I completely believe this is one role our dreams/subconscious plays. I am a lucid dreamer (though not as actively able/willing to change things in situ as I used to be) and I've experienced this myself. I've had two days of dreaming a particular scenario that's been upsetting me (which I won't detail) but it's helped me understand my own anxiety of incidents, but more importantly, teaches me that even though if this worst case scenario happened, I'd be OK (I'd just need to, I don't know, move to Africa and never see any of my friends again--or something like that ;).
Other instances of this are, for example, my fear of tornadoes. I'll dream a tornado is coming. I'll see the damn funnel form in the sky and I'll think "oh shit." My subconscious is disappointed I didn't freak out more so all of a sudden there's two funnels, now three, now a whole fuckton and that's when I wake up freaked out. Now I'm becoming accustomed to the multi-tornado thing and I make myself do some superhero-y tada thing, so my subconscious last gave me several tornadoes, which I smartly ran into the basement to avoid, then come to find out it wasn't really a basement, it was like mine that actually has a door to a lower level backyard, and the backyard was what? Not only did the back yard open to a big fucking deep crater (pinging my apprehension but not complete fear of heights), but also made the crater half full of water (pinging my apprehension and dislike but not total fear of water) and thus my apprehension about jumping not only off a great height but into goddamn water. And not only this, there was a really loud ominous noise like those deep battlehorns or whatever but amplified, which really scared me. So I had one of those no-win situations: face the multi-tornadoes, jump into the crater water, or wake up. I woke up.
Jesus. Your subconscious sounds like a right cunt. BTW I dunno what this "worst-case scenario" is that makes you move to Africa and avoid us, but I have to say unless we become Africa-fearing vampires or something, your plan may need some work.
Other instances of this are, for example, my fear of tornadoes. I'll dream a tornado is coming. I'll see the damn funnel form in the sky and I'll think "oh shit." My subconscious is disappointed I didn't freak out more so all of a sudden there's two funnels, now three, now a whole fuckton and that's when I wake up freaked out. Now I'm becoming accustomed to the multi-tornado thing and I make myself do some superhero-y tada thing, so my subconscious last gave me several tornadoes, which I smartly ran into the basement to avoid, then come to find out it wasn't really a basement, it was like mine that actually has a door to a lower level backyard, and the backyard was what? Not only did the back yard open to a big fucking deep crater (pinging my apprehension but not complete fear of heights), but also made the crater half full of water (pinging my apprehension and dislike but not total fear of water) and thus my apprehension about jumping not only off a great height but into goddamn water. And not only this, there was a really loud ominous noise like those deep battlehorns or whatever but amplified, which really scared me. So I had one of those no-win situations: face the multi-tornadoes, jump into the crater water, or wake up. I woke up.
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