What do you do when things look grim?
I've been feeling really horrible lately. Nightmares aplenty. Just trying to see other people's perspectives in situations like these.
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You poor kid. I went through a time in my life, even up to 7 years after I left the ex, where I had horrible nightmares.
One of them had a red headed fat guy who looked like the devil, (and a little bit like the ex), and he laughed at me after I crawled out of a slippery, sliding hole of a basement, which I was trying to clean...the only thing was that the toilets were all full of diarrhea down there, and they were all overflowing. Lucky me, just when I realized that the red headed guy was the devil, a tall lanky man came rushing up, and apologized to me, and said he hadn't realized where I was. Then he pulled me away from the devil.
Lots more nightmares...some of them with violent storms, tornadoes, tsunamis...you name it...I was creative in visualizing the wreck that had been my life.
And always, the following day, I was traumatized by the dream. Some of them took two days to shake.
And now, I never have real nightmares.
What's happening is that your subconscious mind s trying to help you figure out the things that are bothering you, using the language of symbolism.
Once you've figured yourself out, and make peace with whatever is going on with you, the nightmares will stop.
You can understand the symbols your right brain is using by going to mydreamvisions.com.
They have a dream analyzer there. I recommend using just one word at a time. For instance, "running". If you type more than one word at a time it's very hard to understand the main or most frightening symbols of the nightmare.
One of them had a red headed fat guy who looked like the devil, (and a little bit like the ex), and he laughed at me after I crawled out of a slippery, sliding hole of a basement, which I was trying to clean...the only thing was that the toilets were all full of diarrhea down there, and they were all overflowing. Lucky me, just when I realized that the red headed guy was the devil, a tall lanky man came rushing up, and apologized to me, and said he hadn't realized where I was. Then he pulled me away from the devil.
Lots more nightmares...some of them with violent storms, tornadoes, tsunamis...you name it...I was creative in visualizing the wreck that had been my life.
And always, the following day, I was traumatized by the dream. Some of them took two days to shake.
And now, I never have real nightmares.
What's happening is that your subconscious mind s trying to help you figure out the things that are bothering you, using the language of symbolism.
Once you've figured yourself out, and make peace with whatever is going on with you, the nightmares will stop.
You can understand the symbols your right brain is using by going to mydreamvisions.com.
They have a dream analyzer there. I recommend using just one word at a time. For instance, "running". If you type more than one word at a time it's very hard to understand the main or most frightening symbols of the nightmare.