A Nightmare is a Progressional Dream in Action

[mensa-maniac]

A Nightmare is a Progressional Dream in Action

Nightmares are thoughts progressed in a dream, one thought creates scare and progresses into action of that thought. The action of the thought is the vivid picture you see in your mind while dreaming.

If the mind is disturbed at the time of dream sleep, you create a nightmare. If suddenly awakened while dreaming a scary dream, and your eyes blurt open, the dream will continue on for your viewing, even while the eyes are open, you'll still be asleep.

Depending on what thoughts are processing through the mind while dream sleep occurs, determines whether the dream will be a nightmare or not.

[Anders Schlander]

i.e. Values determine whether you think of yourself as the mind being a nightmare or as a dream in any particular moment. It's like heaven and hell, really. For example, if you want to protect your physical body, and your sleep is producing an image of you being pecked to death by birds, it can be unpleasant.

I think that your values determine how you react in a dream, but the actual dream depends alot on how your mind is when you're awake, in terms of how those values manifest in your life. For example, if you're un-attached to everything, your mind isn't disturbed easily during sleep, it doesn't become anxious and such, but if it's attached then conflicts can arise, and the mind comes up with all kinds of scenarios during dreams where the attachments can be threatened, forcing you to react. The mind plays out all these 'what-ifs' during sleep, and if you're un-attached to things, or feeling comfortable, you won't feel all these disturbances, and you'll sleep quite well.

[mensa-maniac]

Well, most of us know that attachment is the culprit for detriment in one's life, the outside noise that manifests itself in a day and becomes a conglomerate of thoughts by evening, woe to those who dwell upon the nasties which become the nightmare upon sleep.

Thoughts of the day become nightmares at night if the thoughts are thought upon during sleep. During the day if a thought is disturbing at the time and not clarified, it will likely become a nightmare during sleep.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this topic

Donna