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(Besides involving Jane and me, the nightmare also involved members of both our families. Jane was now surprised to learn it had been necessary for me to shake her out of the nightmare last night; she had thought she came out of it spontaneously.)

(“Well, can you say a few words about Jane’s nightmare?”

(Referring to a very vivid nightmare Jane had last night; she has complete notes on it.)

In the AM the dream instantly reminded me of an almost completely different opposite dream, a nightmare that I had just about the time my eye troubles and other difficulties began in earnest: It was in the spring when I was doing James. [...] In the nightmare a doctor said I’d have to get a certain shot or vaccine as preventative medicine though he regretted having to do it. [...]

Ruburt’s nightmare experience (of March 8) is a beautiful example of the kind of explosive emotional content that many people carry, fairly hidden, representing certain taboos, translated of course in individualistic manners. [...]

[...] All of those factors were involved in one way or another in the fabric of Ruburt’s nightmare material. [...]

Some of Ruburt’s short notes, written after the nightmare experience (and which I’ve asked Jane to copy for this record), show that he is beginning to put that material into its proper reference. [...]

(A one-minute pause at 9:21.) In normal daily life, considerable natural therapy often takes place in the dream state, even when nightmares of such frightening degree arise that the sleeper is shocked into awakening. [...] The nightmare itself can be like a shock treatment given by one portion of the self to another, in which cellular memory is touched off much as it might be in such an LSD session.

Other dream events, though forgotten, may also cushion the individual to withstand the effects of such “nightmare therapy.” In the same way that some LSD treatment finally results in a feeling of rebirth (that is often only temporary, however), so a period of such nightmares often leads quite naturally to dreams in which the self finally makes new and greater connections with the source of its own being.

Nightmares in series are often inner-regulated shock therapy. [...]

JANE’S NIGHTMARE

(For some of Seth’s earlier material on dreams, dream symbols and healing, nightmare therapy, etc., see sessions 639–41 in Chapter Ten.)

[I] am writing down two dream experiences, each with some nightmare elements, though not too intense. [...]

[...] That event may turn up as one uncomfortable nightmare in another existence. [...]

[...] The person hesitates, perhaps falters, and may feel as if overtaken by a nightmare. [...]

He functions in a nightly dream world in the same fashion, and only when or if you begin to distrust dreams do you hesitate or falter, or feel afraid to move, and also feel as if you are caught in a nightmare. [...]

At the same time I can’t remember the events connected with the nightmare that gave rise to the feelings.... [...]

[...] He awakened from the nightmare of immobility, and found himself on “the road to freedom” with you. [...]

The infinite ranges possible to human capabilities would be explored — and those who chose that route said, quote: “We will trust that our creativity will find its own way, and if there are nightmares we will waken from them. [...]

The petty wars, even those still to be fought, are but dim memories, once vital but lost as nightmares in greater awakenings. [...]

In somewhat the same manner, a nightmare will run its course and lead you into terror unless you realize that the nightmare is self-created. [...]

You are familiar, all of you, with subconscious fabrications as they exist in the nightmare condition. [...]

[...] The personality itself seems to be having a nightmare, or a series of recurring dreams, during which it returns to the physical environment. [...]

[...] A vivid nightmare is also sorely felt, but quickly over. [...]

[...] When you are in the middle of a frightening physical experience, however, or caught in the throes of a nightmare, then you wish you knew how to “change the station.”

[...] It is as though one of the wild images of a nightmare emerged with full physical power into the world of the day.

Nightmares represent only possibilities of disintegrations that rarely occur in actuality. [...]

[...] One person might, because of his or her own interests, seek largely from dreams warnings of difficulty or trouble, and therefore be the family’s dream watchguard—the one who has, say, the nightmares for everyone else. [...]

[...] It was almost a nightmare—in fact Jane woke me out of it to prevent this seeming reaction on my part, I was fairly sure the dream concerned my father’s approaching death, but certain elements in it were similar enough to Seth’s suggestions about contacting Dr. Pietra, above, to make me tell Jane about it—on the off chance the dream had been more than it seemed.

[...] Most of the dreams I’d recalled until then had been nightmares — the self gone mad, I thought — so I wasn’t prepared for Seth’s emphasis on the importance of dreams.

[...] Then she added dubiously, “I only recalled nightmares in the past. [...]