Comments on: Embracing Your Fear http://www.erinpavlina.com/blog/2006/02/embracing-your-fear/ Writings about spirituality, the paranormal, and personal development Tue, 16 Mar 2010 03:53:46 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: dreaming life: exploring the mind through lucid dreaming http://www.erinpavlina.com/blog/2006/02/embracing-your-fear/comment-page-1/#comment-14154 dreaming life: exploring the mind through lucid dreaming Fri, 05 Oct 2007 20:43:29 +0000 http://www.erinpavlina.com/blog/2006/02/embracing-your-fear/#comment-14154 [...] Finally, Erin hits us with an awesome story of how she “used lucid dreaming to conquer a major fear,” in Embracing Your Fear.This is a fascinating account of being haunted by the popular horror figure from Nightmare on Elm Street! Erin relays how Freddy haunted her - even in her lucid dreams! - for nearly a year, how she tried to stop him, and ultimately, how she was able to succeed in conquering her fear. [...] [...] Finally, Erin hits us with an awesome story of how she “used lucid dreaming to conquer a major fear,” in Embracing Your Fear.This is a fascinating account of being haunted by the popular horror figure from Nightmare on Elm Street! Erin relays how Freddy haunted her – even in her lucid dreams! – for nearly a year, how she tried to stop him, and ultimately, how she was able to succeed in conquering her fear. [...]

]]> By: Druid Journal » Blog Archive » Eight Reasons Why TV is Evil http://www.erinpavlina.com/blog/2006/02/embracing-your-fear/comment-page-1/#comment-979 Druid Journal » Blog Archive » Eight Reasons Why TV is Evil Wed, 02 Aug 2006 20:11:06 +0000 http://www.erinpavlina.com/blog/2006/02/embracing-your-fear/#comment-979 [...] A fellow blogger, Erin Pavlina, writes about how much trouble she had with Freddy Krueger. Erin was a teenager when she saw “Nightmare on Elm Street”. At that time she was already an expert lucid dreamer, which meant that she could be “awake” and conscious during her dreams, and control her dream world. But Freddy turned out to be a dream image she couldn’t control. She’d be flying around in her dreams, saving the world from the Clutches of Evil, and suddenly Freddy would appear out of nowhere and kill her. This went on for almost a year, until she was finally able to face down Freddy and deal with him. Why did Freddy give her so much trouble? I asked my wife, who has a degree in cognitive science from MIT. She said, paraphrasing slightly, [...] [...] A fellow blogger, Erin Pavlina, writes about how much trouble she had with Freddy Krueger. Erin was a teenager when she saw “Nightmare on Elm Street”. At that time she was already an expert lucid dreamer, which meant that she could be “awake” and conscious during her dreams, and control her dream world. But Freddy turned out to be a dream image she couldn’t control. She’d be flying around in her dreams, saving the world from the Clutches of Evil, and suddenly Freddy would appear out of nowhere and kill her. This went on for almost a year, until she was finally able to face down Freddy and deal with him. Why did Freddy give her so much trouble? I asked my wife, who has a degree in cognitive science from MIT. She said, paraphrasing slightly, [...]

]]> By: Duna http://www.erinpavlina.com/blog/2006/02/embracing-your-fear/comment-page-1/#comment-77 Duna Mon, 13 Mar 2006 19:37:56 +0000 http://www.erinpavlina.com/blog/2006/02/embracing-your-fear/#comment-77 From my own experience: I've just heard it once, that this would be the way to face enemies that chase you in a dream. And when I had one of those rare scary dreams of mine, where I got chased and attacked with knives, I suddenly became lucid, when I was really out of breath from all the running action, and I remembered that advice right away, turned around, went towards the attacker and hugged him. And as I expected he stopped attacking me, but on top of that he started to cry. So I asked him what he wanted and he answered still crying that he wanted to be loved by me. I was touched, as you can imagine and really hugged him this time, waking up happily. Sorry for the language in case of any faults, meet you in dreamland... From my own experience: I’ve just heard it once, that this would be the way to face enemies that chase you in a dream. And when I had one of those rare scary dreams of mine, where I got chased and attacked with knives, I suddenly became lucid, when I was really out of breath from all the running action, and I remembered that advice right away, turned around, went towards the attacker and hugged him. And as I expected he stopped attacking me, but on top of that he started to cry. So I asked him what he wanted and he answered still crying that he wanted to be loved by me. I was touched, as you can imagine and really hugged him this time, waking up happily.
Sorry for the language in case of any faults,
meet you in dreamland…

]]> By: Nick Hance http://www.erinpavlina.com/blog/2006/02/embracing-your-fear/comment-page-1/#comment-14 Nick Hance Sat, 11 Feb 2006 18:20:16 +0000 http://www.erinpavlina.com/blog/2006/02/embracing-your-fear/#comment-14 This is exactly how I've been able to make nearly all of my progress in personal development. It's my belief that fear can serve as a guide for what you should be doing to improve your life. Thank you for this post Erin! :) This is exactly how I’ve been able to make nearly all of my progress in personal development. It’s my belief that fear can serve as a guide for what you should be doing to improve your life.

