Intense dream that felt like a "spirit release"

[Niall]

During the days running up to this I was feeling unwell from doing successive coffee-liver detoxes and only getting 4-5 hours sleep each night. I actually asked aloud before going to bed last night that I may have a good night's sleep as I was really weary.

The dream began not long after falling asleep. It took place in my house. It's daytime and I'm crouched in the hallway rooting through a bag of clothes for something. A horrible voice begins speaking to me. I realise it's coming from me, or I'm hearing it inside me. It said something like "You've noticed me, haven't you? That smell, following you around." I recognised what it was referring to, an 'off' smell that clung to everything in the house [not 'in real life', just in this dream setting]. I begin to panic as I realise this thing is inside my mind.

Despite the rising fear, I seem to know what to do and enter the living room where there's a large mirror over the fireplace. This voice meanwhile continues rasping at me. "I" am responding to it, cursing it, getting angry with it and finally threatening to beat it! "That's odd," I think, "why does my voice sound just like this thing's voice?" Just at that moment I realise the rasping voice is mine, that I had become it, it was goading me into this reaction and was growing stronger from it. This gives me some space from the terror and I turn to face the mirror. It's not mine. Well, it is, but with an expression I've never seen before. Demonic I guess. Pure hatred. The skin is shimmering like the effect a heat haze produces. The only stationary feature is a pair of blood-red eyes. Think Mothman Prophecies. I'm standing right up at the mirror and yet the reflection seems distant.

Without actually speaking, I begin saying something like "I command you go into the light", repeating it several times... "send you into the light", then "go into the light", then something like "be at peace" [can't remember clearly]... With each repetition my mood brightens and the terror dissipates. The mirror fades from view and I have a sensation of rising... back into my body... all the way up to my eyes.... then I open them, I'm back in my bed and wondering what the hell just happened.

I don't know if that counts as "spirit release", but it sure felt like a release. Maybe I was just relieved to have returned from the land of the dead intact. Today, I feel well rested and unusually alert, Praise Be!

I hadn't done EE for a couple of days prior to this, although I meditate to POTS every night. Have others had similar experiences?

 

[RedFox]

Hi Kniall

Can't say I've had a dream/experience like this (although I've had some more intangible ones I've posted about in the E-E thread regarding the sense of things being released)......I did get some very strong de ja vue reading your dream though
One thought I had is, instead of a dream could it be you zoned out and brought something back? The waking up and feeling refreshed seem to fit.....the whole thing does. osit

The symbolism is very apt, and at the very least describes our 'predators' well.

Either way it seems pretty positive. :)

 

[Ennio]

I hadn't done EE for a couple of days prior to this, although I meditate to POTS every night. Have others had similar experiences?

Yes, I have, and just last week too.

First, I should say that after watching 'The Excorcist' in my teens, I have had several dreams over the years of the possesed girl of that film and, needless to say, these few dreams were pretty disturbing. The prospect of being possessed or having attachments, or knowing someone I care for being possessed always gave me the chills.

Anyway, about two months ago, I had this dream: I was at the top of a flight of stairs in a house at night, making my way down. The possessed girl from 'The Excorcist' was somewhere nearby but for some reason I wasn't thinking about her or afraid of her, I just knew that she was around. When I got to the foot of the stairs I saw someone I knew - but didn't know, doing the dishes with their back to me. I soon realized that there was a terrible storm raging outside and so I made my way over to the window to shut it before the rain water would come flying in. Just as I was reaching the window I experienced beiing overwhelmed by some malevolent force that I could not see. It felt like I had to fight it off and I soon after began to say things to it like, "you are not welcome here, get away...," "leave me alone," and similar things. After a short time of this I woke up truly frightened with goose flesh. And I felt that whatever "it" was was still around - though that could have just been my state of mind after such an awful dream. Easily one of the worst dreams I've ever had.

