Hi ya Lugus

another good question, the great thing about such questions like these and replying to them is that I often dont know where im going to go with the reply, but always learn something from it by responding to the best of my ability what comes to me   

The first thing that struck me as I read the list of potential possibilitys that lead us to have a nightmare is, the unifying element fear, is at the root of any nightmare.  Fear seems to be the all pervading aspect of any dream that our minds label negative or nightmarish.  Fear that is triggered by medication I feel is a 'natural' response to taking in something that 'unaturally' alters our biochemistry, our body/mind is naturally stimulated into a fearful response when ingesting anything it deems toxic.

Fear is also a natural consequence to any traumatic experience that has not been released from the body/mind. After any trauma in life, our dreams will tend to help us liberate our fears from the realm of the unconsciousness into a place where we can first begin to reflect objectively albeit in a mostly unconscious way still, of the experiences that have not been released. Our dreams will help us bridge our conscious minds to any fearful feelings we may harbour in a way that is safe to explore. In our current climate/society I feel we have a very unhealthy relationship to fear Ie we have forgotton how to accept such strong body sensations/responses. All feelings of this nature we experience through the body but due to our propensity to be in our heads we cut ourselves of from such overwhelming sensations when we experinece them literally locking the very said experience into our celluar memorys and our energy systems.

To our Egos or programming if you like current society still holds the false belief that fear equates to weakness. This very statement I believe is what creates the chasm between our mind and our ability to experience fear. As we feel that what is uncomfortable for us, we wall ourselves of from the experience, our journey is then in part to recover these aspects of our self that we have disassociated from. The first step of healing oneself from such life events is to begin to ground ones energy again, to start to relate once more to ones body and its experience/sensation. Self acceptance of such bodily feelings will help an individual to feel more connected and not so dis-connected from what they are feeling, its another way of bridging to that which is unconscious, we so often make the mistake that consciousness is all in the head, because thats where we spend so much of our time, but this is a false assumption, our bodys are the true reflection of our consciouness, by releasing our experinencs through our bodys we clear our supressed energetic issues.

A great book has been written on a technique called focusing which helps a person to help clear these surpressed energetic issues - The Power of Focusing: A Practical Guide to Emotional Self-Healing - Ann Weiser Cornell definitely has my thumbs up, is practical and the exercises best done with the aid of another person but can equally be done on ones self as well. Its interesting that you mention the spine as being a cause of nightmares as it is the spine/back that is largley affected through surpressed fear. In chinese medicine the spine relates to the Bladder/kidney, the water element, which is also weakened through fearful states and injuries ie an injury to the spine will weaken the Bladder/Kidney energy leading to fearful states.

Thanks for giving me the oppurtunity to make some of these connections 

Malakeli

I agree with both of you, and I always thought of nightmares as a chance to grow and learn what's really bothering us.  The thing that struck me was that Lugus said some are caused by spirits. How can they really harm us in our sleep? Do they do anything other than scare us out of our wits? I've had some scary dreams, and when they involve spirits I can definatley tell the difference between dreams caused by anxiety and dreams caused by a spirit that's there to cause you great distress.
I will share this story with you that I found really rung true to me,,,,
My friend C. who was living in Africa at the time experienced this.  She said one night she went to bed, and there was nothing she could do, she just felt very restless and uncomfortable. She was in like a hostel type building in a village.  All the windows open as it was so hot outside.  She was feeling chills, and her heart kept racing and nothing she could think of would explain why she felt so odd.  She could hear some noises outside the window, but just assumed it was animals walking around.  Eventually she fell asleep and had terrible nightmares all night.  The funny thing was the next day, everyone in the compound had experienced the same thing.  This was about 30 years ago.  Everyone described the same thing she had felt, she heard them all talking at breakfast.  The people who were native to the area just explained it to her.  They said there was a bad spirit walking around all night bothering everyone, and that it was a restless spirit. She was taken aback at the matter of factness that everyone had experienced the same thing, and that they just 'knew' that this was the case.  Apparently when this happens they do something after to prevent it from returning, some sort of protection prayer or ritual type thing.  Some of them even believe these spirits can kill people or take them from there beds. I don't believe that but that's what they said. Very scary, but it's a true story.  Isn't it strange, makes you think though, that there must be something to it for them all to believe it.

Hi Ya Geehutch

When I hear storys like these I find it so easy to indulge my fears in the unseen or unknown. The thought I hold is that all is a manifestation of the one, that which we percieve as bad or negative is merely a judgement on a particular vibrational existence. On reading of your friends experience I was wandering if this was some group karmic lesson in which
they experienced so as to learn from. As with all lessons we can choose to respond out of love or out of fear.
 We may attract a disembodied spirit into our lives for a number of reasons often it is because they see our light and thus we become for them a possible channel or conduit to aid their return to the light. The presence of such spirits particularly with a denser vibration maybe due to holding pain in their astral form from their human existence.

In addition those spirits that we come accross we may attract due to holding some similar vibration in our own astral body, Like attracts Like when we evaluate our experience we can actually see the lesson in the percieved situation as a gift. Beings that have moved through a lot of their karma and hold a space of light for example the Dalia Lama are unlikely to be affected by the presence of the more denser vibrations of fear, what comes into the light disolves in the light. I believe the best protection one can afford is to keep a space of Love and Light whilst asleep

Hi Ya Geehutch

I totally agree from what I understand and im ceratinly no expert in this field, the entities of which you speak that take form from our subconscious are usually called thoughtforms of our own making and for those who feel they are being psychically attacked are actually just experiencing their own thought forms.

The term 'entity' is usually a term given to astral fragments that have no consciousness of their own, when we die the astral and mental bodys usually break up, fragments from the astral body however may linger in the astral plane and its these fragments that may become attched to us if we are open by that I mean vulneralbly open (holes in our auric field). The 'entitys' then feed of our own energy people experiencing this may experience emotions or cravings they have not experienced before, feel unusual or odd and feel depleted.

Disembodied spirits is a term that refers to those who have passed over and do have a consciouness, but are however still attached to the earth plane, which maybe for a number of reasons, inability to let go, need to still feed an addiction etc. There are certain therapists who specialise specifically in 'spirit release' a process in which the healer aids the person back to the light. One example of this is from someone I know who was doing a tour of the rocks in sydney one evening (she is also a light worker ) as we were walking past an old dwelling on the harbour front she felt someone pulling on her, tuning in she was was confronted by a woman who was in much pain and grief and was clearly stuck, asking what she needed, she had apparently been married with a son of 11 years old whom whlist alive worked on a fishing boat. One day her husband and son had gone out and never returned. She was so consumed that her attachment had kept her bound to the earth plane where she was still awaiting for their return. It is these strong attachments of a grosser kind that can hinder a person from moving on. My friend then with the aid of spirit helpers guided her towards the light. This experience also impacted on her after which she cryed for some time.

There are many at this time who are working in this way if your interested in this type of work thre is a foundation here in the UK called the spirit release foundation. 

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