Demons and monsters in inner and outer dimensions - nightmares explained

in #dreams6 years ago

Excerpt: Many of you have nightmares which startle you, for a good reason. The ego is afraid and it's very difficult to control it during the dream state. In this post, I am explaining the correlation between the psychological structure of your whole self, that are your aspects, and the inner encounters in your dreams. Those who so frighten you are mere aspects, past/future lifetimes of yours, who want to reconnect with you. The sooner you recognize that, the easier it is to release the nightmares and the drama from your life. Towards the end of the post, I am dedicating a few words to extra-ordinary journies to other dimensions. You may want to remember the bottom line - you are safe in the vast arrays of the outer and inner universes. Do not doubt it.

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It can be said with much certainty that every person had, has or will have at least one nightmare during their lifetime. One in which they encounter an animal/beast or another person/artificial entity whom, by their presence or activities, pose a threat towards the dreamer. Actually, it is more accurate to say that the dreamer's ego interprets the entity's behavior as a threat and hence entice emotions of fear or horror. This is what happens in a typical nightmare of the average person* [see also my comment at the end].

In most cases, a nightmare lasts for a short period of time. The personality (Ego) perceives the dream-encounter as an enormous threat towards its integrity/identity and consequently, out of fear for its survival, it awakens the dreamer and pulls them out from the "dangerous" environment. Such escape deprives one of directly dealing with their unaware-of psychic components.

As much as it may seem irrational, nightmares should be welcomed, for the demons that we meet in the dream state are not "real" demons. They are not the dark forces, the evil spirits, who desire to eat us/kill us/enslave us. The latter fault conceptions are merely the results of indoctrination that has been cast upon us since childhood by various social agents (parents, school, media, etc).

There is nothing out there

In order to understand the true nature of the demonic and monstrous entities that we usually meet during our dream journeys you must recall a very basic principle of the reality, any reality – there is nothing out there but yourself. Everything is, in some way, a reflection of your own identity.

Therefore, the demons are psychic aspects of your own soul-self. On your spiritual journey, you have chosen to integrate the various parts of your whole self – dark and light alike – and the dream arena is an appropriate venue to encounter what otherwise would not be accessible to you in your normal and regular daily routine. Those aspects only want one thing – to be accepted. In another word, they want your love.

How to work with your demons?

Only a personality that feels safe in its 3D reality will allow itself to remain in the midst of the nightmare and transform it. That means that people who choose to detach themselves from the living experience (for example by the use of drugs, medicine or even intense meditation) ultimately would lose their feeling of security and would not be able to successfully handle those demonic encounters.

What happens there?

A dark aspect does not have to disguise itself as Darth Vader or a mysterious black smoke (for those of you who are familiar with "Star-wars" and "Lost") to evoke fright and horror within you while dreaming. In fact, most of my encounters with the dark aspects of my soul were meetings with fragments that looked like regular human beings.

In time the ego feels strong and secured enough not to run away but to remain in the dream event. A wise thing to do then will be to show the dark aspect "who the boss is". If you have a mantra that you use to state your "I AM-ness" then don't be shy to shout it out loud. The fear will lessen. Then you may want to address the dark aspect directly. Ask it - "what do you want from me?" and in most cases, it will answer "love" or will do something to appease you.

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In one of my encounters, I came across a beast-dog who felt to be hostile. I didn't lose my senses and asked to befriend with that entity. The moment later that frightening dog was licking my face.

I won't lie to you. It's not so much fun to consciously meet a frightening entity in a dream state. The good news is that you will not be aware of such encounters before your personality is ready for that. The even better news is that once you successfully (and you will!) handle and master your dark aspects there are very few happenings, if any at all, in the 3D reality that can throw you out of balance and away from your peace of heart. It's not that you become indifferent or detached from life. It's the inner feelings of security, trust and well being that you now possess which surpass any potential shaky event in your earthly life.

