How to Work with Hostile Dream Entities
While the standard, modern approach to dreams is to treat everything that appears in them as an aspect of your psychological self, many people experience dreams in which they feel like they are being attacked or confronted by hostile entities. These types of dreams often have such a vivid sense of realness that it is hard not to believe that they are authentic visitations from demons or other malevolent spiritual beings. It is possible to try and resolve these types of nightmare psychologically, either through interpretation or other therapeutic modalities. However, because the experiences we have in dreams are shaped by our beliefs about our dreams and the kinds of content that concern us in our lives, it is often more effective to respond to hostile dream entities within the framework in which they are seen as fully real. Historically, traditional oneiromantic and folk magic remedies for warding off nightmare and sleep paralysis demons included a variety of methods, including prayer ...
