Vishen LakhianiFounder of Mindvalley | NYT Bestselling Author | Transforming Lives Globally

Nightmares aren’t here to haunt you; they’re here to heal you

22 Oct 2025 · 1 min

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The video argues that nightmares function as internal therapy sessions rather than signs of pathology: cutting a nightmare short (by waking) interrupts a therapeutic process and causes reoccurrence. The speaker advises staying in nightmares when possible and frames nightmares as evidence of a healing mind; lucid dreaming is mentioned as a desirable state to cultivate during nightmares.

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Don't wake up. Stay in the nightmare for as long as you can. If you cut a nightmare short by waking up from it, or the nightmare waking you up from it, you necessarily have to have that nightmare again. Why? Because it is a therapy session cut short. The nightmare is your internal therapist. A nightmare is a sign of a healing mind. If you are having nightmares, you are not unspiritual, you are not pathologized, there's nothing wrong with you. It's a sign that your mind is doing what it is supposed to do. If you are ever lucky enough to find yourself lucid in a nightmare again.