucid dreaming file to speed up the process.