Outer demons

In conclusion, here is a thought for you – since the physical reality is founded and anchored and springs from a vaster reality of energy, could it be that the people in your 3D life – your family, friends, neighbors, colleagues, lovers, and strangers – are also reflections of your aspects? And if so, what does it say about the people whose company you find irritating/fearful/bothering? Could it be that the dark entities from your dream state who merely wish to be accepted and loved by you, also manifest in your 3D reality through certain people in your life?

And what does all that mean about the choices you make regarding those people?

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The average person Vs. Carlos Castaneda's reportages

Carlos castaneda was a great traveler and he made a good service to us by reporting about his adventures. The problem, which in my opinion eventually led to his death, was the fact he used drugs to alter his consciousness. As I wrote, drugs or any forced artificial method, do not allow the Ego independently develop, in a natural way, a solid identity, one that ultimately would allow the person to travel deeper and in a stable manner.

Castaneda did meet with other aspects of himself but also experienced encounters with foreign consciousnesses that resided in the dimensions he visited. Such un-natural trips may be dangerous. But do not fear. As I wrote, if you allow the natural process of your spiritual and psychic development your journies are safe. you are safe!

Therefore, when I wrote above "the average person" I referred to someone who doesn't force its psyche to be altered. Similarly, I didn't refer to exceptional individuals who have mastered the art of inner traveling. The latter are able to freely stroll in other dimensions and meet other creatures and entities otherwise than themselves. Needless to say that in their case the journies are safe and well balanced.


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I had nightmares in my “past”. I can’t tell how this nightmare looks like, I never saw it. I guess I can leave it to anyone’s imagination. All I know it was really scary. When it all started I was so afraid 😱. I remember trying to scream, trying to open my eyes. It felt like it was pulling me back to my dream to make me afraid more and more. I could hear its breath. I could feel it pulling my legs. I could feel it’s presence...

In most cases, a nightmare lasts for a short period of time.

I agree! In my childhood I hade even more than one in one night.

A wise thing to do then will be to show the dark aspect "who the boss is"

At the beginning I didn’t know I could fight it, that I could do something to stop it. One night I woke up after this nightmare, it was too hot so I opened the window. For someone it could be laughable, but I realized it worked. Since then, I slept with my window opened. When I forgot to open the window, it came back. But I finally knew how to fight it. Then my faith started to grow and I also learned how to fight it by not being afraid of it. And that was the breaking point. I’m not afraid of it anymore, because I know it can’t hurt me, because I have a faith. Since than I haven’t had any nightmares at all.
BTW: I have never used any drugs. I completely understand your point what drugs can do when it comes to subconscious and nightmares.

... there is nothing out there but yourself.

It is questionable. You might be right. But I don’t ask these questions. In my childhood I remember my favorite movie where man had interesting conversation with this women. She said she doesn’t believe in God. He asked he “why?”, she said “because I didn’t see him”, his answer was “I didn’t see your p...y either and I still believe it exists”. I will leave this one word to your imagination, I don’t want to be impolite 😆. My point is, just because you didn’t see it, it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exists. On top of it all, If I didn’t experience things I did, I would believe there is nothing out there, I would have my doubts. But so much in my life has happened (physically as well) when it comes to my faith, that it’s really impossible not to believe there is evil and than there is God. There are very smart people like you saying “there is nothing out there” and there are very smart people saying the opposite. I don’t judge or say “yes you are right, because you are very smart”. If my real life experience says otherwise, I have a huge respect for you, but that doesn’t mean I must agree.

I didn’t see your p...y either and I still believe it exists”

A pussy is a kitten. 😎


About the there's nothing out there but yourself, I should have elaborated. The inner universe is packed with entities and souls. I was referring to the early stages of the spiritual awakening of the person, or even before that, when the mind begins to open up to other realities and encounter so called dark entities. They are false and merely aspects of one. Beyond that, there are infinite souls and soul-less fragments of consciousness for us to explore.