Last week's dream may have been something quite different, I don't know. What happened was, I was looking at the face of the possessed girl (or someone who looked like her) but I was not then afraid of her. I was somehow compelling her to be free of whatever made her face look possessed. And I was going back and forth with her like that - her face changing from evil to normal, evil to normal, evil to normal. The reason I feel like something 'real' was happening in the dream was because I felt like I was an active force in the dream. That's the best way that I can describe it. Whatever I was saying or doing was effecting change in the girl's visage and I knew this in the dream. The last thing I saw before I woke up was her having a normal face, but it may just have been an arbitrary point at which the dream ended, or I ended it.

I stayed awake to think about the dream for awhile and of the feeling of myself within the dream. I tried to remember the times in my life when I was aware of myself doing something - with that part of my being? And though I couldn't recall any specific time, I will say that the feeling of being an active force in just that way was somehow familiar. I did/do know of it somehow.

Is it connected to doing EE and the POTS? It's certainly possible. I am working to be as consistent in doing the program as I can be, especially over the last few months, so perhaps it's effects on my ability to release attachments - if that's what the dream symbolized - is 'kicking in'.

 

[Niall]

One thought I had is, instead of a dream could it be you zoned out and brought something back? The waking up and feeling refreshed seem to fit.....the whole thing does. osit

I've been feeling calmer since the dream. When I get 'worked up' about something, just remembering my experience has enabled me to detach from whatever's been bothering me, like I've found it easier to dis-identify. Could just be a temporary effect though.

Anyway, about two months ago, I had this dream... Last week's dream...

O great, so I can look forward to a sequel

After a short time of this I woke up truly frightened with goose flesh. And I felt that whatever "it" was was still around - though that could have just been my state of mind after such an awful dream. Easily one of the worst dreams I've ever had.

That's something that was notably missing from my dream experience: I wasn't manifestly frightened by it as I have been in the past (with 'dark man' dreams and experiences of paralysis). So although I felt the terror in the dream state, it didn't carry over to the waking state. I think it's premature for me to consider it a "spirit release," especially when I've no frame of reference to recognise what that is. However...

Is it connected to doing EE and the POTS? It's certainly possible. I am working to be as consistent in doing the program as I can be, especially over the last few months, so perhaps it's effects on my ability to release attachments - if that's what the dream symbolized - is 'kicking in'.

...whether anything was literally released or not, I do feel like this signifies "gathering soul strength" in some way. Just a thought, I've no way of testing this.

 

[SMM]

I'm 3 years late but I've been having similar dreams... in fact I've been having them for a few years but never connected them to anything - particularly spirit attachments/Predator's mind - until a few months back.

The recent recurring dreams have been changing in an environmental context but usually end the same [me actively resisting or sending them back to their source..as some of them turn pretty malevolent] & there are a few combined factors in my non-dream ongoings that I think have or still contribute. Some of the most relevant ones recently osit being thought forms, negative [emotional?] energies, psychic attacks then possibly past life & inner child fragments. Any & all are possible at this point though so compartmentalising might not be any useful.

A few that stand out to me off the top of my head:
1) Last August I dreamt I was hiding from someone I know [who harbours a lot of negativity] in the toilets & that everyone had red glowing eyes.
2) A few months back [February perhaps] I dreamt an innocent little girl was trying to get in through a window. I actively refused but there was another "I" in the dream, almost brainedwashed, who happily unlocked the door to let her in so I was trying to get both the window & door shut from a staircase I stood from. It seems she was after the active me as she got mad & tried to grab me. As her hand reached my lower back, I realised I couldn't feel it & started declaring she wasn't real - at which point I woke up.
3) Sometime earlier this week [actually these past few weeks have been dense with these dreams] I dreamt there was small man, or midget [whom I think was attempting to use alchemical transmutations to attain immortality], who had skilfully wrapped himself around my right ankle as I walked. The odd part since is that I sense there's a shackle on my right ankle, circulation to the foot feels slightly constricted as if the foot wasn't mine. In that dream, I also went into space [in the mind's eye] after seeing the constellation of Hercules, then Earth & Saturn.
4) I recently moved into shared housing & have been having many dreams in this new room of mine where I'm in my bed & either "surrounded"[have lots of company], little girl wants to learn to play my guitar or little boy wants to steal something of mine/fight me.

