Comments on: Embracing Your Fear http://www.erinpavlina.com/blog/2006/02/embracing-your-fear/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=embracing-your-fear Awaken, Remember, Love Thu, 06 Sep 2012 15:55:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Nightmares http://www.erinpavlina.com/blog/2006/02/embracing-your-fear/#comment-54 Nightmares Wed, 04 May 2011 20:22:43 +0000 http://www.erinpavlina.com/blog/2006/02/embracing-your-fear/#comment-54 [...] Embracing Your Fear I hope that helps you. __________________ Enjoy life! [...]

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]]> By: dreaming life: exploring the mind through lucid dreaming http://www.erinpavlina.com/blog/2006/02/embracing-your-fear/#comment-51 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-51 [...] 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-50 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-50 [...] 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-49 Duna Mon, 13 Mar 2006 19:37:56 +0000 http://www.erinpavlina.com/blog/2006/02/embracing-your-fear/#comment-49 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-48 Nick Hance Sat, 11 Feb 2006 18:20:16 +0000 http://www.erinpavlina.com/blog/2006/02/embracing-your-fear/#comment-48 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-47 finnegan Sat, 11 Feb 2006 17:15:42 +0000 http://www.erinpavlina.com/blog/2006/02/embracing-your-fear/#comment-47 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-46 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-46 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-45 Yynatago Sat, 11 Feb 2006 11:28:37 +0000 http://www.erinpavlina.com/blog/2006/02/embracing-your-fear/#comment-45 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

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