Truth in the Darkness
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reading scary stories and being told stories by parents or by elders gathered around the campfire, and sometimes, later at night, having bad dreams about those scary stories. Even today, bad dreams may occur after watching a movie or a TV show. The problem starts when your fears won’t go away, and instead become nagging fears that creep into our waking minds as well as our sleeping minds. Dreams are often about what you fear the most. Dreams make it is easy to believe that what you read about or see will become manifest in your life, or they may leave you with the feeling that you have no control over your fears or what will become manifest in your life and no power to stop these situations from happening. When this happens, you become the victim of your own fears. Confronting dreams becomes a great source of fear as people grow older, and many become masters of avoidance by keeping the TV, radio, iPod, and other devices going so that they have an external stimulus. But what are dreams really? Dreams occur when the subconscious becomes less veiled than it is in a waking conscious state. This allows you to gain insight into on your own aspects and motives that you may not have seen while you are in a waking state, so that you can see your responsibility in a situation. Dreams ask you to look at the shadow and the dark places you fear, and to acknowledge their existence. The subconscious mind uses symbols and pictures. So if you have repeating thoughts, dreams, memories or symbols, it is safe to assume that your subconscious is trying to define something for you, or it is trying to show you something it wants you to see. All you have to do is pay attention. The darkness holds the most misunderstood aspects of self and all the mysteries that are just out of reach, and just out of sight. In the dark your mind plays tricks on you. In the dark you fear the shadows that creep across your walls, the things that crackle in the dark, and the dark spaces that do not allow you to see clearly. All of