NLP in dreams

Posted by LD on October 20, 2000 at 16:55:27:

In Reply to: Re: Nightmares (one of my own) posted by Sambersil on October 20, 2000 at 16:16:38:

Wow. That pen fight sounds like Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker.
You are right, nightmares are only one's response to any situation involving conflict. And what day never presents in itself any conflict?

Conquer the fear, and you conquer the nightmare.
I am glad you stood up to the evil Darth Vader guy.
I believe there's no better place to practice other than your dream. Because if you get killed in real life, you have no more chances, but if you do get killed in your dream life, you can always start another dream.

I also find that interesting that your colors stand out so much.
It seems your dreams are highly visual, while mine are intensely kinesthetic. What is your NLP? Mine normally is primarily visual, then kinesthetic, last auditory. However, I would say the first 2 are reversed in my dream life.

I hardly ever hear any noise, music or anything that I can remeber.
Maybe it's just all silence.
I dream in color, but it's never vivid. The kinesthetic movement is intense.
Yes, tell more.

: Your dreams are strong for different reasons than mine. I guess that if a dream is just intense enough, it could qualify as a "strong" dream, but I have never experienced one that intense on the basis of adrenaline alone; it usually has to have a special quality, often present in the colors but sometimes in the emotions surrounding the dream. Most dreams where you get the supremely satisfied feeling afterwards, I guess, are strong dreams.

: I think that dreaming lucidly actually decreases the strength of the dream. I don't think you have ever had a strong nightmare; if you knew you were dreaming, it just doesn't have the same impact. The first of my two strong nightmares was so powerful that I, as a 15 year old, literally was too scared to move for an hour afterwards. The plot was a bit screwy though, but just never mind that. Here is a summary:

: Aliens are invading the earth in gigantic spaceships, kind of like Independence Day only a little less cheesy, and I was on a team of scientists trying to find a super weapon to stop them. (The dream was not strong at this point yet, so I won't go into all of the details)

: (Here, it turns strong) I was meeting with one of my colleagues, a 40-ish professor (I was a lot older in the dream, too), and he seemed to be taking the stance that the aliens were impossible to resist. I was more optimistic, and

: (here it turns nightmarish) he told me to "feel their hate" and asked how it was possible to resist anything like that. Then he SHOWED me ALL the hate that the aliens had - it was like a swirling black ellipsoid, and I could feel the overwhelming hatred. It felt liquid, black, deep, and STRONG. In wonderment and anger, I turned on him and asked, (I remember this part very clearly) "What kind of monster ARE you?". For answer, he drew himself up and suddenly was on the other side of the room from me instead of across the table. His eyes opened as wide as they could, and suddenly started glowing a bright milky white. They did not shine or sparkle, though they were very bright; it was a bright MILKY white, and it was the strongest color I had ever seen in a strong dream up until then. Those eyes were somehow holy, like those I would imagine a crusader full of righteous anger might have. At the same time, he drew a retractible pen out of his breast pocket, the tip of which shined like it was reflecting a halogen lamp (not the same color as his eyes). I was so scared I felt I could not move, but an odd animation come over me, and without knowing why I knew to do so, I opened my eyes as wide as I could too, while flaring my nostrils, and drew a similar shining-tipped retractible pen out of my pants pocket. I held mine up and pressed it forward so the light at the tip of mine was between my eyes and the light at the tip of his, as if my light was shielding myself from his. He tried to move his right, but I matched movements, and this odd duel of lights went on for a few seconds before I woke up.

: Look, a nightmare is just not a nightmare if you like it. Monsters and spirits and guns do not make a nightmare. Fear makes a nightmare. If you want to hear about another mystically scared experience, respond to this; my other strong nightmare is not quite as strange and silly as this one, but it is just as terrifying to experience.

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• Re: NLP in dreams Sambersil 18:57:46 10/20/00 (2)
  • the greatest nightmare of all LD 10:03:39 10/21/00 (0)
  • Re: NLP in dreams Laurence 07:38:45 10/21/00 (0)

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