08-22-2018, 12:00 AM
When I was a kid I used to be afraid of dogs. We had stray dogs in my neighborhood and I despised the times my mother asked me to go to the shop to buy her something because of the dogs.
Many times as soon as I came out of the store they would start chasing me in packs 2-3, 4-5 dogs at a time. I would scream, cry, and run as if I'd seen the devil. Once I was back to safety the fear would start subsiding, however, it would take days until I was calm enough to go to the store again I was afraid to go out of our house.
One day I was away from home riding my bike in the park with no people around in a radius of about a mile when one huge dog and a smaller puppy started barking at me and chasing me. My heart, as usual, started pumping as fast as it could without me passing out of fear... Only this time I decided to face my fear. Without hitting the breaks I jumped off my bike (it slammed in a tree) and turned around screaming and running towards the dogs.
To my surprise they bent their tails and disappeared as fast as a fart in the wind only to leave the feeling of power in me just like the smell of a fart hovers around for a while. I beat my fear of dogs that day and was no longer their victim from that day on.
I used to be quite aware and lucid in my dreams back in those days and I would have many nightmares not only of dogs and shady men but monsters as well. It would be easy for me to gain awareness and lucidity in a nightmare when I saw how impossible or different the people, entities, environment was then what I'm used to in my daily life. I could not get rid of the objects that were producing the fear though and I never managed to turn a nightmare in a nice superman like flying trip.
That was so until I decided to challenge my fears in dreams the way I did with the dogs that day. I would set my intent before going to sleep to be aware in my dreams and if I had a nightmare to take control over it. I'd face a tremendously huge monster in dreams or a werewolf or people kidnapping me and I would try to run hide terrified at first. Then as soon as I'd get a small drop of lucidity and see that it is a dream I'd stop myself cold and face my fear, stop it in its tracks. I would cut fear and the intent I've set to the entities to chase me and stare them dead in the eyes until they started disappearing.
I'd wake up happy and calm due to my success.
Many times as soon as I came out of the store they would start chasing me in packs 2-3, 4-5 dogs at a time. I would scream, cry, and run as if I'd seen the devil. Once I was back to safety the fear would start subsiding, however, it would take days until I was calm enough to go to the store again I was afraid to go out of our house.
One day I was away from home riding my bike in the park with no people around in a radius of about a mile when one huge dog and a smaller puppy started barking at me and chasing me. My heart, as usual, started pumping as fast as it could without me passing out of fear... Only this time I decided to face my fear. Without hitting the breaks I jumped off my bike (it slammed in a tree) and turned around screaming and running towards the dogs.
To my surprise they bent their tails and disappeared as fast as a fart in the wind only to leave the feeling of power in me just like the smell of a fart hovers around for a while. I beat my fear of dogs that day and was no longer their victim from that day on.
I used to be quite aware and lucid in my dreams back in those days and I would have many nightmares not only of dogs and shady men but monsters as well. It would be easy for me to gain awareness and lucidity in a nightmare when I saw how impossible or different the people, entities, environment was then what I'm used to in my daily life. I could not get rid of the objects that were producing the fear though and I never managed to turn a nightmare in a nice superman like flying trip.
That was so until I decided to challenge my fears in dreams the way I did with the dogs that day. I would set my intent before going to sleep to be aware in my dreams and if I had a nightmare to take control over it. I'd face a tremendously huge monster in dreams or a werewolf or people kidnapping me and I would try to run hide terrified at first. Then as soon as I'd get a small drop of lucidity and see that it is a dream I'd stop myself cold and face my fear, stop it in its tracks. I would cut fear and the intent I've set to the entities to chase me and stare them dead in the eyes until they started disappearing.
I'd wake up happy and calm due to my success.
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