Thank you for this post Erin! :)

]]> By: finnegan http://www.erinpavlina.com/blog/2006/02/embracing-your-fear/comment-page-1/#comment-13 finnegan Sat, 11 Feb 2006 17:15:42 +0000 http://www.erinpavlina.com/blog/2006/02/embracing-your-fear/#comment-13 Man, this dream is really full of hyper detail and lucid drama. I do believe that facing ones fears in dream can trigger something which leads to our being able to act courageously in our waking state. Thanks for the post. Cheers Man, this dream is really full of hyper detail and lucid drama. I do believe that facing ones fears in dream can trigger something which leads to our being able to act courageously in our waking state. Thanks for the post. Cheers

]]> By: Zen and the Art of Dreaming http://www.erinpavlina.com/blog/2006/02/embracing-your-fear/comment-page-1/#comment-12 Zen and the Art of Dreaming Sat, 11 Feb 2006 13:56:13 +0000 http://www.erinpavlina.com/blog/2006/02/embracing-your-fear/#comment-12 <strong>A couple dream links</strong> Erin Pavlina has an interesting account of her battles with fear in her lucid dreams. She puts to practice what Tholey recommends and does it in a very concrete, vivid way. Embracing Your Fear A couple dream links

Erin Pavlina has an interesting account of her battles with fear in her lucid dreams. She puts to practice what Tholey recommends and does it in a very concrete, vivid way.

Embracing Your Fear

]]> By: Yynatago http://www.erinpavlina.com/blog/2006/02/embracing-your-fear/comment-page-1/#comment-11 Yynatago Sat, 11 Feb 2006 11:28:37 +0000 http://www.erinpavlina.com/blog/2006/02/embracing-your-fear/#comment-11 My god Erin, your stranger then Steve! :P Do you think that facing fearsome things in dreams are somehow metaphorically linked to facing fears in real life? With the exception of a few dreams as a toddler, I always faced those fears head on. Its kind of strange when it happens, because in real life I don't think Ax murderers, Snakes and Lions would be so chatty :) From Shannan My god Erin, your stranger then Steve! :P

Do you think that facing fearsome things in dreams are somehow metaphorically linked to facing fears in real life?

With the exception of a few dreams as a toddler, I always faced those fears head on. Its kind of strange when it happens, because in real life I don’t think Ax murderers, Snakes and Lions would be so chatty :)

From Shannan

]]> By: Philip Nelson http://www.erinpavlina.com/blog/2006/02/embracing-your-fear/comment-page-1/#comment-10 Philip Nelson Sat, 11 Feb 2006 08:32:55 +0000 http://www.erinpavlina.com/blog/2006/02/embracing-your-fear/#comment-10 Hiya Erin, Wow, thats immpressive lucid dreaming, i am...well...immpressed. So freddie became a kinda dream guardian. Intresting. When i can lucid dream well enough i am gonna try to make a guardian for myself :) Hiya Erin,

Wow, thats immpressive lucid dreaming, i am…well…immpressed. So freddie became a kinda dream guardian. Intresting. When i can lucid dream well enough i am gonna try to make a guardian for myself :)

]]> By: Peter http://www.erinpavlina.com/blog/2006/02/embracing-your-fear/comment-page-1/#comment-9 Peter Sat, 11 Feb 2006 08:09:03 +0000 http://www.erinpavlina.com/blog/2006/02/embracing-your-fear/#comment-9 Fighting your fears takes courage and this wonderful asset is in short supply for some people. I've discovered courage and started training it slowly... BUT how would someone with a low level of consciousness even believe you when you tell them that is possible to put up a good fight? The only way I could think of is personal example... but I'm soo far from being an example... It is nice to say "fight your fears" but taking them on without weapons is like taking on a grizzly bear empty handed. Fighting your fears takes courage and this wonderful asset is in short supply for some people. I’ve discovered courage and started training it slowly… BUT how would someone with a low level of consciousness even believe you when you tell them that is possible to put up a good fight? The only way I could think of is personal example… but I’m soo far from being an example…

It is nice to say “fight your fears” but taking them on without weapons is like taking on a grizzly bear empty handed.

]]> By: Zataod http://www.erinpavlina.com/blog/2006/02/embracing-your-fear/comment-page-1/#comment-8 Zataod Sat, 11 Feb 2006 02:03:38 +0000 http://www.erinpavlina.com/blog/2006/02/embracing-your-fear/#comment-8 A great account of how you dealt with fear in dreams. I've written a couple small posts about this topic, but your account spells out the concept of embracing fear more clearly than I've seen in the past. I also enjoyed your podcast on lucid dreaming tremendously. Thanks. A great account of how you dealt with fear in dreams. I’ve written a couple small posts about this topic, but your account spells out the concept of embracing fear more clearly than I’ve seen in the past.

I also enjoyed your podcast on lucid dreaming tremendously.

Thanks.

]]> By: Alan http://www.erinpavlina.com/blog/2006/02/embracing-your-fear/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Alan Sat, 11 Feb 2006 01:12:32 +0000 http://www.erinpavlina.com/blog/2006/02/embracing-your-fear/#comment-7 Hi Erin. Many thanks for that story about Freddie and your dreams. Your story reminded me about some of my own experiences and realisations in the past, which people can read about (if they're interested) in my post of <a href="http://spirit-blog.blogspot.com/2005/09/angels-and-demons.html" rel="nofollow">Angels and Demons</a>. I look forward to more of your stories. Hi Erin. Many thanks for that story about Freddie and your dreams. Your story reminded me about some of my own experiences and realisations in the past, which people can read about (if they’re interested) in my post of Angels and Demons. I look forward to more of your stories.

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