Since then, I slept with my window opened.

A possible explanation is this - when sleeping with a closed window the level of oxygen is diminishing. Your physical sleeping body noticed that, sent an alert to your mind which interpreted the lack of oxygen as a threat to your survival. That threat was then interpreted by your mind literally and it came up with a scene of someone trying to kill you, hoping that it would be frightening enough to wake you up, so you could breath and be saved. When you began sleeping with an open window the oxygen-hazardous was gone and there wad no need for nightmares to wake you up. 🙂 There were no dark entities chasing you. Sorry to spoil the drama. :)

when sleeping with a closed window the level of oxygen is diminishing.

Wow!

I feel that even at my age I have not had nightmares, at least not so significant as to remember them, I do not know if this is all good or bad, however I can understand that in my 3D reality can also present characters that can be a nightmare, I would like to quote a small paragraph from your publication, which calls my attention:

The even better news is that once you successfully (and successfully!) manage and master your dark aspects, there are very few, if any, events in 3D reality that can unbalance you and take your peace away from your heart. Not that you become indifferent or detached from life. It is the inner feelings of security, trust and well-being that you now possess that surpass any possible unstable events in your earthly life.

These inner feelings of security, trust and well-being are linked to my ego? How can I strengthen my ego in order to prevent it from escaping from my nightmares or better yet, from facing them? or can that be dangerous? Although I have not had nightmares, I feel that in reality certain things pursue me that I need to handle safely and confidently in order to achieve the necessary balance and peace in my life.

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How can I strengthen my ego

The ego is good for one thing, to collect data and information. The problems begin when we assign to it the task of making decisions. The ego is not capable to making decisions!
Therefore, the first step is to relax the ego and reassures it that you don't expect it to make decisions. Only to bring you info, so you can decide then what steps to take.
Let's use an example - a friend tells you that she saw your boyfriend kissing another woman. Your ego brings this info to you through the senses. Normally, at this point its role should have ended. But you might get jealous, upset, angry and immediately decide to call your boyfriend, confront him and end the relationship. A balanced ego would step aside to make room for you to make the decision. This wiser you feels your bf's love, trust him, but mostly feel secured in your identity. Therefore, you don't jump into conclusions, and you wait until you speak with your bf who tells you that he met his sister and kissed her. 😊

For the night times, tell yourself before falling to sleep "I am safe, I am secured". And Repeat this several times with conviction. Your mind will remember this when encountering a scary situation.

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Hello, you know that a few months ago a nightmare has bothered me and frightened me.

It is about that I was in my room, where I have a blackboard and my girlfriend wrote "Maybe I am your blue unicorn" that refers to a song by Silvio Rodriguez where he talks about a hope or an idealization that has been lost and he does everything to find it.

In the dream, I went into my room was all the blackboard crossed out and written in red "Maybe she is NOT your dulcinea" when reading this I got a panic and I wanted to escape, but the door was gone, I was trapped and in the wall appeared more written than I really do not remember.

I hope you have a moment to read it.

here is the lyrics of the song translated:
https://lyricstranslate.com/es/mi-unicornio-azul-my-blue-unicorn.html

Great dream!
It's exactly what I was writing - the aspect within you that is doubtful, does not believe that you deserve to be loved, to have a girlfriend, is coming in your dream. Now you need to decide, who is in control, who is the master?!

Very good article.

"Those who so frighten you are mere aspects, past/future lifetimes of yours, who want to reconnect with you. "

Exactly the way I have been experiencing it. There are several ones which come here and then, yet as you said, we are only aware of them when we are ready for it, otherwise we would definitely become traumatized by them. We can become true experts in discerning the energy composition of that "demon", for sometimes you literally feel the "dark" force trying to get access into your mind and Astral body to spread the fear. Those feasibly dark entity encounters expand our threshold of what we are capable of dealing with ease thereafter. So any less dark entities will be no-brainers then, and sometimes I tell them how boring it is how boring it is to always resort to the same fear-mongering techniques. They might cause me some scare for a second or even minute, but in actuality I know that nothing can happen.

