Since I have been on my Soul led path my dream space has become sacred. Back in the time that I have shared the dreams from, I was not a fan of sleeping. I have covered the dreams I fully remember from that time and from there I began to have night terrors. I would wake up screaming, fighting and even gave my ex husband a fat lip and black eye at some point from the violence in my dream space. I did not know this then, bad dreams are a source of vital information. When you are not taking the information from your everyday dreams, and the message is important, you are given nightmares to get your full attention. When you can step through the fear and take an observer view on the nightmare, you will find many messages entangled in something you initially viewed as terrifying.
Our minds are turning short term memories into long term memories, going through important and unimportant information, healing the body and many other functions as we sleep. The fact that our higher-self, guides, source energy/God can use the space to give us messages is intriguing in that you would think with everything else happening as we sleep would make that impossible. We are in theta, beta and other levels of frequency at this time. The states we are in are the learning states we experienced as children. You can reach this state in meditation and in moments that you are completely calm like hypnosis or sitting in silence where you are focused on finding the space between thoughts.
There are many books and sites you can google to find the meaning behind different animals, symbols, experiences and more however a lot of times you may need to pay attention to the emotion or feelings behind the fear or emotions that you were facing, the fear and emotion itself can also many times be the message. When we live in fear we give power to forces created here on earth and find ourselves unable to stay aligned to our soul path, abundance, love and other things we are meant to experience in this life. The information you find in dream dictionaries and other sources can be very limiting in the interpretation of the dreams or nightmares you are having. Use discernment and use any source of help with a open mind to expand what you may already feel when looking at the dream. Write it down and come back to the dream a day or more later. After the emotion and energy has time to settle, you will be able to pick out the pieces holding the answers you are seeking.
Be intentional in your dream space. As you are looking deeper into this space you will want to set strong intentions, ask questions and be ready to wake up and write to not miss any of the important things that come through. If you have struggled remembering your dreams and only know what you wake up feeling, write that down and again ask questions. As you write what you are feeling, continue to write what comes to mind about the emotions and feelings you are having, free flow write everything that comes up even when you start to feel like you are making things up, keep going and see what comes through. This is a good practice to begin to connect with the sources providing you with the information in the dreams and find the answers you are seeking. As you do this often it will get easier, you may hold onto the dreams longer, remember more detail and get the meanings to what you are asking or needing to know in life quickly and effectively.
Dream
This dream/night terror was incredibly real, almost as though I timelined jump before I knew what that was. It was a beautiful night, when I had went to bed I had mentioned to my boyfriend that I wish I had a tent because I would love to sleep out by the stars. In my dream I woke up. Nothing was out of place, there was nothing in my room that stood out as different, I felt awake. The stars were bright and I decided I was going to sleep outside, despite the objection from my boyfriend still. I told he he didn't have to come outside with me and that I was going to set myself up to enjoy the beautiful night. I found my air matress and pump, took it outside with a couple of blankets and pillows and pumped up the air matress. I decided that I wanted to be at the edge of my driveway, I believe my reason was to be aware of anything going on out front. We lived in a small town, never busy at night and did not think any more of the reasoning behind putting my mattress there. As I was getting everything put together, matress was blown up and I was putting on the sheet and blankets I thought I saw something that flickered under the street lamp across the street. It was tall, black and fast, too fast to really see but it felt animal like the way the eyes caught the light. I went out to the front yard and looked around, again nothing was any different than it normally is and I did not see any animals or other things out of place so I went back to my mattress. I fell asleep easliy and my boyfriend had decided to stay out with me making me feel at ease. I wake up to two giant 3' spiders stabbing us with their legs, hissing and biting at us. I start to freak out, I am shielding myself with my pillow and kicking with all my might at these things. One is on top of my boyfriend who I here groan and yell ouch which tells me this is real and makes me fight even harder. I am sure we are dead because these spiders are relentless and my boyfriend sounds like he is losing his fight.
When he finally wakes me up, he is on top of me holding me down, he has a bloody nose and has obviously fighting to get me to wake up for awhile. I sit up and catch my breath. I realize we are in our room still and instantly calm down, he asks me what the heck that was as he is cleaning up his face and I remember barely awake telling him spiders as I laid down and went back to sleep. By this time I had been having night terrors for a couple years and as soon as I was calm I went back to sleep no problem. The next morning, my boyfriend has been awake since he woke me from the dream and is mad that I can just go right back to sleep after, my sister comes up and said she thought we were all getting murdered and she had just pulled her blankets over her head after I stopped yelling and hoped for the best.
This is another dream I have not looked for the meaning behind, it took place over 20 years ago and do not remember details of what I was going through at the time.