What’s Hiding in a Dark Dream?

A Dark Saying

Fear hides in dark dreams, just waiting to pounce. It often brings others with it. Death, dread, and panic are hiding alongside.

I came across this saying recently. “Our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of Darkness.” This saying is strange to me. It seems to suggest humans are born out of a dark eternity, live a brief life of light, then return to a dark eternity.

Light born from darkness. How interesting.

Here are some things science has discovered about darkness.

It has no mass.

It has no speed.

It has no energy.

Darkness simply exists, and it only exists because light is not present. There exists no beams of darkness. Darkness only exists because light is not present. And it only advances at the rate of the decrease of light. No, humans are not light born from darkness. Such a thing is only possible in a world of fiction that tries to fool us into believing that darkness is more powerful than light.

This lie has been force-fed to society through all manner of entertainment. Every horror movie ever written and every black metal song ever recorded propagates it. Yet, it is widely known that there can be no power in that which does not reflect, transmit, or radiate light. When did you ever feel heat, or warmth, or anything except emptiness, barrenness and lack of life from complete darkness?

Darkness will always be overcome and neutralized by the light. If you don’t believe me just turn on the light in a dark room.

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A Dark Dream

So what does all of this have to do with dreams? A lot. I’ve personally seen what the bragging,  bullying darkness can do within the confines of a dream. It looks like this:

  I’m sitting in a chair and I can’t move. There’s one single light above my head, like I’m about to be interrogated. It reaches out a few feet all around me but everything else is completely dark. Then, I start hearing movement all around me in the darkness. I hear a dragging sound like a person whose leg doesn’t work, the sharpening of knives, then chainsaws starting up. I know that whatever surrounds me in that dark place wants to kill me.

    I sit there terrified until the things concealed in darkness appear on the edge of the light.  They are grotesque, misshapen entities. My fear skyrockets to another level. Then I wake up.

The dreamer began having this dream when he was eight years old. The dream continued every few weeks until I met him when he was in his early thirties. How could this be?

In my interaction with this dreamer I was shown that he was being tormented by living nightmares. The darkness of the nightmare was hosting living fear and that living fear was increasing itself every time he had the dream. There’s no other explanation of how he could be terrified as an eight year old and equally terrified as a man in his thirties. Fearful darkness was bullying this dreamer into thinking he had no choice but to put up with these nightmares that terrified him for decades. That all changed when I taught the dreamer how to speak light into his dreams. Once he did that, the fear and intimidation had no place to hide.

What hides behind the darkness

Nightmares are born out of darkness for a reason. Fear needs a place to hide. But fear isn’t the only thing dream darkness is concealing. It carries a living, growing presence of evil. That’s why they’re so terrifying. The dreamer stuck in the interrogation chair could be tormented for decades by the same nightmare because the darkness of his dream gave that living evil presence shelter to thrive. Where there is evil there is death.

The Dark Alley

I remember talking to a dreamer who shared a dream about walking downtown with some friends. It was nighttime and she was having fun bar hopping. At some point in the dream she became separated from her friends and suddenly it wasn’t so fun anymore. As she searched for them she stumbled into a dark alley.

I find this dream fascinating because it placed the dreamer in a fun, friendly setting that kept her guard down. She was looking to continue that fun when she stumbled upon a dark alley. Next thing she knew, she was inside the alley toward the back. That was the dark place fear and death found shelter.

The dreamer’s instincts told her to get out of there, but as she made her way toward the open street a dark figure blocked her way. He began approaching her. As he drew closer he spotted an empty bottle in the alleyway. He picked it up and broke it, arming himself with a dangerous weapon. He attacked her, and when all was said and done this dreamer laid on the ground bleeding out. She was further terrified by how real her death felt, thinking, Wow, this is really the end.  This is how I die.

Death Hides Within Darkness

After the dreamer awoke, she carried that awful feeling of death around with her throughout the following day. The presence of darkness followed her out of the dream.

When dreamers encounter darkness it affects everything within the dream. It also affects their waking life as they attempt to recover from their morbidly unsettling experience. They carry death out of the dream and into their everyday situations. Most dreamers simply try to put time between them and their nightmare, but this can only make it worse. Unless Light is invited into the dream, into the dreamer’s waking life, death will remain.

Light Overcomes Chaos and Disorder

Darkness has no mass, no speed, no energy. It simply exists because light is not present. When you invite light into your dream life you dispel the darkness and everything it carries with it. This works every time because light carries the presence of life.

In the ancient world it was understood that evening brought chaos and disorder. It was also understood that when morning light came it brought order and structure. Each new morning chaos is overcome by order. Next time you encounter darkness in your dreams, ask Light into your dream life and waking life. By doing this you will calm chaos  with order. You will overcome death with life.

EB

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