Root chakra opening=nightmares?

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Originally Posted by FairyCrystal

Do you also ground yourself so that the things that get stirred by opening/awakening your root can leave your energy system?

If you open a tap and there's nowhere for the water to go ... you may drown in it.
Every chakra has negative, less pleasant and dense energies, connections etc. attached to it. ESPECIALLY the ones that are not active. After all that's the reason they're blocked.
So if you start waking it, these things will surface. If you don't ground yourself so they can get flushed out of your energy system, they will basically remain in there and they will bother you.
Nightmares aren't necessarily educational at all. Usually it means you stay in the lower astral regions when asleep as opposed to in the higher astral regions, which is where you can get education.
This happens if your own energy is low and/or you are too tuned in to lower energies.

First learn to ground yourself properly, AND shield yourself, so you're not easy 'prey' to lower energies. When your own energies are still low, you aren't protected by inner strength yet, so you gotta put it on the outside to protect yourself.

Once you got that sussed, start doing chakra work. Also visualize a connection from that chakra to your grounding, like an overflow, so any dense energies can disappear from it. You can visualize this process too, so actually seeing those energies disappearing from your system, into your grounding, gone.
Do this with every chakra you work with, and check that overflow before you start cleansing a chakra.

A late answer - but I think that you are wrong. There are always things to learn, if you are "stuck in lower regions" then you need to heal what's need to be healed to be able to go to the higher ones. There are not good or bad lessons, just different kinds. You can learn from lower regions as well as higher.

I've read something that stuck with me regarding working with chakras - always make your way from the bottom up.