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

Why You Shouldn't Wake Up from Nightmares

24 Oct 2024 · 1 min

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A short monologue by Vishen Lakhiani advising listeners not to wake up from nightmares but to stay in them because nightmares act as therapeutic "sessions"—the mind's way of healing. The speaker frames nightmares as a sign of a healing mind (not pathology or a lack of spirituality) and mentions lucid dreaming as an opportunity when present.

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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.