The dream began not long after falling asleep. It took place in my house. It's daytime and I'm crouched in the hallway rooting through a bag of clothes for something. A horrible voice begins speaking to me. I realise it's coming from me, or I'm hearing it inside me. It said something like "You've noticed me, haven't you? That smell, following you around." I recognised what it was referring to, an 'off' smell that clung to everything in the house [not 'in real life', just in this dream setting]. I begin to panic as I realise this thing is inside my mind.

Despite the rising fear, I seem to know what to do and enter the living room where there's a large mirror over the fireplace. This voice meanwhile continues rasping at me. "I" am responding to it, cursing it, getting angry with it and finally threatening to beat it! "That's odd," I think, "why does my voice sound just like this thing's voice?" Just at that moment I realise the rasping voice is mine, that I had become it, it was goading me into this reaction and was growing stronger from it. This gives me some space from the terror and I turn to face the mirror. It's not mine. Well, it is, but with an expression I've never seen before. Demonic I guess. Pure hatred. The skin is shimmering like the effect a heat haze produces. The only stationary feature is a pair of blood-red eyes. Think Mothman Prophecies. I'm standing right up at the mirror and yet the reflection seems distant.

I had a voice similarly speak to me last night, except I wasn't sleeping [trying to]. My mirror had been turned around [non-reflective side] for a couple of weeks & I think turning it back over has changed something.
5) A family friend for many years [since I was a child] was in my dream... though I'm sure this was a disguise. He turned violent & started demanding I'd be his slave which protested against.

I feel as though I'm repeating myself with some of these so in the case of that I apologize...
The 3rd dream is the one that mystifies me the most. Has anyone experienced anything similar?

 

[LMJ]

About a week ago I dreamed about my paternal grandfather. He died at around age 50 in 1963 when I was eight years old. From what I could understand he was not fond of children especially not of me. And my grandmother who survived him by a very long time used to tell me many many times how much my grandfather didn't like me but only liked my sister who had blonde hair and blue eyes. I remember him being cold and harsh so I did not have a good point of view about him or any good feelings or connection with him, etc.

Back to the dream: First of all I was in Poland looking for my grandfather. (He is actually of Polish/Russian decent). I have never dreamt of being in or travelling to a foreign country or anything like that. In the dream I'm at his house in Poland! He is standing in front of me, it's him but a younger version of himself and he grips me by my shoulders and looks me in the eyes, his eyes are deeply blue and very beautiful and the look in his eyes for me is of love, compassion (deep emotion) and that he is trying to make something up to me, to let me know that he is sorry for something he may have done to me in the past while he was alive. Then he shows me something in the house and I look up and the house is just really amazing. It goes up something like four stories but it doesn't have any walls above the first floor, just these golden girders like the steel frame of a building and lots of open space.

I can't quite explain the architecture of the house, but it was very strange and incredibly interesting. Kind of mind blowing really as I was staring up at this structure. And he wanted me to see it, like it was something he was proud of and that he designed and built.

As far as this being a 'spirit release' type of dream...not really but it may have been a healing dream. Maybe I have carried this knowledge around my entire life regarding my grandfather, and it probably hurt more than I ever realized.

 

[lewis_86]

Kniall, I've had many similar sounding dreams. I described one here: http://cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php/topic,30716.0.html

I actually had another one just the other night. This time it felt hugely like sleep parallysis, except I was in my old room at my dads house. Immence pressure pushing down on me, but it was strangly enjoyable, and I'm sure I floated around again - but it wasn't as threatening as ones I've had before.

I definatly want to start keeping a record of my diet (which isn't the worst it's ever been, but there's always room for improvement) as I'm sure this all effects these dreams/state of mind. And I know for a fact that certain foods act as a depressant with me - for instance, really doughy pizza, like from Pizza Hut. I just can't do it, it's too much, I feel pretty bummed out after it - not what you want from food!

Anyway, sorry I can't be of much help, other than echoing what the others have said about diet and the breathing techniques being a good start.