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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2014-06-03 06:45 pm

[ SECRET POST #2709 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2709 ⌋

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Re: I feel like my dreams are eating me alive

(Anonymous) 2014-06-03 11:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Do you write them down after you wake up? I don't know how to stop them, but I've had a lot of dreams in a similar vein and I've found it helps to write them down, including as much intricate detail as I can, then reading it over a couple times. It lessens the impact by making it more like a story so I can get on with my day, and the physical action of writing helps to ground me more in the waking world.

I know you mention lucid dreaming wouldn't help, but maybe the technique of analyzing dreams by their parts to try to understand the dreams could. After looking at my dreams through this lens I found mine are usually Context and Inner Awareness, and by coming to expect them I wasn't as alarmed by them when I was dreaming even if I don't realize I'm dreaming. If that makes any sense.

If you don't know them the parts are: Inner Awareness = strange or unusually powerful emotions and thoughts (ex. intensely angry or sad), Action = you, someone or something around you do something impossible IRL (ex. flying), Form = something's shape is strange or wrong in some way (ex. you're the opposite gender, your hamster has wings), Context = the place or situation is strange/foreign to RL (you're on an alien planet).