Just recently I was ending up on place in the dream state where I found myself saying "I have the strong feeling that I'll visit this place several times in my next lifetime", and the energy of that place was rather spooky. So now already my subconscious prepares for this future lifetime event so that when it is there the root of fear will have already been dismantled, hence the fear cannot take possession of me.

So now already my subconscious prepares for this future lifetime event

The funny, and encouraging, thing is that the future is now 🙂
Thanks for the sharing!

I agree! An expanding now moment ;)

That's crazy, I had a recurring nightmare involving Satan as a kid too, and I also came from a religious family where I was not allowed to watch horror flicks. In mine this horned figure was riding around our town in a chariot, I could see it through the window, but everyone else seemed oblivious. I had the intense feeling he was looking for me, freaked me out for hours after I woke. And I also had other recurring dreams, though some were good like practicing flying :)

Cool post man, thanks for sharing.

Indeed,
And that "satan" figure was not real. Just a bogus entity, weak and with no power at all.

פוסט מעורר מחשבה עד לדרגה שאני שואלת את עצמי למה בכלל חולמים ואם בע"ח גם הם חולמים או שרק אנו בני האדם בגלל התודעה המפותחת שלנו...אני גם מאמינה שיש מטרה טובה לחלומות אחרת הם היו נעלמים אבולוציונית.

בעלי חיים חולמים. בוודאי.
חלימה היא מציאות אחרת ויש לה הרבה סיבות כשהעיקרית שבהן היא מנוחה למיינד ושימור הקשר עם תודעת המקור של הנפש.
כמו במוזיקה. הצלילים הם משולים למציאות העירות והרווחים שביניהם לזמן השינה.

@nomad-magus I really appreciate efforts you have put in compiling this article. It has now given me a new view about frightening encounters which I have experienced in the dream world. While I was a kid, I was told to pray against those frightening encounters because if I don't something bad might happen to me. And instead of embracing this part of me, I denied myself that part. But now, I will try to change my beliefs and see how things will go. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks @nomad-magus for the beautiful message night mares are real hell but it takes you to have the spirit of revelation in your dreams for you to stand still and ask the beastly thing what it wants but with out relevation most of us just run around as it chases you although such dreams are not good they indicate the evil spirits that are following your life . By the way am looking forward to the changes and since you made the announcement have been alerting my friends that follow you ...

I think we must first Check what things are causing these demonic nightmares. Are these because of the scare horror movies we watch or these are because of the oppression we face because of the social agents as you mentioned.
We people should avoid fighting it, because it's almost impossible to win demons. Also, learn more about the dream. Once we realize it is a dream, we can literally face it. We can talk to it. We can ask “why?” and also we can say I do not want to see you anymore. It is our mind and our dream and I guarantee you that you are stronger than any other thing in your own mind.

< think we must first Check what things are causing these demonic nightmares.

It's a natural progression of your spiritual growth. Like you meet not nice people in your waking reality.

really a nightmare experience is something we are most worried about in life. because the nightmare still feels until we are awake. but in this story you tell it very clearly and thoroughly.
but there is one confusion for me about nightmares associated with real life. one example when we dream of broken teeth then one of our family will be struck disaster, or also when we dream in snake bite, then we will experience bad luck. how do you think @nomad-magus. have you ever heard the same thing as I heard.

No.
In my experience, teeth and snakes mostly interpreted differently. I will publish posts about these two symbols soon.
Nevertheless, remember that often the mind uses recognized symbols. So if you were taught that snakes means bad luck, you may use it. OR, you can change the association.

I also do not really believe it. but I also dare not tell it. because a dream like that if here is said. do not tell anyone else if you experience it.

@nomad-magus you are a very consistent and very thorough writer in each of your writing. do you have more time to teach me to be better at writing

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